Journal: 2026/08/13 Thursday (Misc)

2026/08/13 Thursday I did this small "gambiarra" on the playback logic of my player the other day... but there's so much I have to clean in the code, even though I modularized everything, a lot I only edited when I had a problem in that section, there is a huge use of || and && logic everywhere, and lots of things are way more complicated than they have to be simply because of... no standardization I guess? I was looking at it and I realized I can just make a global fallback logic, which I just did (not on the widget yet) and it's so elegant, three functions in six lines that allow me to remove so much of the code because I added it directly to every key retrieve and there are tons of them... and in some I added the fallback in the key apply lol. I'm also creating standardized "building blocks" for the three operations that are probably 90% of what the code is doing: apply style, apply src (for images) and apply style on mouseenter/mouseleave (to simulate CSS :hover). The code is…