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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

See this post for the Complete Guide to Posting Here on the Community!

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1. Please follow the Lemmy.World instance rules.

2. Be kind and friendly.

  • Please be kind to others on this community (and also in general), and remember that for many people Perchance is their first experience with coding. We have members for whom English is not their first language, so please be take that into account too :)

3. Be thankful to those who try to help you.

  • If you ask a question and someone has made a effort to help you out, please remember to be thankful! Even if they don't manage to help you solve your problem - remember that they're spending time out of their day to try to help a stranger :)

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5. Refrain from requesting Prompts for the AI Tools.

  • We would like to ask to refrain from posting here needing help specifically with prompting/achieving certain results with the AI plugins (text-to-image-plugin and ai-text-plugin) e.g. "What is the good prompt for X?", "How to achieve X with Y generator?"
  • See Perchance AI FAQ for FAQ about the AI tools.
  • You can ask for help with prompting at the 'sister' community Casual Perchance, which is for more casual discussions.
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If I'm working on more UI-type stuff, things can fail silently in quite confusing ways... because I don't have dev tools open, because I'm essentially already using an IDE. But that IDE isn't showing me some errors--I think because they are happening in event handlers and such, and so aren't directly run by the engine.

So I was thinking if window.onerror was monitored those could be caught too.

...

On a related note, I noticed that if you throw "a message" (I'm lazy and it's usually absolutely fine with dev tools)... instead of throw new Error("a message"), the engine itself errors-out and doesn't even show that actual message.

I think this is because it assumes it is an Error object, when it may not be. A check for that, and handling of any thrown value would just make it more rock-solid when it comes to showing users their errors.

...

On another related note, I saw this in the code:

// The following line is a hack to make it so "pause on caught errors" works for perchance errors in devtools.
// Click the function names in the "call stack" to go "back in time" and find more details about your error (ask for help on the forum if needed)

And I feel seen! ๐Ÿ˜œ

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