ESLint flagged ~20 empty catch blocks and 4 loose-equality comparisons
in assets/js/. Auditing each: all ~19 remaining empty catches are
localStorage/sessionStorage access (persisted tab/theme/column-
visibility state, recent command-palette entries) or the terminal
beep's AudioContext calls — genuinely intentional best-effort UX
affordances that must silently no-op if storage is disabled/full or
audio is blocked, not oversights. One (a viewport-change listener
callback) was a real gap: swallowing an arbitrary caller-supplied
callback's exception could hide a genuine bug, so that one now logs
via console.error instead.
Documented the storage/audio convention once in a file-level comment
rather than repeating the same explanation on ~19 near-identical
one-line try/catches. All 4 flagged loose-equality comparisons turned
out to be `== null`/`!= null` checks — the one loose-equality idiom
that's deliberately safe (catches both null and undefined in one
comparison; ESLint's own eqeqeq rule has a "smart" mode specifically
for this). Converting them to strict equality would have been a
behavior change (no longer catching undefined), not a fix, so switched
.eslintrc.json's eqeqeq rule to "smart" instead — flags every other
loose comparison as before, correctly stops flagging this one safe
idiom.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Lhz7pGMaoTfL5sdYS5XiKv
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