I love it when things are displayed so nicely on mobile. This could've been a pain to read and get through but it was actually quite pleasant.
kayson | 14 hours ago
> Notice how the decoded values give relative positions, each value represents the difference from the previous position, not absolute coordinates. This is crucial: instead of encoding large column numbers like 27698 in minified files, source maps only store small deltas like +7 or +15, making the encoded strings much more compact.
Wouldn't "offset" be a more apt term?
tantalor | a day ago
Tangentially related, but last year I've made a tool to recover original sources from web apps which expose source maps (with the sourcesContent value present), including enumerating all lazily loaded chunks:
zb3 | 21 hours ago
Recent related post where Apple seemingly forgot to disable source maps for the App Store
Apple's App Store Full Front End Source Code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804664
edit: formatting