#Eclipse Theia

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The Button That Lied: Fixing Eclipse Theia's Stale Toolbar

Eclipse Theia had a toolbar button that rendered disabled but worked the instant you clicked it. The bug wasn't in the command — it was a re-render that never ran. Here's how I traced it to two reactive signals a subclass forgot to wire up, and fixed it in @theia/toolbar.

The Comma That Leaked Styles Across an Entire IDE

A "good first issue" in Eclipse Theia looked like a one-line CSS fix — until I traced why three headings were quietly restyling the entire IDE. A short story about comma-separated selectors, global-scope leaks, and a PR that landed in Theia 1.74.0.

Aug 4, 20263 min