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Solving the Antigravity Authentication Redirect Loop on Windows

lemi melkamu — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:41:11 +0000

If you've been trying to set up Google Antigravity on Windows, you might have encountered a frustrating loop: your browser confirms you've signed in, but the desktop app throws a "Failed to exchange authorization code for token" error.

Why this happens
This usually occurs because the underlying gaxios library in the Antigravity build is strictly enforcing TLS/SSL verification. In certain Windows network configurations, this handshake fails during the local callback, preventing the "Authorization Code" from being swapped for an "Access Token."

The Step-by-Step Fix
Step 1: Locate the Source File
Open your File Explorer and head to the local installation directory of the app:
C:\Users<YourUsername>\AppData\Local\Programs\Antigravity\resources\app\node_modules\gaxios\build\cjs\src\

Step 2: Modify gaxios.js
Open the file gaxios.js in your preferred text editor. We need to inject a node environment variable to allow the unauthorized handshake.

Find the HTTPS requirement:

const https_1 = require("https");

Add the following bypass immediately after:

process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0";

Step 3: Restart and Authenticate
Save the file and restart your Antigravity client. When you click Sign in with Google this time, the app will successfully "catch" the redirect from your browser.

I built a generic React Select on top of shadcn/ui (supports objects, async & pagination)

lemi melkamu — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:35:05 +0000

Most React select components work great — until your data isn’t just strings or IDs.

In real-world apps, we often need to:

Select objects, not primitives
Support server-side search
Handle pagination or infinite scroll
Reuse the same select across different data models

So I built react-generic-select, a type-safe Select / Multi-Select component built on top of shadcn/ui, designed for real application data.

This is an early open-source experiment, and I’d love feedback and contributions from the community — especially from folks using shadcn/ui in production.

🔗 GitHub

https://github.com/lemidb/react-generic-select

🌐 Live Demo

https://react-generic-select-demo-3zmt.vercel.app/

📦 npm

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-generic-select

If you’ve ever customized shadcn Select to work with objects, async APIs, or large datasets — I’d love to hear your thoughts.

A missing piece in the shadcn ecosystem: react-generic-select.

lemi melkamu — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:46:21 +0000

Shadcn UI has changed how many of us build React apps.

Instead of shipping a heavy UI framework, it gives us copy-pasteable, composable components that we actually own. Buttons, inputs, dialogs, popovers — all clean, accessible, and easy to adapt.

But when it comes to real-world select components, things get complicated very quickly.

The problem

In production apps, a “select” is rarely just a static dropdown.

We often need:

Generic data support like list of objects (not just { label, value })

Server-side search

Pagination / infinite scrolling

Async loading

Full type safety

Custom rendering

And full control over behavior and styling

Today, most of us end up:

Digging through multiple third-party select libraries

Fighting opinionated APIs

Or rebuilding the same logic again and again on top of Shadcn components

That’s the gap I wanted to explore.

Introducing react-generic-select

react-generic-select is an opinionated but composable select component built on top of Shadcn UI.

It’s not a framework.
It’s not a replacement.
It’s a pattern.

👉 A reusable single-select and multi-select implementation composed from:

Command

Popover

Button

Input

and other Shadcn primitives

Designed for:

Paginated data

Async sources

Server-side filtering

Generic object models

Type-safe configuration

Why this exists (and why it’s intentionally simple)

Shadcn doesn’t currently ship an all-in-one generic select component — and that’s understandable.

But in real applications, this is a very common need, and many of us solve it in similar ways.

The goal of this project is simple:

Explore whether this kind of component should exist as a shared, community-driven Shadcn pattern — to save time and reduce repeated effort.

This package is intentionally:

Composable

Unopinionated about data

Built from Shadcn components

Easy to copy, fork, and customize

You still own the UI.
You still control the logic.
This just gives you a strong starting point.

Live demo

You can see it in action here:

👉 Demo:
https://react-generic-select-demo-3zmt.vercel.app/

The demo shows:

Generic object mapping (valueKey, labelKey)

Paginated data

Clean integration with Shadcn styling

Fully typed usage

Try it in your project

The package is live on npm:

👉 npm:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-generic-select

npm install react-generic-select

Note: This package expects you to already be using Shadcn UI.
It composes existing Shadcn components instead of bundling its own UI primitives.

Repository & contributions

This is an open experiment, not a “finished product”.

👉 GitHub repo:
https://github.com/lemidb/react-generic-select

I’d love help from the community on:

Performance optimizations

Better async & pagination patterns

API design improvements

Edge cases from real production usage

Accessibility feedback

DX improvements

If you’ve built something similar before — your experience would be incredibly valuable here.

Why I’m sharing this early

This component is not perfect, and that’s intentional.

Instead of polishing it in isolation, I wanted to:

Share the idea early

Get feedback from experienced Shadcn users

Let the community shape whether this pattern is useful

If nothing else, I hope this sparks discussion around:

What “advanced” components belong in the Shadcn ecosystem as reusable patterns?

I’m excited to see where the community takes this 🙌

A Different Approach to Sharing Your Professional Profile.

lemi melkamu — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:54:30 +0000

🎉 Introducing My Telegram Portfolio Bot Demo! 🎉

Hello devs! 👋 I'm 🤸‍♂️excited to share my Telegram portfolio bot demo with you. It's a creative exploration of different approaches to enhancing user experiences. 🚀

I invite you to embark on this journey with me by visiting my bot at https://t.me/lemi_portfolio_bot.

If you're interested in exploring the codebase and enhancing it. You can find the repository at repo

Your feedback is invaluable to me. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas, feel free to reach out at email.

Thank you for taking the time to check it out! Your support means the world to me. 💖 Let's connect on LinkedIn: #connect