From af383c5a80e24b6a196a22c86c4fe9eb80e96f94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 14:25:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] null-guard defaultAvatarUrlForString

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
---
 src/Avatar.js | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/Avatar.js b/src/Avatar.js
index d76ea6f2c4..8701ff0599 100644
--- a/src/Avatar.js
+++ b/src/Avatar.js
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ function urlForColor(color) {
 const colorToDataURLCache = new Map();
 
 export function defaultAvatarUrlForString(s) {
+    if (!s) return "";
     const defaultColors = ['#0DBD8B', '#368bd6', '#ac3ba8'];
     let total = 0;
     for (let i = 0; i < s.length; ++i) {

From cc43de6ebf55683ecec5096123c7c7ebd52e3dd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:46:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add comment

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
---
 src/Avatar.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Avatar.js b/src/Avatar.js
index 8701ff0599..1c1182b98d 100644
--- a/src/Avatar.js
+++ b/src/Avatar.js
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ function urlForColor(color) {
 const colorToDataURLCache = new Map();
 
 export function defaultAvatarUrlForString(s) {
-    if (!s) return "";
+    if (!s) return ""; // XXX: should never happen but empirically does by evidence of a rageshake
     const defaultColors = ['#0DBD8B', '#368bd6', '#ac3ba8'];
     let total = 0;
     for (let i = 0; i < s.length; ++i) {