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Blaine Garrett

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Minneapolis-based Software Engineer. Currently on a radical sabbatical finding balance after 10 years in startup land. Current Mission: Convert py2.7 AppEngine backends to Node and Nest.js

Snippet: Material UI Responsive Icon Button

Feb 21, 20232 min read

A quick code snippet to hide button text on small screens using MUI and TypeScript · From time to time, I find myself needing a Material UI Button with...

Snippet: Material UI Responsive Icon Button

TypeScript Conditional Scenarios

Apr 3, 20219 min read

A look at 7 different TypeScript scenarios requiring dependent and conditional typing · I started on my TypeScript journey in December 2019. I'm still...

TypeScript Conditional Scenarios

Accessing Available Devices in Browser via getUserMedia()

Sep 26, 20207 min read

The Covid-19 pandemic got me scrambling to come up with some web based solutions to support local Summer art festivals. In April I started digging...

Accessing Available Devices in Browser via getUserMedia()

Euclidean Distance in N dimensions and Naive Image Quantization

Sep 18, 20209 min read

When I pitched this article to my graphic designer wife, she looked at me like I was speaking in tongues. However, I can't think of a more concise...

Euclidean Distance in N dimensions and Naive Image Quantization

HTML 5 Canvas, React Refs and TypeScript

Sep 15, 20206 min read

Refs in React have gone through several changes since their introduction. With the release of hooks in React 16.8, useRef became a handy way to...

HTML 5 Canvas, React Refs and TypeScript

Eliminating server.js with Next.js 9.5

Aug 28, 20207 min read

Next.js 9.5 came out a week after releasing the 1.0 version of the Github Repository Template I have been building in this series. Next 9.5 includes...

Eliminating server.js with Next.js 9.5