TypeScript Conditional Scenarios

Apr 3, 20219 min read

I started on my TypeScript journey in December 2019. I'm still finding interesting bits that I want to explore and understand more. One such find was a tweet by Erik Rasmussen noting how the Material-UI team leverages types to enforce passing an arr...

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 into WebRTC as a potential in-browser low-barrier-to entry Real Time video solution. After some success...

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 title. What this article will ultimately discuss is how something as seemingly non-quantitative as colo...

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 interact with refs, especially in functional components. However, as TypeScript has come to dominate the J...

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 a lot of great enhancements, but a key new feature was the rewrites config. With this feature, I hop...

Eliminating server.js with Next.js 9.5

Installing & Connecting to a Redis Docker Container Locally

Aug 18, 20204 min read

I found myself needing to locally run a Python application that required a Redis connection. I merely needed to run the application and didn't want to have to tinker with Docker compose or write a Dockerfile for the application. It has been a while s...

Installing & Connecting to a Redis Docker Container Locally