Accessing Available Devices in Browser via getUserMedia()

September 26, 2020

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...

Euclidean Distance in N dimensions and Naive Image Quantization

September 18, 2020

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...

HTML 5 Canvas, React Refs and TypeScript

September 15, 2020

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...

Eliminating server.js with Next.js 9.5

August 28, 2020

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...

Installing & Connecting to a Redis Docker Container Locally

August 18, 2020

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...

Basics of Modular Arithmetic

July 29, 2020

Modular Arithmetic is an interesting fundamental in Mathematics that falls under the category of "number theory". It doesn't get a lot of explicit attention in most educational systems until its applications are taught in usually higher level course ...