Blog posts

• Using dynamic components in your MPA

  Published 1.30.24

  It's not just React!

  Dynamic components

  MPA

  Architecture

• Partial hydration, React Server Components, and the NextJS app directory

  Published 7.25.23

  Everything you didn't realize you wanted to know about the complexity of modern web rendering!

  React

  NextJS

  Hydration

• Optimizing the use of Emotion in React

  Published 7.5.23

  Using Emotion the way they don't tell you to.

  React

  Styles

  CSS-in-JS

  Emotion

  Performance

• React's useState is the real problem

  Published 3.04.23

  Why is everyone only ever mad at useEffect?

  React

  TypeScript

  DX

  Signals

• What is TypeScript & why should I use it?

  Published 9.22.22 // Updated 9.26.22

  A short primer on TypeScript targeted at JavaScript devs.

  FAQ

  TypeScript

  JavaScript

  DX

• You don't need JavaScript to support theming

  Published 9.18.22

  A quick lesson on how to build websites that theme themselves to the user's preference while using only native browser functionalities

  CSS

  CSS variables

  Media queries

  A11y

  Interactivity

  UX

• Your MPA can have page transitions!

  Published 9.17.22

  A quick discussion on how to use a powerful tool to create better user experiences on your site

  MPA

  UX

  Animation

  Interactivity

  Cool tools

• Why I built a new state management library

  Published 9.15.22 // Updated 9.30.22

  A reflexively self-defensive description & reasoning behind my niche new library

  Preact

  React

  TypeScript

  JavaScript

  NPM

  State management

  CQRS

  DX

  Performance

  Cool tools