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Aug 10, 2021

React’s useState is slow[er]

I have a theory that the newish react hooks architecture with its useState and useEffect methods may actually be slower to render items than traditional react architecture with `class Component extends React.Component`. …

React

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Jul 13, 2021

React Hooks and useState

Edit: After a bit more research, I realize I made a mistake here. React apparently renders the first element the slowest no matter what method you use, even if it’s just a hello world. I will follow this up with a more in depth article, and update this as necessary. …

React

4 min read

React Hooks and useState
React Hooks and useState

Apr 1, 2021

Making the internet a better place

The internet can be a fantastic place, most of us rely on it as a resource for information and communication. Social media is most often one of the ways we connect with the people we know but also the rest of the world. Unfortunately, we don’t always feel safe on…

Social Media

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Making the internet a better place
Making the internet a better place

Jun 24, 2017

The IKEA Effect on Software

For people who spend their lives dealing with perhaps the most objective thing, software engineers themselves tend to be very subjective, and emotional creatures. Anyone, that has ever had the pleasure of telling an engineer to destroy some of their code and start over, would know this. …

IKEA

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Oct 19, 2016

React router sucks

I will preclude this with maybe I was holding the hammer from the wrong end. Recently I’ve had a front-end app to build and I figured I would use react with react router, I mean hey they’re built to go together, and react is so awesome how could the router…

React

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Oct 13, 2016

So I’m watching Marvel’s Luke Cage on Netflix, which for one I must say is pretty lit.

So I’m watching Marvel’s Luke Cage on Netflix, which for one I must say is pretty lit. I love seeing positive images of black men on the screen succeeding, too many times I’ve seen negative images that at one point had me scared of myself, but another time for that. Anyway I notice there are perfect spots for commercials there. It got me wondering if Netflix will one day pull a YouTube and throw commercials in, first start with 10 second ones you can perhaps skip a few seconds in. They’re slaves to their stockholders, who always want to the revenue go up.

Television

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Khalah Jones - Golden

Khalah Jones - Golden

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