Strap in, folks, this is going to be a wild ride. Not really. It’s more development talk, so it’s about as wild as a walk in the park, which this project is turning out not to be. I have mentioned that a…
This is a follow-up to the previous post regarding my attempts to centralize a React app connection to a Colyseus game server. Earlier I had come up with what I had thought was a great way to manage a connection between a…
Sometimes the easiest stuff takes me 10 times longer to implement than it would for pretty much any other developer out there. Exhibit A: authentication with Google’s Firebase. I have probably written about this before, but regardless I’ll provide a crash course…
Continuing my series on blogging about every line of code I write, today’s topic is one that is pretty critical to creating a working auth system that I don’t have to code. If I were rolling my own auth, I wouldn’t have…
Hey! Remember this? Probably not, but that’s OK because not only have I remembered for you, but like clockwork, I’m revisiting this project (literally: my archives say the last access of the original project was March of 2021). For the uninitiated, here’s…
I’m pretty sure I’ve written about this particular struggle before: while I can often grasp the mechanical concepts behind a New Thing, whether it’s coding or VFX or whatever, not having an idea of a “best practice” always throws me for a…
Although it’s now considered bad form to use the table tag in web development, sometimes it’s worth the public ridicule. Responsive layouts are all the rage these days, with users viewing sites on a 4K monitor as well as a relatively tiny…
Most of what I do in my day job involves searching data. As I work for a data-focused company, my primary responsibility revolves around putting a nice face on the ugly body of data storage. Some folks can access the database directly…
I will start by giving props to the site useHooks.com, which has afforded me the absolute best breakthrough I have yet to receive in my journey into the world of React. First, what is a hook? In React terms, a hook is…
OK so back when I started learning React, I was facing an up hill battle. Despite having done front end work for neigh on 25 years or so now (almost 30 if you count doing it when the Web was still in…