Tag: webdev
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Understanding React Context
TL;DR Intro I tried context once and didn’t especially like it. Part of the supposed appeal is that it is built into React and therefore ostensibly easier to set up than redux. However, I found the setup to involve lots of parts, such that it felt negligibly less complex than redux. Anyhow, I’ve decided to…
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AWS Production Static Site Setup
Intro I’ve fumbled through the process of setting up a production static site on AWS a few times now. These are my notes for the next time to get through the process faster. Overview We want to be able to run a local script that wraps around the AWS CLI to upload assets to an…
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SVG Coordinates Demystified
Why are SVG coordinates so confusing? SVGs are incredibly powerful but, if your experience is anything like mine, you’ve found all the viewBox jazz to be extremely “fiddly” and, thus, hard to master. I thought originally that I’d pick up eventually just by playing around with parameters. This proved frustrating because there are a lot…