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January 3, 2024

I wanted to find an expensive function to demonstrate memoization, which took me longer than I had hoped. Anyway, I knew combination and permutation functions are expensive, and found one on SO

November 1, 2023

Functional vs. Imperative Programming

In the last year, I've almost completely switched from writing a mix of mostly imperative Javascript to mostly functional Javascript. The change occurred when I was hired to work on a project with developers who hailed from the Haskell programming world.

August 2, 2021

React Performance Pattern and Profiling

Performance issues may have never crossed your mind building your first React application. There were much more pressing issues to figure out. Furthermore, you weren't quite sure how to check performance. However, as the application grew in complexity, it became apparent that some

July 2, 2021

Custom React Hook Example

I remember first learning about React hooks with the release of version 16.8.0. I thought they were wonderfully helpful, and I can count on one hand the times—since that moment—when I reverted to writing class components (instead of a functional component).

June 3, 2021

Display Map Data with React and Mapbox

In my previous post, I created input and preview components for a GPX file to display track (hike) data on a map. I utilized Leaflet.js and Mapbox for the map display component. Now that I have the backend settled, I want to render this map on the frontend. Despite using Leaflet

June 5, 2021

Sanity GPX Input and Map Component

Last week I built a map in Python that displayed the GPS coordinates from a GPX file on a map inside a Jupyter Notebook. I got the GPX file from an app, Maps3D that I use when hiking. I thought this was pretty cool because the file included lat/long, time, and altitude data. I thought, wow, I want