XState is a very well written library. It seeks to bring the finite state machine pattern into React applications and, for the most part, does exactly that, and extremely well. I’ve been using — well, forced to use, really — XState in a professional application in my job. I didn’t…

One of the things I’ve found is that a lot of people who decide to use some alternative to Redux (React.Context, MobX, etc.) are doing so because they don’t like how much boilerplate Redux consists of. Me, I…

As an American, I’m often asked: “Really, in a country with 350 million people, was Trump the best that America could come up with?” And the answers always the same: He wasn’t the best that America could come up with. He was the worst that America could come up with…

By default, Macintosh computers the APFS filesystem, which is very unix-like but is not case sensitive. Considering that almost all programming languages are case sensitive, and git is certainly case-sensitive, this can create some problems if you ever have to correct incorrect capitalisation in folders or files. In other words…