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Why you should avoid using the effect>setState pattern in React

Mar 4 · 3 min read · Let's say you have an initialItems array that you fetch from an API and set it in state like this: const [items, setItems] = useState<T[]>(initialItems) You may instinctively realize, initialItems is

How to use Husky 9.1.7 in a Monorepo Project

Jan 30 · 2 min read · Every time I’ve added Husky to a project, specifically to add some pre-commit logic, I’ve always run into an issue where the pre-commit logic doesn’t run and the commit just goes through. If you’ve dealt with this problem before, you know there’s tha...

.NET Conf 2025 - My Takeaways

Nov 18, 2025 · 3 min read · Last week I attended .NET Conf virtually, and learned a lot. It was a 3-day event. I was only able to attend part of Day 1 as I had interviews happening that week, but there’s a lot of cool stuff that is new with .NET, and I wanted to share my though...

Back-End Pagination: How I Drastically Cut Load Times for a React Project

Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min read · Last year, I was assigned to a large React project which was using .NET Core and SQL Server on the back-end. I was added to the team to build out a new area of the website for a specific user group. One of these areas was a new UI table that would ne...

getStaticPaths Broke My Dynamic Routes. Here’s How I Fixed It.

Oct 21, 2025 · 3 min read · This summer, I re-evaluated a personal Next.js project and realized that the website’s browser titles were really bad, specifically for dynamic routes. For example, an individual news post page would have News Post | My Site as the browser title. I w...