Blaine Garrett

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Software Engineer and Artist

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USAJoined December 2019

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Snippet: Material UI Responsive Icon Button

From time to time, I find myself needing a Material UI Button with an icon and label that collapses the label text down on smaller screens, essentially turning it into an IconButton. I've written various approaches to this several times and decided i...

Feb 21, 20232 min read

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TypeScript Conditional Scenarios

I started on my TypeScript journey in December 2019. I'm still finding interesting bits that I want to explore and understand more. One such find was a tweet by Erik Rasmussen noting how the Material-UI team leverages types to enforce passing an arr...

Apr 3, 20219 min read

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Accessing Available Devices in Browser via getUserMedia()

The Covid-19 pandemic got me scrambling to come up with some web based solutions to support local Summer art festivals. In April I started digging into WebRTC as a potential in-browser low-barrier-to entry Real Time video solution. After some success...

Sep 26, 20207 min read

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Euclidean Distance in N dimensions and Naive Image Quantization

When I pitched this article to my graphic designer wife, she looked at me like I was speaking in tongues. However, I can't think of a more concise title. What this article will ultimately discuss is how something as seemingly non-quantitative as colo...

Sep 18, 20209 min read

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HTML 5 Canvas, React Refs and TypeScript

Refs in React have gone through several changes since their introduction. With the release of hooks in React 16.8, useRef became a handy way to interact with refs, especially in functional components. However, as TypeScript has come to dominate the J...

Sep 15, 20206 min read

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Snippet: Material UI Responsive Icon Button

TypeScript Conditional Scenarios

Accessing Available Devices in Browser via getUserMedia()

Euclidean Distance in N dimensions and Naive Image Quantization

HTML 5 Canvas, React Refs and TypeScript

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Blaine Garrett

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Blaine Garrett's blogs

Recently published

Snippet: Material UI Responsive Icon Button

TypeScript Conditional Scenarios

Accessing Available Devices in Browser via getUserMedia()

Euclidean Distance in N dimensions and Naive Image Quantization

HTML 5 Canvas, React Refs and TypeScript