Reducers: Keeping State Transitions Under Control

21 August 2026 state-management frontend react design-patterns

State management is one of those problems that starts out simple and gradually becomes complicated so it’s no wonder there are plenty of libraries designed to help with this, with Redux being one of the most popular in the Javascript ecosystem.

One concept that is core to many state management libraries is a simple idea: the reducer pattern.

Concurrency: Comparing Golang's Channels to C#'s Async/Await

8 April 2022 golang dotnet concurrency

Comparing concurrency in Go (golang) with C#’s Async/Await.

Creating a simple metronome using Javascript and the Web Audio API

10 August 2020 javascript web-audio

How to accurately schedule audio events when writing a time sensitive Javascript application.

Recreating the old iCloud background using Javascript and a HTML Canvas

4 May 2020 javascript html-canvas

In this post, I go through the steps I took to recreate the background that used to be on the iCloud web site - blurry bubbles!

Light and Dark theme toggle on a Laravel website

29 September 2019 laravel dark-mode

I find using a dark theme for my IDE and operating system is much easier on my eyes, so I use it wherever possible. In this post I explain how to create a toggle button to switch a Laravel website between light and dark themes.

Replacing a Danfoss TP9000 with a 3rd Generation Nest

18 May 2019 nest

Step by step instructions on how to wire up a 3rd generation Nest in place of a Danfoss TP9000.

Installing Lubuntu on an Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11

24 June 2017 Lubuntu linux

I wanted a cheap laptop with a decent battery life to run a Linux distribution on and decided on the Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11. This post details what I did after installing Lubuntu.