Are they the same object?

While debugging I needed to know if two references in two separate parts of my codebase were pointing to the same object in memory. According…

Whoops, we called that API twice

In one of my codebases at work we have a custom React hook for rendering the result of a promise: At first blush this may…

Typescript in Node and the Client

Hey! Another one for the debug journal. We’re adding some back-end endpoints using Express.js to our Typescript/React front-end. So I threw together a server.ts file…

React Native Async Trouble

This is a #DebugJournal post, which means you’re reading the notes I took in real-time while debugging the issue. It won’t read like a nicely…

On media uploads, and annoying S3 APIs.

While working on Storytime Studio a couple of weeks ago I decided to upgrade my media uploading approach. I had started with the naive “I’ll…