Having recently started using Bluesky, I was interested in how good the API is. It turns out its extremely straightforward. I decided to build a bot which displays which horse racing meetings are on, on the current day, with their first race time.

React, the popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, provides several hooks to optimize performance and manage state in functional components. Two commonly used hooks for optimization are `useMemo` and `useCallback`. While both serve similar purposes, they have distinct use cases and can significantly enhance the efficiency of your React applications.

Having searched far and wide on the internet for a decent guide for doing this, I have been unsuccessful. So I have written my own guide to image upload using Larevel, React Dropzone & Amazon S3.

I stumbled on this really useful tool when needing to edit an image and not having the required software on my laptop...

Logging is an essential aspect of monitoring and debugging applications deployed on serverless platforms like Vercel. Vercel provides built-in logging capabilities but with the huge caveat (for my application anyway) that they expire after 1 hour. Here's how to get around it.