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.

A couple of days ago whilst out and about shopping, I had the unfortunate scenario where my boot wouldn't close. So I decided to gamble on a new latch (electrics appeared to still work) and have a go at fitting it. Here is how it went...