Development Challenges and Solutions

Technical deep-dives and problem-solving approaches from my projects

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2025 Year in Review

January and February This year started with me feeling more confident in my React skills after completing a few smaller projects. I was ready to challenge myself with...

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Calculating the Optimal Distribution of Items to Maximize Available Space

For my first big project, Visual Fraction Library, I was creating models of fraction division with up to 300 circles for users to download as images. For example...

Creating my own Collision Detection Algorithm

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<CurrentLevelProvider>
  <GameProgressProvider>
    <BoardSquaresProvider>
      <PiecesInPlayProvider>
        <SelectedPieceProvider>
          <GameInterface />
        </SelectedPieceProvider>
      </PiecesInPlayProvider>
    </BoardSquaresProvider>
  </GameProgressProvider>
</CurrentLevelProvider>

Untangling Multiple Layers of React Context

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$fraction division model showing 3 and 3 fifths divided into groups of 2/5 where each group is shown in a different color.$

An Algorithm to Avoid Matching Adjacent Groups

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Loading necessary dependencies for embeddable widget

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Do you want to save this as your default location?

When friction is a good thing

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  function drawVerticalFractionBar(
  svg,
  x,
  y,
  width,
  height,
  numerator,
  denominator,
  lineThickness,
  colorFill,
  borderColor,
  background = 'none',

Refactoring Functions with Way too Many Parameters

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UX for handling out of bounds piece placements

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  const location = "board-(2,3)"

Refactoring To Decouple Data and Avoid Combinatorial Explosion

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Testing A Multi User Application

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