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Some things I learned while building a daily notes calendar

Over a few months, on weekends and holidays, I've built a daily note calendar. The app is currently hosted on note-calendar.levizraelit.com, and the source code is available at github.com/lizraeli/note-calendar. The focus of this project was building a cohesive user experience by focusing on

Intro to OAuth

A video introduction to OAuth. An article is soon to follow.

Building a Covid-19 Case Tracker by US State and County - Part 1

Introduction In this series of articles we will use the New York Times Covid-19 data to create a case tracker, which will display the data as a time series. Users will be able to view data for the US as a whole, or narrow it down by state and by

Implementing the useState Hook

Introduction I felt uneasy the first time I read about hooks in React. Their inner workings seemed too magical. I remember looking at a simple example and trying to make sense of how it worked under the hood: function Counter() { const [count, setCount] = useState(0) return ( <div> The