Web Developer

Stockholm, Sweden

HARRY YATES

Scalable solutions for startups, enterprises, and agencies

Harry
Yates

2025

Delivering scalable solutions for
startups, enterprises, and agencies.

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Five TypeScript Errors That Will Haunt Your React App

Five TypeScript errors that plague every React developer: fragment masking mysteries, optional chaining oversights, union type assumptions, and variable inference failures. Learn the patterns.

Sun, 31st Aug 2025·3 min read

TypeScript

An App

It's time to create something of my own. Planning a kids' times tables app with unconventional mechanics to tear apart high scores. Likely useless, but a learning path to figure out app development.

Sat, 23rd Aug 2025·1 min read

App React Native EdTech Mobile Gaming Kids Learning

Semantic Versioning with Git Tags

Maintain clarity and consistency in project versioning.

Fri, 28th Jun 2024·2 min read

Semantic Versioning Git Version Control

ReturnType in TypeScript

TypeScript's ReturnType enhances code maintainability by automating type consistency across functions, ensuring robust and error-free development.

Mon, 22nd Apr 2024·2 min read

TypeScript

useCallback

useCallback in React helps prevent unnecessary re-renders by memorising functions.

Fri, 12th Apr 2024·2 min read

React React Hooks

useMemo

Optimises performance by memoising values, recalculating only when dependencies change.

Thu, 11th Apr 2024·2 min read

React React Hooks

Generic Constraints

In TypeScript, generic constraints are like bouncers at a club, allowing only certain types to enter.

Fri, 22nd Mar 2024·2 min read

TypeScript JavaScript

GSAP: Elevating Projects with Advanced Animations

Exploring GSAP for Next.js projects: Ideal for complex, dynamic animations requiring cross-browser reliability and performance. Assess needs vs. performance impact.

Thu, 21st Mar 2024·2 min read

GSAP JavaScript React Next Animation Interactive Design Performance Optimisation UI/UX Design

The Renaissance of 3D

Embarking on 3D web development with Blender, GSAP, WebGL, and Three.js—an eager dabbler piecing it together one learning curve at a time.

Sat, 16th Mar 2024·3 min read

3D Modeling Three.js Blender GSAP WebGL React Three Fiber Unreal Engine Adobe Illustrator Animation Spline

Gatsby: Is The Speed Connoisseur Outdated?

Exploring the shift from Gatsby to Next 14, I assess reasons, benefits, and drawbacks, questioning if Gatsby's SSG approach is becoming outdated.

Wed, 13th Mar 2024·3 min read

Gatsby React Next

Generics in TypeScript

Generics ensure functions handle various types while maintaining input-output type consistency, crucial for flexible, type-safe coding.

Fri, 8th Mar 2024·2 min read

TypeScript

Hydration failed

Having spent most of this morning looking for a Hydration bug and eventually finding it, it seemed like a good idea to post some learnings.

Tue, 27th Feb 2024·2 min read

Bugs React Next

useRef

useRef in React acts like a bookmark for elements or a pocket for mutable values. It persists through re-renders without triggering updates.

Mon, 26th Feb 2024·2 min read

React React Hooks

Tuples

TypeScript tuples ensure type safety and clarity in arrays, allowing fixed sizes and easy integration with other features. They're like smart, labelled boxes for data.

Sat, 24th Feb 2024·2 min read

TypeScript