Yoav I. Kadosh's Blog

My Thoughts on the AI Revolution

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Is AI going to replace engineers? A post about AI, written with the aid of AI.

useCanvasAnimation()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A React hook for rendering canvas animations

Debugging "max serverless size exceeded" in Next.js

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT

How to debug the "A Serverless Function has exceeded the unzipped maximum size of 250 MB" error in Next.js & Vercel

Planter Box

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

A custom built wooden planter box that wraps the corner of my apartment

Lego Cabinet

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A Lego cabinet that I built for my son, with 6 drawers, internal dividers, 3d printed handles and side panels, and wheels

Waterfall Tables

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Two beautiful waterfall tables made from oak, ipe and poplar wood

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A react component that follows your mouse

Rabbit Hutch

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A 2-story outdoor rabbit hutch with a hiding spot for our rabbits

Friendship Bench

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A wooden bench I made for my daughter's school, in memory of the Dee family

Book Shelves

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A set of narrow book shelves I made for a spot in our hallway

useGlobalState()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Sharing state between React components without context or fancy libraries

usePerishable()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

A React hook for creating perishable elements for animation purposes.

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React component for embedding CodePens

3D text

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A sass function for generating 3D text with a clever use of CSS text-shadow

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React component for showing a fallback component when an image cannot be found

useIntersectionObserver()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React hook for detecting element visibility within a container

Workbench

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A wooden workbench with a vise for the workshop.

useDocumentEvent()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React hook for performantly attaching event listeners to the document

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React component for rendering content only on the client side

Media Query Mixin

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A sass mixin for breakpoint based media-queries

useAnimationFrame()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React hook for working with animation frames

useValue()

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A React hook for persisting non-stateful values

Band Saw Cabinet

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A 3-drawer band saw cabinet with casters

Drill Press Cabinet

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A drill press cabinet to store bits and accessories.

Tic Tac Toe

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

A wooden tic-tac-toe game board with X and O pieces.

Wine Bottle & Glass Holder

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

A wine bottle and glass holder made from Pine and Ipe wood

Gradient.art - Designing and Inspecting Complex CSS Gradients

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT

gra.dient.art is an advanced online CSS gradient editor. In this article i'm exploring its various tools and features.

How I Created These Generative Underline Pen Strokes

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

I created a small React component that adds a randomly generated pen stroke underline to a given word. The strokes are rendered using an SVG element.

Wooden chandelier

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

A wooden chandelier made from indian rosewood and brass light fixtures.

How I Made This Realistic Red Switch (Pure CSS)

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

In this tutorial I explain in detail how I made my popular 'Realistic Red Switch' pen using various CSS techniques, including gradients, 3D transformations, animations, and transitions.

Webrix.js - Building Blocks for Interactive React Apps

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT

webrix.js is a set of React components and hooks, each dedicated to solving a single UI challenge. In the article I explore the different components and hooks in this library.

Office Desk

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT

An L-shoffice desk with oak veneer and top-surface power outlets

Don’t Mix Controlled and Uncontrolled Values In React

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, I will be discussing one of the most fundamental rules in component architecture. This fundamental rule is often violated, leading to issues that are very hard (if not impossible) to solve.

Yard Fence

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

A wooden fence built on top of a block wall with some fancy details

Balancing Responsibilities in Software Components

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Responsibilities and it's derivative — abstractions — are one of the more ambiguous aspects of software quality, at least to me.

Wooden Playhouse

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

An outdoor wooden playhouse with 2 stories and a balcony

Why Rewriting Is Essential for Keeping Software Alive

yoavks@gmail.com (Yoav Kadosh) — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Embrace rewriting software components regularly to avoid having to rewrite the entire software eventually.