Six years since I last updated my website. In any sense: the temporary template remains there, I didn’t write any new posts. Well, I have been busy. Many many things have been going on in kitsch-en.net towers. Somewhat, this little job always fell at the bottom of my priorities’ list.

So today I thought it may be the day that I actually do something about it. Except that… well, I fell into a rabbit hole of meditations about React functional vs class components, and hooks and race conditions and…

You can imagine where this is going. The temporary website is still here. I really didn’t do much, but I put together this gist about using hooks to manage state in a tiny dynamic image gallery. It’s only a demonstration — nothing prod-worthy. But I hope someone finds it useful.

https://gist.github.com/barbaracassani/b47b4827365646b27d220b2d96abd08e

One day I will update this website… soon! 🙂