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TIL Message handler inside of useEffect

useEffects have a lot of footguns, especially with the dependency list. This is one of them. If I have a web worker that I need to communicate with, I need to have a message handler. The message handler needs to change the state of my frontend application. It's

Today I Learned

TIL Poor man's quoting in Python

In Lisp, you can quote an expression to delay its evaluation while passing it around as a value. In Python, this means in practice, I want a function that looks like it's executing, but reality, I'm delaying its actual execution. I can use decorators to achieve