Home — Syméon Smith

Hi, I'm Syméon 👋🏻

I'm a front-end developer, passionate about building intuitive interactive experiences.

I work at Karnott, where I help farmers manage their day-to-day operations and avoid leaving money on the table.

Here, I write short articles that I wish I found sooner, about problems I encounter in my daily work or interesting topics I recently discovered.

Latest posts

Find and Replace with Regex Groups in VS Code

I sometimes need to search and replace across some code, but with parts of the search left untouched. Every time, I forget how to do it in VS Code.
Handling Complex React State with usePatchedState

usePatchedState is a nice hook to simplify complex state management in React with TypeScript. Instead of many indivual, atomic useState calls, you define your initial state and then get a “patch” function that you use to edit parts of the state granularly.
Custom Prettier Options for Markdown Code Blocks

A Prettier feature that I love is that it formats files, but also code blocks in Markdown files. I wanted to customize the maximum line length and the tab size for the code in my articles, but not have the same option applied to the rest of my codebase.

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