Torben Sko

A YouTube window for macOS that floats above everything else

The repeatable skeleton for a multi-window Electron + Vite + React app — three builds, a locked-down preload bridge, domain-scoped IPC, and the boot-time pitfalls that produce blank windows.

Value-route every flow on a path-bound NavigationStack — an active view-destination link re-asserts its push whenever the path changes

Pitfalls and patterns for SceneKit rendering — render thread vs MainActor, constraint closures and actor isolation, scene-clock gating, and bone manipulation.

Use React Query's request deduplication and cache invalidation to eliminate shared state — components fetch independently and stay in sync through query invalidation, not props or context.

Client writes commit to the local store and return; a background drainer delivers them to the server.

Job-processing lambdas return success when execution completes normally; the job's outcome travels in the response payload, not as a thrown error.

Drill into or edit an existing entity in a URL-driven detail panel; reserve dialogs for disposable create/confirm/wizard flows.

GitHub Actions CI/CD for building, signing, distributing, and auto-updating an Electron app via S3/CloudFront

Honour client-generated IDs when upserting entities — look up by ID, never mutate a loaded row's primary key, and replace rather than re-key when a natural key collides.

Batch AI image generation powered by Google Gemini

Embedding markdown documentation directly in your app and letting Claude maintain it produces docs that stay accurate, include real diagrams, and don't rot.

Browse, edit, and recover broken Claude Code conversations

Control Rokoko motion capture with a PS5 controller

Treat LocalStack as disposable infrastructure.

One way to centralise loading, error, and retry UI for React Query without leaking query state into every component.

Validate environment variables against .env.example

A lightweight event tracking system built on DynamoDB that provides visibility across your services without the cost or complexity of third-party logging platforms.

Building components in isolation with comprehensive demos catches edge cases that unit tests miss and ensures your UI handles failure gracefully.

A testing strategy that mirrors how you build UIs — composable, isolated, and resilient to change.

How to spin up a scalable, high-quality, low-cost system to support that next business idea.

Kill whatever process is using a port

A pattern for shared, runtime-validated data models that catch issues early and keep frontend and backend in sync.

A clean pattern for swapping between real and mock APIs without polluting your components with mocking logic.

As the number of apps, services and environments grow over time, these tips keep your environment configurations files more manageable

Fail fast with explicit values.

null and undefined are not interchangeable.

Tips for making lambdas easier to debug and maintain.

A practical pattern for preventing Tailwind v4 from culling classes in shared monorepo components.

A browser plugin to quickly cancel your subscriptions

The following article lists some SwiftUI features and design patterns that I personally like to refer back to.

AI-powered holiday photo transformations

AI-powered code generation and pattern management tool

NestJS is a great library for creating a web service.

A quick bash utility to make it fast and easy to create a new file within a new directory

How to import Rokoko motion capture animations onto a Mixamo-rigged character in Xcode, using Blender for retargeting and xcode-collada for DAE cleanup.

Node CLI tool to prepare COLLADA files for Xcode

A guide to importing Mixamo characters into Xcode, covering common DAE file issues and how to resolve them with xcode-collada.

iPhone fitness tracking app for year-round wellness

3D printed bracket to prevent smart lock damage

CLI tool for creating reusable ChatGPT prompts

Food ordering app built in 2 months during COVID-19

End-to-end health platform for GP clinics

SIGCHI 2013, 2013

The Australian National University, 2013

INTERACT 2013, 2013

Recreation of ANU Union Court for the Source game engine

CHI 2012, 2012

DIY motion capture solution for independent animators

NZCHI 2009, 2009