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> There really shouldn't be two standard package managers for JS. I chuckled a little when I realised that npm, Yarn, Yarn 2, and pnpm can all be found alive and well in the ecosys…

As someone who's worked on this, I'm oh so conflicted. Yes, it's mostly a terrible idea, if CodeMirror and the likes work. On the other hand, there's so much default behaviour that…

I'm honestly not sure whether there's really a good excuse to invent a format that's immediately incompatible with all GraphQL tooling out there, which would need to be converted. …

There are solutions to simply turn GraphQL requests into (traditional) CDN-cacheable requests. Usually this would be done using (Automatic) Persisted Queries, where a query is not …

To be fair, since this has been a while ago it's hard to tell what to do about this. Personally I find it hard to draw any conclusions from this just due to the time that has passe…

For what it's worth, I believe there are plans to reactivate the Siemensbahn tracks for a new line by 2025... or so I've read? Can't quite remember.

Not to toot our own horn, but while this mentions GraphQL with Relay / Apollo as fetching clients, with urql and its normalised cache Graphcache we started approaching more of thes…

It's not a cryptographic key or a secret of any kind. In the case of React (or other JS libraries) export identifiers are chosen to expose private APIs for integration purposes wit…

We actually don't know what the usual communiqués internally at GoDaddy look like. In a vacuum we can also judge this to be an effective test. In practice there are many unknowns a…

> Sign this thank you to let Apple know consumers are eagerly anticipating anti-tracking protection on iPhone. I'll only sign a thank you like this when Apple allows other browsers…

No worries! Snark received. As we go up the engineering career ladder and land on more specialised roles with the necessary experience, both from a technical and managerial perspec…

> "in talent to do the job." It's a matter of perspective as well though, so both sides are correct. "The job" here can talk about very different engineering roles and levels, whic…

This really reminded me of SCIgen, made to generate non-sensical CS papers with the same intention https://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scie...

I haven’t really played around with installing browsers, etc via Nix on nix-darwin yet. The experience is really good for the most part! Setting it up initially is a little confusi…

Nix is fantastic! I’ve started using it with nix-darwin on macOS and replacing various dot files tools and loosely coupled files and installed dependencies using Homebrew with clea…

That does sound very interesting. I believe the issue lies in the fact that this is a workflow-based “sales pitch.” What I mean is that this is a difference that doesn’t always app…

That sounds interesting! But isn’t this like persisted queries (the Relay kind and not Automatic kind) without the benefit of prototyping your queries as a front end dev as you’re …

That’s a pretty misleading statement, since what you’re linking to does describe how using scalars can help. Especially if the scalar never includes other data from the graph (othe…

I think this is the important point here; it’s not hard to call GraphQL and even create a client starting from copying @urql/core for instance, but I suppose at some point if you w…

Core Contributor of urql here, another JS GraphQL client. I think this post is very good at stating why the particular post it’s referencing (“Why GraphQL” in the Apollo docs) isn’…

> Despite a short lifespan on the npm portal, the library was downloaded more than 370 times It’s probably worth mentioning that this doesn’t sound like the back door was successfu…

> “People may think that current flowing in a resistor causes it to heat up, but the Brownian current does not. In fact, if no current was flowing, the resistor would cool down,” T…

I think it's fine to point out the Thunderbolt mess, or the PD vs non-PD devices (although non-PD is becoming exceedingly rare as far as I can tell at least for "larger" devices), …

Also is there some magical step once you’re a trillionaire? Surely at this point it doesn’t make a difference anymore exactly how rich the guy is.