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On This Day

These are the posts I’ve written on this day in previous years:

Desk, December 14, 2025

I’ve made my own video light with a work-light, simple bulb, and pa...

Newsletter Issue #8: Images of Fall 2025

I do also run a newsletter for this site, and published the latest ...

Lunch Weight Training 🏋️

Unknown location (probably inside)

Functional Strength Training 🏋️

Unknown location (probably inside)

Returning to Kagi

Started paying for the Kagi starter plan again. It’s now half the p...

A state is its infrastructure. Once the infrastructure goes down, t...

from uzwi

Fitbod - Quadriceps, Triceps, Back, Abs 🏋️

400.0 Calories, 7 Exercises, 27,180 lb lifted Unknown location (pr...

if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ...

from Josh Beckman

In the glory days, Olympus enthusiasts dressed up this insight in t...

from Josh Beckman

Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can am...

from Matt Webb

And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le...

from buttondown.email

TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A...

from buttondown.email

these are the three main lists of golden signals today: From the Go...

from www.infoq.com

Human memory is squishy, and that’s great. You retain facts + feeli...

from news.ycombinator.com

All in all, I don’t think service communication is the sweet spot f...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is sto...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many underlying serv...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form t...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on conventions as much ...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. Errors, caching, rat...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but that c...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

The generation of a cache key is always important, but even more so...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL query in 3 broad step...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, it can s...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and I suspect t...

from Marc-Andre Giroux

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