This starts off pretty rough, but the story gets better thanks to the awareness and faith of a tribe.
It’s 2017. I’m in the process of developing the idea for what will become my personal fitness brand, strvtmvmnt. I don’t remember what day it was; only that it was a day in February. I do remember I was building a prototype for a new website. And when I say “building,” what I really mean is that I was looking for a Wordpress theme that was both attractive and functional, and one that I could customize to my vision.
And I…
Disclaimer: I am NOT an economist, nor should anything here be read as investment advice. Do your due diligence.
I’m reading “Black Swan” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and I’m really enjoying much of what he argues about creating a narrative around events that require no narrative. Black Swan events are unlikely events to which we often attempt to attach mean when they are, in essence, just outliers; albeit outliers with extensive consequences. But our penchant for creating narratives around absolutely everything drives our need to explain these events as some sort of logical progression of other events.
It has been…
GraphQL + TypeScript
I’m totally cherry-picking the content I’m looking up on TypeScript. It’s neat that TypeScript is code analysis for JavaScript. It’s neat that types are layered over JS to help catch errors and bugs. What I want is to understand types well, and because my primary (and only) coding language is JS, I want to learn to layer types over my code to write cleaner and make better decisions.
However, I don’t want to write code that needs an extra step (or many) in compiling to run. Let types help me in development. As far as my applications are concerned, I’ll…
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
Yesterday, I concluded that I would be looking into TypeScript to strengthen my approach to GraphQL. GraphQL is all about types … ish, and it makes sense that it would go hand-in-hand with TypeScript, as far as I understand the two.
Problem is, I don’t understand the two very well. But that’s what this journey’s all about! I dove in to the TypeScript docs today to get a refresher, and I have a TypeScript…
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
GraphQL
I’m at the point where I want to begin building out a GraphQL client. I thought I might be able to leverage existing GraphQL APIs to play with, but this continues to prove to be a challenge.
Entry points remain a problem. I’ve touched on this before. Most public GraphQL APIs I’ve come across seem to require that you already know specific data points in order to send and fulfill queries. Maybe I’m missing…
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
GraphQL
Not much to go over regarding GraphQL but a few articles I read to understand the different ways GraphQL can be applied.
GraphQL content:
- How To Build a GraphQL API with Prisma and Deploy to DigitalOcean’s App Platform
graphql-lazyloader- Announcing WPGraphQL v1.0
- GraphQL Resolvers: Best Practices
Insomnia
Not a complete loss of play with insomnia over the past few days. I wiped Windows and replaced it with KDE Neon, setting me back with some of…
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
GraphQL
I jumped back into the edX GraphQL training and finished it. In theory, it all sounds very simple. There are some areas that are sorely underdeveloped, though. Resolvers, for one thing, while not entirely nysterious, are still beyond my range of competency. That’s okay though, that will take practice. The course briefly mention introspection, but this was cursory. …
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
I took the weekend off from GraphQL to focus on a course on penetration testing. That’s a completely different monster than API development, for sure. I’m also gearing up to run a promotional challenge on Instagram for my fitness business and the prep work has taken an inordinate amount of time from my learning and coding. …
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
GraphQL
ThisDotMedia (twitter), in partnership with Hasura (twitter), put on a virtual GraphQL meetup where GraphQL community develops gathered in a public forum to discuss the current state of GraphQL and future considerations for the spec and related tools. The event lasted about four hours and provided some insight on things that are being looked at and how some of these things might be addressed. Rather than dive into code for the day, I joined…
This is a continuation of a series following along with my learning journey for GraphQL + Insomnia. Find the source code to follow along with here.
GraphQL
I love how simply put this is:
A fragment is basically a reusable piece of query.
This is from How to query your schema with GraphQL fragments. And while this isn’t my first exposure to fragments, this is the clearest, most concise way I’ve ever seen anyone describe them.
One thing I’m recognizing is that the individual parts of GraphQL are not difficult to grasp. A query is straightforward: you’re looking shit up. A…
