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My goodness, "Clear and Simple as the Truth" is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. They also lay out a theory about what writing actually is (how thought is translated to language) as well as providing an appeal about why one should write in classic style. It contains many wonderful paragraphs of writers such as Pascal, Descartes, and Borges.

What stuck with me is how we basically discover that we could work with physics (he has a story that goes something like this: "We had discovered that energy can produce force way before we had trains, when we cook the bowl seemed to move on its own."

Good recs. I should get started on brothers karamazov, feel like it's required reading at this point.

Yes! Unsong. I love this book, Scott Alexander is such a genius. He has knowledge of modern physics, of Jung psychology, ethics, biblical stories, and he intertwines everything in this book. Also, he is witty man! In my opinion, his fiction is on whole another level (I like it much more than to his non-fiction blog.)

"Code" from Charles Petzold as well. Gave me solid, primary intuition on how to understand what a computer is.

This year I revisited "A Cultural History of Physics" quite a tremendous book. It goes to the entire history of physics while parallelly highlighting cultural events with emphasis on how one influenced the other.

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Hasura is at that level of being a full-featured back-end platform. I think that the best way to get started with Hasura is https://www.nhost.io

Nhost.io does functions, database, Graphql API, rate-limiting, authentication. Basically everything you need.

I would say that for me sleep is the number one most important thing; and it did take me a while to figure this out, but the difference is very noticeable relative to when I don't sleep as proper as I should.

Again, sleep is the NUMBER ONE most important thing, especially for an engineer.

This guys lives in the future.

"If instead, we RESTify our GraphQL APIs, we can put any public CDN provider in front of our API. Just give each persisted Operation a MaxAge Cache Control Header, an ETag and optionally a StaleWhileRevalidate value and Cloudflare & Co. can do their thing. No additional proprietary tooling is required."

This is something that's very likely to happen. Good post

Also, he has written a lot of short story fiction like "The Study of Anglophysics," "it was you who made my blue eyes blue," etc...

The book is amazing, but Scott Alexander having such a prodigious writing pace (he also kept writing his blog posts, and working full-time as a psychiatrist) hurts the final rendering of the book. It definitely needs some editing made and changes in the plot pace (MINOR SPOILER: the plot goes slows at first, and suddenly fast in the middle...) but definitely one of the best things I've ever read.

Incredible deep dive on a complex GraphQL infrastructure (Gateway + Engine). Awesome!

I remember seeing a post on their blog about exactly this. I cannot find it now but if you dig around you might find the data dumps.