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vanwalj

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vanwalj··on Principled GraphQL
We should probably add another point which is "you probably don't need Apollo tools".

I'm using GraphQL in production since 2015 and I feel like the only Apollo contribution to the ecosystem was pushing lot of marketing content around their hacky tools and "best practices", leading teams to poorly designed backends.

vanwalj··on The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
Not really the subject here, but I don't understand why video CDN providers don't provide peer to peer solutions yet, such as Streamroot or Peer5
vanwalj··on In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn’t Just a Chocolate
Same observation here, before my first trip I expected Kit Kat to be huge there
vanwalj··on Show HN: TaskBotJS – TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing
How can "The best TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing on the planet" only have 8 stars on GH ? :o
vanwalj··on Don't Buy Anyone an Echo
Everyone already owns smartphones, which are at least as bad as home assistants in term of privacy, so what’s the point of this paper ?
vanwalj··on Kick Start a JavaScript GraphQL API with Apollo-Server, Dataloader and Knex
Nice tutorial, just not found of the authorization part, which "encourage" you to rely on http headers. Imho http headers are fine for a REST API, since the protocol depend on HTTP, but not for a GraphQL API since you can perfectly serve GraphQL behind something else, like Websocket, nats, or even direct TCP
vanwalj··on Scaleway ARMv8 Cloud Servers
Great pricing, but literally no customer support. Week's ago I wanted to change my billing address, I was surprised not to find the option within my account settings, so I asked customer support to do so, whom replied that they simply can't do it.

I can just close my current account, then recreate it with my new address and of course, there is no migration tools.

vanwalj··on TypeScript at Slack
Sure, but you don't always have control over an external module or service, and it still something flow is better at
vanwalj··on TypeScript at Slack
Here are some examples: TS: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=type%20TA%20%3D%20%... Flow: https://flow.org/try/#0PQKgBAAgZgNg9gdzCYAoVAXAngBwKZgCSAgmA...

With Typescript, you have to write custom Type Guards functions, whereas Flow is smart enough to infer type

vanwalj··on TypeScript at Slack
Having experience with both on Node back-end projects, I can tell you than IMHO Flow is smarter, especially on union types, BUT there are way more TS community type definitions available right now.
vanwalj··on A French Grocery Chain Is Trolling Amazon Go
You're right, every city I used to live in France, I had at least 1 Monoprix within a short walk distance. Where I currently live, I can get to 3 different Monoprix in less than 10 minutes by walk. Never seen a Monoprix outside of a city anyway:)
vanwalj··on Skip the Soylent, Make a Meal Instead
As many of my friends, I love to eat and I love to cook, but unfortunately, my time, kitchen room and budget is limited. So I prefer by far for the same time/budget having let's say 3 poor (joylent/queal) meals and 1 excellent meal than 4 passable meals.
vanwalj··on Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS
I think they just ask for Apple to let developers publish custom web browsers (not based on Apple WebKit) on the App Store, which is currently not allowed by Apple.
vanwalj··on Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box
"Normally" ? What refrain you from logging HTTP Body ? It's the same problem as logging HTTP query string. You should consider everything you send over HTTPS public for the receiver in any way.
vanwalj··on Ebay posts every character a user types into the password box
Same as every website where you can login.