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Joachim Viide @jviide.iki.fi · 1d

”We fed our horse and a competing jet engine hay for a week and then measured their hooves. The results will astound you.”

Web dev discourse in 2025.

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 1d

We were the AI of the Neanderthals

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 1d

Asked the manufacturer, it's a design flaw, never lucky rubber ducky

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 2d

I, as a person, am one big memory leak

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 3d

The 3 worst GraphQL myths:

❌ Everything is POST
❌ All URLs are /graphql
❌ Anyone can query anything

One solution destroys all three: Persisted Operations/Trusted documents

www.jovidecroock.com/blog/graphql...

GraphQL Myths

Common misconceptions about GraphQL and how persisted operations address them.

www.jovidecroock.com

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Marvin Hagemeister @marvinh.dev · 4d

I love all the cool experiments that are popping up in my feed.

The React model of putting everything into a component feels like it hindered progress. There are lots of cool explorations happening in every framework right now.

2026 will be an exciting year!

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 4d

GraphQL should be an implementation detail

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Joachim Viide @jviide.iki.fi · 7d

Also doubles as a visualization of how Preact Signals work!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 8d

That's fair, I hope AI is able to provide the right answers then in that case

Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 8d

I am saying this looking from my GraphQL/Preact bubble

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 8d

Anyone know a way to see overall open-source engagement within i.e. a programming language or a GitHub topic? I've been curious as it looks like engagement has dropped (PR/issue creation) while usage has gone up

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 8d

It would work yes, the easiest way would be to do `render(null, root); render(newComponent, root)` as that would ensure that you aren't updating the previous state

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 13d

Gotta game the system if your default bundle is a chonker 😅

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 13d

Signals change the paradigm from, rerender where you create state to rerender where you use state.

It requires a different mindset but ultimately these are free performance gains

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 15d

Getting OAuth to work in CF is a bit challenging, I documented what I had to do at github.com/bluesky-soci...

Consuming jetstream would probably be done through a durable object which could get costly I think. Maybe their containers solution is better for this

OAuth client in CloudFlare environments · Issue #3292 · bluesky-social/atproto

Describe the bug There's a few issues with implementing the OAuth client in environments like CloudFlare and other WinterCG environments. I have been able to circumvent these myself with a few tric...

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dan @danabra.mov · 15d

i think migrating away from Vercel hosting is a solid idea. i moved my Next.js blog to Cloudflare (for free) and have been very happy with that

with Next.js 16+ committing to deployment adapters (and Vercel adapter using the same API), we should hold their feet to the fire on the ease of migration

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 15d

There’s never been a better time to switch from Next.js to Astro nitter.net/rauchg/statu...

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 24d

Not sure what's been happening to the NPM downloads of Preact but we've been going parabolic these past few weeks. I know that downloads don't indicate much but always fun to look at a project you've been working on for 7 years gain popularity

npmtrends.com/@angular/cor...

A chart showing 4 lines, these represent npm libraries and their downloads.

We can see at the bottom angular core have a steady 4m weekly downloads over the last year, then going up we see vue/runtime-dom evolving from 4 million to the current 6million. Going even more up we see the vue library (vue 2) going from 6Million to 8Million and dropping back to 7Million.

At the top we see the Preact library starting the year around 6M and then now at the end going parabolic to 10million weekly downloads

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 25d

Seeing the impact of my performance efforts in the wild really makes my day github.com/captbaritone...

Upgrade graphql-js for better visit perf by captbaritone · Pull Request #194 · captbaritone/grats

https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/releases/tag/v16.11.0 graphql/graphql-js#4312 Validated by running our benchmark with 10,000 types: Before Grats completed in: 9.090s Grats completed in: 8.969...

github.com

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Joachim Viide @jviide.iki.fi · 28d

This was a very good read. It's also a good reminder to check our own NPM access token pages and maybe delete old lingering tokens.

The npmjs.com Access Token page. The user dropdown menu is open, with the "Access Tokens" link highlighted.

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · Sep 13

I mean, I don’t think that solves a lot. I use AI myself, and I genuinely think using AI isn’t a bad thing _but_ if you just submit stuff that you prompt without reading it… yeah nah

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · Sep 13

I've really had it with AI generated issues and tests, most can't even take the time to read that their test is actually asserting anything. I've just received a PR that asserted nothing - assert(true).tobe(false) - and didn't bother to look at how our tests are structured... OSS being great lately

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · Sep 12

Gql.tada in the wild, love to hear it 🎉

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · Sep 12

Growing as a person means using signals... I don’t make the rules @ryansolid.bsky.social does

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · Sep 12

Also, I have never stopped to say that I love what you're doing for the client-side GraphQL space. Apollo-Client is the most used one out there, thank you for continuously improving it. Pioneering features and superseding the spec, akin to Relay will do a lot for the community.

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