Andy Ingram

My dog will run to the door as soon as "Do you w..." is said (do you want to go outside)

Upgrading to Vercel AI SDK v5 is certainly a task. All the changes I’ve come across so far seem like improvements, but damn it’s been a while since I’ve seen this level of API change in a version bump.

Tbh so many of my push notifications are ads, it’s hard to believe it was ever supposed to be a rule. Uber is a particularly bad offender.

The biome unsafe fix for noUnusedImports is *really* unsafe. If the unused import that gets removed is the first one in the file, it'll remove *all* comment lines preceding it, i.e anything that makes up your file header.

Even with the near-operation-file preset, if you have a large GraphQL schema, want codegen, and want TypeScript performance to be in the realms of acceptability; I think Relay is still your only real option today.

The main issue with `near-operation-file` is that it brings the whole schema along.

With the entire web industry now being employed by Shopify, I can’t help but I think I did the e-commerce part of my career too early (first 10 years).

If you can manipulate the world’s pundits and leaders into keeping the debate open about whether it’s _actually_ a genocide, you have yourself a pretty good arrangement for keeping on doing what you’re doing

I wrote a blog post sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/t...

The problem is that we've shipped the metaphor.

i.e chat as an explanation for how we interact with LLMs

If we’re talking retraining, I might suggest less emphasis on video, as 40-something devs like myself often much prefer learning from written formats.

I made the mistake of starting a new playthrough of Forager whilst waiting for midnight. So now I have to finish the game.

I mean, I'm the guy who tried to split the difference 9 years ago and use the SDL in code-first github.com/depop-archiv...

But the next time I built a GraphQL server I just went back to pure code-first and haven't looked back since.

People inevitably try to solve that by messing around with directives to make their own meta language on top of the SDL, which just eats away at the rationale for favouring it in the first place.

I use the SDL as a communication artefact and design tool, but I hate it as a source of truth because doing GraphQL and not hating it requires developing common structural patterns (like connections) and doing that in SDL is tedious.

Gross 🥲 Our codebase is living proof of all the reasons it’s bad. Our backend is littered with types generated from the GraphQL schema motivated only by convenience — the hardest force in the universe to overcome.

Relay does GC based on mounted components, but you can configure it to keep things around for longer.

But do you like SDL-first?

I do it because i'll respect his right to rebrand as soon as he affords the same respect to trans folk.

I wonder if they should be doing more to reflect that people still call it Twitter

I see RPC framed as an alternative to GraphQL, but have yet to see any that actually replace the bits that make GraphQL really powerful. If you’ve been using GraphQL in the client and *haven’t* been using Relay (or the most recent version of Apollo), you’ve likely missed out on the core value.

The simplest way to get GraphQL subscriptions up and running is over SSE, since it doesn’t require websocket support. That’s how libraries like Yoga support it by default.

A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

It definitely does. Maybe Artem confused it with acronym or initialism?

Has anyone done anything to get Jest's cache to work properly in Github Actions? It seems pretty essential to getting test duration down to a minimum, yet I can't find anything out there about doing it.

And a *lot* of tools convert dash dash into em-dash — like this very here bluesky app does. It’s part of the standard iOS text input behaviour IIRC.

Most markdown libraries also have some plugin to do this.

That’s why I keep getting hooked on Ark. Always end up making pointlessly ambitious bases for my dinos and other pals.

Happy 10 years of GraphQL experience day to me (note: possibly yesterday) cc @leebyron.bsky.social

Even for the UK, going from “I am not going outside lest I melt in seconds” to “I want to wear a jacket” overnight is pretty wild.

Really tried to enjoy using urql, but it makes it so hard to use GraphQL in a way that mirrors Relay that it I can't really recommend it today,

Post-mutation updaters being configured globally rather than as part of the useMutation (or equivalent) is a mistake IMO.

Woah, 10 year of GraphQL this week. Maybe time for its sequel?