What happened last week - issue #58

This week: GraphQL, Hashnode, Astro and more

What happened last week

I’m so happy that we are finally wrapping up the launch of the Static Site Hosting. It was a lot of work, but finally, I could see the light in the tunnel. Soon you can expect an article or two about it.

Last week I discovered that Benjamin is using the Pacamara theme for his blog (I discovered it because he submitted a bug). You can’t even imagine how happy I am learning that there are Pacamara users in the wild.

Also, Rugby World Cup is happening - my favorite All Blacks are in the semi-finals. This edition is full of amazing matches and surprises.

On the flip side - it’s getting colder and colder, but this year I decided that it won’t stop me from cycling. I’m planning to invest in some warm clothing.

Interesting links

GraphQL: From Excitement to Deception — Raphael Moutard

I never was a huge fan of GraphQL. Why? Mostly because of the syntax. Raphael, on the other hand, has much better experience with using GraphQL, and he shares the biggest problems he and his team discovered.

You can't get faster than No Build — David Heinemeier Hansson

David ain’t wrong with saying this. He’s also not wrong with “You just might want to shed the weight of complexity and enjoy the lighter stack.” Sometimes we are just overengineering things which leads to having hundreds of dependencies.

Hashnode's Overall Architecture — Sandro Volpicella

Have you ever wondered how Hashnode works? If so, this article should explain it.

How to use jQuery with Astro — Salma Alam-Naylor

Why should we use jQuery with Astro? Because there is a huge ecosystem of plugins and scripts, it has a nice syntax and is still one of the most popular libraries in the world.

Write your own Zod — Zack Radisic

Zod is really cool. I use it quite often as a part of Astro collections. I never wondered how it works under the hood. Luckily thanks to people like Zach, we can learn how it works by rolling our mini Zod from scratch.

PHP is 4x faster than JavaScript! — Nuno Maduro

Nuno decided to do an interesting experiment - he ran the same script using PHP and JS to see which was faster. It turns out that PHP was 4 times faster. Of course, that doesn’t mean you should rewrite everything to PHP. It’s also worth going through the comments under the video, as there are some interesting suggestions.

AI Emojis - Alexandru Ţurcanu

Finally, a useful way to use AI - to create emojis. It helped me create a coffee emoji collection that I’m using on Slack.

And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.

Cheers,

Maciek