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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 03/02/2026

Excited for #RustNYC this evening! Charles Giguere: Powering the Foresight Spatial Labs renderer with #Bevy @chrisdryden.bsky.social: Cutting Amazon build times by 40% with Rust Big thanks to our host @materialize.com!

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 15/01/2026

🎤 The GraphQLConf CFP is open! Got a GraphQL idea or story to share? Join us May 6 - 7 at Meta HQ in Menlo Park. Submit your talk 👇 sessionize.com/graphqlconf...

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GraphQLConf 2026: Call for Papers

GraphQLConf 2026, the official GraphQL conference brought to you by the GraphQL Foundation, brings the entire GraphQL community together to learn, eng...

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Houdini is one of the most exciting things going in the world of GraphQL right now. Check out the video from the latest conference youtu.be/cRTYf59rYMU What is an ideal client when GraphQL goes full stack?

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Hey folks! Isograph v0.5.0 has just been released!! The trend of groundbreaking releases continues 🎉 This release includes support for optimistic updates and for writing external data into Isograph. And it has massive DevEx wins 🤩 and huge perf wins. Let's dive in!

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 19/11/2025

Announcing our Containers in Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Carson Weeks to explore container internals: kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, seccomp) and their role in isolation/resource control. See a #rustlang implementation for memory-safe inspection and tweaking. rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Containers in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes exploring Docker-style container internals: kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp), and their role in isolation/resource control. See a Rust implementation for memory-safe inspection and tweaking. A circular photo shows Carson Weeks. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 24/11/2025

Announcing our Closed-Loop LLM Engineering track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Viraj Mehta to explore an LLM gateway leveraging #Tokio, Clarabel conic program solver, and #ClickHouse to update prompt-model sampling probabilities in real time. Plus: agent optimization competition! rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Closed-Loop LLM Engineering Built With Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how advertising companies have used multi-armed bandits to determine what ads to run in what context. The LLM gateway leverages the Tokio runtime, the Clarabel conic program solver, and ClickHouse to asynchronously update sampling probabilities of prompt-model pairs as inferences are being run. Bring your laptop to try it out and maybe win the agent optimization competition. A circular photo shows Viraj Mehta smiling. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 02/11/2025

Announcing our Safety Critical Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join us for sessions on all things safety critical, led by Xander Cesari from the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium & Rust Project Content team. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 07/11/2025

Announcing our Scientific Computing track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Helmut Carter and James Logan to explore scientific computing in #RustLang. Discuss interoperability, accessibility, best practices, and community. Share experiences and ideas to shape the field. Waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Scientific Computing track. The slide has a mint green background with two Rust crab mascots wearing Statue of Liberty crowns in the top right corner. Text describes exploring scientific computing in Rust, discussing interoperability, accessibility, best practices, and community. Participants will share experiences, challenges, and ideas to shape the field. Two circular photos show the track leaders: Helmut Carter wearing glasses and a blue shirt with a patterned tie, and James Logan wearing glasses outdoors with green foliage in the background. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 12/11/2025

Announcing our Distributed Systems track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Brendan O'Brien for an open discussion where everyone interested in #DistributedSystems can share knowledge, challenges, and learn from the community to help us all be the best we can be. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Distributed Systems - an open discussion track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes a chance for everybody with a keen interest in distributed systems to come and share knowledge, challenges, and learn from others in the community to help us all be the best we can be. A circular photo shows Brendan O'Brien (b5) smiling. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 10/11/2025

Announcing our Interop Workshop: Rust - Python In 1 Hour at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @nrposner.bsky.social for a whirlwind intro to #Rust-Python interop with #PyO3. Create a simple app using common patterns. Open to all skill levels, focused on beginners. Join the waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring an Interop Workshop: Rust - Python In 1 Hour track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes a whirlwind intro to Rust-Python interoperation with PyO3, covering basics, usefulness, and creating a simple Rust-Python application using common patterns in an interactive workshop. Open to all skill levels, focused on beginners. A circular photo shows Nico Posner outdoors with buildings in the background. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 04/11/2025

Announcing our Automate Crate Maintenance track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Yuri Astrakhan to explore CI, AutoFix, AutoPublish, and other tricks. Focus on code; let automation handle reviews, code hygiene, publishing, and maintenance with minimal effort. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring an Automate Crate Maintenance track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as covering CI, AutoFix, AutoPublish, and other tricks, with a focus on letting automation handle reviews, code hygiene, publishing, and other maintenance with minimal effort. A circular photo shows Yuri Astrakhan wearing a blue button-up shirt. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 03/11/2025

Announcing our Managing Medium To Large Rust Projects track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Joshua Send for discussions on organization, modularization, and build strategies. Topics: crates vs modules, Cargo vs alternatives, compilation speed, generics vs dyns. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a new Managing Medium To Large Rust Projects track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as covering organization, modularization, and build topics including crates vs modules, Cargo vs alternatives like Meson and Bazel, compilation speed, and generics vs dyns, with encouragement to share stories and practices. A circular photo shows Joshua Send outdoors wearing hiking gear. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 20/11/2025

Announcing our Turn ANYTHING into a database track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @alexkesling.bsky.social with your laptops and crazy ideas. Walk through how to make almost anything queryable via SQL! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Turn ANYTHING into a database track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text invites participants to bring their laptops and crazy ideas, as the session will walk through how to make damn near anything queryable via SQL. A circular photo shows Alex Kesling wearing glasses. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 14/11/2025

Announcing our Rust as a Common Implementation Language track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @lucretiel.me to explore how established teams can benefit from Rust without full rewrites. Why maintain separate Java/Python/Node implementations when a single Rust library could serve all? rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Rust As A Common Implementation Language For Cross-Language Functionality track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how while Rust is seeing growth in greenfield projects, established teams can also benefit without rewriting everything. Rust can serve as a library implementation language for functionality common to the organization. Why maintain separate Java/Python/Node implementations when you could have a single implementation used by all? Rust's emphasis on correctness and performance, solid C FFI story, and minimal runtime make it ideal for these common implementations. A circular photo shows Nathan West wearing glasses and a tan shirt, holding what appears to be a conference badge. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 16/11/2025

Announcing our Building with Rust & Goblin AI track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Will Berry to explore an open source workflow engine similar to n8n, written in Rust, that runs code in multiple languages and its real world breakthrough use cases. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Building with Rust & Goblin AI track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how building an embedded workflow engine led to 66% cost savings. Learn about an open source workflow engine similar to n8n written in Rust that lets you write and run code in multiple languages, and the conceptual breakthrough it lead to for real world use cases. A circular photo shows Will Berry smiling, wearing a dark shirt. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 05/11/2025

Announcing our Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Devin Brite to create games for the GameTank, an open source 8-bit console. Bring your laptop, build your own game (like Pong) in #RustLang, and play it together! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Workshop: Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the GameTank as an open source 8 bit game console based on the 6502 developed by Clyde Schaffer. Devin Brite put Rust on it. The workshop invites participants to bring their laptop to make their own video game (like Pong) in Rust and maybe even play it together. A circular photo shows Devin wearing sunglasses and a green t-shirt with a Game Boy design. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 13/11/2025

Announcing our Databases in Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Dov Alperin to discuss #databases as complex distributed systems demanding both speed and safety. Explore why a growing number of teams are choosing to build databases in #RustLang. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Databases in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes databases as complex distributed systems demanding both speed and safety. This has led a growing number of teams choosing to build databases in Rust. Join us to discuss databases and their role in the Rust ecosystem. A circular photo shows Dov Alperin wearing glasses and a dark shirt against a brick wall background. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 11/11/2025

Announcing our Diversity by Design: Strengthening Tech Communities Through Representation track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Stephanie Zavala to explore practical ways to grow diversity in tech, from outreach and contributor pipelines to allyship and inclusive project culture. rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Diversity by Design: Strengthening Tech Communities Through Representation track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes focusing on practical ways to grow diversity in tech, from outreach and contributor pipelines to allyship and inclusive project culture. Let's turn good intentions into measurable progress. A circular photo shows Stephanie Zavala smiling, wearing a dark patterned top. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 07/11/2025

Announcing our Service-Meta Architecture track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join David Souther to explore patterns that help #RustLang codebases evolve and tame complexity. Join the waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Service-Meta Architecture track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes exploring patterns that enable and encourage a codebase to change over time, taming complexity as services grow. Key principles include domain models, repositories, unit of work, and handlers, combining to form the Hexagonal Architecture. A circular photo shows David Souther smiling while holding a gray cat. The cat is not smiling. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 18/11/2025

Announcing Rust Fundamentals - An Interactive Workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Savanni D'Gerinel for an interactive workshop exploring Rust fundamentals. Whether you want a #RustLang refresher or have never written a line of code, bring your laptop and dive in! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Rust Fundamentals - An Interactive Workshop track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the workshop as suitable whether you've used Rust before and want a refresher or have never written a line of code. Bring your laptop and come explore the fundamentals of Rust in this interactive workshop. A circular photo shows Savanni D'Gerinel wearing glasses and headphones. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 09/11/2025

Excited for the #RustNYC talks Nov. 13! Herrington Darkholme will present a comprehensive guide to building custom linting tools for #RustLang projects. Matt Powers will speak about #SedonaDB, a geospatial compute engine that's built on #DataFusion. Register: www.meetup.com/rust-nyc/eve...

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Talks: Custom Rust Linting (ast-grep) & Geospatial DataFrame lib (SedonaDB), Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:30 p.m. **Talk #1: Custom Rust Linting** **Herrington Darkhol

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Rust NYC @rust.nyc · 30/10/2025

First annual Rust NYC Unconf registrations are open! rust.nyc/unconf

Illustration for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring three versions of Ferris, the Rust programming language mascot, as cartoon crabs in orange, red, and verdigris green (wearing a Statue of Liberty crown and holding a microphone) arranged above the text 'Unconf 2025'. The event details show 123 William Street, 26th Floor, FiDi, December 5th. Sponsor logos for Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis appear at the bottom.

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I can't wait for this!! We've had an extremely strong year with - more meetups than in any previous year, - the largest meetup we've ever had, and - the most members of any Rust meetup in the world! And what better way to celebrate but to cap it off with an unconf!!!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I don't think it's impossible for reuse of fragments to be the wrong choice. But, in practice, in any given situation, it likely is. - Fragments are a way of expressing parameter types, e.g. `function fooNonGraphQL(data: { user: name })` is somewhat equivalent

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is a great talk! The key things to note about fragments are that a single function should read a given fragment (i.e. they're not for reuse). isograph.dev is an entire framework built upon taking that to its logical conclusion!

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Cam McHenry @camchenry.com · 29/10/2025

Vite and Vitest imply the existence of Viter

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Check out this one pager: isograph.dev/docs/how-iso... TLDR, imagine: - Relay, but without fragment spreads or other boilerplate, i.e. as if everything was a resolver, and - if everything is a resolver, you can do a whole bunch of awesome things: defer without server support...

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Isograph one-pager | Isograph

A whirlwind tour of Isograph.

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Reed Harmeyer @reedharmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

@statisticsftw.bsky.social remember when I said we couldn’t query atproto with GraphQL? Well @slices.network might have just changed that! I’d use Isograph in a heartbeat with atproto.

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

When getting started, I listened to almost every episode of Software Engineering Daily for years! Look at me now, ma! :)

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

sograph 0.4 has been released!! Importantly, this includes the official release of the VSCode extension! It includes new primitives! And it includes so much more! Let's talk about the VSCode extension and client pointers, and save the rest for another thread 😎

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GraphQL @graphql.org · 10/09/2025

#GraphQLConf murder mystery - who shot @statisticsftw.bsky.social?!! (photo credit: @tazsingh.com)

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 27/08/2025

as they say, "if you improve performance by 20%, you did something smart. If you improve performance by 20x, you stopped doing something stupid."

Criterion benchmark showing a 1800% improvement in throughput

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Cole Lawrence @colelawrence.com · 18/03/2025

This is our first month to have two events in a long time! Check it out if you're in NYC

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#RustNYC has another upcoming meetup on 3/26: I can't believe that's legal Rust! with @mgattozzi.dev I'm pumped about this meetup. If you loved his RustConf talk "WEIRD EXPRESSIONS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM" (caps in original), then you're going to love this talk.

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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Don’t worry, laws are neutral, the rich and poor are punished the same for stealing bread

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Something absolutely massive is about to land in Isograph, and I'm so excited

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Content Foundry made it to the HN front page!!!

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Content Foundry, the first company to use Isograph, is going live now!!!! x.com/i/broadcasts... Randall Bennett, the founder, has believed in Isograph since day one!!! In many ways, Content Foundry is the perfect initial adopter:

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Let's launch a product! / X

Let's launch a product!

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Let's launch a product! / X

Let's launch a product!

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Andy Ingram @andrewingram.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Has anyone done an “atproto of nothing” joke yet?

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A bit of insider baseball, but this has been something I've always thought was confusing about Relay: the fact that Relay fetch policies combine fetch policies and suspense policies. Anyway, there are no suspense policies. For now, if there is missing data, you suspend.

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We're *extremely* excited to announce the release of Isograph 0.3.0 and 0.3.1! These releases are chock-full of new features, and make Isograph much more usable in real-world projects. Let's dive in! isograph.dev/blog/2025/03...

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Robert Balicki @statisticsftw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

noooo the chat feed keeps showing that I have one unread message, even though I've read all of the messages

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Jordan Eldredge @capt.dev · 03/03/2025

New blog post: Thinking about React as a state machine can help us reason about async state updates and React’s concurrent ceatures: {transitions} = f(state) jordaneldredge.com/blog/transit...

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{transitions} = f(state)

Thinking about the React component tree as modeling a state machine can help clarify the implications of asynchronous updates and React’s concurrent features.

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Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Currently piping BlueSky into Materialize, using their delightful Jetstream source (docs.bsky.app/blog/jetstream). It's then just a bit of (recursive) SQL to e.g. live monitor the largest threads, the deepest threads, the most improbably shaped and tenuous threads which should be pointed out.

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