“we have a crispr” is a thing that came up in a convo today. I love the bay area.
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Daily Archives: July 13, 2017
Is it exclusive to the bay? I would think this is the talk of the town in Boston.
Is it exclusive to the bay? I would think this is the talk of the town in Boston.
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GraphQL, the future of APIs – AltPlatform
i’ll happily grant you the technical arguments…but even so, we’ve been here before, over and over: JSONPath, SPARQL, LINQ, YQL, XSLT, and even Facebook’s own dead last attempt, [FQL](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/). i’ve done deep dives into [YQL](https://snarfed.org/yql_yahoo_query_language_thoughts), [Azure Tables/LINQ](https://snarfed.org/windows_azure_details#Queries), [SimpleDB](https://snarfed.org/amazon_simpledb_thoughts#queries), and Facebook’s own [Data Store API](/facebook_data_store_api_thoughts#data_access), one of their earliest. i’ve even [developed one of these languages myself](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/datastore/gqlreference). i’m not proud.
they may all be technically better in various ways, but none of them have caught on broadly in the way that REST has. that may be “worse is better” at work. i guess we’ll see what the future brings.
in my own experience with Facebook’s Graph API in [granary](https://granary-demo.appspot.com/) and [Bridgy](https://brid.gy/), the main limiting factor hasn’t been the URL-path-and-query-params interface, but instead their sprawling, complicated, inconsistent data model. i haven’t needed deeply rich or complex querying, though.
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🎉 We’re now a proud supporter of #IndieWeb. You should support them too! opencollective.com/indieweb #opencollective
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I don’t fly without hitting up @schnarfed’s huffduff-video.snarfed.org + @huffduffer fist anymore 💯
I don’t fly without hitting up @schnarfed’s huffduff-video.snarfed.org + @huffduffer fist anymore 💯
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Have a wonderful evening @indiewebcamp at our #PDX office! We love sponsoring your monthly meetup!
Have a wonderful evening @indiewebcamp at our #PDX office! We love sponsoring your monthly meetup!
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Today I start unfollowing windbag technologists.
Today I start unfollowing windbag technologists.
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