Joy of Computing

A case for using "Persisted Queries" with GraphQL to get some of the benefits of REST (without losing the benefits of GraphQL). — nicholasbs

Tiny executable techniques for dealing with emoji — Shon

Are you doing a repetitive task that feels like it could be automated? I was. Every day for the past year I’d been importing new users for an app into MailChimp by hand. No more! Now that I’ve learned how to code I’ve handed that task over to Python and Cron. — kellyfoulk

A deep-dive on how the Flask-SQLAlchemy library works, including a basic re-implementation that demonstrates the concepts! You can see the code here: https://github.com/klfoulk16/flask-sqlalchemy-bind — porterjamesj

A great overview of Ruby 3.0 garbage collector's internal constants and what they're used for. — nicholasbs

clocviz is an extension of cloc that lets you "analyze a target codebase and render interactive visualizations: users can traverse the file tree with a simple mouse click and see statistics including lines by file, lines by language, percentage composition per language, etc." — rachel

A fun learning experience with a whole lot of pieces, and a nice souvenir from my RC batch to boot! — Mikkel

This game about a polar bear is fun. Also, the code is hard to understand, but in a good way. — doron

A tool for exposing all your browser tabs as folders and files, enabling you to program your browser with command line tools. — porterjamesj

Ever wonder how a WAV file is stored? This post explains how WAV files are formatted, along with example C code for reading them. — nicholasbs