Before the introduction of contexts and hooks in React v16.8, Higher-Order Components (or HOCs for short) were a common sight. Today, it is an under-used pattern. While the concept presents infinite possibilities, practical applications should be limited to transparently adding wrappers or logic.

If you use GitHub Actions for deployments in a “push to master, deploy to prod” sort of flow, you’ve likely wanted to avoid deploying conflicting refs. By default, GitHub Actions will want to run a deployment for every commit as soon as you push it. Concurrency groups help, but it requires a bit of creativity to get it running smoothly.

Airbnb has an internal GraphQL server called Viaduct. A feature of Viaduct is that for any response it returns, it adds a __typename for every object which corresponds to the name of its type.

Is it possible to remove them without rewriting the type definition by hand?

Squeal is a library designed to allow querying raw SQL directly from the front-end without compromising security. This document intends to formalize the design for the Squeal library and eventually become a complete specification.

I recently did some work on a VS Code extension whose purpose is to handle rich pastes. It prompted me to survey different copy-pasting libraries and the state of the NPM ecosystem as a whole.