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Bessey's Blog
Personal blog · bessey.dev/blog · on HN as mattbesseyprogrammingweb
Bessey's Blog is a personal blog at bessey.dev about programming and web. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Bessey's posts on why the author is over GraphQL when discussing its drawbacks, especially for backend engineers. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical blog of a full stack software engineer, working on all things web since 2013
Most-linked posts?
- After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-30
What Hacker News says?
I would encourage you to write an educated person's critique of GraphQL, because OP's article + https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/ etc. suck up all of the oxygen, and no one hears about the genuine issues like that. (And don't forget lack of generics, no support for interfaces with no fields, lack of closed unions/interfaces, the absolutely silly distinction between unions and interfaces, the fa…
Comment linking /blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql/
on “GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over”Submitted After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL as a story · 1259 points
HN discussionGraphQL is awesome if you are a frontend engineer. GraphQL is terrible if you are a backend engineer - https://bessey.dev/blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql
Comment linking /blog/2024/05/24/why-im-over-graphql
on “Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript”Submitted GitHub Releases are no match for CHANGELOG.md as a story · 2 points
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