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There’s a moment in the upcoming #GraphQLDocumentary from @schrockn: “Lee brought deep hardcore computer science; he can write a parser, a compiler.”
I’m the only one of our team without a CS background or degree. I had impostor syndrome for years and taught myself to catch up.
I’m the only one of our team without a CS background or degree. I had impostor syndrome for years and taught myself to catch up.
I actually learned how grammars and parsers worked to improve our GraphQL parser. I read everything I could get my hands on so I would sound competent to my team.
That last minute research put all the context in my fresh memory to make choices informed by open source
That last minute research put all the context in my fresh memory to make choices informed by open source
Same with compilers. I learned how compilers worked by digging in LLVM and Babel (very different) to learn how to build a better validator and executor for GraphQL. Open source projects were my research material.
