moin moin

morning!

Morning friends.

Oh, hold on, that’s right I don’t have any 🙂

wow

I’ll be your friend 👋

its a trap

🙂 I am only joking @guy

haha

😄

How are you doing today @jasonbell

I’m good thank you, and yourself @guy?

Yeah feeling excited, its friday and everything is good 😄

btw, whats the best way to prepare for a tech talk?

I’ve been using graphql/lacinia and would like to do something like “a crash course in graphql with lacinia”

But i’ve never really done talks before

Not really sure where to start :thinking_face:

Morning

@guy I think clojure X hosts a talk workshop

Or clojure X bytes rather

oh nice

that sounds interesting! time to google 😄

I guess that's my useful deed of the day, time to resume lazing about

We're using some lacinia stuff to do graphql. Works really nicely for reads. Mutations are a bit more tricky but I think we're getting a nice pattern

We use it a lot at JUXT in a project too.

I'd be interested to know how other people are handling mutations, or if you're mostly using it for read-only APIs

We're creating a graphQL API with an XML API that uses the graphQL to interact, as a series of small (not quite microservice) components. To replace a monolithic Perl app that noone reallyunderstands any more

@guy I think Toastmasters (an international public speaking/leadership club) have a fair amount of free material out there. Basic top tips: - when writing the speech, have these parts: 1. (user) problem? - 2. (tldr) solution! - 3. how to implement the solution 4. summary - don’t memorise the speech, memorise the above points and how you link them; it helps you improvise - practice your speech out loud, to someone, at least once (gives you a feel for length - it’s always longer than you think). It helps if they film you on your phone and then you re-watch it.

@lady3janepl thanks! I'll check it out

Good luck 🙂 If you do give the speech, will you put it up somewhere? I’m also working with graphql, though in another language, would like to learn more about lacinia 🙂

morning

@lady3janepl <<practice your speech out loud, to someone, at least once>> Never in my life have I done that 🙂

Well, it’s a tip, not a requirement. The only requirement to give a speech is to open your mouth in front of whatever audience and start making sounds 🙂

It is, however, based on ~two years of regular public speaking practice and observing how practice and feedback helps people. ¯\(ツ)/¯

I’ve always approached talks from an improvisational point of view, also getting the audience involved helps a lot.

@jasonbell I am here to help you!

😉

lol

oh don’t i know that @thomas 🙂

Thanks for the tips people!

@carr0t did you ever get graphiql working with your project? I’ve been trying to get it working with a plugin but it’s not 100% there yet.

We also do quite basic mutations which are quite simple

Do you do nested mutations and things?

HELLO everyone! I am requesting some RT 💋 for this UK Clojure story: https://twitter.com/juxtpro/status/941614471230914561

my undying thanks for any promotion propagation 🙂

@guy Nested data structures, yes. Our 'low level' graphQL represents a series of related DB tables as nested json maps, so we can update a single object who's data is spread across multiple tables in 1 transaction

mmm sounds interesting!

It works quite well, but does mean as far as I can tell that we have to manually call any 'onward/child' mutators from the main one, whereas with the same pattern with a get request lacinia uses the schema you've provided to work out which query functions to call

Unless I've missed something and it can do that for you for mutators too

And yes, we got graphiql working fine. We just used the default example project I seem to recall

nice ok ill have to have another look at the default example project to get it working 😄

Morning all 👋

Counting down the hours until I go on leave for the holiday season

And my son is in school for 3 more days next week! Hello Star Wars and ice skating

without a child

😇

ha! sounds like a fun couple of days

Fingers crossed

Hello @jasonbell 👋

@carr0t: sounds quite nice… we’re doing some graphql stuff with lacinia too

though it’s all read only just now

I really wish graphql had namespaces though

Heh, yeah

might be a good lambdalounge talk at some point in the new year 😉

Certainly intend to do one internally as well, so will spread it far and wide 🙂

👋 Hi @michael.ford

Hiya @jasonbell 🙂

welcome @michael.ford

Hey there @michael.ford

Welcome!

System working?

@danieleneal think so….. ie I’m still here 🙂

@jasonbell Are you talking about work systems or body systems 😆

I.e. you're "still here" at the place of the system, or you're "still here" in the life sense of the words

😂

Yay! I'm on leave until January 🎉 🍻 🍷 🍰

Wicked.

English slackers! 🙂

I'm taking just Fri/Mon off (wedding anniversary celebration on the 22nd and Yule dinner with friends on the 25th). Normally I work straight through the holidays (because I'm a big ol' Bah Humbug! about the whole thing).

I think the rest of my team is taking the week off (25-29)...

I'm on leave since -2 days (my birthday!). Filling my time with core logic, games and books 🙂

We're prepping for a big database infrastructure migration so... no sleep until that's done 🙂

😄

exciting!

So my son is upstairs singing about the 13th day of Christmas... >On the 13th day of Christmas my true love gave to me... >13 boys a pooping...

This is what happens when you leave your other half to put your child to sleep

@yogidevbear work systems good, body systems questionable on the left side :)

I'm sure we all feel a little like that 😉

wow thats a new version ive not heard before

sounds fun tho 😄