Talk: React Server Components Vs. GraphQL
Sharing the video of the talk I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2026 about the fundamentals underlying GraphQL and React Server Components and they ways in which they compete and compose
Jordan Eldredge's Blog
Personal blog of Jordan Eldredge, software engineer and musician.
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Building a metadata database with AI agents
Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era. Some things I’ve learned about building applications where agents act as users.
Talk: Grats - Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript
Sharing the video of one of three talks I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2025. in Amsterdam.
This blog has secrets
Shh… this blog has secret features
Prevent MacOS from inserting a period after two spaces
How to disable the feature of MacOS that auto inserts a period after typing two spaces
Markdown is great for encoding test snapshots
Making the case for encoding test snapshots as markdown
Aliasing alias
The time I accidentally aliased the command alias and fork bombed myself
Keynote: GraphQL at Meta
Sharing the video of one of three talks I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2025. in Amsterdam.
Talk: The Big Ideas in Relay
Sharing the video of one of three talks I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2025. in Amsterdam.
“’S Wonderful” by George Gershwin
Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano
Winamp in Your Pocket: 63 artist depictions of physical Winamp players
A massive dump of every 3D rending and artist concept of physical versions of Winamp
A Mental Model for Data in UI Applications
A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application, and the abstract properties of each layer.
React’s useTransition and state update reordering
Clarifying how React will sometimes apply state updates out of order when using concurrent features, and a best practice which can help you avoid it.
2018 Talk by Tracey Jaquith: Webamp at archive.org
Sharing a 2018 lightning talk given by Tracey Jaquith about adding Webamp to the Internet Archive
SQLite Railroad Diagrams
I love the way SQLite uses these visual diagrams to describe the grammar of their SQL dialect
[2012] FachMe mentioned on Voicebox
Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public radio program
Podcast episode on the history of the Real Book
An excellent podcast episode detailing the early music piracy of jazz fake books and their codification as the Real Book
SQLite can emit ASCII art diagrams of its parse AST
For debugging purposes you can compile SQLite with special flags to make it print out its ASTs in a special ASCII format
List Out of Lambda
Sharing a brilliant post in which Steve Losh shows, in JavaScript, how you can build up the constructs of arithmetic and eventually arrays using only lambda functions
Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive
The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as one of their embedded media players
My one, awkward, Winamp Skin
Despite spending a fair portion of my adult life thinking about keeping Winamp skins accessible and preserved. But I was never a real skin creator myself.
My old websites
Sharing a hilarious collection of screenshots of websites I built as a kid
An archive of 31k GeoCities badge images
Sharing a collection of 31k website badges scraped from archives of user-generated GeoCities sites
Teenagers making Winamp skins in 2025
Hack Club is running a program where teens who make a Winamp skin, and upload it to the Winamp Skin Museum, will be rewarded with a prize
Grats’ very nice testing strategy
Sharing a document I wrote about a testing strategy which I’ve found quite effective for Grats
My blog’s audio player
Details on the audio player I’ve added to this blog
An SQL murder mystery
A fun murder mystery in the format of an SQLite database
A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye
A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can produce a magic eye for any input
{transitions} = f(state)
Thinking about the React component tree as modeling a state machine can help clarify the implications of asynchronous updates and React’s concurrent features.
“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” (piano/whistling)
Playing Disney songs at the piano on a rainy Friday
Fumbling through “Aria” from Bach’s Goldberg Variations
A quick recording I made of myself fumbling through one of my favorite pieces to play at the piano
“A Glorious Dawn”, a brilliant remix of Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking
I still frequently think about this 16 year old remix
Dr. Richard Hipp Lectures on SQLite
SQLite’s creator Dr. Richard Hipp shares the story and implimentation of SQLite
Kids on Youtube playing my ukulele arrangement
Sharing and reflecting on four videos from Youtube of kids from Malaysia playing a simple ukulele arrangement I made in 2011
Philip Glass Piano Works by Víkingur Ólafsson
Sharing an album I’ve been obsessed with this year
“The Old Dope Peddler” by Tom Lehrer
Recorded another Tom Lehrer song over my lunch break
Open Goldberg Variations
Sharing one of my favorite music projects: a gorgeous, free - as in freedom - recording of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
You can now “read” this blog as a podcast
I wired this blog up to Open AI’s text-to-speech API so you can listen to individual posts or subscribe to the blog as a podcast.
“A Christmas Carol” by Tom Lehrer
Sharing a quick video I made of Tom Lehrer’s very funny song “A Christmas Carol”
Partitioning complexity
Sharing Kent Beck’s excellent article describing how we can find modes of working which can help manage complexity as it scales
Client data should not need to exceed O(screen size)
A rule of thumb for thinking about scaling client application state
Rendering “modern” Winamp skins in the browser
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
Hyper-Reality
This incredible 2016 video presents a dystopian, visually opulent, and depressingly believable augmented reality future.
Webamp can pose for the camera
Webamp.org has a feature that lets it pose as if it were in action
Code golfing interview questions
A very silly code golf solution I came up with that I’m still amused by ten years later
The Birth & Death of JavaScript
Sharing this classic brilliant, hilarious and prophetic talk about the crazy language that is JavaScript
100k skins: Reflections on the Winamp Skin Museum’s upload flow
A technical breakdown of the Winamp Skin Museum’s over-engineered upload flow, and how it helped create a positive feedback loop
Reactive GraphQL Architecture
A vision for using GraphQL on the client for local-first apps, apps using e2e encryption, and other apps with heavy client state
Why use the Relay Connection Spec?
My response to a Reddit user’s question about the value of the Relay Connection Spec
“KillsParentOnException” a lesson in API naming
An internal Meta decorator name which taught me something important about API naming