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Sean Gransee | Full-stack Software Engineer

Sean Gransee is a full-stack software engineer from Chicago offering consulting services. He's also building some apps on the side.

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My Bangkok Recommendations After Living Here for a Year

A collection of various notes I've shared with friends visiting me in Bangkok.

Cafes to Work From in Bangkok, Thailand (With WiFi Speeds)

My notes about various cafes I've worked from in Bangkok.

Three Days in Nusa Penida, Indonesia

Our trip to Nusa Penida in June 2025. A beautiful hotel, picturesque beaches, and swimming with manta rays.

Why Do Software Products Need So Many Engineers?

How changing the color of a rectangle can require years of development.

My Recommendations After Spending a Month in Montréal

I spent most of June 2023 in Montréal, Canada. Here are my recommendations for people visiting for a short trip (3-5 days).

Here's How Much Sweetgreen Rips You Off You When You Order Online (with data)

Sweetgreen gives you less food when you order online. On average, a Crispy Rice Bowl ordered online weighs 16% less than one ordered in-person.

The Issue With GraphQL Field Names That Aren't Descriptive Enough

One of the bad decisions we made when building our schema was defining a scalar field with a name that would likely be used in the future by a full object...

Breaking Changes in GraphQL with Zero Downtime

Redundant "Through" Relationships in GraphQL

Returning Arrays in GraphQL - Simple Lists vs Relay-style pagination

Singular and Plural Fields in GraphQL

Decisions My Team Made With Our GraphQL Schema

Opinions On Opinionated Autoformatters

Auto-deploy blog to GitHub Pages with static site generator and CI

All Black Mirror Episodes, Ranked by Reddit Comments

Recipes I Like

Television As A Shared Experience

A Recap Of My Summer Out West

I Almost Dropped Out Of School

Goodbye

People

The Feedback Bias

Why I Believe JavaScript is the Best First Programming Language to Learn

No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson's Law to Kick Procrastination's Ass

What is the halting problem?

The Real Value of College

The Decisions Behind WikiLoopr

My summer in hackNY

From film major to computer science

What is Git? What is revision/version control?

What is a linked list?

What are APIs and why are they important?

Disable CTRL+F for Certain HTML Elements or Whole Page

How to Build an Elegant One-page Scrolling Website

My Most Rewarding Class

10 Reasons to Become a Computer Science Major

The danger of multitasking

Goodbye 2011

My former self

The Book of Mormon – a surprising stroke of genius

So I have a blog now...