"We out here". I say this at least 5 times every day. I never knew the origin until I looked it up and found out that it means the "arduous labor of consistent practice in skateboarding tricks...skating hard...putting in work". Turns out, I've been using that phrase right, because lately, "we out here" has meant that we are on the road teaching GraphQL workshops.
In Spring 2017, we released our first O'Reilly book, Learning React. On the day that I heard they were sending the final version of the book to the printer, I made one simple request on Twitter:
You can't spell GraphQL without the QL: the query language. But don't let the term query suggest that GraphQL is only about getting data. GraphQL is way more than that.
We don't have a mailbox. The postman will not deliver mail to us where we live. We know. We were mad about it too before we realized that we get a free PO BOX at the local post office. All of our mail and all of our packages are delivered through one tiny box. Our PO BOX handles letters just fine. They can easily be delivered and collected through this box. However, packages present a different problem. The mail carrier cannot put our packages inside of our tiny mailbox. Instead they store the package in a large locker and leave a small key inside of our PO BOX. We collect the key and use it to find and unlock the locker that stores our package.
It's 5:55pm on a Friday night. It's your night to cook, and you don't have a recipe. This wouldn't be that big of a deal if you hadn't bragged about the new taco recipe that you were going to cook on Friday night. But you had no recipe. You lied.
