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Robert Balicki

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Creator of Isograph https://github.com/isographlabs/isograph. Check out my talk at GraphQL conf! https://youtu.be/sf8ac2NtwPY?si=jkljEacLsxStFfjg Pinterest, previously Relay team at Meta

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Robert Balicki@statisticsftw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hey folks! Isograph v0.5.0 has just been released!! The trend of groundbreaking releases continues 🎉 This release includes support for optimistic updates and for writing external data into Isograph. And it has massive DevEx wins 🤩 and huge perf wins. Let's dive in!

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Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Containers in Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Carson Weeks to explore container internals: kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, seccomp) and their role in isolation/resource control. See a #rustlang implementation for memory-safe inspection and tweaking. rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Containers in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes exploring Docker-style container internals: kernel primitives (namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp), and their role in isolation/resource control. See a Rust implementation for memory-safe inspection and tweaking. A circular photo shows Carson Weeks. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Safety Critical Rust track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join us for sessions on all things safety critical, led by Xander Cesari from the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium & Rust Project Content team. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a new Safety Critical Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as focused on all things Safety Critical, led by Xander Cesari, a key member of the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium and Rust Project Content team. A circular photo shows Xander wearing a plaid shirt and cap. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Scientific Computing track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Helmut Carter and James Logan to explore scientific computing in #RustLang. Discuss interoperability, accessibility, best practices, and community. Share experiences and ideas to shape the field. Waitlist: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Scientific Computing track. The slide has a mint green background with two Rust crab mascots wearing Statue of Liberty crowns in the top right corner. Text describes exploring scientific computing in Rust, discussing interoperability, accessibility, best practices, and community. Participants will share experiences, challenges, and ideas to shape the field. Two circular photos show the track leaders: Helmut Carter wearing glasses and a blue shirt with a patterned tie, and James Logan wearing glasses outdoors with green foliage in the background. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Automate Crate Maintenance track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Yuri Astrakhan to explore CI, AutoFix, AutoPublish, and other tricks. Focus on code; let automation handle reviews, code hygiene, publishing, and maintenance with minimal effort. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring an Automate Crate Maintenance track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as covering CI, AutoFix, AutoPublish, and other tricks, with a focus on letting automation handle reviews, code hygiene, publishing, and other maintenance with minimal effort. A circular photo shows Yuri Astrakhan wearing a blue button-up shirt. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Managing Medium To Large Rust Projects track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Joshua Send for discussions on organization, modularization, and build strategies. Topics: crates vs modules, Cargo vs alternatives, compilation speed, generics vs dyns. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a new Managing Medium To Large Rust Projects track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the track as covering organization, modularization, and build topics including crates vs modules, Cargo vs alternatives like Meson and Bazel, compilation speed, and generics vs dyns, with encouragement to share stories and practices. A circular photo shows Joshua Send outdoors wearing hiking gear. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Rust as a Common Implementation Language track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join @lucretiel.me to explore how established teams can benefit from Rust without full rewrites. Why maintain separate Java/Python/Node implementations when a single Rust library could serve all? rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Rust As A Common Implementation Language For Cross-Language Functionality track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how while Rust is seeing growth in greenfield projects, established teams can also benefit without rewriting everything. Rust can serve as a library implementation language for functionality common to the organization. Why maintain separate Java/Python/Node implementations when you could have a single implementation used by all? Rust's emphasis on correctness and performance, solid C FFI story, and minimal runtime make it ideal for these common implementations. A circular photo shows Nathan West wearing glasses and a tan shirt, holding what appears to be a conference badge. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Building with Rust & Goblin AI track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Will Berry to explore an open source workflow engine similar to n8n, written in Rust, that runs code in multiple languages and its real world breakthrough use cases. Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Building with Rust & Goblin AI track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes how building an embedded workflow engine led to 66% cost savings. Learn about an open source workflow engine similar to n8n written in Rust that lets you write and run code in multiple languages, and the conceptual breakthrough it lead to for real world use cases. A circular photo shows Will Berry smiling, wearing a dark shirt. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Devin Brite to create games for the GameTank, an open source 8-bit console. Bring your laptop, build your own game (like Pong) in #RustLang, and play it together! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Workshop: Make Your Own Gametank Game in Rust track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the GameTank as an open source 8 bit game console based on the 6502 developed by Clyde Schaffer. Devin Brite put Rust on it. The workshop invites participants to bring their laptop to make their own video game (like Pong) in Rust and maybe even play it together. A circular photo shows Devin wearing sunglasses and a green t-shirt with a Game Boy design. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing our Diversity by Design: Strengthening Tech Communities Through Representation track at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Stephanie Zavala to explore practical ways to grow diversity in tech, from outreach and contributor pipelines to allyship and inclusive project culture. rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Diversity by Design: Strengthening Tech Communities Through Representation track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes focusing on practical ways to grow diversity in tech, from outreach and contributor pipelines to allyship and inclusive project culture. Let's turn good intentions into measurable progress. A circular photo shows Stephanie Zavala smiling, wearing a dark patterned top. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Announcing Rust Fundamentals - An Interactive Workshop at #RustNYC Unconf 2025! Join Savanni D'Gerinel for an interactive workshop exploring Rust fundamentals. Whether you want a #RustLang refresher or have never written a line of code, bring your laptop and dive in! Register now: rust.nyc/unconf

Announcement slide for RustNYC Unconf 2025 featuring a Rust Fundamentals - An Interactive Workshop track. The slide has a mint green background with the Rust crab mascot wearing a Statue of Liberty crown in the top right corner. Text describes the workshop as suitable whether you've used Rust before and want a refresher or have never written a line of code. Bring your laptop and come explore the fundamentals of Rust in this interactive workshop. A circular photo shows Savanni D'Gerinel wearing glasses and headphones. Sponsor logos appear at the bottom: Materialize, Lawrence Harvey, Empathic, and Antithesis.
Rust NYC@rust.nyc · 10mo ago

Excited for the #RustNYC talks Nov. 13! Herrington Darkholme will present a comprehensive guide to building custom linting tools for #RustLang projects. Matt Powers will speak about #SedonaDB, a geospatial compute engine that's built on #DataFusion. Register: www.meetup.com/rust-nyc/eve...

Talks: Custom Rust Linting (ast-grep) & Geospatial DataFrame lib (SedonaDB), Thu, Nov 13, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. to give attendees plenty of time to grab pizza and socialize, and the talk begin at 7:30 p.m. **Talk #1: Custom Rust Linting** **Herrington Darkhol

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Robert Balicki@statisticsftw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I don't think it's impossible for reuse of fragments to be the wrong choice. But, in practice, in any given situation, it likely is. - Fragments are a way of expressing parameter types, e.g. `function fooNonGraphQL(data: { user: name })` is somewhat equivalent

Robert Balicki@statisticsftw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is a great talk! The key things to note about fragments are that a single function should read a given fragment (i.e. they're not for reuse). isograph.dev is an entire framework built upon taking that to its logical conclusion!

Michael Staib@michaelstaib.bsky.social · 10mo ago

You’re using GraphQL fragments wrong. They’re not for reuse, they’re for co-location. Here’s what Meta learned refining this idea 👇🏼 youtube.com/watch?v=gMCh...

Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Robert Balicki is a Staff Engineer at Pinterest and creator of the open-source project Isograph. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss challenges and solutions for managing data in frontend apps. @statisticsftw.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/23/i...

Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki - Software Engineering Daily

A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetc...

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