Jordan Eldredge's Blog

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

Rebuilding a 20 year old side project in the AI era.

Sharing the video of one of three talks I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2025. in Amsterdam.

How to disable the feature of MacOS that auto inserts a period after typing two spaces

Shh… this blog has secret features

The time I accidentally aliased the command alias and fork bombed myself

Making the case for encoding test snapshots as markdown

Sharing the video of one of three talks I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2025. in Amsterdam.

Sharing the video of one of three talks I gave at GraphQL Conf. 2025. in Amsterdam.

Snuck in a few minutes to record myself playing through this Gershwin tune on the piano

A massive dump of every 3D rending and artist concept of physical versions of Winamp

A technology-agnostic model of the layers that naturally arise in any reasonably sized application, and the abstract properties of each layer.

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.

Sharing a 2018 lightning talk given by Tracey Jaquith about adding Webamp to the Internet Archive

I love the way SQLite uses these visual diagrams to describe the grammar of their SQL dialect

Recalling the time in 2012 when my opera related software project was discussed on a local public radio program

An excellent podcast episode detailing the early music piracy of jazz fake books and their codification as the Real Book

For debugging purposes you can compile SQLite with special flags to make it print out its ASTs in a special ASCII format

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

The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as one of their embedded media players

Despite spending a fair portion of my adult life thinking about keeping Winamp skins accessible and preserved.

Sharing a hilarious collection of screenshots of websites I built as a kid

Sharing a collection of 31k website badges scraped from archives of user-generated GeoCities sites

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

Sharing a document I wrote about a testing strategy which I’ve found quite effective for Grats

Details on the audio player I’ve added to this blog

A fun murder mystery in the format of an SQLite database

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

Thinking about the React component tree as modeling a state machine can help clarify the implications of asynchronous updates and React’s concurrent features.

Playing Disney songs at the piano on a rainy Friday

A quick recording I made of myself fumbling through one of my favorite pieces to play at the piano

I still frequently think about this 16 year old remix

SQLite’s creator Dr.

Sharing and reflecting on four videos from Youtube of kids from Malaysia playing a simple ukulele arrangement I made in 2011

Sharing an album I’ve been obsessed with this year

Recorded another Tom Lehrer song over my lunch break

Sharing one of my favorite music projects: a gorgeous, free - as in freedom - recording of J.S.

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.

Sharing a quick video I made of Tom Lehrer’s very funny song “A Christmas Carol”

Sharing Kent Beck’s excellent article describing how we can find modes of working which can help manage complexity as it scales

A rule of thumb for thinking about scaling client application state

Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser

This incredible 2016 video presents a dystopian, visually opulent, and depressingly believable augmented reality future.

Webamp.org has a feature that lets it pose as if it were in action

A very silly code golf solution I came up with that I’m still amused by ten years later

Sharing this classic brilliant, hilarious and prophetic talk about the crazy language that is JavaScript

A technical breakdown of the Winamp Skin Museum’s over-engineered upload flow, and how it helped create a positive feedback loop

A vision for using GraphQL on the client for local-first apps, apps using e2e encryption, and other apps with heavy client state

My response to a Reddit user’s question about the value of the Relay Connection Spec

An internal Meta decorator name which taught me something important about API naming