77: Lee Byron — From PHP to React and GraphQL

We're kicking off a new decade by going back in time time to 1999, just 10 years after the birth of the internet.
Our guest today is Lee Byron.
He takes us on a tour of the early web and personal home pages.
And connects the dots between PHP and technologies like React and GraphQL.
His work — inside Facebook during a critical pivot to mobile — provides a unique vantage point on the progress of web technologies over the past 20 years.

Featuring

• Lee Byron — Twitter, Website, GitHub
• chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub

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Links

• Let's Program Like It's 1999 | Lee Byron — from React Conf 2019
• Links (web browser)) on Wikipedia
• PHP on Wikipedia
• LAMP stack) on Wikipedia
• Tim Berners-Lee on w3.org
• 30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? on webfoundatios.org
• myspace
• Internet: A First Discovery Book Hoodie
• Vaporwave on Wikipedia
• Hack/XHP
• JSX
• Source-to-source compiler on Wikipedia
• Tom Occhino and Jordan Walke: JS Apps at Facebook — React and JSX's public announcement at JSConf US 2013
• Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices — defending JSX at JSConf EU
• GraphQL: The Documentary — by Honeypot on YouTube
• honeypot.originals on YouTube
• graphql.org
• relay.dev
• graphql/graphql-js
• graphql-ruby.org
• reactjs/react-rails
• 64: Chris Toomey on TypeScript, GraphQL, and Product Thinking — on React Podcast
• Robinhood — commission-free investing
• Robinhood careers
• GraphQL Foundation
• The Linux Foundation — Supporting Open Source Ecosystems
• GraphQL org on Github

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