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So the camera's tilted at an angle. Is it because you're not looking through, you're looking at him?
> Yeah.
Because you don't want him to feel like he's behind the lens, is that why?
> more importantly, I can still hold the camera at the side of my head perfectly steady. But I need the audience to know that I'm paying attention to him, not the camera. What do they call that? A something tilt?
Yeah. Dutch.
> A Dutch tilt. It's a way of letting the audience know that I'm not paying attention to the camera.
Casey Neistat's SECRET to Filmmaking
Digital Spaghetti
Deep and shallow modules:
The best modules are deep: they allow a lot of functionality to be accessed through a simple interface. A shallow module is one with a relatively complex interface, but not much functionality: it doesn't hid much complexity.
A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout
Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and I suspect they might become useful for public APIs as well eventually.
Production Ready GraphQL
Marc-Andre Giroux
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