GraphQL by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
This is really good.
It allows the client to prepare a single request that gets all the data it wants to fill up a given webpage, rather than doing several separate requests.
So it only gets exactly what it needs, and in a single request.
Very sweet. This is the future of the web.
iPod by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Was a direct tech predecessor to the iPhone.
MacOS by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Nice looking and expensive operating system by Apple. Ciro Santilli believes that:
Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006) part 5 "Murder or suicide" mentions that the key events that leads to apoptosis is when certain proteins normally present in the inner mitochondrial membrane spill out, and that this often happens when free radicals are produced in excess: the cell is really not doing well in those cases. This point suggests that the initial mitochondrial endosymbiosis happened due to a parasite that lived inside another cell. It mentions that even today we see parasites kill the host cell when they feel that the cell does not have many nutrients. This frees the parasites to then infect other cells.
D and L amino acids by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Usually noted D-something, L-something, e.g. L-alanine, D-glutamine.
Fullerene by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Video 1.
Buckyballs (C60) by Periodic Videos (2010)
Source. Actually shows them in a lab!

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