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A fairly recent development, but I've recently gotten back into Magic: The Gathering's commander format with a couple of friends, and I've been re-energized by the deck building experience. This particular one started as a bit of a joke among friends, who noted that the Ahoy Mateys preconstructed deck got very little love from buyers. Taking a look at it, I decided to turn an unloved deck into an homage to a mostly unloved set. What emerged has turned into my favorite deck of all to play, and it's completely unique among the tables I play with.

A lot of my current work in the GraphQL ecosystem has centered around the use of Apollo Federation to build an enterprise wide supergraph across several domains. In this post, I show the steps necessary to build entities in a federated subgraph using the Nest.js framework.

With the latest rework of my website, I decided to simplify my content stack back to the official @next/mdx packages with the new AppRouter, and found that it was more than adequate for my needs. Learn some tips and tricks for making the official support work for you, while also providing automated indexing and category support for your posts.