Andrew Forward
@a4word
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(He/Him) Side-project instigator, software developer and part-time prof.
Ottawa, Canada
Joined July 2010
How is there no mention of The Simpsons. it's the only opening that I never (ever) skip, it's the only opening that I ever talk about independent of the actual show.
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Found a new weekend read (Badass). Highly recommend the other two.
Three of my favorite books on how to build great products that I don’t see mentioned very often in my circles —
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Unlabelled? Neutral. Laptop only, means i can bang out work on a train, on a plane, with a fox, on a box!.
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I find selling the mono-repo such a difficult task, even when benefits like this are implemented and demonstrated to be amazing.
We’re a team of 3 engineers covering hardware, a cloud service, CLI, edge compute worker, ML stack, video processing, and WebRTC. Biggest boon to productivity?. Everything is in a single monorepo. You can run the whole stack locally, and make changes across the system in one PR.
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"For programmers that means poring over that pull request of theirs over and over again until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct.". I like to apply this at the commit level, where the history tells a compelling story of "mark the hard change easy. ".
“If there’s anything I see juniors often miss, it’s this. Careful, repeated, even obsessive, study of their own work. For programmers that means poring over the pull request until it’s as aesthetically pleasing as it is functionally correct.”
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The evolution of automated testing acronyms. We started with First,.TFD. We elaborated with Design.TDD. We clarified with Feedback.TDF (.
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“Oh, and you often have to rewrite your app in proprietary JavaScript – even if it’s already written in JavaScript!”. 🔥.
FLAME is out! 🔥 Auto scale by wrapping any app code in a function and have that block run in a temporary copy of your app. It's time to rethink Serverless. No rewrites. No bespoke runtimes. No outrageous layers of complexity. Blog + screencast 👉
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supa dupa fly.
#WorkIt @MissyElliott! Missy is officially the first female Hip-Hop artist to be inducted into @rockhall! She holds 6 Platinum 💿 or higher tracks and 6 💿 Platinum or higher albums.
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Getting to brevity requires clarity, forcing you to stake a claim about what is your most important point.
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Wizard!.
Before I write any code, I formulate an expectation in my mind. I don't just blindly write any code. What I do next is write that expectation down in the form of an executable test. I then run that test & see it fail. My work is now cut out for me: make that test pass & refactor.
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My iphone journey. iphone 3g.iphone 4s.iphone 6.iphone 12 mini. Sad to have seen the smaller phone discontinued.
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Summarizing books is such a great way to deepen comprehension. My problem is that is that read (and listen) in environments unsuitable for note taking (doing chores, before bed, in a lounger). Still trying to add this to the mix.
One of my smartest friends only reads 3-5 books per year but rewrites every page in his own words as he goes through it. Then, he summarizes the entire book once he's done. He reads only the best books, but very carefully. This is the kind of reading we should be encouraging.
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I just love the correct use of fewer. Oh, and yeah, fewer cars and less driving is a great answer for cities.
The real answer for cities is fewer cars and less driving.
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