JP Simard
@simjp
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iOS (ex-@lyft), dad of two, runner, he/him
Joined November 2009
RT @davefontenot: Amazing / rare opportunity! Ramp (fastest growing startup of all time, iykyk) is looking for Android contractors to helpβ¦.
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RT @gonzalolarralde: Today was my last day at @lyft as I've been affected by recent layoffs. It's very sad to have to leave after this 4 yβ¦.
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I've worked on low level stuff (networking & databases), product stuff (built transit, bikes & scooters into Lyft), tooling stuff, open source stuff and lots of other stuff.
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I was laid off from Lyft today, so I'm looking for work!.If you're hiring remote or in Montreal, hit me up. 12 years iOS experience, 9 years Swift. My DMs are open.
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This is cringe, but I literally asked my (now) wife to go out with me on this site 11 years ago!
@c_contant Nice meeting you! You're clearly smart & driven & you left before I could ask you this, but we should go for drinks sometime.
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Twitter has been my online home for the last 13 years, but the people running the show there are making morally reprehensible choices I can't support. I'll be hanging out at jpsim at hachyderm dot io π.
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ok why did no one tell me electric snowblowers were so good? There's a snow storm today in Montreal and my ryobi just shredded through it πππ.
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If ever you want to analyze the binary size of a SwiftPM executable, turns out that Bloaty & SwiftPM work pretty nicely together π€
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AWS Macs are expensive, but it's soooo nice to be able to take a snapshot of a live instance nearly instantaneously, then deploy that on a new instance within a few minutes.
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NSPredicates are Turing Complete, even when minimally using the objective-c runtime. TERNARY expressions are conditionals and an expression can evaluate itself to perform unbounded loops. below is a single NSExpression that is a full brainfuck interpreter
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Some of the best mobile engineers in the industry were just laid off at Lyft today π’. If you're hiring, please let me know I'll put you in touch. π.
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