Andrew Forward

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Andrew Forward

@a4word

(He/Him) Side-project instigator, software developer and part-time prof.

Ottawa, Canada Katılım Temmuz 2010

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Andrew Forward@a4word·10 Oca

ohhhhhhhhh

Steve Schoger@steveschoger

Getting the office ready for a Refactoring UI reboot.

Andrew Forward@a4word·24 Ara

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.

All The Right Movies@ATRightMovies

What is the best opening theme to a TV show?

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Andrew Forward@a4word·20 Eki

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J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

9¾

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Andrew Forward@a4word·25 Eyl

@davehyndman @globeandmail The only cheat code I know is to continually repeat "Please cancel my account" and eventually you defeat the final boss and the account is closed.

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Dave Hyndman@davehyndman·24 Eyl

Why does the @globeandmail make cancellation of a digital subscription so difficult? I didn't have to phone anybody to sign up! #darkpatterns

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Andrew Forward@a4word·11 Eyl

@byronalley @PJUllrich If you use fly.io (or possibly just docker), I could share some infra configs to install the necessary parts (aka chrome)

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Byron Alley@byronalley·11 Eyl

@a4word @PJUllrich Nice, filing this for future use

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Andrew Forward@a4word·7 Eyl

Found a new weekend read (Badass). Highly recommend the other two.

Adam Wathan@adamwathan

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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Andrew Forward@a4word·28 Tem

@PJUllrich @Krnsi @elixirphoenix Keep a boring name, or try something fun? And, curious if you would want to look beyond web applications to include more backend apps (that aren't just phoenix)

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Andrew Forward@a4word·10 May

@PJUllrich Big difference between the "next" role and how long to wait for a certain roll. If the odds of getting pregnant are 1/6 (my number not his :-), then you should expect to wait about 6 months (1/p) before thinking you are outside the norm. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric…

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Andrew Forward@a4word·13 Mar

@sean_moriarity The End of Average by Todd Rose Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt The Order of Time by Carlo Roveli Barking Up The Wrong Tree by Eric Baker Algorithms to Live By by B Christian and T Griffiths No swears though

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Sean Moriarity@sean_moriarity·13 Mar

What's a book you've enjoyed in the past year, that you swear nobody else has read? Need some unique recommendations

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Andrew Forward@a4word·11 Şub

Unlabelled? Neutral. Laptop only, means i can bang out work on a train, on a plane, with a fox, on a box!

Graphite Czech 🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸@CzechArtGirl

Which monitor setup are you?

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Andrew Forward@a4word·11 Şub

I find selling the mono-repo such a difficult task, even when benefits like this are implemented and demonstrated to be amazing.

Dave Lucia@davydog187

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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Andrew Forward@a4word·2 Oca

The last sentence for the W 🤓 ihateailicense.eu

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Andrew Forward@a4word·31 Ara

ABR: Always be rebasing graphite.dev/blog/why-ban-m…

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Andrew Forward@a4word·23 Ara

"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..."

DHH@dhh

“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.” world.hey.com/dhh/commit-to-…

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Andrew Forward@a4word·8 Ara

The evolution of automated testing acronyms... We started with First, TFD We elaborated with Design TDD We clarified with Feedback TDF (tidyfirst.substack.com/p/tdd-isnt-des…)

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Andrew Forward@a4word·6 Ara

“Oh, and you often have to rewrite your app in proprietary JavaScript – even if it’s already written in JavaScript!” 🔥

Chris McCord@chris_mccord

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 👉 fly.io/blog/rethinkin…

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Andrew Forward@a4word·7 Kas

supa dupa fly

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)@RIAA

#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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Andrew Forward@a4word·14 Eki

@alexbunardzic Reminds me of Zod

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Attention Alchemist@alexbunardzic·13 Eki

Artificial Intelligence needs a lot of cables.

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Andrew Forward@a4word·14 Eki

Getting to brevity requires clarity, forcing you to stake a claim about what is your most important point. m.signalvnoise.com/the-writing-cl…

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@davehyndman @globeandmail @byronalley @Krnsi @elixirphoenix @sean_moriarity @elonmusk @BarackObama