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by cgarvis 5y ago
They own 5% of all phone numbers in order to pull this off.
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What if we could transpile COBOL into Elixir(dockyard.com)
58 points by cgarvis 5y ago|63 comments
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by cgarvis 5y ago
just started to use them for an elixir/phoenix project. multi region with distributed nodes just works. feels almost magically after all the aws work I've done the past few years.
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by cgarvis 6y ago
The population has grown from 205 million in 1970 to 330 million today. If you think 50% of the people join the workforce that is an increase of 65 million more people working.
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by cgarvis 6y ago
I've been doing this with Makefiles for a while. It has always bugged me that I'm not "making" an artifact. Think I"m going to try this `run.sh` approach.
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by cgarvis 6y ago
Here is a starting point for a AWS SAM Golang project. It even comes with a `make help` command. https://gist.github.com/cgarvis/61d70eeb1288bfee540c59cad095...
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AWS AppSync Releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by cgarvis 6y ago|0 comments
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by cgarvis 7y ago
PG has an essay on keeping your identity small. It high lights the fact that when there is no way to prove one answer is correct, it’s then subjective which is the “right” answer. He uses the example of politics. Good read.
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by cgarvis 7y ago
Toygers are real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyger
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by cgarvis 7y ago
You don’t need an employer to by into pairing. Get them to buy into managing work at the team level instead of the individual level. Then you can safely pair with your team mates.
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by cgarvis 7y ago
I used pair programming at a startup with a heavy junior engineering team. I loved it cause I could pair with any one of them and that “mentoring session” would be retaught without me having to do it. Our junior engineers progressed reall
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by cgarvis 7y ago
Goal of pair programming isn’t better quality code, that is a side effect, but better quality solutions. It’s one of those 1+1=3 types of things. It is also a great training tool. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve had junior engineers as
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by cgarvis 7y ago
Pairing programming is like any skill. If you never do it, you will be terrible at it. I also believe that pair programming requires a level of psychological safety that not all orgs possess.
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by cgarvis 7y ago
I found the 4+1 architecture docs very helpful when working with a recent client. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%2B1_architectural_view_mod... . What I like about it is that it separates the architecture into four
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by cgarvis 7y ago
Hackernews Search is a better google for cool things I've found on the internet.
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by cgarvis 7y ago
not sql, but xsv is awesome: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
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by cgarvis 7y ago
reminds me of https://github.com/tj/robo . Great job on releasing this. I was just thinking about all the scripts in my makefile. Separation of concerns. I’ll be giving it a try.
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by cgarvis 7y ago
Vision Master vs Execution Master
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by cgarvis 7y ago
Having built a lot of react apps with and without flux/redux, I would say the best part of GraphQL is the simplification of SPAs. Building up the query with fragments and colocating data fetching with the component that need it, is a h
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by cgarvis 7y ago
At Slalom _build[1], we have People Managers and Team Leads. Your people manager stays with you as you transition from project to project. They never have more than six direct reports. They are the person that handles all the bureaucracy
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by cgarvis 7y ago
“The Lessons of History” by Will Durant and Ariel Durant talks about the cyclical nature of history. They talk specifically about the cycles of control and chaos. How our liberties are only possible after a period of control.
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by cgarvis 7y ago
His page has been down for years unfortunately. It felt like it was start to again some traction in the ruby community years ago. Uncle Bob talks about in his Lost Years talk. Think that turned into Clean Architecture. Gary Burnhardt refe
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by cgarvis 8y ago
adding `-pinterest` to your search terms makes it suck less.
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Declarative WebAssembly instantiation for React(github.com)
1 points by cgarvis 8y ago|0 comments
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by cgarvis 8y ago
Odd that the site does not use the font they are proclaiming is better.
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by cgarvis 8y ago
They probably failed due to bad product management.
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In Defense of Utility-First CSS(frontstuff.io)
1 points by cgarvis 8y ago|1 comments
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by cgarvis 10y ago
Location: Baltimore, MD Remote: Open to remote Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React Js/Native, Rails, Node, GraphQL, Angular, Golang Resume: http://linkedin.com/in/christophergarvis Email: cgarvis@gmail.co
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by cgarvis 10y ago
Fixt | Baltimore, MD | ONSITE | https://www.fixt.co When your internet connected devices go down, get them back up with the push of a button. Fixt is a fast growing startup that is focused on making the process of replacing all
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by cgarvis 10y ago
Hosting your blog using AWS Lambda is over engineering and still not the cheapest solution. Host your static files on S3 or your CMS on Heroku and put Cloudflare in front of it. This solution comes with auto scaling, SSL, and HTTPS and is

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