Bill Shirley

Houstonian - Computer Scientist - Seeker of Knowledge

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

https://t.co/lRxB5vlfsN

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

As a computer scientist and software developer for a FinTech that is owned by a massive equity firm, this opinion is tough to listen to.

And i totally agree with it.

https://t.co/PnXC3kKfDx

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

Moved off of substack … https://t.co/lRxB5vlfsN

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

As a computer scientist and software developer for a FinTech that is owned by a massive equity firm, this opinion is tough to listen to.

And i totally agree with it.

https://t.co/PnXC3kKfDx

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

can someone explain for me why Trump couldn’t or wouldn’t pay $200K bail outright, by himself, without using a bail bondsman‽ #SistersInLaw

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

I sometimes and not here once a month. If I disappear, I was purged by Egon…

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

the user interface should be at the top of your architectural drawing, not the network layer

the hill i will die on

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

@VicVijayakumar runtime performance? not anymore.

developer productivity: likely

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

@Grady_Booch in the mid-late 80s I was getting an email address for each computer science course I took, each with a one semester shelf life and only connecting to-from classmates, TA, and prof. 🤯

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

@DevJarret @ios_dev_alb 🤯

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

@ios_dev_alb I’ve had applicants to a **Sr iOS Dev** position who can’t describe MVC other than to say you shouldn’t use it.

(“low cost center” to remain unnamed to hide the identity of a bad market to hire in.)

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

A deep dive into Swift’s result builders
Swift 5.4 https://t.co/89Bw8VX6hg

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

How not to do software…

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

There are no problems Bitcoin solves.

[Willy Woo @willywoo]

TBH Bitcoiners shouldn’t be celebrating MicroStrategy buying more BTC. It poses centralisation risks, even though it’s public traded and owned, its decision making is centralised.

Bitcoiners should celebrate its adoption by ordinary people using it to solve problems.

[Natalia Panferova @natpanferova]

To quickly check which strings are localizable in our SwiftUI app and make sure we are not missing any, we can preview our UI in the Accented Pseudolanguage available in scheme settings in Xcode. Strings shown without accents are not localizable.

[Christian Selig @ChristianSelig]

Okay y'all, I think I found the best idea for the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro. I added a cat that lives up there like a tamagotchi and just hangs out and does cute stuff as you browse Reddit in my app (Apollo).

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

"…even a toddler that knows any object-oriented programming language could easily read code written in ____"

reading the code and using it to solve hard problems well are two different things,

but you've definitely lost my respect of this review (and your company)

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

Pixelbook is dead;
long live MacBook Air.

[Amber ☘️ @AmberBaldet]

I’m looking someone who enjoys writing friendly, clear walkthroughs for developers - working knowledge of popular self hosted dev tools a plus! (paid, obviously)

CC your friends or RT for visibility ty!

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

I received my (automated?) semi-annual recruiting email from Metabook. There was a typo in the subject line.

That was my response to the email: "you have a typo in your subject line".

It's the most i've ever responded to them; I could write a treatise about the horrible iOS UI.

[Bill Shirley @TechShirley]

I worked at NASA JSC when the queen stopped by 31 years ago.

I have no recollection of that.
I guess she didn't stop by my office.