Alexander Ha

Self-taught iOS Developer 👨🏻‍💻 | U.S. Navy Vet ⚓️ | Personal chef for my wife 👨🏻‍🍳

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

After 113 applications, 34 rejections, 8 interviews and no responses from 71 of those applications, I can proudly say that I have finally accepted an offer as a full-time iOS developer @travelbankhq! 🎉 No bachelors degree, no bootcamp, 100% from online resources. I DID IT!!!

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

I don’t think I want to be primarily an iOS dev anymore after getting into unity game dev. I’m having a lot more fun and it’s definitely more engaging than simply building UI.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

When nothing goes to plan in Japan 😂 #shorts #minivlog #hokkaido #artist... https://t.co/ce2KG8wpxE via @YouTube

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

Wassup my fellow SWEs! Im probably just tweeting into the void but does anyone have any experience with moving to Japan through finding a dev job?

My wife and I are looking to move abroad for a while and I’m just curious about how doable this is

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@elonmusk When did you care about fairness? When I was in the Navy, it wasn’t fair that I had to work 12-16 hour days while others only had a 6 hour work day. Theres a saying in the military: Pick a rate, choose your fate. They know what they signed up for, don’t go complain about it now.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@micah_erfan Most people didn’t shift to the right. The left shifted so far left that everyone who was moderately left became right wing to them.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@hossam_mabed @Microsoft Fun fact, Microsoft donated over $1 million to the Democratic Party

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

Biggest pet peeve is when api sends me a string value of “true” when it’s supposed to be a bool. I just wasted an hour trying to figure out why an object wasn’t decoding correctly while thinking it was an entirely different issue. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

My wife quit nursing to become a full time artist 🎨. She believed in me when I quit school to go learn how to code online, it’s only natural that I do the same for her 🥹. #YOLO

https://t.co/fYNhmw4zRQ

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

What’s a senior software engineer I? 🧐

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@ios_dev_alb Redux. TCA is cool but I don’t think architecture should be handled by a third party dependency.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@VicDevPiano Off the top of my head, maybe make a protocol for the viewmodels with an associated type of State. Then declare your function signature like ‘func mutate() -> State’.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

Finally got the tattoo that my wife drew and I couldn’t be happier with how it came out 🫶🏼

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

My wife launched her art business and it mean a lot to her and myself if you could check out her products at https://t.co/iu9mCk62KK! Each piece was hand painted with gouache and she’s selling them as stickers, postcards and individual art prints. Posting some of them below:

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@dev_jmitchell @discord By Unity 😂

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@6886_xoxo1 @MattWallace888 That’s a dumb argument lol. I have definitely been out on a lake, on a paddle board without being strapped to it. Why? Because I know how to swim

[JP Simard @simjp]

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.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@justinevans24 @Uber_Support @insanereality Uber actually doesn’t make any money and has been in negative cash flow since it’s creation.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

I hate April fools day. I wasted 5 minutes of my life watching how to improve Xcode build times and it was just a joke. I should’ve figured. 😐

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@acbdev And I’m all for cussing up a storm as long as it’s not directed to anyone.

[Alexander Ha @alexDidLoad]

@acbdev No I think it’s valid to think about this especially in todays climate. We have older folks with their own idea of work culture but they’re slowly transitioning out of the tech space. It’s up to the current generation to decide on how we want to communicate with one another.