Mathew Robinson

My non-programmer friends describe me as a "Whizbang Programmer".

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

"The operation of venetian blinds should be done with caution." - My new lease 2017

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

When you're like "it'd be cool if this software I wrote had this feature" only to find out it already has that feature.

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

Nix is simultaneously one of the coolest and most painful technologies I've ever had to learn. But this blog series does a good job of covering it so far: https://t.co/EoU9rkpxe0

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

Not without issues but Pokémon Scarlet was an absolute banger.

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

If you need a vertical monitor for programming your text files are probably too long. Consider refactoring.

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

I love finding old well written articles about software development that are still relevant today. Here’s a good one I just found: https://t.co/mrPR4uyjv9

[ThunderBrush @ThunderBrush]

This is how you introduce a mini gun mechanic in your fps game. #prodeus

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Rewatched Scott Pilgrim over the weekend. I still think it’s a bad movie with fun fight scenes. Not sure why it’s so highly regarded.

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@grow_love I know how that feels bro, stay strong.

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The #mtg arena ladder seems to have forgotten that mono white is still a good deck.

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

@mattdm Yep it's one of the killer features of GNOME for me. I use it to sync my Google accounts for work and personal, personal email (regular third party SMTP provider), and my Fedora account.

[Ed Balls @edballs]

Ed Balls

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

I still can’t tell if NFTs are a joke or real.

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

Unpopular opinion: I find plain JS + React much easier to work with and understand than TS + React. Especially as a relative new comer to frontend.

[Nihilist Arby's @nihilist_arbys]

The sentience you’re experiencing right now is illusory. Your natural state is non existent blackness. You’ll still be dead when the sun explodes & forever after that. You think it matters that you farted in the elevator today? You’re irrelevant. No one loves you

Eat Arby’s

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

If you include Deadpool’s cocaine rider, this is the most expensive reaction video ever made.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘bloviator’ (19th century): one who loves the sound of their own voice, who talks at length but ultimately says very little.

[Shit User Story @ShitUserStory]

As a...
– user
I want to...
– jump through the hoops of a gate-keeping chatbot with a human-yet-quirky name like Ruby, who will confront me with a wall of links to unrelated FAQ pages, while asking for feedback on her incompetence
so that...
– support fields fewer calls

[Mathew Robinson @chasinglogic]

@grow_love @AndaristRake @mitchellhamiltn How does this compare to something like lerna?

[Shit User Story @ShitUserStory]

As a...
– user
I want to...
– have paste disabled on a password field
So that...
– the form feels secure