Chris Menedes

Full-stack GIS dev @NYCDoITT, Unity game dev, self-taught musician. Interested in accessibility, maps, gaming, leftist politics.

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

Hi all, I wanted to share a new project I'm working on with some friends. We're going to be live streaming the game development process as a part of a monthly "personal" game jam. We'll be having our first stream this evening, check out https://t.co/nnNRW2Fe6g for more info!

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

Worked on this map the past day and a half... hoping this can help alot of people. Over 100,000 face coverings are being distributed at parks throughout nyc:

https://t.co/SdaB8ayoPL

[Quincy Larson @ossia]

This is it, folks. The free 16-hour AWS Developer Associate Certification course we promised you.

You'll learn:

☀️ DynamoDB
🌱 Elastic Beanstalk
λ Serverless and more

Thanks to @andrewbrown for designing this. And the entire #AWSCertified community.

https://t.co/rgGpAmNt9l

[🌿Erika - with a 'k'🌿 @EriPDev]

Things I wish I had focused more when I first learned to code and maybe you should too 🤷🏾‍♀️: A 🧵

1. using git for EVERY PROJECT. Just learn the basics. Push, pull, branches, clone etc. It won't take long to learn the basics if you do them consistently.

[Ali Spittel @ASpittel]

Tonight's Iowa Caucus is a good reminder that testing, especially load testing, is incredibly important.

[Kelly Vaughn @kvlly]

Casual reminder that you don't need to speak at conferences or even attend conferences to have a successful career in tech.

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

Volunteered to join a "Tiger Team" (aka re-engineering team) at my job to research building sustainable technology with people across my agency I've never worked with before. I was selected.

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

@lavie_encode Pros:
-easy to modify when code requirements change
-provides outline of how the code actually is intended to work (documentation usually covers this, but tests can sometimes simplify rather complex code)
-makes sure your code is running as expected
Cons: you need to write them

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

@kefimochi All the above!

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

Game programming stuff:

- Grabbed a heightmap depicting the Barringer Crater in Arizona via https://t.co/KCNvl1ulze
- Imported and applied heightmap to a terrain with a dirt texture in Unity

Next: learn some 3d modeling with Blender. Unity's new Terrain Tools package is cool!

[Molly Struve 🦄 @molly_struve]

Dear family and friends,

I love seeing you during the holidays but for the last time
I cannot fix your phone
I cannot make your wifi faster
I definitely have no idea why your printer won't work
and no I won't build you a website

Love,
Molly

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

2010 - 2012: little to no programming in my life
2013 - 2015: C++, Java, Bash/Shell
2016: HTML, Javascript (vanilla), CSS, Python, OpenGL
2017 - 2018: React, Node, Express, C#, Unity, Postgresql, PHP, MySQL, JQuery
2019 - now: Postgis, AWS, Kubernetes, Jest, ES6, Docker, SCSS

[Ali Spittel @ASpittel]

The main things I learned each year of this decade

2010-2012 didn't know what programming was
2013 Python
2014 C++, HTML/CSS, JS
2015 Pandas, Ruby, Rails, Angular, Django, React, JQuery, D3
2016 Vue
2017 Express, all the blog things
2018 Gatsby
2019 Preact

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

Now, working FT for the city, I'm doing a lot more ci/cd and devsecops work again with way more responsibility. While it is a bit tedious and challenging, i'm starting to understand how important it is and how much more knowledgeable i've become. Growth is good. 2/2

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

I started out as a fellow ~1.5yrs ago doing light ci/cd work without knowing what was going on without previous exposure. For the next year, I was doing front-end work that I was pretty comfortable with. I wasn't great at front-end, but it was relatively simple to pick up on. 1/2

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

My heart goes out to all family IT support this season ❤️🦃

[Anna Lytical @theannalytical]

Me trying to answer easy StackOverflow questions

[Chris Menedes @CMenedes]

@TaelurAlexis That's incredibly frustrating. I'm sorry to hear that. I'm *sure* there are companies that recognize your skills and presence in the dev community beyond implicit bias. Good luck with the job search

[freeCodeCamp.org @freeCodeCamp]

If you're a React dev who wants to dive a bit more into that ecosystem, why not start working with Next.js?

It's a great tool for creating web applications, and you can learn all about it in @flaviocopes' excellent Next.js Handbook here.

https://t.co/yOcmBEzKiD