Daniel J. Peach

Software Engineer

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

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[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

@philkellr Absolutely. 50% of my vacation is sitting somewhere nice, unplugged from work, and just playing around with new tech stacks.

Cant do this for more than a week at a time of course, usually just a long weekend

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Handy Kotlin extension methods I wrote for transposing matrices, pretty useful for code competitions, leetcode, etc

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

Wow I miss college

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

Got a lot done on the arcade cabinet today. Also started a guide on how to build one yourself, should be out in a couple weeks.

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

Haha just saw this again, have now built and currently maintain two large businesses' software systems with Django. I'm constantly feeling like I should switch to something more "robust" like the systems I use for my day job, but Django is such a good tool for freelancing.

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

Working with my first love, Django again. Just for fun. Feels really good

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Another option is downloading the google styleguide xml and importing is as a formatting scheme directly in IntelliJ: https://t.co/ZKC8iiG0C4

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

The first thing I add to any project

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

*Not a perfect conversion, some manual config necessary, your mileage may vary

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

TIL "gradle init" can generate a gradle project from an existing maven-based project! So much time wasted in XML for nothing

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

@jain_harshit I had to do this for an interview as well. Had no idea what the term was, but once it was explained I was able to program it quickly. And I definitely used google for syntax help. And still do day to day in my job. It’s silly to pretend we need to memorize it all

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

I either track my progress on a Trello board with notes and deadlines and priorities, or I scribble a todo list on last week's crumpled grocery list. There is no in between

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

@Vestwell Is there a way I can add my Vestwell retirement account to a service for tracking finances like @Quicken? Seems since Vestwell is just a record keeper and not a bank, it is not straight forward.

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

Me, debugging an issue: “ugh there’s something stupid going on”
My wife: “Remember last time? It was a colon? Try that again”

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Checks time: 15 min till meeting. “cool”
Checks time: 3 min till meeting. “cool”
Checks time: meeting started 15 min ago. “!#$%&”

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@NanouuSymeon No but the DOCS can https://t.co/X5R9whggD7

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

This is the hardest part of development. Reading code is multitudes more difficult that writing it. A course on this should absolutely be standard practice

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

I'm now convinced there should be an entire university course on how to work in an existing code base (notice I didn't use the word legacy). The end goal being to make a change to it without breaking the functionality. This would be a senior course. CS401 Software Refactoring.

[Daniel J. Peach @DanielJPeach]

@jitspoe Y’all are really missing the joke

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@Makburn1 @DrOz This guy would get into office sit down, and ask to talk to “the big tech” like it’s a phone number he dials on a special blue phone. It’s amazing how the people in charge have no idea how things work. Every senate hearing on tech firms is hilarious.

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I hate Android, but man I love Android development

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@stemmlerjs I see no-code (more often low-code) like game engines for SWE. Sure you can drag and drop and tweak values, but at some point you need custom “scripting”, and as long as a tool can manage both of those needs together well, it’s feasible for many uses cases.