Eugene De Villiers

Code Monkey / Keyboard Cowboy during the week, Outdoor crazy world explorer every other moment. Bike, Hike, Cosmos and beer.

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@nich_dlamini Good luck with the tour dude. Just added you to my virtual team too. The South Africans are rooting for you!

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@RepDanCrenshaw You should thank god who sent you the storm to remind you that global warming is real.

[Sas van der Westhuizen @LazyGameDevZA]

I'm talking at @MakeGamesSA's JHB meetup this month (today!) about how I'm abusing @unity3d's Tilemap to create an old-school style console renderer. Playing with random colours and glyps make for some interesting spreads.

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

I just donated to @Wikipedia. Support free knowledge! #iloveWikipedia https://t.co/NGAd8jMpzl

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@rmaclean Check strava flyby if you recorded. Just maybe...

[Tomislav Ravic @tomislavravic]

Europe, here we come!!! https://t.co/oYaw8iPWC8

[Sas van der Westhuizen @LazyGameDevZA]

I wrote a thing again. Goals are important and I want to work on achieving more goals. https://t.co/BslT8KfdIz

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@LazyGameDevZA Oooh so that is exactly it. You know me so well. 😂 The pretty one leads to higher understanding. The ugly one is just...what the heck am I looking at?

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

So the pretty code is 40% slower than the ugly code. The pretty code uses the nice library interface. And it's only 2.3 seconds slower for 100mil operations. But the speed demon inside me is growling. *sigh*

[Eric Elliott @ericelliott_]

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
2. Exactly-once delivery
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery

[NASA InSight @NASAInSight]

Here. We. Go. In less than an hour, I’ll be on #Mars. Deep breaths, everyone. Whatever entry, descent and landing throw at me, I know my team has done all they can to help me take it all in stride. Watch LIVE: https://t.co/oig27aMjZd #MarsLanding

[Janco Wolmarans @jancowol]

If you understand the importance of flow in s/w dev, #mobprogramming makes complete sense. Experienced an awesome example of that again today.

[@[email protected] @Nick_Craver]

"How language creators choose the function to get the size of an array"
- from /r/programmerhumor

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@PieterKoornhof @LazyGameDevZA If Only They were 10-man startups that would sponsor a Visa

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

Virtual man hugs to my good friend @LazyGameDevZA for his birthday!

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@GailOllis Thank a million Gail. Your talk was exactly what I needed, and provided an excellent starting point to tackle a bunch of problems. Putting a session together and will let you know the outcome!

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

Bumped into another personal hero today, @Grady_Booch . And I was blown away by his kindness and sincere interest. He is one of the thought leaders of our industry, yet remained incredibly humble. So perhaps unknowingly he taught me more about empathy today. Thank You Grady!

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

Looking good...

[Eugene De Villiers @eldevilliers]

@Entelect Let me know when I need to setup the US office... 😁 Oh yes, and I need all those crazy kids I still call my team.