Josh Skeen

Android @ Square. Author of Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide. Aspiring electronic musician and yoga enthusiast.

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@HandstandSam Totally relate and have gotten that request before. Staging as separate commits can sometimes be an ok option for those requests you know (which I always do for the large changes)?? Odds of losing the context across a couple prs are high also.

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

https://t.co/CwSEQRw6qh
i cant be the first to think 'Cancelling (transient state), completed = false, isCancelled = true' is weak. Feels like we needed an api state of .isCancelling = true, .isCancelled = false

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@OldManLumans exactly the weighty hermeneutical quandary i expect from oldmanlumans

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

Published my first Rust cargo crate 🦀! It's a simple Text UI for moving between recent git branches, something I've been wanting for my own git workflow. https://t.co/wLO8L78Tob .

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

Intuition for how to refactor can’t just be read about. subconscious pattern matching is an important element, and the right choice requires applying that intuition to experimentation. - paraphrasing a resonant convo w a colleague about redesigning elaborate code.

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@nickblack we might need to tweak the law a bit, "a software which explicitly claims positive qualities in its title will have exactly the opposite quality". "SecureBank" will decidedly be insecure, "easypay" will be "difficultpay", etc.

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

Skeen's law: A software's behavior will be exactly opposite of its title. For example, the quickplay library should be expected to be slow, and to not actually play.

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@kpgalligan Gregorian monks laughing mercilessly

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

SimpleDateFormat isn't threadsafe yall. Don't be parallelizing stuff and doing stuff with it without making it ThreadLocal, k?

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@kpgalligan oh man...... i can see it now.. "looks like a valid date in the database!..hmmmmm"

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@Piwai Been great collaborating with you to identify these issues in aforementioned real scenario!

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Come out and see me talk about testing! I am sure it will be informative and entertaining.

[Find me on 🦋 : @p-y.wtf @Piwai]

Really excited about this PR removing 43 suspend functions.

Coroutines are great! BUT.

Wrapping callback based APIs involving serial threads with dispatcher calls to provide suspend APIs is an antipattern that leads to queue based slow downs.

I need to write about this :)

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@Piwai Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

Woke up with the star wars preamble permanently stuck on repeat in my mind. Why me, why!

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

Excellent purr programming session..

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@themightyjon Lol. Classic Dunning–Kruger

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@AdamBienkov Lolllll. Classic Dunning–Kruger

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@s1m0nw1 seems pretty miscalibrated doesn't it? text-based comms, this happens way too easily.. put it in the random weird stuff bucket and laugh it off!

[Josh Skeen @mutexkid]

@afollestad Oh no. So sorry to hear about that.. Sending positive thoughts your way