Troy Miles

📱 Mobile & backend dev | 🌍 Edge AI • Flutter • KMP | 🛠️ Dart, Kotlin, C++ | 🌴 SoCal based | 🎸 Still rockin'

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

My new site https://t.co/FHBgRGQ1us is online! 🎉

Free C++ tutorials, tips, and my upcoming "You Already Know C++" series.
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[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

- Anonymous

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

- Ralph Johnson

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Feedback is the treatment.

- Kent Beck

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

@AlecStapp The big joke is that both Japan and France offered their expertise to help us with the train in 2009, since they had built high speed trains in their country. We went with consultants instead.

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

@kampagnepapi Southwest Airlines is sending its loyal customers a message: We don’t want you. We want flyers of other airlines. Message received, I am done with you.

[Ben Holmes @BHolmesDev]

Startup time for Zed (left) vs. VS Code (right)
VS Code takes seconds, Zed takes frames 😓

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then start on the first one.

-- Mark Twain

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likable person.

-- Alan Cooper

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

It can be better to copy a little code than to pull in a big library for one function. Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse.

-- Rob Pyke

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Fix the cause, not the symptom.

-- Steve Maguire

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

-- Oscar Wilde

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary hack.

-- Kyle Simpson

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case.

-- Francis Glassborow

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

-- Anonymous

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Repetition is the root of all software evil.

-- Martin Fowler

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

-- Donald Knuth

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

Writing in C or C++ is like running a chainsaw with all the safety guards removed.

-- Bob Gray

[Troy Miles @therockncoder]

We like to think we spend our time power typing, but we actually spend most of our time staring into the abyss.

-- Douglas Crockford