Tom

Technical Director. Drummer. Living out a lifelong dream and learning to fly in the beautiful South Island, NZ.

[Tom @tomhallam]

I've been really impressed with @edgedatabase so I decided to sum up with five cool things I found out about it:

https://t.co/n2r4AQpCst

(also I'm blogging again, woop!)

[Tom @tomhallam]

Good afternoon Canterbury!

[Tom @tomhallam]

There's a real difference building something to solve a problem you have, versus building something that solves a problem a faceless "someone" has.

#FailingInPublic #buildinginpublic

[Tom @tomhallam]

@domhabersack Thanks for that great feedback. Will look into the carousel.

Re the copy, have updated to make that even clearer :) thanks again!

[Tom @tomhallam]

I'm working on a developer tool called https://t.co/DwrcA4SKRh, hosted status and KPI dashboards all managed in code. Would anyone give me feedback on my landing page? :) #buildinginpublic #observability

[Tom @tomhallam]

@chrisbiscardi I think it put into sharp relief my blunt force approach to getting some things done with JS. Rust is pretty unforgiving in that regard. Need to spend more time building a complete mental model before charging on! I too have a fair bit of FOMO with Rust

[Tom @tomhallam]

Can someone help out with an @IndieHackers invite code? Hmu 🙂

[isha @ishadesign]

everyone talks about how instagram is bad for mental health but what about jira??

[Tom @tomhallam]

@obeattie Apple: 😬
That album: 🔥

[Tom @tomhallam]

@matthewpskelton Agreed, something with an indicative health endpoint to prime load balancer 👍

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

"Learn Kubernetes in 128 easy steps!"

[Tom @tomhallam]

1. First language: PHP
2. Had difficulties: Rust
3. Most used: JavaScript
4. Totally hate: JavaScript
5. Most loved: Golang

[𝚙𝚊𝚞𝚕𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚓𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜 @paulwilljones]

1. First language: Python
2. Had difficulties: C++
3. Most used: YAML
4. Totally hate: Scala
5. Most loved: Go

[Tom @tomhallam]

@chipironcin 👏

[Tom @tomhallam]

I'm selling my #domain https://t.co/5SHGfAQ6fA as I no longer have time to develop a site for it. DM me for more info.

#DomainNameForSale #walking #hiking #outdoors

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

If caught speeding today, use these words. ‘I have the highest regard for the police force, but I think their decision is wrong. Though I will respect it, what’s important now is that I get to my destination as quickly as possible.’

[Tom @tomhallam]

Fascinating read on gaining a foothold into a vulnerable Lambda and monitoring requests

https://t.co/AYr5uZMVyC

[Tyler Coates @tylercoates]

imagine if you were a fish and this shit happened to you

[Tom @tomhallam]

@dan_abramov @threepointone Super useful testing resource, nice one guys 😁

[Tom @tomhallam]

Really liked these words from @codinghorror : Don’t optimize for getting everything right, that's impossible, optimize for speed of improvement.

[Kelly Vaughn @kvlly]

I'm going to open up a corner store called "Snack Overflow"