William Murphy

Likes: Good code, good coffee, bad puns

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@DennisCode @shahedC There should be current, working examples. Also, explanations of why I might use a thing rather than just what it does. Also, things like "this is not thread safe" or "don't use for X" are super valuable.

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@yarmiganosca I think I saw @bokmann post something about this.

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@hunterwalk My dad always said something like: don't say "I'm bored." If you're bored it means you aren't picking up on what's interesting in your environment. Don't be bored; learn.

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@mgroves What kind of questions? Essays? Short answer?

What feedback does the test taker receive on each attempt?

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@TajhaLanier Check https://t.co/XgoqJbpOru for Spanish conversation meetups, movie nights, etc

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

Anyone have a favorite solution for vocabulary flashcards on iOS?

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@jausch What book was it this time?

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@JaekelEDV @alexgoodman87 @sarah_edo I'm glad to hear it will be useful for your teaching!

I've also found it helpful for my own understanding to manually create whiteout files in a Dockerfile, e.g. "RUN touch .wh.foo” to show that foo gets deleted.

[Avdi Grimm @avdi]

Today I will give a free year of RubyTapas to any woman in software who wants it. DM me your email. No questions asked so long as your Twitter account seems legit. Especially interested in women just getting started. Tell your mentees, your interns, your code school students.

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

Is anyone else I know using @duolingo? I need someone besides @sethpuckett on my list of people to follow, since I will never be able to catch up to him!

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

Weirdly specific app recommendation request: text editor for iOS that works well with Dropbox. Anyone know of something like this? I write a lot of things in markdown in Dropbox, and would like to occasionally revise these on my iPhone.

[Scott Steele (perfidy account) @S_L_Steele]

Learn+Try: nom @ Rust DC, May 10, 2018 https://t.co/F4lbSqr3hX via @YouTube by @willmurphyscode #nom #rustlang

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

Planning to register for @rustconf but I can't decide which pre-conference workshop(s) to go to. Anyone I know going and/or have thoughts?

[Eric Arnebäck @erkaman2]

Problem solving in programming for me:

initially, you lack detailed understanding of the problem domain, and end up with a complicated solution-

some weeks later, you much better understand the problem, and your final solution becomes much simpler.

anyone else can relate?

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

@gcouprie @6ftdan It was! I'll let you know when they have a video posted.

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

On 5/22, join @dotnetdc to learn about fast neural networks from @TRikace https://t.co/rJ8Lc5cfIj

[TJ Stankus @tjstankus]

Discussed DRY with a work colleague today and I finally found the words I wanted to say: it's fine to consider removing duplication once it exists, but preventing it from occurring altogether often needlessly complicates. There's great info to be gleaned from similar code.

[William Murphy @willmurphyscode]

Tuesday! Join us at Intro to Cake: Cross-Platform Build Automation in C#
https://t.co/sqMrONiOKy

[@[email protected] @chx]

If a programmer gets an interview because of a recommendation, are they being passed by reference?