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- 2016-09-28 Hard Lessons in Code
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This blog is written by Peter Bhat Harkins, a web developer and entrepreneur in Chicago. The recurring themes on this blog include programming minutia, long-term travel, the ways small design changes influence user behavior, and game design. Feel free to contact me or check out some code on GitHub.
In my career, I've re-engineered the .pro domain, gate-crashed a stealth startup, built one of the most popular Wordpress plugins, covered dozens of stories for WashingtonPost.com, defeated the original Super Mario Kart, alphabetized the bible, and written a roguelike.
If you play any tabletop games (like D&D, Magic, and Settlers), visit my site NearbyGamers to find folks to game with.
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- Been pondering @mattoflambda's very nice post on essential complexity for ~2 weeks: https://t.co/KkK7F5QG4H
- current status: if it typechecks, it probably loops infinitely
- RT @SalFreudenberg: Junior vs Senior needs when pair programming. Fascinating. @irinatsyganok at @SwanseaCon https://t.co/A4Ee5QyQGn
- RT @aisamanra: It's a small, inconsequential thing, but I pushed a simple monadic helper DSL for XML parsing to Hackage today: https://t.co…
- If all my networking had as little latency as this message in @SignalMessenger I would probably get into high-frequ… https://t.co/PEocuTuYni
- RT @psygnisfive: Socrates: But what is The Just? Haskell: isJust :: Maybe a -> Bool
- Fixed the last crash in my solitaire solver, but I can't tell if it's slow or stuck in an infinite loop.
- RT @Devilligan: Lego has made a Margaret Hamilton set and I'm very much there for it. https://t.co/uw9JWHsqup
- Data point from a colleague's blog for developers: 60% of visitors blocked Google Analytics.
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