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Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

Geotech Engineer turned sw dev. https://t.co/Kwv9mN53z2. Geological Engineering, Masters Data Science @UBC. FP/Rust: https://t.co/WLDmvTfRvZ

Joined March 2012

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Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

19 Nov 2022

I'll save you from giving Uncle b*b money. You don't need to know category theory for functional programming (I don't, and I've been doing this full time for 6 years). There isn't a lot to it --it's a few ideas that have large consequences. Understand the ideas.

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

19 Nov

Winter has arrived. First dumping in town

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

7 Nov

I've had a fun day playing with FS2 and Cats-Effect and scaffolding out a new system. I don't get too many days like this and it was very fun. In an otherwise terrible day <<gestures broadly>>

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

19 Oct

I will never not schlep this cookbook when it comes across my screen: abebooks.com/servlet/BookDe… . If you live in the US, for $8 USD this is an approachable steal for of tasty things. I've been cooking from my copy since 2008 and my copy is held together by tape. A classic.

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Ryan Flaherty

@rflaherty71

11 Sep

There is an entire class of work commonly referred to as "systems engineering" which is very interesting, fun, and in high demand / pays well at lots of companies. Don't settle for slop.

⁎⁺˳✧༚ 𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚒 🎀

@hot_girl_spring

10 Sep

Your career will be either react slop, mobile slop, enterprise application slop, or CRUD slop That's what you're studying for

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Тsфdiиg

@tsoding

8 Sep

As a person who programs in Rust since 2016 I can tell you that Rust is a very safe, unergonomic language with annoying community and atrocious syntax. Which is somehow surprisingly miles better than modern C++.

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

30 Aug

Re-siliconing / removing grout / re-grouting a bathroom is the most pain in the ass thing I've done in a long time. I take back everything bad I said about legacy PHP codebases.

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

23 Aug

Last hike before going back to work in Sept. It has been a nice break! Stoked to be back in the world of pipelines, privacy, tokenization, CDC, and lakehouses. In scala of course.

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

14 Aug

Nice thing about getting older, and many years into a career change, is time to work on hobbies. Sometimes that rust/ts programming a virtual tabletop / tiling engine, sometimes that's hardware synths, and (new) picking up drawing again for the first time in 20 years.

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

14 Jul

First attempt at Malaysian roti was a success. Technique is tricky and I was gripping too hard, but still came out light and fluffy w/ good layers after being scrunched up

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

13 Jul

I am now approaching summer off's final boss: cracking the code on making a Malaysian roti at home. I want to figure this out so bad. RIP health/diet.

Mat Fournier

@mat4nier

4 Jul

Time off work until it starts up again in September means elaborate lunches. Today: classic french. A carrot rappe salad w/ chickpeas, celeraic remoulade w/ homemade mayo, good cheddar, some baguettes I baked yesterday.... Life is good.