Adam Bard

@adambard

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Victoria, British Columbia
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 24

    Programatically Liquidating my Steam Inventory

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  2. Retweeted
    Oct 1

    My new blog post is about the recent Facebook security breach and makes an argument in favour of using Signal for private messaging.

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  3. Aug 22

    Suggestions based on /r/productivity: stoicism, lifeimprovement, pornfree, selfhelp, howtonotgiveafuck, zenhabits, malelifestyle, getdisciplined, anxiety, socialanxiety. I think my subreddit discovery tool works!

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    Aug 11

    Biking downtown with a 6 year old, on mostly bike lanes. He’s wearing a yellow helmet but is hyper aware of how short he is compared to adults. Bike lane ends, car comes up behind us. He starts a mantra: Please see me Please see me Please see me Bike lanes are important

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    Aug 5

    4 year old: Daddy, can you untie this balloon? Me: Ugh. Once it’s tied like that it’s really hard to undo. 4 yr old: I’m sure if you try really really hard you’ll figure it out. Dammit.

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  6. Aug 1

    I made the mistake of using create-react-app, and now my life is an absolute fucking nightmare. Don't be like me kids.

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    Jul 12

    This reminds me to thank , , , et al! Your contributions are very much appreciated. Thank you for all that you do!

    The barrage of criticism endured by creators has a very real cost. "I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions."
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  8. Jul 6

    I believe this theory because I can feel the madness creeping in, and those who claim to have mastered the beast seem madder still

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  9. Jul 6

    You prepare occult incantations and mutter them to ku'bernetes, scaler of containers, and if you get it just right, you will be blessed with 99.999% uptime

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  10. Jul 6

    I don't really know how kubernetes works, but my current theory is that Google and Amazon have found a way to summon some lesser eldritch deity to run servers good.

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  11. Jul 5

    There is a room in hell where you spend eternity debugging Linux WiFi issues

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  12. Jun 24

    FACT: Mario dreams about the not-usually-present shyguys in Super Mario Land 2 because of his traumatic childhood trauma experienced during the events of Yoshi's Island.

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    Jun 24

    “Charlie Learns How to Use Alexa,” a short story told in the medium of my Alexa question history

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  14. Jun 23

    Note to self: development & staging databases should be the same version as production database. Doh.

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    Jun 21

    ☠ opens 4-year-old project ☠ ✅ stupid-complex build process ✅ completely unsalvagable frontend live-reload ✅ "why didn't I just use postgres?"

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  16. May 29

    So has anyone ever implemented logic that handled a 201 request from an API endpoint differently than a 200?

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  17. May 23

    I done did another thing:

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  18. May 18

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  19. May 14

    I'm going to open a specialty olive oil store. It will be called "All of my Love" or some such thing, and when someone attempts to make the obvious pun I'm going to stare at them blankly and make them explain it to me.

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    Apr 23

    Periodic observation for the benefit of junior developers: You do not have to be embarrassed about not knowing a particular bit of syntax or API. Googling things efficiently is a core job skill. ~15 years in I'll still look up "append to array javascript."

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