Alexis Gallagher

@alexisgallagher

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San Francisco, CA
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Joined April 2007
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  1. Oct 16

    Swift Hello World running on AWS Lambda 100 concurrent threads, not a bad start.

    4 retweets 14 likes
  2. Oct 16

    Indeed — I just got Swift running on AWS Lambda! 🎉 🎉 (Now it's "just" a matter of making it useful.)

    The Alexa, Swift, Lambda side project with actually looks like it might work 😀
    17 retweets 56 likes
  3. Oct 14 Moss Park, Toronto

    I wrote an article called “Siri & The Suspension of Disbelief”, and it’s up on Medium now:

    9 retweets 5 likes
  5. Oct 15

    Fortunately, the bot I’ll be showing at requires only iOS to listen & talk. But Robert, if you’re interested…

    Epic social media moment: Mark Zuckerberg asked who he should be the voice of his homemade personal AI, and volunteered.
    1 retweet 3 likes
  6. Oct 15

    Great talk by on building a small compiler in Swift

    A compiler in 310 lines of code! 💯💯💯👐 Understand what a compiler does (& why it crashes?). Take it away :
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  7. Oct 13

    Others may be reassured to hear Trump has only a 15% chance of winning, but it terrifies me. In Silicon Valley 15% is a good chance.

    1,242 retweets 3,139 likes
  8. Oct 11

    It’s why parametric polymorphism’s more useful in libraries, and subtype polymorphism in applications. One for uniformity, other variability

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  9. Oct 11

    For the same reason we have a string type for all string values, rather than a unique type for every possible string

  10. Oct 11

    Applcode (esp. for UIs) is more varied to suit cases so particular that they are better expressed in names than in types. This is roughly

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  11. Oct 11

    the error (imho) is to assume that *application* code should look like and be as reusable as *library* code. But it can’t be.

    1 retweet 4 likes
  12. Oct 11

    This is an intriguing argument, it is worth understanding fully, and I disagree with it in the great majority of real world cases.

    Just blogged, "Descriptive Variable Names: A Code Smell", which recommends you write highly polymorphic code:
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  13. Oct 7

    Just realized this is a key theme in my talk next month at

    Everyone wants artificial intelligence but no one cares about artificial charm
    1 retweet 5 likes
  14. Oct 6

    I use Dash every day, on the macOS and iOS. Hard to believe such a great app would be buying fake reviews.

    Blog post updated with response from Apple regarding Dash’s removal from the App Store -
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  15. Oct 6

    This visualization of a Bach cello piece by — mesmerizing & beautiful & I can't stop watching it.

    2 retweets 3 likes
  16. Oct 5

    What I've been working on over the last 6 months. Come and see..

    See the future of at our preview this Friday in
    3 retweets 5 likes
  17. Oct 5

    This is an excellent summary of the Swift 3 raw memory access API.

    Swift 3.0 Unsafe World:
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  18. Oct 4

    🎉 New Swift feature: Concrete constrained extensions. extension Array where Element == Int { }

    176 retweets 296 likes
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  20. Oct 4

    In today’s tech news: company A revealed to be spying by secret gov’t order, company B launches suite of always-on microphones for the home

    1,070 retweets 916 likes
  21. Oct 3

    An astronaut eating her tears so they don't float somewhere her copilots will notice

    72 retweets 194 likes

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