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Thorsten Ball

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@thorstenball
Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.
Großwallstdt, Bavaria, Germany
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    Jul 31, 2018
    My second book "Writing A Compiler In Go" is now available! You can buy it here as a single eBook or in a bundle with its predecessor "Writing An Interpreter In Go": compilerbook.com #golang
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    Writing A Compiler In Go
    This is the sequel to Writing An Interpreter In Go and this time we're writing a compiler and a virtual machine for Monkey. Same codebase, same approach, new goals. Code front and center, step by...
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    49m
    If you only have 10 minutes for podcasts today listen to this episode for Ian and Aaron's orbin' time commentary
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    Ian Landsman
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    1h
    If you only have 10 minutes for podcasts today listen to this episode for Aaron's advice on impromptu speeches. Gold. x.com/MostlyTechPod/…
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    6h
    Enabled faster orb creation for everyone this morning. Five orbs in ten seconds, bottlenecked by my typing.
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    9h
    More JIT video editing software inside orbs.
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    10h
    Building small apps is so addictive, when you can fire off ideas without agents consuming your machine. In 30 mins I had a deployed utility to trim, crop, and add a background to videos—something I used to have to resort to Adobe After Effects for.
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    22h
    So @sqs said this morning that we can "just ask Amp to let the user know that their bug is fixed and it'll do it." Just tried it and was pleasantly surprised when I saw this. It's an Amp plugin that can connect to our internal API and send emails.
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