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Alex MacArthur

@amacarthur
Bossing around computers in made-up languages, Sr. software engineer for @DaveRamsey. Stone → flesh heart transplant recipient (Ezekiel 36:26).
Nashville-ish, TN
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    Alex MacArthur
    @amacarthur
    7h
    If I weren’t blocked by Joe (???) I’d reply with how sick this looks. Someone pass it on, I guess!
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    Alex MacArthur
    @amacarthur
    7h
    My dad just got a cell phone ~2 years ago. Yesterday, he texted me for the first time. The convo went about as well I expected. Lol.
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    Alex MacArthur
    @amacarthur
    Aug 12
    Claude just got done writing a feature. Worked great, but would've shipped a number of needless DB lookups if I hadn't looked at the code. Keep looking at the code.
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    Alex MacArthur
    @amacarthur
    Aug 8
    Just this week, I used Opus to build out a feature. It did a great job. I could've shipped it without reading the output and there'd have been no repercussions. Then I glanced at the code. It had been needlessly thorough in covering every possible edge case and wrote tests for
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    Alex MacArthur
    @amacarthur
    Aug 11
    There is no scenario in which a child comes out of a divorce unscathed. It is, at the very best, the least catastrophic option. If you don’t believe they will suffer, you are lying to yourself.
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    Alex MacArthur
    @amacarthur
    Aug 11
    I know we're not supposed to look at code anymore, but Kotlin's `.partition` extension function is pretty dang cool.
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