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I worked on this at Uber in the past and you explain very well why there is no iOS flavor for devpods.

A free preview can be found here: https://chrislaffra.com/The%20Secret%20to%20Developer%20Prod...

This entire book was generated entirely via a conversation with ChatGPT, at chat.openai.com/chat, with all questions asked by me. The book was generated front to cover in one singl…

I have captured my personal experience of struggling with this topic during my career into a book called "Communication for Engineers". The book builds a foundation and then explor…

See: C4E - Communication for Engineers . https://chrislaffra.com/c4e

C4E - Communication for Engineers. https://chrislaffra.com/c4e The book discusses a variety of "soft" skills, including reading and writing. Not specifically focused on technical w…

Not a book, but a comprehensive, introductory set of materials by the Google tech writing team: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/overview

I should rewrite PyAlgoViz to work fully in the browser using Pyodide. Then usage would be completely client-side (no quotas). Would love to get a PR from anyone having experience …

Actually, I assigned it a budget of $3 per month, which was reached in June. In July, usage is at $1 only, so not too sure how Google decides I reached a certain quota.

Creator of PyAlgoViz here: I did not want to add advertisements to the site, so working off a free-tier for a number of years now.

The first thing I saw when I visited the stackexchange link in this post, was a huge banner at the top of the page, which really confused me as it led me to think that this post wa…

Curry On 2019 Keynote speakers now available: Lars Bak (Google, Dart), Cynthia Solomon (Logo), Ashley Williams (Cloudflare, Rust/WebAssembly), and Simon Marlow (Facebook, Haskell).…

You are correct, HappyMac is open sourced at https://github.com/laffra/happymac . The license check error should simply have been a log statement. Please reinstall the app from htt…

Of course, your concerns are valid on what installed apps can do on your machine. For HappyMac, the updates are stored in ~/HappyMac, so you can always verify what the app does. In…

Correct. The source is licensed with MIT license. The downloadable version from happymac.app has a different EULA. That said, the intent was to avoid people copying the app, so the…

I wrote this a while back: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-prepare-technical-intervi...

If you want to do your own visualizations using PyAlgoViz, check out http://chrislaffra.blogspot.nl/2016/12/generating-prime-numb...

See also https://pyalgoviz.appspot.com , where you can design your own algorithms and visualizations.

One use of type tracing is to automatically generate unit tests, as done by Auger: https://github.com/laffra/auger .

For visualizations of numerous other algorithms, check out http://pyalgoviz.appspot.com , where both the algorithms and the visualizations are editable. You can replay both the exe…

It also places you #1 for adventure seeking, which is fitting, considering your daily bike commute through New York City :-)