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Harry Turnbull

How to harness the power of laziness (for software development)

Humans are lazy. Software developers are human, and thus, software developers are lazy. Here are some tips to make that fact useful.

Apr 20, 2021

How to harness the power of laziness (for software development)

Apr 20, 2021

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Makers

A Tale of Tech Tests

Four tech tests, three languages, one week. Let’s see how they compare.

Jul 12, 2020

A Tale of Tech Tests

Jul 12, 2020

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Makers

Lessons Learned from my Maker’s Final Project

A couple of weeks ago I graduated from Maker’s Academy. The bootcamp culminated with a two week project. Here’s what I learned from it.

Jun 18, 2020

Lessons Learned from my Maker’s Final Project

Jun 18, 2020

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What are UI and UX even?

As I’ve been making little apps, I’ve been thinking about User Experience (UX), User Interfaces (UI), and their implementation, but as…

May 19, 2020

What are UI and UX even?

May 19, 2020

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Decisive React-ions to Volatile Scenarios

The MySpace revival project was interrupted by an urgent message from our “client”! We needed to react fast (with React!)

May 11, 2020

Decisive React-ions to Volatile Scenarios

May 11, 2020

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How to drive Google like the Lamborghini it is

You’re probably familiar with Google, and other search engines, and have used these powerful tools to look for probably literally anything…

May 10, 2020

How to drive Google like the Lamborghini it is

May 10, 2020

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Convincing JavaScript to Multi Task

JavaScript isn’t very good at multi tasking, but it can be convinced to, with async! Here’s an explanation on how this could be achieved.

May 1, 2020

Convincing JavaScript to Multi Task

May 1, 2020

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Makers

Avoiding False Positives with Capybara and Sinatra

Testing Sinatra web apps with RSpec and Capybara can lead to some false positives on your tests! But there are ways to fix that.

Apr 24, 2020

Avoiding False Positives with Capybara and Sinatra

Apr 24, 2020

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Makers

A Journey with OOP

Let’s learn a little bit about Object Oriented Programming! Dependency injection, polymorphism, and forwarding.

Mar 29, 2020

A Journey with OOP

Mar 29, 2020

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Makers

T(e/oa)st Driven Development

Test Driven Development and Object Oriented Programming. What better to demonstrate these concepts than making a toaster app.

Mar 23, 2020

T(e/oa)st Driven Development

Mar 23, 2020

Harry Turnbull

Harry Turnbull

Improviser with Gamez Improv, Improbotics, The Nursery Theatre and Hoopla Impro. Learning to program properly with Makers Academy.

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