Former game dev. Currently building things @Microsoft.
Joined May 2013
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Nick Hamilton retweeted
I am gutted right now. My friends in QA at Raven were promised, for months, that Activision was working towards a pay restructure to increase their wages.
Today, one by one, valuable members of the team were called into meetings and told they were being let go.
Nick Hamilton retweeted
Insecure people pretend to know things they don't. They dismiss expertise from others.
Secure people admit what they don't know. They defer to expertise in others.
Proactive people take the initiative to learn what they don't know. They acquire expertise from others.
Nick Hamilton retweeted
I wish it were socially acceptable to say "I don't care" and have it mean "I don't have the energy for this particular thing at this particular moment" rather than "fuck you, everything you value is garbage, also I secretly hate you" which is how we all seem to parse it
Nick Hamilton retweeted
on software teams, two things are true:
1. we need to build and ship quickly, so we can’t wait until things are perfect
2. anything we ship will need to be maintained
I wrote up a strategy for moving fast without creating a mountain of tech debt 🚀
netlify.com/blog/2020/10/28/…
2020 is having to watch your friends celebration of life over a video call. It’s a surreal experience being a part of, but also wholly separated from and unable to participate in something you shouldn’t have to miss. It’s not great.
Nick Hamilton retweeted
So we've been meaning to tell you something...
youtu.be/mtkJkQ3JztY
Nick Hamilton retweeted
Considering using Moment.js in your project?
There may be better modern alternatives.
Please see the new Project Status section of our docs.
Thank you.
momentjs.com/docs/#/-project…
Nick Hamilton retweeted
X : One of our customers wants a new feature in our product.
Me : Sounds good. Add it to the backlog.
X : No other customer seems to want this. It's unique to them.
Me : Is it a generally useful feature that others might want?
X : I doubt it
Me : Then super low priority.
Nick Hamilton retweeted
every.single.time
ALT Fred from Scooby Doo reveals an Electron app hiding under a native app mask
Nick Hamilton retweeted
Do you enjoy reading tales of engineers’ quests to track down bugs with obscure causes? Here's my recent adventure:
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Background: For the past few months, @DestinyTheGame has been using some Steam peer-to-peer networking tech I’ve been working on.
Nick Hamilton retweeted
Vue 3 is now in RC! github.com/vuejs/rfcs/issues…
Nick Hamilton retweeted
Programming Tip:
Code JavaScript underwaterr, so nobody could see you crying.
Nick Hamilton retweeted
Tech jobs be like...
#100DaysOfCode