James O'Reilly

Software developer and creator of Hazumi News for iOS and Web.
Pinned post from November 26, 2024

Back to Rails from Golang

I’ve been a Ruby developer for over 10 years. The only other language I’ve properly adopted is Swift. The bulk of which I learned while developing my iOS app Hazumi News, with Ruby on Rails on the backend. I read a lot of books on architecture and programming, even listen to them on Audible sometimes. You might come away from those kin...
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Pinned post from May 20, 2024

Programmers Can’t Use Just Any Software

Every company continuously strives to increase employee productivity and efficiency. If you’re a software developer working on a product that handles sensitive data, it’s common you’ll be restricted in the apps and tools you’re allowed to use due to privacy or security concerns. It’s important to remember, that data hosted in 3rd party...
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April 6, 2021

Clubhouse vs Journalism

This morning I was listening to the latest episode of Waveform. Marques and Andrew were discussing if Clubhouse is just a feature. In it they touched on how that feature was already being deployed by other companies with deeper pockets. Clubhouse is really popular right now but a thorn in the side that led to its tremendous growth was ...
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