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Chris Engelsma

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🤖 Rejected by a machine. Again.

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Jul 2

🤖 Rejected by a machine. Again.

Jul 2

🧪 Coding Tests Don’t Need to Improve. They Need to Be Retired.

I recently took a coding test that evaluated me on how well I remembered obscure corners of the pandas API.

Jul 1

🧪 Coding Tests Don’t Need to Improve. They Need to Be Retired.

Jul 1

How to direct your TwiML App to your local machine.

So, tough guy, you’ve set up your first TwiML App and you want to start receiving calls to your local machine. You’ll first need a…

Jun 2, 2023

How to direct your TwiML App to your local machine.

Jun 2, 2023

Simple and easy algorithms to impress your boss Elon Musk

We all know that the only true marker of a developer’s success is through lines of code written.

Nov 25, 2022

Simple and easy algorithms to impress your boss Elon Musk

Nov 25, 2022

I’m going to write a game engine because I hate myself.

That damn canyon.

Oct 19, 2022

I’m going to write a game engine because I hate myself.

Oct 19, 2022

So your client refuses to pay: why you need to start building backdoors to your applications.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

Sep 20, 2022

So your client refuses to pay: why you need to start building backdoors to your applications.

Sep 20, 2022

The most important lesson I’ve learned while freelancing, and nobody’s talking about it.

Since I’ve started freelancing a decade ago, I’ve worked on a wide variety of projects spanning multiple types of industries. Some gigs…

Sep 17, 2022

The most important lesson I’ve learned while freelancing, and nobody’s talking about it.

Sep 17, 2022

Developers, it’s time to start building your own toolkit.

If you’ve been writing code for a while, then you’ve surely experienced them: these little (or not-so-little) functions you write over and…

Sep 12, 2022

Developers, it’s time to start building your own toolkit.

Sep 12, 2022

“Good Morning, Dave” — Creating a simple time-based greeting for your users using Node

The longer I’ve been writing code, the more appreciation I have when developers go a little bit further to make your experience enjoyable…

Sep 9, 2022

HAL, the antagonist from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic “2001: A Space Odyssey”.

Sep 9, 2022

A simple and fast Calendar Conversion API you can try today

What’s today’s date?

Dec 4, 2021

A simple and fast Calendar Conversion API you can try today

Dec 4, 2021

Chris Engelsma

Chris Engelsma

he/him

Geophysicist, software engineer, and web developer. Hopefully if I throw enough spaghetti at the wall something sticks.

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