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Christian Findlay
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#Flutter ๐Ÿ’™ #dotnet | Agitating for improvement and crusading against nonsense as Director of @nimblesite
Melbourne, Australia
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    Christian Findlay
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    Jun 18, 2025
    And here it is!!! My new programming language Osprey! This has been a 20 year long dream, finally made possible with AI assistance. So stoked this is finally possible! ๐ŸŽ‰ Stars and shares appreciated! โœจ ospreylang.dev
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    Christian Findlay
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    Feb 23, 2024
    I'm currently developing software outside the software industry. No Scrum. No JIRA. No meetings. No sprints. No microservices. No Clean Architecture. No DDD, TDD or other acronyms. I just build the software. I don't wanna jinx it, but this is therapy for me.
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Apr 12, 2024
    Does your app really need username and password sign-in in 2024? Why not just use social sign-ins like Google, Apple and Microsoft?
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    Christian Findlay
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    Feb 3, 2024
    In all seriousness, are there any jobs left where you just build the software in peace?
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Apr 26, 2024
    Why don't you use curl for testing APIs instead of Postman? You can put your scripts right in your repo, share them and compose larger test scripts instead of navigating a labyrinth of collections in an external system This is what curl was built for
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    Christian Findlay
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    Sep 15, 2023
    Smart people often write the worst code because they're more comfortable with complexity and have larger working memory. I've encountered this so many times in my career Don't write โœ๏ธ code for the smart people. Assume the person looking at it cannot fit complexity in their head
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    Christian Findlay
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    Jul 30, 2024
    Sorry for sounding elitist, but all the best software engineers I come across end up gravitating towards FP. It often takes them years as a gradual process, but FP solves many problems that OOP struggles with. I wish FP people would stop with the math and category theory though.
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Aug 27, 2025
    Developing on Windows is a massive productivity killer
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Dec 30, 2023
    This is weird but I'm starting to like making web stuff with just HTML/CSS and vanilla JavaScript No packages No webpack No typescript
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    May 26, 2024
    What happened to internet forums and why doesn't someone bring them back?
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Feb 6, 2022
    #Microservices are a mistake for most teams
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Dec 14, 2022
    Can we finally admit that the #microservices craze was harmful to the software industry? Sure, they are good in theory, but most teams end up with unmaintainable, slow, unreliable, hard-to-change monstrosities We now use "modular monolith" as consolation, but I still say back-end
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Jul 19, 2024
    Why are we in a situation where one company can bring half the world's tech to its knees?
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    Christian Findlay
    @CFDevelop
    Apr 9, 2024
    Node is just ๐Ÿคฌ I understand why you need to transpile to JavaScript in the browser, but why would anyone inflict this hell upon themselves for the backend or a mobile app?
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