Chris Millward
@millward.ca
Lifelong software engineer.
#Frontend #developer by day, and too bloody tired from parenting to do anything by night.
Hobbyist-in-spirit guitarist, pixel artist, game developer
#guitar #gamedev #pixelart #chiptunes #desksetup #desksky
#Frontend #developer by day, and too bloody tired from parenting to do anything by night.
Hobbyist-in-spirit guitarist, pixel artist, game developer
#guitar #gamedev #pixelart #chiptunes #desksetup #desksky
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Still looks like it's from the future.
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Still looks like it's from the future.
Took the kids to get pictures with Santa tonight, and he broke kayfabe and started chatting with me about our mutual hometown right in front of everyone 🤬
Hoping against hope that the littles weren’t paying attention…
Hoping against hope that the littles weren’t paying attention…
December 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Took the kids to get pictures with Santa tonight, and he broke kayfabe and started chatting with me about our mutual hometown right in front of everyone 🤬
Hoping against hope that the littles weren’t paying attention…
Hoping against hope that the littles weren’t paying attention…
The SNES may be my favourite console, but the original Playatation has my favourite aesthetic design by far.
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The SNES may be my favourite console, but the original Playatation has my favourite aesthetic design by far.
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
Spotify hasn’t been *completely* taken over by my kids yet.
Thank God and America for Bilmuri #SpotifyWrapped
Thank God and America for Bilmuri #SpotifyWrapped
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Spotify hasn’t been *completely* taken over by my kids yet.
Thank God and America for Bilmuri #SpotifyWrapped
Thank God and America for Bilmuri #SpotifyWrapped
The car in front of me at the Starbucks drive-thru paid for my order and left before I could say thank you. My brain is absolutely sideways now trying to figure how to fix the gratitude imbalance.
November 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The car in front of me at the Starbucks drive-thru paid for my order and left before I could say thank you. My brain is absolutely sideways now trying to figure how to fix the gratitude imbalance.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
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I prefer an [error, data] over { error, data } for async operation results. Why? Because a tuple guarantees the order. Put the error first, which reminds the consumer to handle it. Object keys are order-insensitive and it's easy to forget to check for the "error" key.
![Snack-sized code snippet showing destructuring examples: object {data,error} marked wrong, array [error,data] marked correct with explanatory comments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dom5xpmepmtuk52jspdkb5sd/bafkreigo6mgb2gmxvx7xdj2ptevblwus6hiyunpyuymifewagcngtcevfy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I prefer an [error, data] over { error, data } for async operation results. Why? Because a tuple guarantees the order. Put the error first, which reminds the consumer to handle it. Object keys are order-insensitive and it's easy to forget to check for the "error" key.
Start a song with *that* Juno-60 patch and I’m yours for 30 seconds. The rest is up to you.
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Start a song with *that* Juno-60 patch and I’m yours for 30 seconds. The rest is up to you.
I recently asked Gemini to help refine some ideas for a PC game based on classic city builders like SimCity and Caesar, and now it tries to inject those games as a reference point or metaphor into every discussion we have.
Super weird
Super weird
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I recently asked Gemini to help refine some ideas for a PC game based on classic city builders like SimCity and Caesar, and now it tries to inject those games as a reference point or metaphor into every discussion we have.
Super weird
Super weird
My daughter just called a bunch of geese a “squawk of geese”, and I’m going to start using that because it’s just better.
November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My daughter just called a bunch of geese a “squawk of geese”, and I’m going to start using that because it’s just better.
Patiently waiting for the Utopian Scholastic aesthetic to cycle back around to being fashionable again.
Everything about this fucks.
Everything about this fucks.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Patiently waiting for the Utopian Scholastic aesthetic to cycle back around to being fashionable again.
Everything about this fucks.
Everything about this fucks.
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Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
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Whenever I teach a testing topic and I'm on a fifth search results page researching it and there has been NOTHING useful written on that topic to actually help developers figure it out...
That's where I know I struck gold. That's where my work begins.
That's where I know I struck gold. That's where my work begins.
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Whenever I teach a testing topic and I'm on a fifth search results page researching it and there has been NOTHING useful written on that topic to actually help developers figure it out...
That's where I know I struck gold. That's where my work begins.
That's where I know I struck gold. That's where my work begins.
I don’t know why it took me so long to figure it out, but escape rooms are just IRL Myst. And the impossible, opaque ones are IRL Riven.
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I don’t know why it took me so long to figure it out, but escape rooms are just IRL Myst. And the impossible, opaque ones are IRL Riven.
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Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
Getting tipsy at a wine show in celebration of democracy having a decent week.
And also because wine.
And also because wine.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Getting tipsy at a wine show in celebration of democracy having a decent week.
And also because wine.
And also because wine.
There aren’t many things that get me more excited and more motivated more quickly than a well-written book.
“Anything you want” by Derek Sivers is the latest such book, my brain is overflowing with ideas and energy right now.
Https://sivers.com
“Anything you want” by Derek Sivers is the latest such book, my brain is overflowing with ideas and energy right now.
Https://sivers.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
There aren’t many things that get me more excited and more motivated more quickly than a well-written book.
“Anything you want” by Derek Sivers is the latest such book, my brain is overflowing with ideas and energy right now.
Https://sivers.com
“Anything you want” by Derek Sivers is the latest such book, my brain is overflowing with ideas and energy right now.
Https://sivers.com
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
You may want to fact-check yourself on that one, Gemini…
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
You may want to fact-check yourself on that one, Gemini…
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We don’t want AI slop.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.
September 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
We don’t want AI slop.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.
Stop sending us AI slop.
Stop wasting our time with AI slop.
It doesn’t sound good.
It’s antithetical to our core values.
You didn’t even make it.
Knock it off.
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I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
It filled in a lot of gaps and corrected a lot of my assumptions about how software engineering works at different levels and in different types of companies.
It filled in a lot of gaps and corrected a lot of my assumptions about how software engineering works at different levels and in different types of companies.
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook is now available as hardcover from Amazon. Here’s me holding the first print (the proof - it’s nice!)
And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform.
Get it here: engguidebook.com
And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform.
Get it here: engguidebook.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
It filled in a lot of gaps and corrected a lot of my assumptions about how software engineering works at different levels and in different types of companies.
It filled in a lot of gaps and corrected a lot of my assumptions about how software engineering works at different levels and in different types of companies.
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The Software Engineer’s Guidebook is now available as hardcover from Amazon. Here’s me holding the first print (the proof - it’s nice!)
And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform.
Get it here: engguidebook.com
And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform.
Get it here: engguidebook.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook is now available as hardcover from Amazon. Here’s me holding the first print (the proof - it’s nice!)
And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform.
Get it here: engguidebook.com
And it’s also out as an ebook on the O’Reilly platform.
Get it here: engguidebook.com