cwalcott

Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes (in-person in Greater Boston area OK)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, concurrency), Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines), TypeScript (Node.js, Angular), Python

Resume: https://github.com/cwalcott/cwalcott/blob/main/Costa%20Walco...

GitHub: https://github.com/cwalcott

Email: cwalcott@gmail.com

---

I’m a software architect and full-stack developer who’s spent years building solid, user-friendly apps across iOS, Android, web, and backend systems.

I work across the stack — Swift and Kotlin for mobile, Node.js on the backend, Angular on the frontend — and I care a lot about clean architecture, performance, testing, and writing code that’s easy to maintain.

I like staying up to date with modern best practices and enjoy working across different technologies — especially when I can take what I’ve learned from one area and apply it to another. I get the most satisfaction from solving real-world problems and building software that holds up over time.

I think this thread gives some good answers to this: https://twitter.com/jandersen/status/1009247005233692672. Basically, problems you get from being at massive scale and supporting a large number of devices.

It's not a requirement. Apps can use these to send someone to another app, along with optional information. For example, it's how you used to login via Facebook (before it was built into iOS).

For apps that support deep linking, you could check if the device responds to a URL with a corresponding scheme (e.g. "twitter:///")

If GitHub profiles really are becoming the "new resume", I think users are need more control over them. Certainly sorting projects is a good start.

It should be noted that you can still get push notification support if you use Google's Gmail app on iOS.

Managing load with thin workers isn't very hard...haproxy [http://haproxy.1wt.eu/] makes it pretty easy to setup rather complex load distributions (certainly more complex than random!).

To me the most interesting part of this article are the comments: many people questioning Arrington's impartiality since Yahoo is a competitor to AOL. It'll probably subside over time but still interesting.

Yeah, I could see using it for my Mac Mini, I just wish you could somehow attach it to the wireless keyboard. Having two separate devices on your lap doesn't really work...

Seems similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148328. The internals of any VPS aren't really secure from the hosting provider, although I don't why that means CSRs should have plaintext access to the root password.

It seems like marketing would still be an issue though. Even to make $1/day, someone has to find your software. If you're not marketing through a blog or Twitter, that leaves advertising. So now in addition to writing good ads, you need to make sure each project is making more than you're spending on advertising, which is a lot of work on its own.