Phil Balchin phil

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am phil on github.
I am maniacalrobot (https://keybase.io/maniacalrobot) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 8FDE 87D1 DF06 27EF 9DD8 326A 8C8D 50D6 DCF5 3C78

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

	require "eventmachine"
	require "em-http-request"
	require 'nokogiri'

	EventMachine.run do

	http_hackernews = EM::HttpRequest.new("https://news.ycombinator.com").get

	http_hackernews.callback do

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'eventmachine'

	class EchoServer < EM::Connection
	def post_init
	puts "-- someone connected to the echo server!"

	EM.add_periodic_timer 5 do
	send_data "Foo Bar"
	end

	class Nyx < RTanque::Bot::Brain
	NAME = 'nyx'
	include RTanque::Bot::BrainHelper

	attr_accessor :target, :previous_target, :projected_target_heading, :runaway_heading

	attr_accessor :runaway_direction_modifier
	attr_accessor :a, :b, :c, :d
	attr_accessor :toggle_runaway_direction_timeout

	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Grids!</title>
	<style type="text/css">
	body {
	background-color:black;
	margin:0px;
	overflow : hidden;

	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Grids!</title>
	<style type="text/css">
	body {
	background-color:black;
	margin:0px;
	overflow : hidden;

Phil Balchin phil

Keybase proof

Make it real

Ship it

Do it with style