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Forest Hoffman

Full Stack Engineer | TypeScript, Node.js, Go | Ex-Engineer @ Coder.com | My thoughts are my own

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email
forestjhoffman@gmail.com
work
Frontend Engineer at Coder Technologies Inc.
location
Austin, TX
work_status
I'm looking for work!
education
Associate of Science (2017); Self-taught (14 yrs)
joined
Jan 2, 2017

skills/languages

TypeScript, Node.js, Go, LAMP, Docker, Git

available for

Work I'm interested in:

👍 Backend engineering with TypeScript/NodeJS or Golang
👍 RESTful APIs
👍 Microservices

Work I'm not interested in:

🙈 Frontend design (e.g CSS, illustration)
🙈 CMS's (e.g themes, plugins)
🙈 Freelancing
🙈 Contract work
🙈 Copywriting

11 Posts Published
108 Comments Written
16 Tags Followed
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#showdevBatch Post

Forest Hoffman・Feb 9 '18

#showdev #webdev #wordpress
Reactions 10
3 min read

Recent Comments

re: How do you handle unproductive days at work? Jun 26
That sounds like a healthy and realistic policy. 👏
re: Imagine code that produces code! Code that you need. Jun 25
I also strongly disagree with the notion of automation just...
re: Do you drink coffee while working? Jun 25
I just made 3 quarts of cold brew.
re: Show off your stickers! Jun 13
😂 I eventually did! ...
re: What does your Terminal look like? Jun 12
re: How often do you clean your monitor(s)? ✨ Jun 8
When the layer of dust on the screen is thick enough that I...
re: What are you surprisingly terrible at, despite being otherwise competent? Jun 8
Baking. For the life of me, I can't bake. I can make some m...
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#showdevBuilding a Twitch.tv Chat Bot with Go - Part 2

Forest Hoffman・Dec 27 '17

#showdev #webdev #go #api
Reactions 14
9 min read
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#showdevBuilding a Twitch.tv Chat Bot with Go - Part 1

Forest Hoffman・Dec 20 '17

#showdev #webdev #go #api
Reactions 13
5 min read
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#discussHow do you prefer to learn new tech?

Forest Hoffman・Oct 5 '17

#discuss #beginners
chat3
Reactions 16
1 min read
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#showdevDetaching Unix Child Processes with Go

Forest Hoffman・Oct 3 '17

#go #unix #webdev #showdev
chat2
Reactions 13
4 min read
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Adding gaming functionality (experience, currency, levels, quests with multiple stage, etc.) to WordPress sites.
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A Go package for building Twitch.tv IRC chat bots. Previously "twitchbot".
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A package that handles the translation of Go data structures to JavaScript primitives.
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A Go package that allows running commands with optional arguments as background processes.
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A Go package that builds an executable intermediary process runner.
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An audio player designed for ambient/background noise.
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Run VS Code on a remote server.
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A package that provides wrappers for coloring standard output.
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