Hard to believe this was a year ago today! So this happened… — Andrew Hayward (@arhayward) December 16, 2014 I kind of walked into Etsy by accident. One year on, I don’t have any plans to walk out yet!
“Andrew is one of the most stunningly technically competent clientside engineers I’ve ever had the opportunity to work with. He has a fantastic understanding of cutting edge browser side technologies, and has consistently performed above and beyond expectations in terms of delivery. He displays a positive attitude to his work, and continues to surprise in terms of what he’s able to get client-side browsers to do.”
— Dan Hon
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It’s all about the trains this year… Ready and waiting for a paint job In the “workshop” It’s all about the details! Ready to leave the depot Stoking the fire with Daddy Taking a break All in all, he had a good day, and it seemed like a popular creation. Thanks to his grandfather for…
I’ve been working on a feature in our Android app for a while now. Every now and then, we’d get an app crash due to a NullPointerException being thrown here: switch (mMeta.optString("type", null)) { case "a": return Type.A; case "b": return Type.B; case "": return Type.OTHER; default: return Type.UNKNOWN; } mMeta is guaranteed to exist,…
Two and a half years ago, I pulled my finger out and managed to put together a design for this site that I was somewhat happy with. “Finally,” I thought, “I have somewhere to write, and share my thoughts!” I would note down all the things, become internet famous, and life would be fantastic. I…
I received the following email last night… Andrew, I got your resume from X at Y. I’d like to set up a call with you and one of our engineers. It would be helpful if you had internet access during the call in order to do a quick coding exercise. Are there some times this…
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