Nick Timkovich

Published in Telnyx Engineering

·Jun 2, 2020

APIs aren’t perfect, but they can be better

In the 10 years Telnyx has been around, our product offerings have grown and evolved. By working with our customers, we have learned to fulfill their needs in increasingly easy-to-use ways. Our telephony engineers would release some features, messaging engineers (that’s me!) others, and number inventory engineers more. We delivered…

Api Design

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APIs aren’t perfect, but they can be better

Api Design

8 min read

Published in Telnyx Engineering

·Jan 24, 2020

RIP Pipenv: Tried Too Hard. Do what you need with pip-tools.

Pipenv is dead. It went all of 2019 without a single release, despite about 650 commits to master since the last release. Comments from developers on the project explain it “has been held back by several subdependencies and a complicated release process”. In the past, there were also comments that…

Python

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RIP Pipenv: Tried Too Hard. Do what you need with pip-tools.

Python

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Dec 31, 2016

We’ll Do It Live!: Don’t Write Dead Code.

Code at rest is a dreary thing. Worse than that, it’s ignored. Software is wondrous because it can be distributed for pennies, and with open-source software, licensed for free. However, source code or even binaries don’t do anything unless they’re run. Knowing how to run code can be tricky, you…

Web Apps

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We’ll Do It Live!: Don’t Write Dead Code.

Web Apps

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Oct 13, 2016

The Ultimate Language: AVR Assembly

In the ChiPy Ultimate Language Shootout, shooters have 5 minutes to extol the virtues of their chosen (non-Python) language. For the event in October, I chose the Atmel AVR flavor of assembly because I could torture the definition of “ultimate” to point unequivocally to it, plus I could come up…

Programming

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Programming

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