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Barry Paul

@bpaul

Adding and subtracting. Lead Engineer at @aha_io

 Hood River, Oregon
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Joined April 2007
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I'm lucky to have pursued adventures both in my career and in my personal life. I feel like the culture at Aha! really understand this and allows me blend both these parts of my life. Need more adventure in your life? Come work with me and the rest of the amazing Aha! team #rails
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@aha_io5 Apr 2019
Meet Barry — windsurfer, engineer, adventurer, and Aha! teammate. #rails bit.ly/2FQukbo
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@aha_io8 Mar 2022
Today we celebrate a major milestone in the Aha! journey — capping off years of growth and profitability. bit.ly/3hRyUta #bootstrapmovement #hatitude #100million
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New post! Automatically avoiding GraphQL N+1s with Ruby: aha.io/engineering/articles/…

Automatically avoiding GraphQL N+1s

Some people, when faced with an API problem, think “I’ll use GraphQL!” And now they have N+1 problems. N+1 problems occur when you want to find a deep tree of records and end up performing a SQL...

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Today is a big day. We are opening up early access to Aha! Develop. This is the tool we use internally to manage our work. It has helped us remain extraordinarily productive as we scaled our team. Try it, it can be easily customized to fit _your_ team aha.io/develop/overview

Aha! Develop — Agile Development Tool

Aha! Develop is the agile tool that links strategy to delivery — ensure product and engineering seamlessly work together. Start a free trial today.

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Replying to @AskAmex
@AskAmex someone is using my email to open an American Express account. I don't see a contact email on your website, what should I do?
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I just got another "We've finished processing your application email" email
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Good daily 🦠 update: Coronadaily cronyclecovid19.substack.com…
Roof of a Copenhagen Power Plant Doubles as Snow-Free Ski and Snowboarding Center thisiscolossal.com/2020/02/c…

Roof of a Copenhagen Power Plant Doubles as Snow-Free Ski and Snowboarding Center

Danish architectural firm BIG recently transformed what would be another underutilized industrial space into a year-round entertainment hub as part of Copenhagen’s plan to be carbon-neutral by 2025....

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Mar Hicks@histoftech30 Nov 2019
holy fucking shit its a crab bubble sort
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Stumbled into reading about hermit crabs and wut:
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The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’ flowingdata.com/2019/10/28/t…
The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’

The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’

For The Atlantic, Ian Bogost on communicating complex ideas to an audience: One thing you learn when writing for an audience outside your expertise is that, contrary to the assumption that people m…

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Plan your autumn: 2019 Fall Foliage Map & Nationwide Peak Leaf Forecast smokymountains.com/fall-foli…
For flag lovers flagstories.co/
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Remarkable flying and photography youtu.be/uXGowLvRPWc
Beware the fancy teabag! “Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup” cbc.ca/news/technology/tea-b…
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The computational photography arms race has begun – How long will Apple’s mad science edge last? om.co/2019/09/11/about-apple…
How long will Apple’s mad science edge last?

How long will Apple’s mad science edge last?

As a fan of photography in general, and a believer in the inevitability of computational photography and its capabilities, today is indeed a red-letter day. Apple has truly delivered a great new ca…

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“Universities are incentivizing teachers to teach in ways that the students like rather than in ways that promote learning”. Active Learning Works But Students Don’t Like It marginalrevolution.com/margi…
Active Learning Works But Students Don't Like It - Marginal REVOLUTION

Active Learning Works But Students Don't Like It - Marginal REVOLUTION

A carefully done study that held students and teachers constant shows that students learn more in active learning classes but they dislike this style of class and think they learn less. It’s no big...

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How we think about multiprocess testing at Aha! by @justinweiss aha.io/engineering/articles/…

How do you test multiprocess code in Node?

A little while ago, I wrote about using Node's child_process library. child_process creates other processes to do work instead of tying up a single process. When you do work in child processes, you...

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Wild Creatures Emerge From Thrown Sand in Photographs by Claire Droppert thisiscolossal.com/2019/07/c…

Wild Creatures Emerge From Thrown Sand in Photographs by Claire Droppert

Netherlands-based photographer Claire Droppert (previously) has created a new series of images that depict the silhouettes of animals appearing in clumps of thrown Holland beach sand. Dolphins,...

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Insect Illustrations Inspired by Looney Tunes Characters and Horror Movie Icons thisiscolossal.com/2019/06/p…
Insect Illustrations Inspired by Looney Tunes Characters and Horror Movie Icons

Insect Illustrations Inspired by Looney Tunes Characters and Horror Movie Icons

UK-based illustrator Richard Wilkinson (previously) imagines new insect species inspired by familiar faces from popular culture. Two of his more recent series cover both ends of a fantastical...

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How to Reduce the World’s Carbon Footprint by 2050 — Information is Beautiful informationisbeautiful.net/v…
How to Reduce the World’s Carbon Footprint by 2050 — Information is Beautiful

How to Reduce the World’s Carbon Footprint by 2050 — Information is Beautiful

To keep global warming & climate change below 3-4 degrees celsius, we have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to renewable energy - globally. A graphical blueprint on how to get to net...

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Tennis Balls and Swim Caps Crowd the Frame in New Time-Lapse Compositions by Pelle Cass thisiscolossal.com/2019/05/n…
Tennis Balls and Swim Caps Crowd the Frame in New Time-Lapse Compositions by Pelle Cass

Tennis Balls and Swim Caps Crowd the Frame in New Time-Lapse Compositions by Pelle Cass

Pelle Cass (previously) captures how humans interact with a location or an environment over time, presenting a visual history of the coincidences that occur. Over the last year and a half the...

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Ugh - Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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