I’m Chris Oliver.

I enjoy building thoughtful software and inspiring people to become better programmers.

My current tools:

• Retina Macbook Pro 15”
• Audio Technica ATH-M50s
• Apple Thunderbolt Display
• MacVim, iTerm, Sequel Pro
• Ruby on Rails, Python, Swift, Javascript, Nodejs, jQuery and React
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis
• OS X and Ubuntu Server

Interviews

• How I Vim

Where did the username “excid3” come from?

I was tired coming up with different usernames for every site and wanted something consistent. I opened the dictionairy with my eyes closed. Pointed at a word randomly and found “excide”. I changed the last “e” to a “3” so I was pretty sure it would never be taken, and that was that.