Shawn McElroy

I am a product engineer and have helped build software from small startups, to manipulating hundreds of millions of data points. I write API's and make tools that make developers lives easier.

Sacramento, Ca Joined on Apr 4, 2017 https://spacerockmedia.com

Education

Self Taught

Work

Software Developer at Self Employed

Space Rock Media

Python

Automation and tooling to see how it can make our jobs easier.

Python, for all the things!

Consulting, website rebuilds, full time employment.

20 posts published

96 comments written

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Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 29 '19

The Python virtual environment with Pyenv & Pipenv

#python #pipenv #pyenv #fastapi

8 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Apr 26 '20

Name my new WiFi

#watercooler #jokes

1 min read

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Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Apr 18 '20

What are your favorite python tips you don't see others use?

#discuss #python

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Feb 8 '20

Do you have an inner monologue? Some don't.

#discuss #career #todayilearned #watercooler

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jan 26 '20

React/Vue components are just server side template components with worse performance. Change my mind.

#discuss #react #vue #jinja

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jul 22 '19

How do you respond to "What is tour greatest strength/weakness?" In interviews?

#discuss #career #hiring #impostersyndrome

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jul 21 '19

What are your favorite tools/libraries for writing TypeScript

#discuss #typescript #javascript #fullstack

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jul 14 '19

How has failing made you a better developer

#discuss #career #productivity

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jul 13 '19

What are your best tips for writing technical blog posts?

#discuss #writing #productivity #beginners

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 30 '19

What is your opinion on websites with dark themes?

#discuss #design #ux #css

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 29 '19

When do you crosspost for visibility and SEO?

#discuss #seo #productivity #writing

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 25 '19

What tools have you built?

#discuss #productivity

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 22 '19

How do you handle imposter syndrome or thoughts about changing careers?

#discuss #career #impostersyndrome

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 18 '19

Why are you using Rust for web development?

#discuss #rust #webdev

1 min read

Shawn McElroy for Space Rock Media

Jun 19 '19

How I manage my dotfiles using GNU Stow

#posts #bash #dotfiles

9 min read

Shawn McElroy

Aug 27 '18

After learning Go, what made you stay with it rather than use a different language?

#discuss #go

1 min read

Shawn McElroy

Aug 27 '18

What is the most influential programming language you have learned?

#discuss

1 min read

Shawn McElroy

Aug 16 '18

What are your favorite terminal apps or scripts, to use for productivity?

#discuss #python #bash #productivity

1 min read

Shawn McElroy

Jan 22 '18

The Programmers Oath

#programming #career #culture

5 min read

Shawn McElroy

Apr 4 '17

Hi, I'm Shawn McElroy

#introductions

1 min read

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