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---
title: ""
date: 2025-12-23T17:12:55-03:30
draft: false
---

<blockquote>
	<code>
		/* _nop() has been deprecated; use __nop() */<br>
		#define _nop() __nop()
	</code>
	<cite>&mdash;excerpt from <a href="https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers/xc8"><span class="mono">pic.h</span></a></cite>
</blockquote>

<h1 id="about">About</h1>
<table>
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Personal information</th>
			<th></th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>Name</td>
			<td>Sam Anthony</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Occupation</td>
			<td>Computer programmer</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Education</td>
			<td>
				BCompSc,
				<a href="https://www.concordia.ca/">Concordia University</a>.<br>
				All credits obtained; graduating June 2026.
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Previous employers</td>
			<td>
				<a href="https://c-core.ca/">C-CORE</a>
				<br>
				<a href="https://wheeltec.ca/">WheelTec</a>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<table>
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Contact</th>
			<th></th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>Email</td>
			<td><a href="mailto:sam@samanthony.xyz">sam@samanthony.xyz</a></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Phone</td>
			<td>+1 (709) 746&ndash;7582</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>GitHub</td>
			<td><a href="https://github.com/sam-rba">sam-rba</a></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>LinkedIn</td>
			<td><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-anthony-4746252b5">sam-anthony-4746252b5</a></td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<h1 id="design-philosophy">Design philosophy</h1>
<table>
	<tr><td><a href="https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/tpop.webpage/">Simplicity, clarity, generality.</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td><a href="https://suckless.org/philosophy/">Frugality</a>. <a href="https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html">Less is more</a>.</td></tr>
	<tr><td><a href="https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth/page/n53/mode/2up">Consistency, coherence, conceptual integrity.</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td><a href="https://usgraphics.com/">Timelessness. Ignore design trends.</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td>Transparency. Don't hide the innards; make them beautiful.</td></tr>
	<tr><td>Respect the user, don't infantilize them.</td></tr>
	<tr><td>Readability. Code is documentation (but not a substitute for it).</td></tr>
	<tr><td><a href="https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth/page/n153/mode/2up">Design top-down, build and test bottom-up.</a></td></tr>
	<tr><td>Reliability. Consummate design and rigorous testing.</td></tr>
	<tr><td>Performance and <a href="https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth/page/n109/mode/2up">minimal memory footprint</a>.</td></tr>
	<tr><td>Maintainability. Programs outlive people and computers.</td></tr>
	<tr><td>Incremental development. Software is <a href="https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~cs50/Reading/NoSilverBullet.pdf">grown</a>, not built.</td></tr>
</table>
<h1 id="biography">Biography</h1>
<img style="width: 16rem;" src="img/headshot.jpg" alt="Headshot of Sam Anthony">
<p>
	I'm a computer programmer from Newfoundland, Canada.
	I was born in 2004.
</p>
<blockquote>
	To state my life .plan in a single sentence: &ldquo;I want to write the best software I can.&rdquo; There isn't even a close second place.
	<cite>&mdash;John Carmack, <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/refs/heads/master/by_day/johnc_plan_19970707.txt">1997</a></cite>
</blockquote>