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<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 <i>is</i> 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>
  <tr><td><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKgWbMaXsAAb-Kq?format=jpg&name=large">Small, adept team</a>. Great software is written by the few, not by the many.</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>