Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

Programming, startups. Developer @shopify. Winnipeg Joined February 2010

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Can’t seem to get my 7 year old into gaming, we already tried Dark Souls 3 but she’s just not “getting it”, I guess girls just don’t like video games.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

We have a "fun points" system with the kids at home where if you do chores you get "fun points" which can be exchanged for having your "basic needs" met.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

At work when I’m in a meeting and I have my coffee cup nobody knows I put chocolate milk in there but I totally did.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

I used to think you can judge a city by the wifi in the airport, by Winnipeg has great free fast wifi so I dunno what's going on.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Packing my 5 least ratty t-shirts and got a recent-ish haircut so I don’t look like a 30’s style hobo, cause I’m headed back to Shopify HQ for a week. Excited to get back. 2. bizzness.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

You can’t really “teach” someone how to be a great developer. It actually takes years of hard work and patience to know exactly which answer to copy from Stack Overflow.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Everything in your home should be beautiful or useful or a 65” low response time 4K HDR tv hooked up to your gaming pc.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Opens Xcode for the first time in 5 years, makes coffee, sits down, cracks knuckles, shakes out hands ... spends 4 hours setting up key bindings.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Just chatted with a recent high school grad who had to self organize and advocate for his large school to offer a computer programming class. That’s so sad, I learned Visual Basic at a small hs in grade 10. 1997. Changed my life.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

I love when people ask if we’re building a modern home. What does that even mean? We got the quote for marble columns and just can’t do it, so yeah we’re doing it “modern”.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Camping’s cool because you can really experience the raw beauty of nature.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

There needs to be a camping themed restaurant chain that serves all the gnarly shit you make when you’re camping, without all the fuss. HMU for more details.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

After all these years, still nothing beats putting together a super sweet Monoprice order.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

It’s cool how we’ve put all the recent advances in advanced robotics, nano/bio technology, and military-grade futuretech into an $800 baby stroller.

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Eugene Wei @eugenewei

7 years ago

The rhetorical style of any Twitter account that continues to gain followers converges on that of a fortune cookie.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

It’s kinda weird how my siblings are doctors and teachers whose work had a personal, profound, lasting effect on society and I’m here like “I make websites!”.

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Gareth du Plooy @garethduplooy

7 years ago

Every year we do a lemonade stand to teach the girls to work hard and be rewarded but all they learn is people will give you $10 for a cookie if you’re pretty enough.