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          <span>Hey. My name is</span>
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          <span>Isaac</span>
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          <span>and I write</span>
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              <a id="flyup" href="https://leanpub.com/firstyearincode">books</a>
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          <span> Apps </span>
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            <a href="https://sootly.isaaclyman.com/">
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                alt="Sootly: A delightfully difficult word deduction game"
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            <a href="https://isaaclyman.com/bookoscope/">
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                alt="Bookoscope: An ultra-fast OPDS crawl-and-cache library"
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          <span> Book </span>
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            <a href="https://leanpub.com/firstyearincode">
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                  alt="Your First Year in Code: A complete guide for new and aspiring developers"
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          <a href="https://leanpub.com/firstyearincode">Ebook</a>
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          <a
            href="https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?LLtwIyhipnqR5xbWczmMdi3QVsUFBfz5kxnrywXlsqu"
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            href="https://www.amazon.com/Your-First-Year-Code-developers/dp/0578564998"
            >Amazon</a
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          <h2 class="writing-header" id="articles">
            <span>Articles</span>
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            <a class="blog-link" href="http://isaaclyman.com/blog">
              <p class="blog-label">Personal blog:</p>
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                alt="Minimum Viable Blog logo"
                title="Minimum Viable Blog"
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            <span class="writing-name">
              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/01/01/documents-the-architect-s-programming-language/"
              >
                Documents: The architect's programming language
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2025 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              How software architects can use documentation to lead and influence
              others more effectively.
            </span>
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            <span class="writing-name">
              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/08/13/navigating-cities-of-code-with-norris-numbers/"
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                Navigating cities of code with Norris Numbers
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2024 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              Codebases of different sizes, what makes them fundamentally different,
              and how to maintain them.
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          <div class="writing">
            <span class="writing-name">
              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/31/comparing-frameworks-for-cross-platform-apps-flutter-vs-react-native/"
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                Comparing frameworks for cross-platform apps: Flutter vs. React
                Native
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2022 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              Comparison of Flutter and React Native based on my experience
              building the same app from scratch in both frameworks.
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            <span class="writing-name">
              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/08/15/how-to-interrogate-unfamiliar-code/"
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                How to interrogate unfamiliar code
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2022 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              Techniques for understanding difficult pieces of code.
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            <span class="writing-name">
              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/06/15/c-ienumerable-yield-return-and-lazy-evaluation/"
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                C#: IEnumerable, yield return, and lazy evaluation
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2022 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              Introduction to IEnumerable, the common interface for
              iteration in C#.
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              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/10/18/code-quality-a-concern-for-businesses-bottom-lines-and-empathetic-programmers/"
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                Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and
                empathetic programmers
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            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2021 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              Causes and effects of high-quality code in technology orgs.
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            <span class="writing-name">
              <a
                href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/12/07/measuring-developer-productivity/"
                >Can developer productivity be measured?</a
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            </span>
            <span class="writing-publisher"> Stack Overflow Blog, 2020 </span>
            <span class="writing-description">
              Defining and measuring productivity on engineering teams.
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            <span> Open source </span>
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                JS Powered Search
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            <span class="project-role">Maintainer</span>
            <span class="project-description"
              >A VS Code extension for fast, powerful, programmatic, repeatable
              codebase searches.</span
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            <span class="project-tech"
              >VS Code API, TypeScript Compiler, Mocha, Sinon.JS</span
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            <span class="project-name">
              <a href="https://obsidian.md/plugins?search=Isaac%20Lyman#">
                Novel Word Count
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="project-role">Maintainer</span>
            <span class="project-description"
              >An Obsidian knowledge base plugin that displays a word count,
              page count, or other statistic for each file, folder and vault in
              the File Explorer.</span
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            <span class="project-tech">Obsidian Developer API, TypeScript</span>
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            <span class="project-name">
              <a href="https://cashmere.healthcatalyst.net/home"> Cashmere </a>
            </span>
            <span class="project-role">Contributor, 2018&ndash;23</span>
            <span class="project-description">
              An Angular component library and living style guide for Health
              Catalyst software products.
            </span>
            <span class="project-tech">Angular, SASS, Webpack</span>
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          <div class="project">
            <span class="project-name">
              <a href="https://github.com/isaaclyman/Viano"> Viano </a>
            </span>
            <span class="project-role">Maintainer</span>
            <span class="project-description"
              >A code toy that lets you write songs using Vue components.</span
            >
            <span class="project-tech">Web Audio API, Vue, SASS</span>
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          <div class="project">
            <span class="project-name">
              <a href="https://github.com/isaaclyman/json-measuring-tape">
                JSON Measuring Tape
              </a>
            </span>
            <span class="project-role">Maintainer</span>
            <span class="project-description"
              >An in-browser tool that displays an expandable tree of any JSON
              object with the size of each property and its percent share of the
              entire object.
            </span>
            <span class="project-tech">Vue, JSON</span>
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          <h2 class="tech-header">
            <span> Preferred Technologies </span>
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            <span>
              <img
                src="images/flutter.svg"
                height="74"
                alt="Flutter"
                title="Flutter"
                style="margin-right: 16px"
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            <span>
              <img
                src="images/typescript-logo.png"
                height="74"
                alt="TypeScript"
                title="TypeScript"
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                src="images/CSS3-logo.png"
                height="74"
                alt="CSS3"
                title="CSS3"
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            </span>
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            <span>
              <img
                src="images/dotnet-core.png"
                height="74"
                alt=".NET Core"
                title=".NET Core"
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                height="74"
                alt="C#"
                title="C#"
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            <span>
              <img
                src="images/nodejs-logo.png"
                height="78"
                alt="Node.js"
                title="Node.js"
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