Andrew Matkovsky

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Dad, husband

Ukrainian 🇺🇦

SWE @ DoorDash Labs

Big Bicycle

Cars were a mistake

📍 Ottawa 🇨🇦

Dagger/Hilt's KMP support is on the roadmap.
@lehtimaeki We bought Bunch Bike, a cargo tricycle. It's definitely not in the same league as Urban Arrow but it is 1) US-made, so much cheaper in Canada than bikes made in other countries, 2) has three wheels which was a hard requirement because my wife has never rode a bike so two wheels are out of the question. Eventually I would love to upgrade to UA! Getting a cargo bike was great decision, reduced our car usage so much we might get rid of it at all and use car sharing when needed.
@billjings great thing to mention at an interview when asked about a time you screwed up

@Daojoan There’s a German saying that goes

“Vater werden ist nicht schwer, Vater sein dagegen sehr”

“Becoming a father isn’t hard, but being one is”

and I only just realize how much sense that makes.

Yesterday my wife gave birth to lovely twin babies — a boy and a girl. We can’t choose our parents, we can’t choose where we are born. Ours were born to parents who unconditionally love them, and they were born in the capital of a free country, Kyiv of Ukraine.

But just because the nation of a neighboring country, in its absolute majority, is sick with chauvinism and has dark barbarian worldview, our newborn babies had to spent their very first night in this world in the basement of a maternity hospital along with dozens other newborns, their parents, and those who are only about to give birth; a basement which serves as an improvised shelter for more than two years already and not only saves lives, but is occasionally a place to give lives — some women give childbirth right there. Last night russia sent 11 strategic bombers to launch 29 cruise missiles towards Ukrainian sleeping cities; then, expecting that they’ve exhausted Kyiv’s air defense, they tried to break through with 2 more ballistic missiles, which they long claimed and threatened to be “impossible to intercept”. Thanks to all partners who supplied Ukraine with anti-missiles systems, and to titanic efforts of Ukrainian Air Defense Forces, all missiles were shot down over Kyiv. No people were killed, 13 were wounded, 4 hospitalized, as missiles debris damaged several buildings and burned a few cars.
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This time all our newborns are alive. But we should remember that more than 500 Ukrainian children have already been killed in this war. And it’s ongoing. Please, support Ukraine, give us more weapons to defend ourselves. This weapon is just some money that literally can save a lot of lives, and stop aggressor from doing even more evil, to stop even more newborns coming to this world in basements hiding from missiles that are targeted to kill them the very first day.
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#Ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

I'm so tired of this horror Ukraine is continuously going through. I'm tired of russia, I'm tired of russians. I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive, definitely not forget. russia is terrorist state and every russian not ACTIVELLY trying to stop this are part of it.

Why aren't we giving Ukraine all the weapons they need? They should be able to blanket the russian terrorists with artillery and missiles every day without worrying about running out.

@chethaase thank you Chet for all the work you did. And especially for coming to speak about garbage collector changes in ART (I think?) to GDG DevFest in Lviv, Ukraine. I remember really enjoying the talk. And seeing that you kept the badge was especially heartwarming.

russia is intensifying their attack and terror strikes against Ukraine. We need to intensify our support and military aid equally as an immediate response.
The war has been going on for a long time so it's easy to start forgetting what's going on. But we must refocus our support to present russian terrorist state from pulling the rest of Europe into a war later. We can literally stop WWIII now if we give Ukraine the tools they need.

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Stand with Ukraine.
russia is a terrorist state.

#StandWithUkraine
#russiaTerroristState

@sdw looks great! I sometimes contemplate living in a similar place but kids logistics is a puzzle piece I can’t figure out.