Hi, I'm Brian Nystrom

Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing and building production-ready software. This site showcases selected personal projects and work from my career.

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From Apprentice to Senior Engineer: 10 Years Later

I wrote many of the posts on this site during my software engineering apprenticeship. It’s been about a decade since then, where did the time go?

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Brian Nystrom
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Pairing Tour: Day 8

The final day of the pairing tour, styling Android layouts in XML and learning to handle UI across varying screen sizes and orientations.

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Brian Nystrom
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My Apprenticeship

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Pairing Tour: Day 7

Jumping into Android development paired with a Bluetooth device — learning to test with Robolectric and Mockito, and getting introduced to Screaming Architecture.

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Brian Nystrom
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Pairing Tour: Day 6

Back to CoffeeScript, working on date-based user redirects and upgrading a dependency — a reminder that keeping up with dependencies has a cost.

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Brian Nystrom
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