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Nicole Orchard

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I'm a developer with experience spanning graphic design, web design and development, and software engineering. My background includes designing brand identities and websites as well as building and maintaining web APIs and their underlying cloud infrastructure. I bring a strong visual sensibility paired with technical…

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An Intro to Compilers

A compiler is just a program that translates other programs. Traditional compilers translate source code into executable machine code that your computer understands. (Some compilers translate source code into another programming language. These compilers are called source-to-source translators or transpilers.) LLVM is…