Development
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Introducing Ecto Resource
CRUDy contexts can jam up the works in an Elixir/Phoenix application Contexts allow for a separation of concerns between data and business logic. Often times, the first thing we do is add many basic CRUD functions to our contexts which essentially delegate to Ecto. -
Improving Dev Experience with Overmind
Web apps are born with a healthy amount of naivety. There aren’t many expectations of what the apps should do so they have the freedom to do… well, anything. This is great for the early stages of development, but as these apps grow and take on more responsibilites a flexible, little app can quickly become hard to manage. -
The Missing Fundamental
Music composition and production is a large part of my life outside of software development, so much so that I often find myself thinking of ways to draw parallels between the two. -
A First Look at Github Actions
GitHub Actions, the new offering for CI/CD and other automated workflows, is still in beta just out of beta and looks promising. In order to get myself acquainted with GitHub Actions, I used the nodenv test suite as a chance to try it out. -
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Learning Go: A Diplomatic Approach
Despite the fact that it’s been around longer than I’ve been a programmer, I feel like the buzz around the Go programming language has increased of late. This might be why, a few weeks ago, the company I’m working with announced their intention to start migrating portions of their Node microservices into Go. -
The Three-Things Theorem of Function Intention
Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, has gone through a modern mathematical renaissance. The folding process was originally passed down between generations orally. Recently, though, artists have developed a way to document the steps to fold a shape with a diagram called a crease pattern. -
Complex FFI with Rust & Unity
As promised in “Getting started with FFI: Rust & Unity”, the next steps for any FFI binding is a “zero-copy” bridge for complex data types. In other words our current goal is to pass classes, objects, or structs between the two languages. -
Music Cards
Music Cards Our family loves music. We almost always have some sort of music going on in the background at our house. We have a number of Sonos speakers and subscriptions to the major music providers, giving us a lot of flexibility in what to listen to and where. -
Questioning Responsibility
I can imagine paleontologists drooling over our applications’ changelogs. I’m sure they wish they had a record of the exact environment that caused a recently uncovered Protoceratops to grow that very interesting third eyeball.
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