Development

Getting off Big Tech: Proprietary cloud alternatives

Eric Newbury's Getting off Big Tech series continues with alternatives to proprietary cloud services for storing and sharing files and photos, messaging, VPN and more.

Publish Date: July 20, 2022
Authors: Eric Newbury
Categories: Security; Development

Getting off Big Tech: Hosting a personal cloud

Continuing the Get off Big Tech series, Eric Newbury shares steps to develop your own personal cloud.

Publish Date: July 13, 2022
Authors: Eric Newbury
Categories: Security; Development

The Beauty of Drudgery

Appreciating the beauty of manual work: what Lionel Basney and Wendell Berry taught Kyle Adams about process automation.

Publish Date: June 13, 2022
Authors: Kyle Adams
Categories: Development

Mission Possible: Performant GraphQL APIs made easy in Elixir

Your mission: build a GraphQL API with filtering, sorting, and arbitrary preloading of nested data with minimal boilerplate and maximum performance.

Publish Date: April 26, 2022
Authors: Eric Newbury
Categories: Development

Agent Interview: Matt Jones on Elixir and how to help support open source

Matt Jones shares how he got started in Elixir, why it’s similar to Ruby on Rails, and how to help contribute to open source community support.

Publish Date: March 9, 2022
Authors: Matt Jones; Cathy Colliver
Categories: Development

Agent Interview: Eric Newbury on the super performant new Roc language

Eric Newbury talks about the new compile-to-binary functional language Roc, why he loves functional programming, and the evolution of programming languages.

Publish Date: February 16, 2022
Authors: Eric Newbury; Cathy Colliver
Categories: Development

The Sage and the apprentice

What does Wordle have to teach us about being a complete software developer?

Publish Date: February 2, 2022
Authors: Mike Doel
Categories: Development; Process

Babies just want to have fun

Publish Date: February 1, 2022
Authors: Ali Ibrahim
Categories: Development

Stop paying tech debts, start maintaining code

Stop paying down tech debt and start doing software maintenance. The real term we should all be talking about is maintenance, and it will help you and your team make it as habitual as sprints and retrospectives.

Publish Date: January 20, 2022
Authors: Jesse O'Brien
Categories: consulting; process; development

Mastering the Macro Machine

Publish Date: November 23, 2021
Authors: Camilo Payan
Categories: Development

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