Development
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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. -
The Sage and the apprentice
What does Wordle have to teach us about being a complete software developer? -
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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. -
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Getting off Big Tech: De-Googled phone
How I replaced all proprietary Google code from my phone using LineageOS, and minimized interactions with external Google services using microG and an Open Source ecosystem of apps. -
Why junior developers are seriously awesome
If you find your engineering team dynamic getting stale, there's an easy win to shake things up: hire a junior developer. -
Why functional?
Let's take a step back and talk about why it is worth your time to learn to write code with a functional mindset. The internet is full of information about how to write functionally, but without knowledge of what problems is solves, functional patterns are likely to look intimidating, so we don't bother, or worse, we use these patterns out of context. -
A few of my favorite things
Wherein I share some of my favorite command line tools. -
Introducing Ecto Resource
EctoResource, a library for clearing up boilerplate CRUD code in Phoenix contexts
