Writing

They’re not natively supported, but you can still make them!

• elixir
• ash

Don’t reinvent the wheel - use what HTML gives you!

• css

Making liveviews the source of truth for all flash-related information.

• elixir
• phoenix

Going down a rabbit hole while trying to fix a timezone issue, as one does.

• elixir
• ecto

Phoenix LiveView 0.18 is out with a bunch of cool new features, but a few hidden gotchas for upgraders…

• elixir
• phoenix

JIT compilation is amazing for your development productivity, but it requires some non-obvious changes to get it working with Phoenix.

• elixir
• phoenix
• css

Building APIs with Absinthe and GraphQL gives you great power, but with great power comes great responsibility. It can be easy to make a bit of a mess and go about fetching data in very slow and inefficient ways, and it’s up to us as developers to notice it happening and nip it in the bud.

• elixir
• graphql

Recently a friend was looking at generating random-but-unique URL identifiers for a web project, and I immediately thought about this awesome video by Tom Scott about how YouTube encodes its IDs for URLs. Rewatching the video, I was like ohhhh, base-64 encoding, I know how that works…. wait a minute.

• maths

I recently picked up an ErgoDox EZ keyboard, and was excited to add some Unicode characters to it…

• keyboards

A description of how I thought through and solved a tricky coding challenge

• elixir
• maths

It’s not intuitive, and it doesn’t always work, but it can be done!

• keyboards

And how to fix it. If you want to use old gems, you should be allowed to, darnit.

• ruby

Or how to leverage your editor into doing the hard work for you.

• css

Today I learned that by default, Ecto doesn’t read data back from the database, after writing new or updated data!

• elixir
• ecto

What is it? Where did it come from? Why are you learning it???

• personal

A new feature that dropped in Phoenix 1.1, that I’m really excited about!

• elixir
• phoenix

Everything I plan on reading….. That’s a lot of books.

• personal

Two ways of accomplishing the same goal, using view helper methods.

• elixir
• phoenix

Why things go wrong with associations that don’t match model names, and how to fix it.

• ruby

How great it feels when you can slay the dragons hiding in your code.

• personal

Database Cleaner and I have a complicated relationship. But for today at least, it’s going a lot better.

• ruby

What I hope to achieve in 2015.

• personal