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May 2

Where are the Green Jobs?

As wildfires burn across Siberia and temperatures in Antartica soar 70 degrees above normal, people are paying more attention to the environment. It is high time to ask an obvious question: “Where are the green jobs?” A concerned developer wants to know. There are lots of jobs out there for…

Climate Change

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Where are the Green Jobs?
Where are the Green Jobs?

Published in Better Programming

·Apr 12

String Encodings Decoded With Elixir

Know the working of strings — It is time you gained membership in the secret society of the dark question marks �����. This may be the last explanation of encodings you will ever need to read. I had run afoul of string encodings for years, but it wasn’t until I started working with Elixir that I…

Elixir

7 min read

String Encodings Decoded With Elixir
String Encodings Decoded With Elixir

Published in Better Programming

·Apr 7

The Myth of Small Incremental Improvements

Incremental changes do not provide emergency exits for a failing system. It’s to recognize when a tool is not useful — You want an intro that goes straight for the jugular? Here’s one: Agile methodology’s veneration of small incremental improvements is bullshit. I am not here to worship waterfalls or eulogize Kanban, and I’m not saying all of Agile’s philosophy is bad — I could even argue that small incremental improvements…

Software Development

6 min read

The Myth of Small Incremental Improvements
The Myth of Small Incremental Improvements

Apr 1

Xfile: a better way to work with files and directories in Elixir

Necessity is the mother of invention… or in the case of software, need begets packages. And packages require names, preferably something cool that maybe invokes the supernatural and/or throwbacks to ’90s television. So here’s my little PSA about Xfile, my latest Elixir package. Recursively List Files I kept encountering shortcomings when using Elixir’s…

Elixir

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Xfile: a better way to work with files and directories in Elixir
Xfile: a better way to work with files and directories in Elixir

Mar 17

Inspecting Ecto Schemas with Elixir

Stars aligned last week — while I was busy digging into how to document Ecto database schemas in some Elixir applications, I saw a relevant Stackoverflow post, basically asking how to do this very thing. So here’s my official un-official release of the package I had been working on: Inspecto…

Elixirlang

2 min read

Inspecting Ecto Schemas with Elixir
Inspecting Ecto Schemas with Elixir

Mar 3

The Russians are Coming: How to Launch a DDoS Defense

Russian tanks are rolling on Kyiv and fellow Ukrainian developers are swapping laptops for Kalashnikovs, so I felt a timely topic would be more appropriate than my usual development drivel. In the United States, the reaction to Russia’s aggression has been mixed. Republicans have declared the party’s “solidarity” with Ukraine…

Ukraine

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The Russians are Coming: How to Launch a DDoS Defense
The Russians are Coming: How to Launch a DDoS Defense

Published in Lob Developers

·Feb 11

Writing a Word Game in Elixir: Spelling Bee

Wordle might be the best thing to have come out of the pandemic, and my engineering brain latched onto it immediately after playing it. …

Elixir

5 min read

Writing a Word Game in Elixir: Spelling Bee
Writing a Word Game in Elixir: Spelling Bee

Jan 6

Your Software Should be Open-Sourced

And you should do this for purely selfish reasons. This post is a quick reality-check about how you are organizing the code in your application. Unless you are the rare bird who is actually writing an open-source package, chances are that you have modules scattered throughout your codebase that implement…

Software Development

3 min read

Your Software Should be Open-Sourced
Your Software Should be Open-Sourced

Dec 3, 2021

The Tech Debt Spiral

In the world of health insurance, a provider enters a death spiral when healthier people opt out of coverage, forcing the sick to pay ever-increasing premiums. …

Software Development

6 min read

The Tech Debt Spiral
The Tech Debt Spiral

Nov 8, 2021

Mushrooms and Software Development

Moving out of the big city was an event steeped in pros and cons. I traded neon lights for moonlight, nearby friends for quiet solitude, 24–7 grocery stores for ample parking, and public transportation for snow tires. …

Software Development

5 min read

Mushrooms and Software Development
Mushrooms and Software Development
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