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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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. …

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. …