You Should Blog
I created this blog to reflect on my code and development as a programmer. In that spirit, I’d like to make a pitch to anybody reading: you should blog. ...
Reset an Ecto Heroku Postgres Database
We introduced some breaking database changes to our Phoenix port of Today I Learned on Friday; today I deployed them to staging. Resetting an Ecto Heroku database, with new seed data, turned out to be a little tricky, and I wanted to document what I learned. ...
My Annual Review 2016
Here’s my annual professional review covering 2016. ...
Vim Nonrecursive Mappings
My first PR to a new Vim plugin was merged this week, check it out, adding non-recursive Vim mappings to vim-termbux. ...
Porting TIL from Rails to Phoenix: Initial Commits
Last week, I started a new project: porting Today I Learned from Ruby on Rails to Phoenix (Elixir). ...
Hamming Distance in Elixir
Today I solved the Exercism Hamming Distance problem in Elixir. Here’s my solution. ...
Exercism's Sum of Multiples in Elixir
Today I solved Exercism’s Sum of Multiples problem in Elixir. In this post, I’ll show my work solving this problem. ...
Run Length Encoding in Elixir
I’ve been working through the Elixir challenges on Exercism.io. Yesterday’s assignment was to implement a Run Length encoder and decoder in Elixir. Here’s my implementation. ...
Learn to Test
What is a skill one could learn to set themselves apart from other entry-level programmers? Testing. ...
Why Elixir?
I’ve been learning and using Elixir lately, and loving it. More than once, I’ve been asked some version of the question: why are you learning Elixir? What makes this language unique? I thought I’d take a moment and try to distill my rationale. ...