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Why Elixir is still my choice for web products even with dynamic typing

I want to talk about Elixir and types. It’s coming, but at the same time if the research doesn’t pan out we might end up not getting it.

My issue got mentioned in ThinkingElixir Podcast!

Wow! I got mentioned! Err.. not specifically, haha but the issue I raised was mentioned!

[Elixir and Time Series] #1 - Background and Ingestion considerations

Hi! Sit down. Grab a drink, and let me stoke the fire for you.

On Brex: My thoughts on backdrop powers that chose Kotlin over Elixir

I’d like to share my thoughts on what probably most people suspected on why Brex dropped Elixir in favor of Kotlin, as in there was probably more than meets the eye.

Why Elixir would be better than Kotlin in a startup

First of all - I’m not trying to start a war here, but to offer my opinions.

[Elixir Tip] Add a HTML Wysiwyg Editor To Phoenix LiveView

Watch how it works here: https://www.loom.com/share/8d4a1b56ea76474c95bfaf177c1cfbb9 Using Trix as a HTML Editor Wysiwyg tool for editing text, on Phoenix LiveView.

[Advent of Code 2021] Day 15: Implementing Djikstra's Shortest Path in Elixir

Question: below is(what I think) the slowest part of the algorithm in my implementation.

[Elixir Tip] If you have an older MacOS (Mojave) and asdf erlang fails, do this

Leaving this here in case anyone is like me, using an old macOS and don’t really care for updating to a new OS.

Updated demo code from Saša Jurić’s “The Soul of Erlang and Elixir” video, for Elixir 1.12 and Phoenix 1.6

This is the original repo: GitHub - sasa1977/demo_system And this is my fork which has updated code to run under most up-to-date Erlang/Elixir/Phoenix.

[Elixir Tip] How to use LiveView 0.16 with components that have .heex template files

This is something that I banged by head against for the last two days.

[Elixir Tip]: Fade-out flash in Phoenix LiveView 0.17 and TailwindCSS

This is a short snippet on how to do fade-out on @flash outputs, for Phoenix LiveView 0.

[Chefshop] Email sending works!

Oh my gosh! Check this out - sending email from local to my personal email!

[Chefshop] Date Selection UI Update

I got feedback and some ideas for simplifying the view of the date selection.

[Chefshop] Delivery Settings Design refresh

Crown jewel feature. Rarely do the modern e-commerce platforms have this feature, because most of the time you don’t need it.

[Chefshop] Progress Report

Well, this is a quicky as I have not been updating.

[Chefshop] WIP: month of UX redesign

Whew, just reworking the UX for the past month. Well that was in the midst of also trying to change my job, interviewing, starting another business that’s entirely different from this one (what is this one even haha).

[Chefshop] My Second UX Post - Paper to Code

Less words, more video! :)

[Chefshop] My first UX Prototyping session..ever

So following with my last post, I continued looking at into how I’m going to do a redesign.

[Chefshop] "Competition" Research on Design/UX

I suck at design. I am reading through Hello Web Design, a book by Tracy Osborn that goes over basics on web design.

[Chefshop] Released a build to public url!

https://chefshop.coramsoftware.com NOTE: if you are going to play around, please do NOT enter real email / name / addresses!

[Elixir Tip] Endpoint.broadcast versus PubSub.broadcast

This is a snippet post since I couldn’t find this documented clearly.

[Chefshop] Designing an order-to-delivery system

Short overview of the Ordering and Delivery system design of ChefShop why disclose the inner workings of ChefShop?

[Chefshop] My Elixir Project/Business Idea

How I decided to create my first Elixir project Or, more like how I decided to do a food delivery business out of my home kitchen .

[Junior Developer Series] How to Hire Juniors, and fix the broken Interview Process

Hiring junior developers is _______ Because you want to give them a shot.

Question: How to deal with Large and Long Standups

Is your standup consisting of 10+ people, spending nearly 1+ hours?

Creating a Product: Competitor research

“Just a feeling”? Do you think life is a SES song?

[Junior Developer Series] A Senior developer's role in growth of a junior

Let’s jump into what a senior’s role is in a team.

Elixir: I learned it

I first started with the https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html guide - really it’s super packed with information.

[Junior Developer Series] How I ended up being defacto "onboarder"

Because startup and many hats Because in a startup, when the entire dev team consists of one associate level frontend (me), one senior frontend (contracted by software agency), one senior backend, and one junior backend.

[Junior Developer Series] My career and experience training junior developers so far

My untraditional path to software engineering At the time of looking for a position in year 2015 - I was a wreck mentally, when I came out of a medical school.