In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend. Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. You might as well timest...

I had a use case come up while developing an Elixir application that involved wanting to perform a nested loop while mutating 2 counters and a map. The repo has a full description of the problem. I was able to solve it using Elixir, but I’m new to functional programming, so it took a bit of elbow gr...

This is a fancified excerpt of Jérôme Petazzoni’s unpopular opinion on Go Time #162. To get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click here to listen along while you read. It's better!   🎧 We have to stop insisting that software updates, etc. need to be distributed over HTTPS. Ve...

Did you hear that Go Time panelist Mark Bates won a FREE Raspberry Pi 400 by besting his fellow gophers in our Go Panic game show at GopherCon? Have a watch if you like 👇 Well, it turns out Mark will not be accepting the prize. 😢 Wondering why? So we were, so we asked him. He replied: “I’m allergic ...

SMTP should be blocked on public networks. Sound crazy? Consider this: Email is now a universal cybercrime portal1. Consumers, organizations, governments, and specific individuals are being targeted relentlessly by phishing attacks that result in stolen money and confidential data, or planted malwar...

There’s a new stack in town. PETAL. It destructures to Phoenix Elixir Tailwind Alpine LiveView (PETAL was coined by Patrick Thompson to describe a particular set of tools he was combining with good results. I’m just here to tell you about it.) So what is it? Well, it helps you build web applications...

On our recent Tailwind CSS episode of JS Party, I asked our excellent panel this question: Why do people complain so much about CSS? There’s memes and jokes about CSS… there’s all sorts of tooling for CSS… On our Frontend Feud episode when we asked, “Name something that frontend devs complain about”...

As the editor of the Elixir Radar newsletter, I read lots of articles related to Elixir every single week. Along the year I read probably more than 700 articles, so I could curate the best ones and send them to Elixir Radar’s subscribers. In this article, I share the 11 most popular articles on Elix...

This is a fancified excerpt of Matt Klein The Changelog podcast. Matt works at Lyft and created Envoy, which has been a massive open source success. To get the full experience, listen in as well. 🎧  Click here to listen along while you read. It's better!   🎧 I think the first thing that I did, which...

This is a fancified excerpt of Mislav Marohnić’s unpopular opinion on Go Time #153. Mislav works at GitHub on their new Go-powered CLI. To get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click here to listen along while you read. It's better!   🎧 Git is actually sooo hard. Not just to l...

We talked about the changelog.com setup for 2019 in episode #344, and also captured it last year in this post. At the time, changelog.com was running on Docker Swarm, everything was managed by Terraform, and the end-result was simpler & better because: We traded Ansible’s imperative approach for Ter...

This is a fancified excerpt from Gleb Bahmutov on JS Party #148. Gleb is VP of Engineering at Cypress.io. To get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click here to listen along while you read. It's better!   🎧 The Testing Pyramid Typically, people say that testing is like a pyram...

This is a fancified excerpt from Mark Erikson on JS Party #146. Mark maintains Redux & Redux Toolkit and has been lovingly called, “Tech Support for the React Community”. To get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click here to listen along while you read. It's better!   🎧 I am ...

With constant change being our new normal these days, I cannot attest enough to the importance of implementing the habit of self-care. The biggest reason, aside from the sheer benefit of taking care of yourself, is the crucial by-product of margin that we gain. However, the challenge is that we ofte...

It has become even more clear to me during the era of COVID-19 that poor communication is the reason systems and relationships fail. Every time I've failed to get what myself, my team, or a community wanted out of an engineering team was because I neglected to communicate why and how it would be imp...

I was reading Chris Coyier’s Weaved Webs post the other day and was impressed by his pragmatism. Chris writes about the irony with Jamstack: The irony is that while the concept is simple, that simplicity can be the cause of complexity. Netlify, the company largely behind Jamstack, knows this. They k...

To celebrate our 100th episode of Practical AI, we’re teaming up with Pachyderm to give away 3 FREE AI hardware bundles! Enter for your chance to win an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, Intel’s Neural Compute Stick, and Google’s Coral Dev Board (plus swag). The Prizes We have 3 bundles filled with Practical AI &...

It’s easy to forget that there’s a human on the other side of that <textarea>. Because it’s all text-based communication, and because all of the cruft and all of the stuff of life that you’re bringing to your laptop today. And I’m halfway around the world and I’ve got all my own stuff that I’m bring...

If you’re a subscriber of Brain Science, then you’re going to love my upcoming talk at Heartifacts in August. The conference is online and virtual (of course) which means our entire global audience can attend. Registration is $75 with swag or $50 swag-free. We’re giving away three (3) free passes, s...

UPDATE: our winners have been announced In celebration of our friend Zeno Rocha’s awesome new book and his recent visit with us on The Changelog, we’re giving away 3 FREE bundles of Dracula PRO && 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers How to enter Options, options. We’ve got options. We’re givin...

Let’s not waste any time. Open source funding is a huge problem that remains unsolved. GitHub Sponsors is a step forward, but it’s far from a panacea. There’s currently a groundswell of optimism surrounding it in the wake of Caleb Porzio’s enrapturing post recounting his journey to $100k of annual r...

I was listening back to our interview with Beth Dakin and Ronak Shah from the Safari team and there were so many good moments that I figured a round-up post was warranted. ICYMI (or don’t have time for the full convo), here’s the highlights from my POV. Beth on “Safari is the new IE” 😳 This was prob...

I have a story to tell. My last year as a full-time developer at Tighten was 2018. (Read “On Leaving My Day Job” for that story) My income for that year was ~$90k: Developer salaries vary like crazy, but $90k was pretty solid for me. Combined with my wife’s income and some Mustachianism it was plent...

Yesterday I learned (is YIL a thing?) that you don’t have to manually download a font’s, find the .ttf files, and install them via FontBook LIKE AN ANIMAL! Instead, you can rely on Homebrew’s official cask of fonts by running this once: brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts After that, installing your favori...

Editors note: Behind the scenes we heard about Sid’s idea of “family and friends first,” so we asked him to share the idea with our audience and how it’s being embraced at GitLab. Stay tuned for an upcoming episode of Founders Talk with Sid. I’m sure we’ll touch on this idea and more. Enjoy. GitLab ...

Recently, I read a pair of articles outlining how to improve compilation performance in Elixir apps. Since I don’t yet have the luxury of working with Elixir professionally, it was interesting knowledge but not immediately actionable. Then I watched Jerod Santo’s foray into Phoenix Live View. Quickl...

This is a fancified excerpt from Catherine Breslin on Practical AI #82. Catherine is a Machine Learning consultant at Cobalt Speech who specializes in voice & language technologies, including Alexa. Get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click here to listen along while you rea...

This is a fancified excerpt of FreshBooks CEO Mike McDerment on Founders Talk #68. To get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click here to play the episode starting where Mike begins  🎧 In 2015 we were dealing with a few technical problems at FreshBooks. One of our biggest chal...

This is a fancified excerpt from Stephanie Morillo on The Changelog #382. Stephanie recently published The Developer’s Guide to Content Creation, so we invited her on the show to discuss. To get the full experience you should listen while you read. 🎧  Click this to listen along while you read. It's ...

The Fyne toolkit provides the easiest way to develop beautiful, lightweight and user friendly native applications for desktop, mobile and beyond. This post is a formalization of thoughts first shared on Go Time #116. ⏯  Click this to listen along while you read. It's fun!   🎧 We’re very careful abou...