Here's how to share setup data between test cases in ExUnit.Expensive tests tend to want to do many assertions in one case.Then you end up with this, where everything's crammed into one test case:test "generic desc" do # many set up steps # asserting thing one assert(one_thing == "one") # asserting ...

We sponsored the recent hackathon hosted by ElevenLabs – and I got to be in the room in San Francisco as it unfolded, and behind-the-scenes during…

Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were standards for them. I just h...

What is the Neon Developer Creator Program?The Neon Creator Program is just one small way to help support developers who are making incredible content. Members will receive a host of benefits including a free Neon Scale account, early access to new features, and sponsored speaking opportunities. The...

A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask

The azure-search-openai-demo repository was first created in March 2023 and is now the most popular RAG sample solution for Azure. Since the world of generative AI changes so rapidly, we've made many upgrades to its underlying packages and technologies over the past two years. But we've never change...

How to see your PR from the terminal using git.With git, we can clone. We have a local copy. Then we push changes upstream. Often we're doing a pull request to the upstream source. Often this is somewhere like Github. And often pull request reviews are done via a github.com web ui. Have you ever, in...

Building websites used to be fun. Let’s bring back the joy of putting your work online by using open protocols like IPFS.

Free to test for 14 days, easy to implement, and lightning-fast. Built to scale, delivers push alerts to iOS and Android devices globally

Free to test for 14 days, easy to implement, and lightning-fast. Built to scale, delivers push alerts to iOS and Android devices globally

The Hidden Hurdles of Gamified Streaming: Scaling Challenges & Solutions

The Hidden Hurdles of Gamified Streaming: Scaling Challenges & Solutions

We just shipped Neon Private Networking, a feature that lets you connect to your Neon database through AWS PrivateLink with zero exposure to the public internet. If your infra is in AWS, this feature makes it much easier to meet your security and compliance requirements while enjoying Neon’s develop...

Projects establish patterns, or ways of doing things. Patterns are made in implementation (ie, code or interface) and design (ie, choices made that led to those implementations).I'm talking little-p patterns generally, not Gang of Four Patterns or anything like them.Projects without patterns are mes...

Rust’s match statement can do a lot of things, even C-style fallthough to the next branch, despite having no real support for it. It turns out to be a “shallow” feature, where the C to Rust translation is easily done, without needing to understand the code itself. The hardest part is coming to terms...

Recently, we've worked on optimizing the things that people use the most on the mobile app, with a particular focus on power users who push Discord's capabilities to (and sometimes beyond) their limits. If you're seeing this, you're probably one of 'em. Read on to learn how we did it!

Enhance patient engagement with secure, HIPAA-compliant communication tools like appointment scheduling, telemedicine, and real-time messaging

Enhance patient engagement with secure, HIPAA-compliant communication tools like appointment scheduling, telemedicine, and real-time messaging

After more than seven years in my second stint at Microsoft, I’ve decided to step […] The post Taking a sabbatical: A new chapter appeared first on Elegant Code.

Below is a conversation about game design. I posted it on X and it got basically no likes. Which is insane because it’s magical. It comes from a documentary about Housemarque, an indie game studio, making their game, Nex Machina. The game director and head of marketing at Housemarque are discussing ...

Can we code a modal dialog with CSS only? No.State of the specAs of this writing:Now there's an HTML dialog element that has baseline browser support.People still want a way to open it via HTML.People in that thread were dismissive and indicate that commandfor and command attributes will allow such ...

In this blog post, we explore what unions and intersections of object types can be used for in TypeScript.