Blog

PostgreSQL: I Helped a Little! 2021-12-16 (postgresql)
OTP is Hard 2021-07-02 (comics)
What is an iolist? What is a string? 2021-05-28 (elixir, erlang)
PostgreSQL Upserts Demo 2021-04-16 (postgresql)
Elixir Is Safe 2021-03-30 (elixir)
Career Advice for Software Developers 2020-12-11 (misc)
Building a Nerves Lullaby Player 2020-04-01 (elixir)
Tips For Tokens 2020-01-15 (elixir, elixir-phoenix)
Understanding Test Concurrency In Elixir 2019-02-13 (elixir)
All For Reliability: Reflections On The Erlang Thesis 2018-07-27 (erlang, elixir, otp)
Tell Me When It's Finished 2018-05-11 (shell)
The Null Struct Pattern 2018-01-18 (elixir, ecto, postgresql)
Fast Full-text Search with Ecto and PostgreSQL 2018-01-08 (elixir, ecto, postgresql)
Shuffled Records in Phoenix 2017-12-12 (elixir, elixir-phoenix, ecto)
A Shuffled Order That Works with Pagination 2017-11-30 (postgresql)
Permanent 301 Redirects in Phoenix 2017-11-17 (elixir, elixir-phoenix)
Developer Experience Levels 2017-09-06 (comics)
Validating Uniqueness in Ecto 2.2 2017-08-18 (elixir, ecto)
Concurrency vs Parallelism and the Erlang Advantage 2017-06-23 (algorithms, elixir)
Don't Get Tangled in Your Database Constraints 2017-06-21 (sql, postgresql, ruby, elixir)
Guaranteed Consistency: The Case for Database Constraints 2017-02-22 (sql, postgresql)
Elixir and IO Lists, Part 2: IO Lists in Phoenix 2016-11-07 (elixir, phoenix)
Elixir and IO Lists, Part 1: Building Output Efficiently 2016-11-07 (elixir)
Elixir and Unicode, Part 2: Working with Unicode Strings 2016-11-07 (elixir, unicode)
Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained 2016-11-07 (elixir, unicode)
When to Use Constraints in Ecto 2016-03-05 (elixir, postgresql, ecto, phoenix)
Understanding the Unix Command Line 2016-02-15 (unix)
Protect Your Data with PostgreSQL Constraints 2016-01-08 (sql, postgresql)
Dinosaur Comics: SQL Edition 2015-10-26 (comics, sql)
Reimplementing Ruby's Hash 2015-10-21 (algorithms, data structures, ruby)
A Smarter Algorithm Beats A Faster Language 2015-04-29 (algorithms, rust, ruby)
'Hard To Use' Misses The Point 2015-03-25 (usability)
Understanding Big O Notation 2015-03-09 (algorithms)
Exponential Backoff in Ruby 2015-02-25 (ruby, algorithms)
Optimizing chruby for Zsh 2015-01-30 (ruby, shell)
The Selfish Side of Open Source 2015-01-16 (coding, open source)
A Handy Alias for Grepping Processes 2014-10-31 (unix)
What's running on port X? 2014-08-25 (unix)
What version of the code is live? 2014-07-31 (devops, git)
Parallel Map in Elixir 2014-07-19 (elixir)
With Timeout 2014-06-11 (ruby, testing)
Understanding Unix Environment Variables 2014-02-11 (shell)
Notes from Sam Saffron's 'Measuring Ruby' talk at GoGaRuCo 2013 2013-10-11 (ruby)
Successfully Added Node 2013-10-04 (misc)
Two New Features in Authority 2013-10-04 (authority)
Followup to 'Better Single-Table Inheritance' 2013-09-20 (ruby, rails)
Using state_machine with Authority 2013-08-02 (ruby, authority)
Introducing Searchlight 2013-06-25 (ruby, searchlight)
Better Single-Table Inheritance 2013-05-02 (ruby, rails)
Syntax Highlighting 2013-05-02 (misc)
Using Authority with a Single-Sign-On App 2013-02-24 (ruby, rails, authority)
Blind Refactoring, Guided by Tests 2013-02-07 (coding)
Making Vim, Unix and Ruby sing harmony 2013-01-14 (ruby, unix, vim, shell)
Using temporary shell aliases 2012-12-06 (shell)
Referencing local gems in your Gemfile 2012-11-28 (ruby)
Convert to the new Rspec syntax with Vim macros 2012-11-27 (ruby, vim)
Control Your Randomness With `srand` 2012-11-23 (ruby)
Notification from long-running tasks 2012-07-03 (shell)
Hubbub 2012-06-17 (misc)
Programming music: Afriki Djigui Theatri 2012-05-23 (coding, music)
New gem: Authority 2012-04-28 (ruby, authority)
The Beauty of xargs 2012-01-31 (unix, shell)
Faster feedback 2011-12-21 (coding)
Testing a Rails 3.1 Engine's Javascript with Jasmine 2011-08-25 (ruby, rails, javascript, testing)
Sometimes you can be too DRY 2011-07-13 (coding)