Blog

• See PostgreSQL connections 2025-02-05 (postgresql)
• Try PostgreSQL's citext 2024-11-01 (postgresql)
• Yacht Problems and Yurt Problems 2024-10-24 (misc)
• BEAM Process Labels 2024-03-12 (elixir)
• Single-Function Pipelines: A Song 2024-01-29 (elixir)
• Name Your Ecto Validations 2022-12-07 (elixir, ecto)
• MacOS: Too Many Open Files 2022-08-29 (elixir, macos)
• 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 2017-06-22 (sql, postgresql, ruby, elixir)
• Guaranteed Consistency: The Case for Database Constraints 2017-02-23 (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 2014-02-12 (shell)
• Notes from Sam Saffron's 'Measuring Ruby' talk at GoGaRuCo 2013 2013-10-12 (ruby)
• Two New Features in Authority 2013-10-05 (authority)
• Successfully Added Node 2013-10-05 (misc)
• Followup to 'Better Single-Table Inheritance' 2013-09-21 (ruby, rails)
• Using state_machine with Authority 2013-08-03 (ruby, authority)
• Introducing Searchlight 2013-06-26 (ruby, searchlight)
• Better Single-Table Inheritance 2013-05-03 (ruby, rails)
• Syntax Highlighting 2013-05-03 (misc)
• Using Authority with a Single-Sign-On App 2013-02-25 (ruby, rails, authority)
• Blind Refactoring, Guided by Tests 2013-02-08 (coding)
• Making Vim, Unix and Ruby sing harmony 2013-01-15 (ruby, unix, vim, shell)
• Using temporary shell aliases 2012-12-07 (shell)
• Referencing local gems in your Gemfile 2012-11-29 (ruby)
• Convert to the new Rspec syntax with Vim macros 2012-11-28 (ruby, vim)
• Control Your Randomness With `srand` 2012-11-24 (ruby)
• Notification from long-running tasks 2012-07-03 (shell)
• Hubbub 2012-06-18 (misc)
• Programming music: Afriki Djigui Theatri 2012-05-24 (coding, music)
• New gem: Authority 2012-04-29 (ruby, authority)
• The Beauty of xargs 2012-02-01 (unix, shell)
• Faster feedback 2011-12-22 (coding)
• Testing a Rails 3.1 Engine's Javascript with Jasmine 2011-08-26 (ruby, rails, javascript, testing)
• Sometimes you can be too DRY 2011-07-14 (coding)