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It’s been 3 days not reading any news, no social media, using computer just for coding.

I have a problem.

I’ve been using fly.io since 2021.

This is an article on how to create a Elixir wrapper of Rust crate.

Over the past weekend, I created a web app called VoidInbox using Phoenix and Elixir.

I came across a great book called The Socratic Method by Ward Farnsworth, which was recommended by Rich Hickey in his talk Design in Practice.

I just can’t stop having fun using bun I have an old postgresql database backup.

I love tmp folder driven development, it gives me the freedom to experiment without worrying about polluting things. tmp folder driven development: Start with tmp folder and messing around libraries or scripts before put it into the actual project.

With every single sophisticated tool nowadays, we are constantly measured by numbers: how well we perform, how well we accomplish certain tasks, how effective we were in our training.

Great tools enable us to focus and unleash our creativity.

I remember the early days of Rails when people often criticized the Java world, or the J2EE world to be more specific, for being too complex and over-engineered, even for simple projects.

Such a great read on Jason Fried’s Two visions of the future.

We [at Apple] feel that, for some crazy reason, we’re in the right place at the right time to put something back.

Art is about the maker Its aim: to be an expression of who you are.

If we can tune in to the idea of making things and sharing them without being attached to the outcome, the work is more likely to arrive in its truest form.

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10/30/2022

I am really tired of the unnecessary ceremonies of writing a new article using my beloved static site generator: open terminal find the folder create a new file with the title open editor to log down my thoughts git add, git commit and git push Instead of…

I promised to share what will be my next journey.

I’ve never imagined that I could stay at one company for almost 8 years, let alone Amazon.

There are books which its title can’t justify the greatness of its content.

Sometimes, not knowing something exists is a blessing.

Notes: This is a documentation-driven-development series I am currently experimenting.

This is the start of the story.

We are living in a world of saturated SaaS products.

Story 1 Back in 2005 when I was still in college.

Someone sent me a CR the other day.

While I mentioned how great to do pattern match in Elixir.

I still vividly remember the days when BackboneJS came out, it might not the first Single Page Application framework, but probably the most notable one at that time.

Parser There are so many RSS parser out there.

I’ve been using RSS reader for almost more than 15 years.

TLDR Gist link for the changes to make this happen Why While there were few options to integrate Svelte into existing Phoenix app.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

VS code is awesome, sometimes too good.

When I say “good” here, I am more talking about the non-utilitarian part.

I’ve been a software developer for about 15 years.

I have been building a web app product using Phoenix LiveView recently, it’s been very pleasant experiences for me.