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mix test.interactive is an interactive test runner for Elixir’s ExUnit.

Today I start my new job as a Lead Software Engineer at Mechanical Orchard.

Let’s look at how we can use :noreply and GenServer.reply to allow a GenServer to continue working even while its callers wait for the result of long-running operations.

This article is about a regularly overlooked, but helpful feature in Elixir: the BREAK menu.

I’m happy to announce that my search for a new position is over!

Write cleaner, more reusable code by forgetting what you know.

When you start a new job, it often feels like you’ve jumped into the deep end of the pool and you need to find a way to just stay afloat.

After a really enjoyable year at Sequin, I’m once again looking for a new opportunity.

In Elixir, how can you keep a GenServer from blocking its clients while performing a long operation?

In Elixir, we often use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit the IEx interactive shell or to stop a running application.

This week, I am starting a new job as a Software Engineer at Sequin.

If you’re using the ElixirLS extension in VSCode and your project uses a newer version of Elixir and/or Erlang/OTP than what the extension uses, you may not be getting all of the features that ElixirLS provides.

Last week, InfluxData laid off 27% of their staff, including me.

I was recently on the Elixir Mix podcast, talking about some of the Elixir open source projects I’ve worked on recently.

My team and I at InfluxData recently worked with Igor Escobar of Drover and the team at ConfigCat to develop an Elixir SDK for ConfigCat’s feature flagging and configuration management service.

With mixed emotions, I’ve decided to leave Zeal after more than five years and join the e-commerce team at InfluxData.

Because many floating point numbers can’t be represented exactly in a computer, most testing frameworks provide a way of checking that a floating point result is “close enough” to the expected value.

Some time ago, I wrote several posts about encapsulating the Redux state tree using reducers and selectors, the asymmetry between reducers and selectors, and the problems that arise when attempting to resolve that asymmetry in a modular-structured Redux a…

I recently added support for several introspection methods to the DoubleAgents test double library for VisualWorks Smalltalk.