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I've been tickled by how delightful Amazing Marvin's user experience is.

What I'm thinking about Gratitude for my physical health Quotes On the destruction of our education system And there you have it.

What I'm thinking about Cancun Quotes Many years ago I was told by a very wise man "Mind Ok, Everything Ok".

What I'm thinking about Quotes Seneca on time It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.

This week, I'm changing the format.

Journaling I've been meaning to journal more and with my Remarkable 2, I have no excuses to not make it a daily habit.

Below is a running list of tools that look interesting but I have yet to try.

Elixir http://stratus3d.com/blog/2021/08/24/guide-to-tracing-in-erlang http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/ Functional programming with Typescript https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5-minutes-func.html https://dev.to/gcanti/funct…

I recently discovered that in GraphiQL you can command click fields in your query to jump to the definition in the docs.

I've been trying out hot waxing my bike chain and I can't recommend it enough.

Lately I've been going to Morris hill park with Velo.

Running database migrations from kubernetes argocd image updater

This tutorial aims to get you up and running from zero to a fully hosted kubernetes cluster managed by Argo CD hosted by Digital Ocean.

I've been trying to spend more time doing activities with Allyanna.

Allyanna and I went out to scout a few locations for her next photography session.

Elixir DI Below are a few references that I thought were good discussions around how to achieve DI in Elixir.

While at work I was reading through the exq library I stumbled upon an issue that discussed the perils of running a Supervisor under a GenServer.

One of my personal learning goals was to brush up on operating systems.

One size does not fit all Application requirements vary tremendously from one application to another.

Sometimes when you're using IO.inspect/2 to debug values, your output can be a bit overwhelming.

In a previous post, I discussed a tradition that I've formed over the last few years.

The many different ways to preload Ecto has quite a few different ways to preload entities.

I've come to develop a tradition for myself over the last few years.

Favorite hot sauces: Heartbeat hot sauce: red habanero You can put this stuff on anything: sandwiches, soup, empandas, you name it.

Elixir This week's post is going to be pretty light on original content.

Elixir Environment variable use in config.exs vs application code tl;dr config.exs is executed at compile time.

Gigalixir Resetting your database Drop into a remote console gigalixir ps:remote_console Tear down the database and re-seed it. # Migrate down Ecto.Migrator.run(MyApp.Repo, Application.app_dir(:app, "priv/repo/migrations"), :down, [all: true]) # Re run m…

A build guide for Dactyl Manuform 5 x 6 The dactyl manuform is an open source ergonomic split keyboard.

Github actions Deploying to Gigalixir Assumptions This guide assumes that you're already running a Gigalixir application and have set up the necessary environment variables in Gigalixir.

Github actions Github actions allows you to set up arbitrary tasks that can run based upon events in Github.

Elixir ExUnit Disabling tests with a @tag :skip I've worked in systems where you can specify different groups of test.

Elixir Tests I've been working on a personal project in my spare time and I've been focusing on writing unit and integration tests.

Elixir iex export ERL_AFLAGS="-kernel shell_history enabled" Posts A proposal for an Absinthe application structure Found that this was a really helpful discussion on better splitting up your project structure.

K8s Deleting a persistent volume claim kubectl patch pv <pvc-ID> -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}' kubectl patch pvc <pvc-ID> -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}' kubectl delete pv <ID> kubectl delete pvc <ID> Listing storageclasses kubectl get sto…

Elixir Map.get defaults Something small, but I realized that you can pass in a default to Map.get in case the key you're looking for doesn't exist.

Elixir Learning resources Sites Elixir school Self proclaimed as The premier destination for learning and mastering Elixir I've recently played with Elixir school for learning how to better work with Ecto associations.

Elixir Documentation You can't use @doc on private functions Interestingly you can't use @doc macro for private functions.

Erlang iex I learned that iex isn't technically a true REPL 5. elixir Application logging I also got to take a deeper foray into application logging.

I'd like to reflect on what I've learned this week.

I just grabbed coffee with a young man that's looking to get into the tech industry in Boise.

For the most part scrum-but is inevitable.

Throughout the last few years I've learned debugging techniques that have helped me to get through some pretty insidious bugs.

Product The product I'll be reviewing today is the Kokuyo soft ring A5 notebook with a black cover and black soft rings.

Here are some notes about BASH utilities and functionalities that I learned about today.

Prerequisites This article assumes that you've already installed ffmpeg.

On a day-to-day basis, as a software engineer, I spend a lot of time doing non-technical tasks.

Note to the reader: These commands are current as of Phoenix 1.3.

One of the main gripes I had about Keyboard Maestro was the lack of built in functionality to list text expansions.

In this post I'm going to teach you how to hijack a webpage using the target="_blank" browser vulnerability.