Rake Routes
by Stephen Ball
Where did the recent Elixir posts go?
Aug 6, 2022
Hey, you might say, where are all of your recent Elixir posts? Well I’ll tell ya. I started this blog back in 2012 when I was a fulltime Rails dev.
A subtle Go bug that types cannot help with
Apr 4, 2022
go
I ran into this bug while going through the highly excellent “Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go” by Ricardo Gerardi The following
swapcase with the tr command
Apr 1, 2022
command line
Want to easily swap the case of some string on the *nix command line? The tr command can do that! You may already know the tr command can switch
nice go test output
Mar 16, 2022
go
The go test command is alright and props to go for being like a real modern language with built-in support for testing. But its output is decidedly
See where vim settings came from
Mar 15, 2022
vim
Ever wonder which plugin or config in vim is responsible for setting something like tabs to represent as four spaces? (e.g. ts=4) Wonder no more!
Containers in the real world and backpressure in distributed systems
Oct 27, 2021
Did you ever think that a city’s zoning laws could potentially affect the entire global economy? This fascinating Twitter thread goes into details
Elixir Phoenix and “role postgres does not exist”
Aug 30, 2021
elixir
If you’re trying to follow along the Elixir Phoenix Up and Running guide you may run straight into this error if you’re using homebrew’s Postgres
From awk to a Dockerized Ruby Script
Aug 8, 2021
command line & ruby & docker
For a programming project I wanted to easily get a list of the printable ASCII characters such that I could easily loop through them and do some
Finding leap years with the cal command
Jul 11, 2021
command line
Did you know that there’s a calendar in the macOS and Linux command line? There is! A quick check of tldr shows how useful this utility can be But
The Problem of State
May 1, 2021
programming & elixir
Among all the problems we create for ourselves when programming systems state is perhaps the most troublesome to deal with. Decisions made about the
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