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Going through changes with TypeScript

When we inevitably make changes to our codebase, any help is appreciated, and a type system can be your best friend.
Alejandro Dustet
March 30, 2020
- TypeScript
- Types
- Web
How to start processes with dynamic names in Elixir

Good practices for using Registry to name processes dynamically.
Justin Toniazzo
March 25, 2020
- Elixir
- OTP
- Web
Recurring Events and PostgreSQL

Scheduling, recurring events and relative dates have always been hard. Until now.
Jonas Meinerz
March 24, 2020
- PostgreSQL
- Dates
- Interval
- Rails
- Ruby
- Duration
- Web
- Databases
Protecting User Data in HIPAA Compliant Staging Environments

How to populate your staging environment with data while keeping user data secure.
Sweta Sanghavi
March 6, 2020
- Health Tech
- Security
- Data
- Web
Breaking Out of Ecto Schemas

With Ecto, 🎶 you can always get what you want. And if you try sometimes, well, you might find, you can select want you need 🎶.
German Velasco
February 24, 2020
- Ecto
- Elixir
- SQL
- Web
Announcing Fishery – a JavaScript and TypeScript Factory Library

We have just released Fishery, a TypeScript-compatible library for setting up JavaScript objects for use in tests and anywhere else you need to set up data.
Stephen Hanson
February 5, 2020
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Testing
- Web
Faking External Services in Tests with Adapters

When faking external services in tests, start with something simple. I like having a public interface to adapters and having an in-memory adapter for tests. Let me show you an example.
German Velasco
November 28, 2019
- Testing
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
Addressing Technical Debt

The financial metaphor is often thrown around engineering departments, but how do you actually deal with it?
Joël Quenneville
November 4, 2019
- Web
- Technical Debt
Chaining Async Functions like a Boss

A look at syntactic sugar for chaining async functions in multiple languages.
Joël Quenneville
November 1, 2019
- Web
- Elm
- Scala
- Haskell
- JavaScript
Types without values

A look at value-less types such as Elm’s Never.
Joël Quenneville
October 30, 2019
- Web
- Elm
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