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Models That Match Reality

When modeling a domain, it’s important to have our model actually match reality.
Joël Quenneville
October 12, 2021
- Design
- Web
- Elm
- Ruby
- Modeling
Fewer Operations on Custom Types is Valuable

Less is more. Wrapping primitives in custom types restricts your available operations and that’s a good thing.
Joël Quenneville
October 11, 2021
- Elm
- Ruby
- Web
Who is empowered by your API design?

Analysing API design through lens of skill floors and ceilings can help us think about the impact of adding a feature.
Joël Quenneville
October 7, 2021
- Design
- Web
- F#
Back to Basics: Boolean Expressions

Write Boolean expressions using operators instead of if/else for a more readable outcome.
Joël Quenneville
June 28, 2021
- Back To Basics
- Ruby
- Development
- Web
Pipeline Decoders in Elm

What’s the difference between Elm’s classical and pipeline JSON decoders?
Joël Quenneville
May 19, 2021
Running Out of Maps

What happens when you need a bigger mapN?
Joël Quenneville
May 12, 2021
Inspect Redis commands using MONITOR

Take a look at a live log of all commands run on your Redis server.
Eebs Kobeissi
March 15, 2021
- Redis
- Debugging
- Web
React Server Components: What are They?

React Server Components provide a seamless mechanism for rendering components on the server at any point in the app lifecycle. Should you experiment on this?
Rakesh Arunachalam
February 23, 2021
- React
- JavaScript
- Web
Simplifying Tests by Extracting Side-Effects

Test-driven development, object-oriented design, and functional programming converge on some similar ideas.
Joël Quenneville
February 18, 2021
- Web
- Ruby
- TDD
- Testing
- Functional Programming
- Good Code
Scoping .or clauses with common joins

Extract common clauses when using Active Record’s .or method.
Eebs Kobeissi
February 1, 2021
- Active Record
- Rails
- Web
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