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In today’s post I want to start a conversation around the tradeoffs of using Typespecs and Dialyzer use in your Elixir code. Elixir is a dynamic, not a statically-typed language – and just to preemptively avoid the programming...

Once again I missed my weekly updates so today notes include all items since the last check-in, December 13th. Additionally, I’ve been taking it easy during vacation so this list is lighter than usual. Guildflow Got some...

Over vacation I worked through a small project to use Terraform on Linode to provision a new webserver for my personal website. The following is a collection of notes and resources from the experience. Project Goals / Areas of...

Once again I missed my weekly updates so today notes include all items since the last check-in, November 22nd. Guildflow Finished the marketing campaign on Ethical Ads: Privacy-focused advertising for developers and while I didn’t...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. I missed last week’s update so consider this one a twofer. Guildflow Wrote up pitch to...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Updated the site with new Add to Calendar feature. Updated the SSL certs for the...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Launched multi-episode sponsorship of the Release Notes podcast. Updated marketing...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Worked on some limited podcast marketing experiments. Started work on website...

Teaching has always been a big part of my self identity. Be it teaching at university, Big Nerd Ranch workshops or even my work with local tech meetups. With my increasing enjoyment of Elixir and Phoenix I’ve been anxious to find a...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Got my pull request that adds Postmark broadcast email support to the Elixir swoosh...

In advance of adding some new broadcast email features to Guildflow I’ve built some additions to the Swoosh Elixir email library that allow one to use the new broadcast message stream feature of Postmark. Brief video tour and links...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Launched the big marketing landing page update with lots of new screenshots to...

The Apple AirPods Pro earbuds I ordered in February are broken. The left pod has this really bad vibration that just never seems to never go away. It’s particularly noticeable during my walks. I had some connection issues before and...

A short video where I catch you all up on my various project: Guildflow, Android Book Club, consulting work search, ideas in my head.

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Finally finished the new page and editable navigation feature. Deployed version...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Posted a draft of the terms of service for feedback. Made and shared progress on...

Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week. Guildflow Pushed out a new build (see the CHANGELOG). Mostly bug fixes and security updates....

I would like to once again remind people I am looking for work. You can see more details about my freelance and consulting offerings on my For Hire page but to summarize, the following types of projects are usually a good match for...

I love the enthusiasm and energy of this video. A few thoughts on cutting to the chase in videos for an online audience.

I tried to run some Google Ads but can’t reconcile the numbers. I’ve been duped! Video Notes I work as a consultant. I do a lot of iOS development, some Elixir, some teaching, etc. Trying out a new productized...

I’m a big fan of screencasts. I generalize the term screencast here as any video where you see primarily a computer or user interface, with a voice and optional video feed of a person doing some kind of demonstration. You’ve...

In today’s video I’ll demonstrate how you can use the concept of fixtures in your Swift unit tests to quickly build business objects and validate scenarios. I’ll also show how you can add assets to a test target and then...

As part of my side project bartering, I’ve build a simple open source Xcode project that demonstrate how you could save your Swift app’s storage as a simple JSON file and then migrate the file schema changes over time. This is...

A short video talking about bartering your time with other developers to help add perspective to each other’s side projects. Video: Accountability via Masterminds (4m) VersionedFilesDemo

A short talk about how recent user interviews have challenged some of my assumptions about how Guildflow accounts should work. Guildflow Help Me with an Introduction to Your Meetup Organizer Book: The Mom Test Why use Discord for...

A few updates on our Android Book Club. (Original announcement post.) Things are going well. Will be migrating from Programming Kotlin to Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (4th Edition) in the coming weeks. We have room for...

On Tuesday, August 4th, Apple published a global kill signal to the certificate system that allows Charlie Monroe’s applications to run on macOS. These apps are part of the Gatekeeper program that lets a registered Apple developer...

It’s an open secret that I’ve been working on some new software to help meetups, specifically with an early focus towards technical meetups. While the foundation is coming together, there are still a ton of open questions and...

This didn’t get much press at the time, but during WWDC the WebKit team listed a bunch of web technologies they will apparently not be implementing in the name of privacy. Fingerprinting involves measuring the uniqueness of static...

While I know many are struggling with productivity during lock down (and I’ve certain had some bad days) on the whole I have been able to use the time fairly well. I’ve been putting major hours into Guildflow (Elixir / Phoenix...

A quick tour of some of the tools you’ll want to use to help learn...

I’m starting a new book club that will teach Android development using Kotlin for current iOS developers. Details below. This is a book club dedicated to learning Kotlin and Android application development. Specifically, I am...