# Working With Great People
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One of the hardest things to do at any company is to find great people. You can hire people really easily, it’s just hard to hire good people.
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# Take care of your health
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The modern world with all of its technological marvels has taken us to new heights. Who would have thought that in the year 2019 you could get driven home by some random person you’ve never met with…
# Why you should use GraphQL
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GraphQL is one of those technologies that you see everywhere. Everyone is talking about how it’s the next greatest thing, it’s going to take over the world. I’m here to tell you that it will, here at…
# Planning things out before you start
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One thing we really try to do at Our Very Own is planning. Before we start any major piece of work or any piece of work at all other than a very small feature, we sit down and plan out what it is we…
# Write code for others, not yourself
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Code is complex, people are complex, code written by people is complex. When writing code it’s often thought that you write it to reach a goal.
# How not to promote yourself
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The other day as I opened my phone I went into LinkedIn, I have all notifications off so I manually check it about once a day. I noticed that I had a new connection request, I clicked on it, it was…
# My first talk
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On the 21st of November I performed my first talk at a local Elixir meetup. In front of 15 entire people I gave a 14 minute talk on turning a REST endpoint into a GraphQL one.
# Migrating to Jason from Poison
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I currently work on an Elixir/Phoenix API that talks directly to a React frontend. In needing to encode some ecto structs into JSON and pass them to be stored in a JSONB column in Postgres.
# Taking the advice of more experienced developers
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One thing that I used to really struggle with and to an extent I think I still do, is taking on board the advice of people with more experience than me. In life and especially as a software…
# Ask questions
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Kids always ask questions, about everything and anything. “How do lights work?, “Why do I have to go to school” and the big ones “What is that dog doing to that other dog?” Questions make up such a…