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# Mental Fatigue

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As I have said many times I am a newly grad. In fact I’ve only been working full-time as a developer for 9 weeks now.

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# Patting my own back

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Work has been very interesting lately, we are writing this project in Elixir and React.js. Elixir has been one of the best discoveries of my life.

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# Spacemacs the beautiful emacs

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With the recent adoption of Elixir it has been apparent that it is just to new of a language to have IDEs, to new to have good plugins for visual studio code and atom. The sublime text plugin does a…

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# Ecto

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I wrote a blog post a few weeks ago on the wonderful Elixir language. Now I’ve built a couple of crud applications with the help of Phoenix the best framework in the Elixir world right now.

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# Mac OS & Apple in general

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For the longest time I have hated all Apple products, mainly because for cheaper you can build a much better system and you don’t have to pay that Apple tax. For many years this has served to be…

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# Elixir the return of Erlang

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I was recently put on a job that required a web stack that required bulk imports and then a sorting algorithm on huge amounts of data. Originally it was planned to be a .net core running on azure…

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# The slight edge by Jeff Olson

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The slight edge is one of the more popular and well known books in the self help sector and rightfully so as it was an amazing read. The book discusses the idea that doing the little things each day…

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# Soft Skills book review

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I was browsing Youtube one day watching a channel called “simple programmer”, the creator John Z. Sonmez was talking about something I can’t remember what but at one point he begins talking about the…

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# Linux and why you should use it

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For many years before I got my first Mac I was an avid user of linux, when I first got to uni I had one of those little netbooks with no power and even less ram. This thing was terrible, 4gb of ram,…

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