# 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.
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# 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.
# 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…
# Testing and code review
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Testing Testing testing testing, it’s one of those things that as a graduate you don’t put a tonne of thought into. You’ve had lectures and senior developers tell you it’s important but do you listen?
# Rapid development using Elixir, GraphQL and React
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I have been extremely lucky, my first job has been using the bleeding edge in technologies. When I was out looking for a job I just wanted anything and technically I worked part-time at other places…
# Contributing to Ecto
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I’ll preface this by saying no I didn’t actually have a PR merged, yet I still had a great experience nonetheless. I was working on a many_to_many relationship for work, one where if you had an empty…
# Testing in Elixir
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Learning a new language while on a project at work has meant a somewhat rushed learning curve. I’ve had to learn functional programming, Elixir, GraphQL, graph databases namely Dgraph and dabble in…
# 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.
# 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…