Elixir This Week in Elixir and Erlang #5 A few links and news shared by the Elixir and Erlang community. No more, no less. Instead of a newsletter. Preslav Rachev 26 Oct 2020 • 4 min read
Elixir This Week in Elixir and Erlang #4 A few links and news shared by the Elixir and Erlang community. No more, no less. Instead of a newsletter. Preslav Rachev 19 Oct 2020 • 3 min read
Elixir This Week in Elixir and Erlang #3 A few links and news shared by the Elixir and Erlang community. No more, no less. Instead of a newsletter. Preslav Rachev 11 Oct 2020 • 3 min read
Elixir Community Voices Elixir Community Voices: Stanislav Bozhkov Elixir Community Voices is a series of interviews with the people behind the Elixir and Erlang community. If you are an individual or a team investing in the Elixir ecosystem, I would love to hear and share your story. Preslav Rachev 9 Oct 2020 • 4 min read
Elixir This Week in Elixir and Erlang #2 A few links and news shared by the Elixir and Erlang community. No more, no less. Instead of a newsletter. Preslav Rachev 4 Oct 2020 • 4 min read
Elixir This Week in Elixir and Erlang A few links and news shared by the Elixir and Erlang community. No more, no less. Instead of a newsletter. Preslav Rachev 27 Sep 2020 • 2 min read
2 Cents Is This the End of the Apple Developer Romance? Jesse Squires is one of the iOS developers, I keep very high regard towards. This is why reading his latest blog post hurt a little. I am about to quote Preslav Rachev 21 Sep 2020 • 5 min read
Elixir Elixir Tip: Case vs. With Dating back to version 1.2, the with operator is one of Elixir's features that need a bit of time to comprehend at first. It often gets used in situations Preslav Rachev 11 Sep 2020 • 3 min read
Elixir Elixir Is Not Ruby. Elixir Is Erlang Try to remember the first time you heard about this fascinating language called Elixir. Chances are, you had by the time been developing software using Ruby. If that's the case, Preslav Rachev 6 Sep 2020 • 2 min read
Productivity Is Roam Research Worth It? Probably not, if you ask my opinion. Whether you like it or not, Roam is a glorified outliner, similar to Dynalist or Workflowy. It may work for you as a Preslav Rachev 4 Sep 2020 • 1 min read
Programming Write Stupid Code This is very much a re-interpretation of a post by Thorsten Ball, written back in 2015. Like him, I too came to the same realization, years after I first stared Preslav Rachev 30 Aug 2020 • 1 min read
Projects Does the Go World Need a Book About Graphics Programming? I have been toying with the idea of writing a book about graphics programming using Go. Preslav Rachev 26 Aug 2020 • 2 min read
Books Book Review: The Phoenix Project Unless you are eager to know how modern, Western-centric enterprise works, you can totally save the time and not read this book. Preslav Rachev 17 Aug 2020 • 1 min read
Programming Lessons from Go: Keep Calm and Use the Byte Array Along with error handling and the lack of generics, the prevalent use of byte slices evoked resistance at first, but I quickly got used to it. Preslav Rachev 12 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
Dev Culture It's Time to Stop Fantasizing About Being a Software Developer It's a job like any other. Unless you learn to treat it as such, you're up for a big mental surprise. Preslav Rachev 11 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
2 Cents If You Are Still Calling AI Artificial Intelligence, You Are Wrong Have you ever asked yourselves what the A in AI really stands for? Or, whether the I refers to machine intelligence? The answer may surprise you. Preslav Rachev 7 Aug 2020 • 4 min read
Programming My Reply To: The Case Against OOP is Wildly Overstated Knowing when to stick to a certain principle, but discarding it where it does not apply, is what distinguishes experienced developers from the rest. Preslav Rachev 3 Aug 2020 • 3 min read
Journal In Search of a New Laptop Am I in dire need of a new laptop? No, not really. My 2015 15" MacBook Pro is still perfectly fine and beats many of its 2020 PC contenders. But Preslav Rachev 2 Aug 2020 • 4 min read
