• Swapping React for Phoenix LiveView May 9 2019

  Could LiveView replace React in a production application? I took some time to try it out.

• Expecting the unexpected Dec 20 2018

  Distributed transactions have some pitfalls, particularly when relying on network requests which may fail. We wrote up an approach to handling these in Elixir, using the example of capturing payments through a 3rd party.

  With Tobias Kräntzer and Dorian Iacobescu.

• Offline POST requests with Elm and Service Worker Feb 26 2018

  In this post, we're going to explore how ports might be used when working with Service Worker and Background Sync. We'll extend a small application so that it no longer breaks when the connection is out…

• Chrome, the Background Sync API and exponential backoff Feb 11 2018

  The Background Sync API promises to dramatically improve the web browsing experience for users who go offline or are on crappy connections. Where ServiceWorker has given us the ability to cache...

• Dog food Dec 22 2017

  While travelling I like to keep a simple handwritten journal. I prefer doing this the old fashioned way, choosing pen and paper over a computer, because it’s nice to have a physical thing to hold and look back over, and it’s just so easy...

• Stateful WebSockets with Elixir's GenStage Jun 8 2017

  A colleague recently asked me how I might go about implementing incremental search against a third party API. While this is a well documented problem, there are a variety of ways to handle it, and I thought it made a good candidate to…

• What does the Elixir community need in a deployment solution? Apr 4 2017

  At the start of February I outlined a process for basic deployments of Elixir applications on AWS. There were a few holes in this, particularly around some of the shinier Elixir features, but before proceeding with tackling these I wanted…

• Deploying Elixir on AWS Feb 9 2017

  If you spend any time around the Elixir community, it won’t be long before you come across mention of the state of deployments. As things stand at the start of 2017, they are a little on the rough side…

• HTML parsing in Elixir with leex and yecc Jan 22 2017

  If you had the novel idea to try to implement a text-based “toy” web browser, where would you start? I asked myself this question in late 2016, and have often regretted it since. A responsible programmer

• Personal CI on EC2 Oct 1 2016

  Personal projects may not always have a critical requirement for automation as part of the build process, but in a world where even static sites often want some sort of build step, getting things done without this...

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