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Coming from React + Phoenix, adopting Phoenix Live View has been a big productivity win for my team as we are all full-stack developers.

If you really want a clean slate, I think Elixir & Phoenix is the most promising stack available right now and is worth investing in. Channels, PubSub, Live View, and BEAM clusteri…

+1 - a person who has a Discipline tattoo on their right forearm

I'm curious what the author would think of Pop_OS by System 76. I've been using that as my main distro for a couple years now and love it. When paired with one of their machines (I…

I don't have it readily available, but I'll dig around and see if I can find what we covered in class. IIRC it was primarily focused on teenagers in the United States.

Back in college I enrolled in a human-computer interaction course as part of a double major I was pursing at the time. A large body of newly-published research at the time, in 2016…

Congrats to the 1Password team! I've been using the beta for a while now on Pop_OS! and it has been getting better with each update. I personally don't mind that it uses Electron. …

I've been in the high-end audio world for over ten years now and I gotta say: it's really cool to see Apple finally offering lossless audio! I wonder if this will finally push Spot…

I'm using Tailwind right now on a Phoenix Live View project and I am happy to report the two work quite well together.

> it doesn't break clustering of Elixir apps Interesting! I've been experimenting with Gigalixir for a Heroku-ish experience that supports Elixir clustering... I'll have to give Re…

This has been my experience as well. I left Elixir for a brief stint with Kotlin, a modern OOP language, and it was jarring how many abstractions and incidental complexity I had to…

At work I am building a new internal project in Phoenix Live View and the developer experience so far is sublime. The entire Elixir ecosystem is an absolute joy to use. In the earl…

Congratulations to the Crystal team! I know many Rubyists who would love to write a language with the runtime benefits of Go, but values and design principles of Ruby. For those lo…