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Yeah, just (learn how to) use lists and you'll be fine. Of course if your goal is to re-implement sorting algorithms that were designed for mutable memory, you will be disappointed…

If anyone is reading this and considering releasing their own closed-source NPM package, I built a service to help you do that [1]. It also supports Rust, Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, and…

I wonder how much the one-time costs were for this project, compared to the cost of the batteries themselves: - land acquisition - earthworks - civil construction - grid hookup

Just for fun I looked up what the plans are in the Netherlands (17 million residents), where I live. Governments all over the world are going to start installing these grid-scale b…

I interviewed Daniel Cazzulino, now well known for his new library SponsorLink. He landed in hot water with some after adding SponsorLink to his .NET library Moq.

Is this a tacit admission that MRSK has failed?

If you're an outlier then I am also an outlier. To my great annoyance, the text version of many emails is broken, I see unfilled template variables all over the place.

Yes, it does boil down to the language runtime. But that doesn't change the fact that they don't reproduce half of what LiveView can do. They didn't have to call themselves "LiveVi…

I'm glad someone has written about this. I actually wanted to write this very blog post, and even made a crappier version of this flow chart. Why? Because people think they know wh…

There are some companies out there who want to help devs commercialize their libraries. These are the ones that I know about: https://codecodeship.com/ (JS, Ruby, .NET, Rust, Elixi…

This is a great read. I think we can learn as much (or more) from the failures as we can from the successes [1]. Developer tooling is also just a very difficult business to be in […

I interviewed Joris Schellekens on his journey with Borb, including how he got from 500 to 2000+ stars on GitHub seemingly overnight, and what his plans are for getting to financia…