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It's not that bad, I'm on my second Elixir job in 3 years and in Asia which is even harder to find. There are a good amount of jobs in the US or in Europe but you have to actively …

Whether it's a good idea or not really depends on your app, what you're trying to do, and who your users are. Now if you want to avoid round trips to the server for interactions su…

This has most likely to do with the codebase itself rather than with Elixir or Phoenix in your case. And having to go through a few files to understand how a request is handled is …

Phoenix with Liveview is so good - not a solution to all the frontend problems but there's something about it that really feels magical. I've recently also played around with addin…

2-hour commute? I'll take the pay cut anytime, like is too short... (and maybe start looking for another job, easier to do with all that "extra" time)

I just switched from a Python (with mypy) codebase to a full-time Elixir position a few weeks ago. I thought I'd miss typing but due to the functional nature of Elixir and its patt…

I know you're being sarcastic but I will definitely not miss those when working with Elixir......

That's me with Python... For some reason I find the documentation extremely cumbersome to navigate and parse. It's just so wordy and dense. And there are barely any examples - whic…

The answer as often is... "it depends". Should you run an unindexed query on every keystroke of a text input of a form for every user? No. But if you're not a junior dev, you'll kn…

> Of course, I had to get all that info from thedonald.win because almost no-one else is talking about this. This and the Twitter account that you linked is the usual "no one is ta…

Same here. Microservices have their place if you expect to have to scale like craaaaazzzzy or if you know that your platform will be huge with many different parts but you can go a…