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His wife said this morning on Twitter [1]: >>> This is Helen wife of @joeerl It’s fantastic to read all these comments. Joe died from an infection which his lungs couldn’t cope wit…

I believe plenty of people do it for a leisure activity rather than to make a living. Sort of like putting puzzles together or surfing the web. Some workers may even be at a dull j…

All forward looking statements are guesses but... I see a strong movement toward Elixir from Ruby devs (and others, I'm not a Rubyist) and I expect Phoenix to be one of the main fr…

There seem to be plenty that lean toward non-mainstream practices. However the one I go to was fully planning to have a career as an MD but converted to chiropractic after it helpe…

I added a function to my bash that forces me to do pushups every 30 minutes (by turning off my monitor and keyboard). https://gist.github.com/jerel/1fc7686263c9427522f945f755e0a7..…

I live in a rural area and have fiber to the home from our electric co-op. It's amazing: $99 symmetric gigabit and rock solid service. On the other hand AT&T is the phone provider …

From what I've read (I'm not an expert either) nginx is completely optional. Cowboy (used by Phoenix) supports https termination and I understand that it's the router for Heroku so…

Another Django -> Phoenix dev here. Currently I miss Django's model field types (UrlField, EmailField, etc) and will probably write them if no one else does soon. I sometimes miss …

As a dev that used Python for the majority of projects I skipped over Elixir when I first saw it based on just a quick scan of the home page. "What? A dynamic, functional, compiled…

The best alternative that I've used for end user support is Remote Utilities: https://www.remoteutilities.com/ They have an executable that non-technical users can easily download …

Let's say that currently rent is $1,000 per month, food is $500, and Alice is earning $2,500. Now UBI is implemented and Alice and all fellow citizens receive $1,000 per month. Wha…

I recently ran onto this for the browser: http://responsivevoice.org/

I tried every variation I could get to work including tornado, asyncio, and pypy. In my simple "how many websockets can I open" tests python would start erroring by 10,000 (no Djan…

I use the same architecture... DRF for the API, admin for quick data manipulation, Ember for the interface and I enjoy it immensely. I am learning Phoenix because it would allow me…

> I'm curious why JS is picking up so much for backend development? The reason I reach for Node on a project is to handle my websockets. I use Django REST Framework + Ember as my m…

I primarily use Django REST Framework for APIs... has anyone moved from Django to Phoenix and can give a report on how the developer productivity compares currently? If it's not th…

Singing does use a different part of the brain than speech and it would be interesting to know if it's similar to listening to whistling. Someone in my family used to stutter badly…

Ha, I initially didn't realize that was a typo and thought things were getting pretty serious with this whole contributor conduct thing.

Real-time asset tracking (GPS) with a non-terrible user interface. I'll get a good marketing page done someday; currently it's spreading via a vendor I made friends with (see above…

One option: get a part time job in an interesting industry. I discovered this by getting a contract (few days a month) doing onsite work for a small/medium size organization. I ask…

I've also found the convention over configuration feature to help when I'm a lone developer working multiple projects. I often work on something (perhaps a side project) and then a…