Full Circle Developer and Consultant. There's got to be a better way. #Programming is a way of understanding, so one never leaves it :-). #DomainDrivenDesign, #TestDrivenDevelopment (#TDD), #ExtremeProgramming. Bath, UK. Partner in https://www.qwan.co.uk
Father of a 7 and 9yo, married to Marina De Vos. he/him. In to photography, synthesizers, and currently learning to play classical guitar from our 9yo, and how not to judge whether people are actively participating or not from our 7yo.
Ported the Microprints library to #elixir. In a Phoenix Liveview development environment , the compiler, and parser are running, and file reloading is a channel you can subscribe to :-). This is great for #moldabledevelopment
The default phoenix liveview directory structure makes it sometimes hard to keep track of what goes where. I now have a view with the 10 most recent files that I can expand to see details.
Blog post: https://www.qwan.eu/2026/02/02/liveview_microprints.html
https://www.qwan.eu/2025/12/12/four-plus-one-rules-of-simple-design.html
Old draft, but 4+1 rules of simple design we still used. So embellished. thanks @marcevers
X: "If you aren't embarrassed by your first release, you left it too late"
Me: Only do this when you are able to iterate.
I accidentally made a task board. Putting it live is not an accident. I saw other people make this, and thought it was naff, and then when I had it, I realised I wanted to use it with @StOnSoftware and @mdalgarno .
Day 9, #AdventOfSystemSeeing - Practice Empathy. resting from a cold today. this has some flow, so is about the only thing I did. instructions: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113621107746176802
Based on a hallway conversation at a previous event, and experiences like it.
