Videos How Elixir's Concurrency Changed Me as a Programmer This is an excerpt for a talk I gave in 2016 at NDC London, featuring Elixir and the concurrency features it has, built in. It's easily the most annoying demo I've ever done...
Career Seven Simple Steps to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Getting over imposter syndrome is no easy task, but it starts by recognizing a cold, hard truth: you're being toxic to yourself and those around you. I'll share with you some steps I took to get over it.
Postgres Using Constraints to Protect Calendar Data in PostgreSQL Think about the lines of code you would have to write in order to manage a scheduling system. Duration checks, start and end time requirements as well as checking for overlap! You could spend a few days writing all that code or you could let PostgreSQL do it better with 5 lines of SQL.
Videos Weird Brazil Date Bug with Jon Skeet Digging through my archives once again and found this wonderful video with Jon Skeet doing what he loves to do: sleuthing date bugs and answering questions on StackOverflow!
Front End The First Draft of Anything Is Shit I'm allergic to crappy, non-sensical, faked up demos that try to convey highly technical concepts. Yet I find myself falling into that lazy trap constantly. This requires intervention.
Life The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers As programmers we tend to think of reports after the fact, often when it's too late. I learned this the hard way over the last few days.
Video Courses Data Structures and Algorithms Many people are interviewing these days and you really, really should know the basics if you expect to do well. You'll find that here with common data structures and algorithms.
Postgres Handling Dates and Times Properly in Postgres Handling dates properly is delicate business and, thankfully, Postgres gives you many tools to help make sure you store date information correctly. But that only works if you know what's going on!
Postgres Striking Gold in My Archives Digging through my archives of hundreds of videos, I found an oldy but goody - publishing it for you to enjoy!
Fun Geeky Things To Do For the Holidays I love nerding out over the holidays and today was no exception. I added a feature to my blog that I've wanted to add forever!
Paid-members only Video Courses Computer Science Fundamentals I like making videos so I decided it might be fun to create a set of videos based on the subjects I learned about writing The Imposter's Handbook.
Members only Postgres The Easiest Postgres Experience You've Ever Seen Web Assembly is enabling people to do some crazy stuff in the browser, including running a full PostgreSQL installation and Adobe Photoshop!
