Richard Mace

DevOps Software Engineer - School Business Services

[Ben Reinhart @benjreinhart]

I knew Riak was written in Erlang, but TIL RabbitMQ and CouchDB are also Erlang/Elixir.

Wouldn't normally think of Erlang for anything database related, but turns out it has some appealing properties here too, e.g. clustering, RPC / node-to-node communication.

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@tecmint That's easy. Elixir 😉

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@davis7 Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView? 🙂

[Daniil @mrpopov_com]

At 1703 we migrated a production SaaS from Python/React microservices to Elixir Phoenix monolith

3 apps → 1.
4 languages → 1.
5 frameworks → 1.

Thread with quick numbers breakdown:

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@Una Install Linux on them and give them away to people who can't afford new laptops.

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@80s_Kidz "Welcome to the part, Pal"!

[Bart Blast @Bart_Blast]

Hi Elixir friends,

After 3 years building Hologram full-time (transpiles pure Elixir to JS, bringing it to the browser), I'm at a crossroads.

Working 60+ hr weeks balancing contracts & dev isn't sustainable.

Where we are & how you can help: https://t.co/bsXDh6qKwU

Even sharing helps 💜

#Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@ZachSDaniel1 @AshFramework Congrats Zach. I'm currently reading your book and am looking forward to experimenting with Ash.

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@itsfoss I love that they names a command after me 🙂

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@Saadeghi Mix 🙂

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

Suicide.

I'm choosing to be deliberately blunt and provocative in this post because it's necessary. Government, charities, football clubs are all pushing water up a hill in highlighting what is undoubtedly a major health crisis.

You take a rope.
You put it up in a garage or a tree nearby or far away.
You're thinking about every loved one you'll leave behind as you put that rope around your neck.
Then you drop.

Some are decapitated.
Some aren't.
All are found by someone who has a lifetime of trauma that will never leave them.
A son.
A daughter.
A brother.
A sister.
A mother.
A father.

I know 2 men who hung themselves.

One was found by his Mom.
One was found by his brother.
Neither have recovered fully. 20 and 30 years on.

A life sentence for people who were already worrying, terrified their loved one may do something.

So just visualise the above and ask, "is there another way"?

A segway for a moment.

I do a few Q&A's every year. Tales of yesterday with a 99% male audience of my age group.

After the stories and fun, my last question back to the audience is..

"Hands up if you struggle with a mental health issue".

Nobody ever puts a hand up. Despite 1 in every 3 of 500 attendees statistically struggling.

"Ah, nobody, that's fucking brilliant! Well I do! ". I then graphically tell people, stunned into silence about how a rope around my neck in the middle of nowhere jolted me to go home and cry like a baby to my Mom.

After the Q&A has finished, something always happens. I'll be chatting to a few guys, saying bye and one by one, men will come over and whisper " I struggle".

Or my mailbox the next day will have 30 emails from guys, their partners or kids saying " Dad/Uncle /Brother was there last night and what you said hit them hard".

And that's how some people realise that it's time to speak to a pal or family member or even rant to me in an email. It works, I often get a follow up email a year or 6 later saying that they took responsibility for their suicidal feelings and are now flying.

Humans are programmed to want to live, to have families and to keep the species growing and thriving. So for a human to want to short circuit that desire isn't normal, and it should never be spoken of as normal. It's the ultimate red flag.

If you suspect your mate, Dad, Brother, Uncle is struggling mentally, they deserve your intervention.

They deserve a " are you OK, please tell me what's up".

They deserve an opportunity to get past wanting to hang a rope over a tree or in a garage and slowly struggle until they die and you find them.

If you've been there and trust me I have plenty, then you'll know that text out of the blue, or a footie mate or one of your kids asking jow you are can open the curtains to some sunshine.

Because when suicide is your only answer, the room is already dark, and you can't see a way out.

So please, fucking pretty please, ask that husband, Dad, Uncle, Cousin, footie pal TODAY how they are.

You may be shocked what comes back but extremely glad that you asked.

For those who struggle, you're not alone.

[Zed @zeddotdev]

It's finally here. Zed is available on Windows.

Built from scratch, and rendering at 1 million pixels/millisecond.

Download it today 👇

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@josevalim @jetbrains I would renew my subscription for an Elixir version 😉

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@Saadeghi #Elixir

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

"Dancing" tree of Sumatra, Indonesia

[Karl Zylinski @karl_zylinski]

I'm currently looking for contract work.

I can help with game/engine/tools programming in Odin/C/C++. Drop me a line on [email protected] if it sounds interesting.

See https://t.co/co3lzoyd8n for examples of my work.

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@chris_mccord @dashbit Just getting into Elixir and Phoenix so great timing ❤️

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@zeddotdev @twanthedev @PiotrOsiewicz @conradirwin Does the debugger work with Elixir?

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Most devs (+ managers, CTOs, etc.) don't realize that the cost of rewriting their messy legacy codebase from the ground up w/ modern tools is probably much lower than they think.

Maintaining & adding features to existing tech debt will likely cost more in the long run.

[Richard Mace @RichardMace]

@TheGingerBill There are many times when you might want to ssh into a headless server, to run a cli app that ideally has a TUI.