Neil Menne

I am a developer, synth nerd, and some third thing. he/him

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@redrapids that simulator sounds like a #gigcityelixir25 talk

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@redrapids @sean_moriarity I went from OO life in C++ and C# to writing Clojure. First exposure to a lot of FP and lisp.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Let's talk about branded types.

If I were building an app where security was critical, I'd use the crap out of them.

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@drincruz future me was indeed saddened when i had to go back in there

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@drincruz I did this once. It read `;; sorry future me :(`

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@ChrisKeathley #keathnote22

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@dbsmasher While getting one of my team members to practice debugging in a staging env, we caught a memory leak in an HTTP library. Fail-safe environments are definitely still important/relevant

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@dbsmasher This is a hard problem... even more so now. Thanks for re-upping. Your principal engineer post is still my goto reference for people trying to break out of senior

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@langmartin @hardycoding i didn't end up needing to keep a custom impl for either. just had to A/B a bunch of pretenders to the throne

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@TaliaRinger

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@wilton_quinn I've been doing more SWI prolog lately. This is just the kind of thing I needed to see

[GitHub @github]

What is DevOps? @editingemily gives us the skinny at #GitHubUniverse. You dig?

https://t.co/7idHEhE1aH

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

Seems the Elixir community needs to recirculate @stuarthalloway 's Stewardship Made Practical
https://t.co/axJlBeodBF
#myelixirstatus

[Chris Keathley @ChrisKeathley]

Nothing about this sentiment is OK.

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[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

tl;dr

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

catching up on some reading when all of a sudden...
"You don’t study the research to convince others. You study the research because you’re rather be technically correct than happy."
- @hillelogram

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

doing all of my talk prep for PWL and internal settings, this has been my experience. i get so far away from the sources that were interesting to me that by the time i get to the talk i just want it to be over

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@HeyChelseaTroy I would be interested. Your tech debt blog posts were helpful in recent discussions at work

[Neil Menne @neilmenne]

@ChrisKeathley This is going to let me focus on the business logic