It’s been a rough two years for everyone which put a lot of things into perspective for me. I wrote a post about how much I value an employer that is flexible with personal life. Check it out on the Meltwater Engineering blog…

Recently, my team added a new protocol to our daily standups. We kick off with a round-the-table check-in to say how we’re feeling. It’s a simple, but a great addition to our morning standups.

At Meltwater I had some fun generating CSV files with Elixir that played nicely with Excel. I wrote about the solution on our Engineering Blog…

Recently I needed to change the primary key on an existing database table in a Phoenix project. While it sounds straight forward, there were a few hoops to jump through. I put together a writeup on how I went about it.

Elixir 1.5 is powered by the latest Erlang/OTP 20. One the nice things this brings is iex history persistence.