Weeknotes 62
4th September, 2022
“Rockstar Developer”
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ElixirConf 2022 took place Aug 30 - Sep 2 and DockYard announced various new initiatives, but two caught my eye. Beacon, a new CMS built using LiveView, and LiveView Native.
LiveView Native empowers developers to build native and web applications seamlessly with Phoenix
I’m keen to seen how both of these develop.
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GOOD NEWS The painting has finally been finished! BAD NEWS We spent the bank holiday weekend painting. GOOD NEWS It’s a four days week!
Overall, good news.
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Rivers Cuomo has a GitHub profile. The only valid use of Rockstar Developer.
(Via David East).
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The fallout from Heroku’s canning of their free tier is somewhat predictable – lots of people trying to find new homes for their apps. We are spoilt for choice in some ways, but I’m not sure that any of the available options have the ease of Heroku (I have yet to try them though, so take that as you will).
The amount of people espousing “just get a $5 VPS” are completely missing the point, as usual. These options have always been available, and are a great choice for many people, but they are not what Heroku offers. In particular, Heroku Postgres is something not easily replicated on a “$5 VPS”. I would be keen to know about options in that area.
Both Nic Alpi and Phil Reynolds tweeted about their experiences trying out different providers – worth a read if you’re planning a move.
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I found out about PostgreSQL range types this week.
Range types are data types representing a range of values of some element type (called the range’s subtype). For instance, ranges of timestamp might be used to represent the ranges of time that a meeting room is reserved.
Pretty neat. Even better, Rails has support for them, and maps the values to
Rangeobjects in Ruby-land.I think years of Rails has held back the use of great database features. This is definitely changing though with Rails supporting a lot of new cool new stuff.
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