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Latest — Dec 16, 2024

Canada Post Strike

For the past few weeks postal workers in Canada have been on strike. This has, of course, caused a fair amount of disruption during the Christmas season. Before I even knew the details of the strike I was naturally on the side of the workers. This is my default position:

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Not to rush Christmas, but I think I'll try my hand at Advent of Code this year. It will be a good chance to play around with Rust.

Adding a `soft_delete` to Ecto Multi pipelines

I'm a big fan of Ecto, Elixir's database wrapper. The Multi library lets you build up a series of operations that happen in order, if one fails the entire operation rolls back. Multi comes with the a lot of standard CRUD built in, insert/4, update/

Went walking with my daughter and we picked some autumnal bouquets.

TIL Struct matching in Guards

Not so much a TIL but I always get confused with the proper syntax. You can pattern match on a struct and use it in a guard to only let through the structs you want: @spec address_formater(BillAddress.t() | ShipAddress.t()) :: String.t() def address_formatter(%struct{} = address) when

I'm 33 years old and I only learned how to spell "doesn't" this year. Getting enough practice where I almost spell it right the first time. (I think I used to default to dosen't).

TIL UUIDv4 vs UUIDv7

I've always run with UUID v4 because it's the default for the Ecto.UUID library in Elixir. However a coworker recommended UUID v7. Having never really looked into UUID other than to implement as a primary key the distinction was news to me. Effectively; * UUID v4

TIL INSERT INTO with SELECT constraints

In the past month I've had to write a lot of SQL to migrate a system and split existing "locations" into tenants ie. migrating data from a public schema to a tenant's schema is gets messy due to foreign key constraints. Order of operations

July 2024 Music Recap

July 2024 Music Recap

One of the things I miss most about Spotify is Wrapped. I always feel a pang of envy at the end of the year when people are sharing their Wrapped stats, to the point where I've thought about trying to hook into Tidal's underdeveloped API and

Why Cybertruck when you could Cyberduck! I think I've been using Cyberduck for 100% of my FTP needs for at least 15 years. Such a rock solid piece of software.