Lately I've been watching the Distributed Systems Course on Youtube and really enjoy the teaching style.

If you skip the lessons on Blockchain (I'm not really interested in that) it roughly takes you 2 laid-back evenings or one tour de force evening.

Also while I watched the lesson on the …

If you ever talked to me you probably noticed my Neil Gaiman fandom. Here are some reasons to love him:

Broken hearts

Q:

"How do you get over a broken heart?"

Neil Gaiman A:

"You don’t, ever. Not quite. But time can do amazing things. A deep wound scabs …

Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers.

20 Writing Tips from Fiction Authors

"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for …

Accessibility

• Video: How to build a toggle button - A11ycasts #25.

Elixir

• Monads and other dark magic for Elixir.
• Mock Responses with Stash.
• Using Webpack 3.x with Phoenix 1.3.
• Rate-Limiting Phoenix (with Redis too).
• Adding Semantic UI Sass to Phoenix with Brunch.
• How I Use Bulma with the Phoenix …

Accessibility

• Video: Managing Focus - A11ycasts #22.
• Video: The new way to test accessibility with Chrome DevTools - A11ycasts #23.
• How blind programmers work.
• Video: Accessibility - The Curb Cut Effect is about a11y in games.
• Video: How to Label Custom Elements - A11ycasts #24.

Elixir

• Elixir v1.5 released.
• Phoenix 1.3.0 …

Background

A friend of mine approached me with the task of writing a program. Sometimes he gets a call and has to check if something's going on at another production site. He wanted a tool to download still images from a security camera, which should be converted to an animated …

Accessibility

• Video: Why headings and landmarks are so important -- A11ycasts #18.
• Video: Accessible Modal Dialogs -- A11ycasts #19
• A blind customer couldn’t use Winn-Dixie’s website. He sued. Changes are coming.
• Video: Does reordering content affect accessibility? -- A11ycasts #21

BSD

• OpenBSD and the modern laptop.
• A ReST api for creating …

Elm

• elm-html-a11y makes writing accessible websites easier.
• Tour of an Open-Source Elm SPA.

Elixir

• Elixre - An Elixir regular expression editor & tester.
• Phoenix and Elm, a real use case (pt. 6).
• Logging slow Ecto queries: adventures in metaprogramming.
• Dave Thomas: An Elixir Project Generator.
• Elixir App Deployment with Nanobox.
• Versioned API …

Elixir

• Mix Task Creation in Elixir Project.
• Elixir App Deployment with Nanobox.
• Setting up a Phoenix application with Webpack 2 and Bootstrap 4.

Elm

• Introducing Elm Bootstrap.

Gamedev

• Video: The Secret of Mario's Jump (and other Versatile Verbs) | Game Maker's Toolkit.
• Video: Value Contrast Tutorial: get it right and improve …

Accessibility

• The art of labeling -- A11ycasts #12.
• Intro to ARIA -- A11ycasts #13.

Elixir

• Reusable Templates in Phoenix.
• Simplifying Elixir Releases With Edeliver.
• Upgrade releases with Edeliver.
• Seeding the Database from a CSV file in Phoenix.
• Bleacher Report has gone from needing 150 servers to just five, thanks to its decision …