A Tale of Two Mice: Bryan Joseph Might Finally Get on a Plane
Software Engineer Bryan Joseph conquered his fear of flying by embracing one of Revelry’s Core Values. Read on to hear his story.
Continue Reading How to Delegate with Defdelegate
Software engineer and Elixir pro Bryan Joseph explains how to delegate functions to another module with a secret weapon, also knowns as defdelegate.
Continue ReadingGetting My Feet Wet with Deep Learning and Word2Vec
After listening to this episode of Practical AI, I got interested in experimenting with Word2Vec. According to wikipedia, Word2vec is a group of related models that are used to produce word embeddings. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but from what I understand, it can be used to make educated guesses about related words. For example, […]
Continue ReadingTIL: Attaching IPFS folder to a Stellar Account
Attaching the hash to the folder in IPFS makes it so you can add items to it without having to update the value in the data entry every time something is added to it.
Continue ReadingIt’s Time to Tame your GitHub Notifications, and Never Miss Another Pull Request Review!
GitHub has a lot of tools for handling notifications. This doesn’t necessarily guarantee ease of use. It’s really easy to forget to return to an issue, or miss a pull request you were assigned to review.
Continue ReadingStellar for Practical Blockchain Applications
The Blockchain. I ignored it for so long. Too much hype. Too many stories of fraud. Those things are enough, but I absolutely hated that I had to read white papers or have some kind of esoteric knowledge to even begin. Last year I started to crack a little. I stepped my toes into the […]
Continue ReadingMonitoring Phoenix Applications and Recording Metrics
At Revelry, we are heavy users of DataDog so this solution leans heavily into putting metrics there.
Continue ReadingHow to Upload Files to Amazon S3 Using Pre-signed URLs
Bryan Joseph demonstrates how to upload files to Amazon S3 using pre-signed URLs from the web and from React Native.
Continue ReadingDon’t Use JSON as a Configuration File Format. (Unless You Have To…)
Don’t use JSON as a configuration file format, unless you have to. Here are all the reasons why – and what to use instead.
Continue ReadingTypes of Pattern Matching in Elixir
There are various ways to define the shape of the data you expect. This post shows the various forms pattern matching can take in Elixir.
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