MidJourney AI: The Idea Machine
By Steve Achord, Revelry Alumni Imagine being the director of your own art studio. You employ thousands of visual artists, adept at all styles…
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How to Get Hired as a Front-End Design Engineer
What does it take to join the Revelry design team? After seven years of hiring front-end designers, VP of Design Laura Eble shares her…
Why Your Team Needs a Product Manager
At Revelry, we like to think of our product managers as both the conductor and the orchestrator – directing priorities and ensuring those priorities…
A Peek Behind the Curtain: What our Software Design Engineers Do
Laura Eble has been a Revelry front-end design engineer / UI and UX designer since 2014. We sat down with her to understand what…
The Fractal Nature of the Revelry Software Development Process
“There’s a fractal nature to the Revelry software development process. Whenever I advise someone who is stuck using our process, I see this psychedelic,…
History of Cryptocurrency, Part 2
BC = Before Crypto For many decades prior to the emergence of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, computer scientists sought a way to make digital…
Converting Phoenix mix.gen.live Files to Surface Compatible Files
Introduction One of the most handy features of Phoenix 1.6+ is the ability to use mix phx.gen.live to easily generate Liveviews, templates, and a…
A Beginner’s Guide to Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails (also just called Rails) is a vital part of software development in today’s world. It is a server-side framework written in…
Building Software is Like Creating a Theatre Production
As a person who is new to coding, I like to try to find parallels for things that are more familiar to me. Since…
Case Study: Revelry Helped MediaKits Grow Exponentially
After five months of teaming up with Revelry, MediaKits grew exponentially, from less than 1,000 users to over 15,000. The product is now monetized,…
Meet Dan Horne: Dad, Dog Dad, and Developer
So what was your path to Revelry? I have always had a deep understanding and positive relationship with technology. I started my journey back…
Web3 x Liveview: Crystal Adkins Presents at the Big Elixir 2022
You don’t have to forsake Elixir and Phoenix to work with Web3 and Blockchain. Liveview gives us the perfect intermediary. Background The Conference: The…
Software Engineer Apprenticeship: The Definitive Guide
This is a complete guide to preparing for and landing a software engineer apprenticeship — that leads to a full-time job! If you want…
Why Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Makes User Stories 100% Better
At Revelry, we use BDD for all members of the team — and yes, that team includes our clients — so that everyone is clear about the intended user experience in the final product. Revelry’s flavor of BDD is a process for describing software features that is biased toward user’s actions and the results of those actions.
Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Today we explore Nix, a purely functional package manager. Why Nix? Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, once described Erlang as the…