Development
Our Engineering team, apprentices, Front-End Developers, and Designers share insights on the development process
Creating a software application 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…
How to kill staging without “testing in production”
Most software teams have left behind the Waterfall(1) methodology in favor of approaches that move faster and flex more to accommodate changes and maximize the…
Your brain != A computer
Stuart Page – former Assistant Psychologist, current Software Engineer. “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be…
Wordle as a metaphor for software process
We at Revelry have a #wordelry channel in Slack where we share our Wordle scores and commiserate about unlucky guesses. It’s a great way…
Tackling hard problems head-on (can be a mistake)
A really hard problem can feel like a great chance to flex our skills and finally use some of those architectural patterns we’ve been…
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…
Nix: an idea whose time has come
In which I shill you Nix, a purely functional package manager. Why Nix? Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, once described Erlang…
How to set up a local SQL Server container with Docker – Windows 10
It is quite simple to set up a local instance of SQL Server container with Docker on a Windows 10 machine. Step 1 Download…
When to Use Ruby On Rails
Ruby on Rails runs on Ruby, which is an open source language that has been around since the 1990s. What is Ruby? One of…
6 Reasons PHP is a Mutant Toolbox
“Imagine you have a toolbox. A set of tools, looks okay, standard stuff in there. You pull out a screwdriver, you see it’s one…