Devon C. Estes

Refactoring for Tests in Elixir

I've been turning something over in my mind recently, so I'm going to try and write down some of these thoughts to get some clarity around my thinking here. Now that my talks are over for a while, I'm able to dive back »

On Programmers and Labor Markets

It looks like I'm going to have to learn some new things for work soon (specifically some machine learning stuff). This isn't at the top of my list of things I want to be learning, but since my manager said that it’s likely »

I Got My Programming Time Back And So Can You

I usually work remotely from Berlin (or wherever my family happens to be at the moment, which today is Sacramento), which I really like, but recently I spent about a month in the office. It was great seeing all my colleagues »

Go and Elixir - Separated at Birth?

Elixir (and Erlang for that matter) handles concurrency in a really neat way - with single responsibility processes, aka the Actor model. Spawning multiple processes certainly isn't exclusive to Elixir / Erlang, and neith »