Team retrospectives are a great way to check in with your team to see how they are doing and how the project is progressing. Retros usually happen between “iterations,” and take place bi-weekly or monthly. They provide time for everyone to gather in person or online...
We all want guarantees. We can get guarantees on our automobiles, homes, phones, shoes, food, and even our pets. We’ll take a guarantee in, on, or about anything. As software developers, our clients want guarantees for a whole host of things, from delivery dates to...
The LiveView request lifecycle runs twice when a connection is first made to your application. It runs once to render static content for web crawlers, search engines, and other non-javascript-enabled clients. The second pass occurs when the browser establishes the...
I remember the early days of hacking small devices with a single purpose. Many of them lived unconnected and provided one bit of functionality. Maybe you remember that day too. Perhaps you were a professional working on a sprinkler controller or a hobbyist that wanted...
I recently found myself addressing a product requirement involving a form with input fields generated from a list of data we retrieved from a third-party provider. This requirement proved challenging as the prescribed user experience stretched a little beyond the...
Why is front-end testing even a thing? We have LiveView, right? I can run tests on my components and everything is magical. What is Wallaby? You may have heard of Wallaby at the Big Elixir when Britton Broderick gave a talk about using it with LiveView, or maybe you...
