Tyler Sloane shares insights on frontend performance tuning, Elixir, Rust, and self-hosting projects. Explore technical devlogs, side-project experiments, and practical programming tips for developers and enthusiasts.
31 articles from this blog
A developer reflects on the rarity of challenging frontend performance work in React projects and the industry's bias towards high-powered devices.
An introduction to Syncthing, a decentralized file synchronization tool, and how it integrates with the PARA method for personal file management.
A developer reflects on the joy of working with Clojure, its unique tooling, and the vibrant community that shaped their programming perspective.
A developer reflects on how over-reliance on LLMs like Claude for coding tasks is making them impatient and hindering deep learning.
A developer shares their journey into self-hosting, detailing the hardware, software stack, and lessons learned from running a personal home server.
A developer shares lessons learned from an unfinished Playdate game project about orbiting a black hole, built with Lua.
A developer shares their experience switching from Emacs to the Helix editor and Zellij terminal multiplexer, highlighting the benefits and workflow changes.
A developer's devlog detailing the creation of 'Electrolight,' a game for the Playdate console, using the Pulp browser-based engine.
A developer creates pen plotter art by overlaying bike route GPX data on Toronto maps using QGIS, Inkscape, and an Axidraw plotter.
A developer recounts attending a Processing hack night, using Clojure and Quil to create generative art and sharing the resulting code.
A programmer reflects on the value of technical books versus hands-on projects for learning programming languages like Elixir and Rust.
A developer compares JavaScript async/await patterns to Elixir's concurrency model, sharing confusion and insights from Joe Armstrong's blog.
A developer compares the Helix editor to Emacs, highlighting Helix's out-of-the-box features and reflecting on Emacs' extensive plugin ecosystem.
Explores when and why to use Elixir Streams for lazy, memory-efficient data processing versus eager Enum operations.
A developer's journey learning and implementing their first GenServer in Elixir to add persistent countdown timers to a recipe app.
A developer shares a technique for refactoring complex Ecto queries in Elixir using the `reduce` function for cleaner, more compositional code.
A developer shares key learnings from their first week professionally coding in Elixir, covering behaviors, reduce patterns, and LiveView.
A developer reflects on how writing a technical blog about Elixir directly led to landing a desired software consultancy role working with that technology.
A developer shares their naive approach to building a custom parser in Elixir to migrate recipe data from a JSON file to a new format.
A developer shares their experience successfully deploying a personal Elixir/Phoenix project called Galley using Fly.io, including configuration challenges.
