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Why Elixir? My Foray into Functional, Concurrent, and Fault-Tolerant Programming
Over 70% of developers cite managing distributed system complexity as their top architectural challenge. Here's how Elixir's three pillars offer a fundamentally different answer.
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On the Pleasure of Slow Reading
There is a particular kind of afternoon — grey, unhurried — that seems designed for reading at a pace the internet has nearly forgotten how to accommodate.
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Margins as a Writing Practice
The best thinking I've ever done was illegible, cramped into a quarter-inch strip of white space beside someone else's printed words.
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Why I Stopped Optimizing Everything
Sometime in my late twenties I became fluent in a language I no longer wish to speak — the language of dashboards, metrics, and marginal gains.
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