Hacktoberfest 2020 Recap
Hacktoberfest is done and dusted and I wanted to do a quick recap on my experience. Reflecting on this month has helped me appreciate the hard work maintainers put into their projects. I've also found... Read More
My first 3 months with Elixir
I've been learning Elixir as a side project for the past few months. And I wanted to share my process and the rough learning plan I've been following. Before we dive in, I wanted to give some context... Read More
Lessons from my first conference talk
Elixir conference happened earlier this month, and like all conferences this year, it was virtual. I wanted to give a huge shoutout to the organizers! Even though it was a virtual conference, they wer... Read More
2020 blog refresh: the process and lessons learnt
Welcome to my brand new website! I'm stoked that I can finally share it with people. I rushed a little towards the end to get it released. But I'm happy with how it all turned out. Along with a new de... Read More
Excerpts with Eleventy
I 100% struggled with getting excerpts in Eleventy (11ty). It seems so simple, but I couldn’t figure it out.
I had two issues. Firstly, I got excerpts working using 11ty’s custom frontmatter data, unf... Read More
Using Github and Notion to organise side projects
A while ago I posted a question on dev.to asking how people stay motivated with their side projects. There’s a bunch of great tips on that thread so definitely go check that out! I shared how I stay m... Read More
What brings me joy as a developer
I've been thinking about joy lately. Which seems like a sad sentence to write. But I promise it's not that bad! It's more of a yearning for something new. I have all these questions in my head like, a... Read More
Tips for developers starting out with web design
I’ve always had this dream of being the fullest, full stack developer. I would take an idea, design something awesome, and then go build it. Unfortunately, anytime I tried UI design I was a fish out o... Read More
How to setup CI with Phoenix & Github Actions
Continuous Integration (CI) is the act of automating the build and testing of your code when it's committed to version control. For a small app like my blog, I wanted to setup CI without needing to cr... Read More
Use Yarn in your Phoenix App
Yarn, like NPM, is a package manager to manage your front-end packages. When creating a Phoenix project you can't specify whether to use NPM or Yarn. And it doesn't look like there's any plan to suppo... Read More
Building a blog with Phoenix: Getting started
Today, I want to show you how to start building a blog using Phoenix. You can find the source code here: https://github.com/jonathanyeong/phoenix_blog/tree/v0.0.1. We are using Phoenix version 1.5.3 a... Read More
Elixir & Phoenix: Phase 1 updates
Last week I wrote up a learning plan for Phoenix & Elixir. In this post, I wanted to add an addendum to phase 1 of the plan and give a quick progress update.
Addendum #
First off, the addendum. Af... Read More
Phoenix & Elixir Learning Plan
Updated: July 17, 2020 - Added another resource
I recently wrote about my experience (here) playing around with Phoenix and Elixir for the first time. Looking back on that experience, I copied a lot o... Read More
First impressions of Phoenix Framework
I've wanted to try out Phoenix ever since I heard the Changelog built their site on it. Yes, I'm very late to the party, version 1.0 of Phoenix, released in 2015. Thankfully I've found some time away... Read More
Publishing RSS feed to Dev.to
I enjoy publishing to Dev.to. It has some significant features that my site doesn't have, like commenting (I'm working on it!). In the past, I copied and pasted posts from my site to Devto. This proce... Read More
Black Lives Matter
I hope you can forgive this departure from the usual content, but at this point I can't keep silent about the racial inequality in America. My parents were first-generation immigrants, and like many o... Read More
Documentation Driven Design
I started this year with a goal; develop features faster without sacrificing quality. I soon realized that I couldn't find the balance between quality and speed and became increasingly stressed at wor... Read More
Building the Ruby Proto Compiler gem
Protocol Buffers (Protobufs) are a great way to pass information between your apps. Written by Google, Protobufs give you the readability of JSON but the structure of something like XML. Using the pro... Read More
2019 blog refresh
I like to refresh my blog now and then. Partly because I want to update the UI but mostly because I forget how I built it in the first place. I've finished my refresh this week and it's about time I w... Read More
Things that I don't know about (2019 edition)
It’s 2019 and there’s still a ton of things that I don’t know about coming out of 2018. I wanted to write these down somewhere so I can refer to it throughout the year. It’s daunting realizing how muc... Read More
Freelance Advice for Past me
When I first made the choice to become a freelancer and I had no idea where to begin. I reached out to my old manager who was the sales lead/product manager at my old company. We covered a range of to... Read More
Setting Up RSpec and FactoryGirl
Not another RSpec tutorial! I know, there’s plenty of well written tutorials out there. But, thankfully, this is only a cheat sheet. The article below outlines the steps to get RSpec and Factory girl... Read More