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From Phoenix to Rails
I’m currently a rails developer at Student Loan Genius. This puts me in the unique position of being one of the very few people who have moved from Phoenix framework to Rails, rather than the other way around. Its sort of like, knowing someone’s grandson, then upon meeting the grandfather you begin to notice all the traits inherited by the grandson. I would start by saying I really, really love functional programming, and I think I really do ‘get it’ and certainly use Elixir and OTP as it was intended. …
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I am not in spain!
I’m in Austin, Texas. This is the first time I’ve taken to build something of my own, since I’m always spending lots of time building web apps for my employers. Its kind of refreshing to work with an html site for once without having to consider database architecture, deployment strategies, uptime monitoring, etcetera. …