The Missing Bit

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Test driven development in Elixir
2017-01-29

For those sleeping in the corner, test driven development is simply having tests run every time you modify a file.

Coming from the rails world, I first looked into something like guard. But guard always felt complicated and bloated. I just want to watch a few files and have my elixir tests be run when they change.

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Useful UNIX commands
2017-01-29

This is my list of less known but great UNIX command I use daily.

It’s mostly focused on development rather than sysadmin.

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Using Makefiles
2017-01-29

Why do I think of Makefiles now? Simply because I opened a 3 months old project and it took me 10 minutes to figure out how to build it. Yes, I could have written a README, but it was a home project (I know I should have…).

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Mitigating CSS gradient banding
2016-09-16

While working on a design that included a gradient, I noticed banding when the gradient was rendered by the browser.

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Notes about localization
2016-08-12

Living in a multilingual country, nearly all apps I make are localized.

At least in french and english, but also often german. Having to deal with 3 languages on all my apps wasn’t always easy.

In this article I share some experience and thoughts about localization.

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