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2017/12/26Advent Of Code 2017 This year I discovered the advent of code website for the first time. I decided to get on with it, because I've always been terrible at programming challenges and I wanted to see how I could fare. I decided to use Erlang whenever possible to save time, and also turn th…
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on Apr. 21, 2017
2017/04/21Tout est Terrible This entry is a translated loose transcription of a talk I gave at the Web a Quebec conference in April 2017 named "Tout est Terrible". So, everything is terrible. That's a bit funny to say since so far in this conference, there's been a lot of talks about the amazing fu…
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on Nov. 24, 2016
2016/11/24Handling Overload This is a long-ish entry posted after multiple discussions were had on the nature of having or not having bounded mailbox in Erlang. The general consensus is that this is bad because the mailbox, if unbound via the language, are therefore bound by memory limitations of…
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on Jul. 8, 2016
2016/07/07On Technical Debt: Shoveling forward A lot of what we do in the tech world is based on analogies. Learning, concepts, discoveries, and teaching is all heavily based on that. If other sciences worked the same, we'd have 'gut-tubes' instead of intestines, probably. In any case, our understa…
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on Jun. 12, 2016
2016 06 12Property-Based Testing Basics This is a quick introduction text regarding the general concepts behind property-based testing. The Claims Before diving into what property-based testing and how it works, let's go for some wild claims we've had at the Erlang Factory last march. In the slide…
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on Feb. 8, 2016
2016 02 08The Zen of Erlang This is a loose transcript (or long paraphrasing?) of a presentation given at ConnectDev'16, a conference organized by Genetec in which I was invited to speak. I assume most people here have never used Erlang, have possibly heard of it, maybe just the name. As such, this…