never knew you could do css selectors on custom elements! does seem like syntactical sugar over classes. I do like the current trend with tailwind: style with markup using smaller components. But maybe there is something here with so many components being just styles...
Dish outsources sales calls to a third party. This third party doesn’t have access to customer accounts so they have to send you to an actual Dish call center. Not as nefarious as you think but still frustrating.
I’m currently building one by myself in Elixir/Phoenix/Liveview/Tailwind using Fly.io for deployment. Elixir has been amazing for more complicated app dev. A lot of previous ruby people there. Liveview gives a React like experience without the extra complexity.
Tesla is great for building api integrations. Knock has a great elixir api for notifications and emails. Telemetry is built into most things. Livebook is Jupiter notebooks but better, great for quick prototyping or doing adhoc data analysis.
just started to use them for an elixir/phoenix project. multi region with distributed nodes just works. feels almost magically after all the aws work I've done the past few years.
The population has grown from 205 million in 1970 to 330 million today. If you think 50% of the people join the workforce that is an increase of 65 million more people working.
I've been doing this with Makefiles for a while. It has always bugged me that I'm not "making" an artifact. Think I"m going to try this `run.sh` approach.
PG has an essay on keeping your identity small. It high lights the fact that when there is no way to prove one answer is correct, it’s then subjective which is the “right” answer. He uses the example of politics. Good read.