Nate Taylor

About a month ago, I saw this Tweet sent out on the #MyElixirStatus hashtag. I clicked through to read Tobias’ blog. I pulled the code from hex (https://hex.pm/packages/benchee) and played around with it a bit. I saved the tweet because I immediately thought of sites I’ve used in the past like jsperf, that let people ...

I’ve been playing with Elixir for a few weeks now. I’ve really enjoyed it. But most of what I’ve been doing has just been programming exercises. Specifically over at exercism. That’s been great, it’s made me think in Elixir for a while. But at the end of the day, it reminded me of my Intro ...

“How much longer do you have on your feature?” the tech lead asked. After pausing for a minute to think, Steve answered, “probably about another day or so.” “Hmmm.  I thought you were going to be done today. Did something unexpected come up, or did we just misestimate it?” “I think we were close on ...

One of the trends in development recently has been to talk about fatigue. As far as I know, it started with JavaScript fatigue. The idea being that JS is changing so much and so often that people can become exhausted trying to keep up.  A mere 2.5 years ago, when I started at my current ...

This weekend I took my wife’s truck in to get some new tires. While at the store, they did a multi-point inspection. They called me to tell me I needed a new air filter. I turned down their offer to replace it (they wanted $50.)  Today, we were driving and her “Check Engine” light came ...

Now that I’ve gotten you to click the link, let me be a bit more explicit: Why I don’t think code schools in the midwest are helping their students in their current iteration.  But see, that’s not as exciting and nobody is going to think “I have to read that.” Language Let me set the ...

This weekend I had the opportunity to speak at Dev Workshop in Indy. It was only the second time I spent any time in Indy. The first was when I came to the Chiefs playoff game in 2006. Since it was the Chiefs and the Colts, it didn’t go in my favor (but at least ...

My dad is an engineer. Looking back, there was a dominant engineering atmosphere and attitude in our house. Of course, I didn’t know that, to me it was just normal. But my wife, who does not come from an engineering family, noticed it right away. It’s not all bad, nor is it all good, it’s ...

This past week I had two separate incidents while out shopping. The first was at Menards, a home improvement store. I was buying several different items including 4 concrete pavers. They were plain, 12″x12″ blocks.  They didn’t have a UPC on them anywhere so when I went through the checkout the cashier had to look ...

The very first time I wrote an entire application in .NET, I was working to convert a VB6 application. It was a sales tool that had evolved over time. Years before I started on it, it was a couple of equations until it grew and grew. By the time I got there, it could connect ...