samtechie

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by samtechie 1y ago
Location: Kampala,Uganda Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JavaScript,TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, Node.js, React, Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Golang. Résumé/CV: https://my.visualcv.com/sam
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by samtechie 3y ago
Before I try a web framework, I want to know if there's an easy way to do authentication, authorization and multitenancy. Multitenancy may have multiple approaches but am talking about something as simple as row-based multitenancy to g
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by samtechie 3y ago
Interestingly, for me it is the exact opposite, I tried Django/Python and it's more difficult for me to grok. Somehow I just find Rails easier and more straightforward.
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by samtechie 3y ago
Fair enough. In your opinion, is Gleeunit sufficient as a testing framework for Gleam or is it a work in progress which is also understandable as the language is still relatively young?
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by samtechie 3y ago
Gleeunit seems a bit sparse. I just see a few functions. For example how do I do mocks? Is this the the whole testing story assuming I am not targeting JS?
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by samtechie 3y ago
Gleam is a fantastic language but I didn't see much about testing apart from a very small package called gleeunit which is a binding to Erlang eunit. If I don't know anything about Erlang, how do I do tests in Gleam? I need some m
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by samtechie 4y ago
Looks nice but am curious about how you connect to and use a database. Is there some middleware or library to do this?
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by samtechie 5y ago
I understand they are already modifying the vaccine to handle the B.1.351 variant so all that will be needed is a third booster shot for people who have already got the AZ vaccine.
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by samtechie 6y ago
Isn't GraphQL supposed to solve this problem? You have one GraphQL API and each client requests only the information it needs. Maybe the responses are still JSON but I would think you would come very close to an API that serves all the
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by samtechie 6y ago
I haven't used Clojure before but I have worked mostly with Elixir another niche functional language. In my experience because of the limited talent pool, most companies tend to prefer experienced candidates and if they are to take you
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by samtechie 6y ago
It was more of an aquahire and Jose Valim the creator of Elixir left Plataformatec to start his own consultancy. All assets related to Elixir were transferred to the community. The rest of the core contributors are not affiliated to Platafo
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by samtechie 6y ago
Not related to the discussion but as an East African and Ugandan( East Africa has five countries). I find this quote extremely offensive. I kindly request you to stop perpetuating such ignorant and degrading narratives even for the sake of
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by samtechie 6y ago
I have been using Elixir for about a year and the only problems I have found is the much smaller ecosystem. It's still a niche language. This means you may be the first one to encounter some problems although I have found the community
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by samtechie 6y ago
Maybe am mistaken but isn't a language that hasn't reached version 1 by its nature supposed to have breaking changes. It is expected that while you can use the language for your projects there is no guarantee that new additions wo
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by samtechie 7y ago
I think it is. Not because there were other potential Pandemics but because of the timing of the Virus. Its comes at a time when social media is in widespread use which means misinformation spreads rapidly which also leads to panic. General
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by samtechie 7y ago
Kingkiller Chronicles is hands down my best fantasy series but its unfinished and the last book has taken over 8 years now with the author constantly pushing the release date. There are rumours that it will be released in 2020 but they have
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by samtechie 7y ago
These days the effort required to get a well-paying programming job is more or less equivalent to the effort required to start your own business. If you can start a business. It's worth a shot. Worst-case scenario, the business fails a
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by samtechie 7y ago
It's not that easy to vote out a leader in some countries because the leaders control the state machinery. They present an illusion of free and fair elections but use their entrenched power to influence the vote through bribery, disenf
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by samtechie 7y ago
While there are benefits of learning Haskell as a developer. I am curious about the professional benefits versus the time and effort required to master the language to the extent that you are employable and command a good salary compared to
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by samtechie 7y ago
Location: Uganda Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JavaScript(React/React Native), Elixir/Phoenix, Python(Flask, Pandas,Scikit Learn, Keras/Tensorflow) Resume/CV: https://www.
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by samtechie 7y ago
Curious about how you undertook learning French. What is the best way.
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by samtechie 9y ago
Simply amazing
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by samtechie 9y ago
Does Phoenix 1.3.0 fully support Elixir 1.5? I keep getting warnings when compiling since I upgraded to Elixir 1.5.
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by samtechie 12y ago
SEEKING WORK -- Uganda, but prefer remote work Full stack web developer with 3+ years experience in Rails and most recently Laravel. Am mostly language agnostic but I have solid experience with Ruby,Java,PHP,Javascript and most recently Clo