In Elixir, how can you keep a GenServer from blocking its clients while performing a long operation?

In Elixir, we often use Ctrl-C Ctrl-C to exit the IEx interactive shell or to stop a running application. But did you ever notice the menu that pops up after the first Ctrl-C? I was curious about that menu and what it can do, so I dug in.

This week, I am starting a new job as a Software Engineer at Sequin.

If you’re using the ElixirLS extension in VSCode and your project uses a newer version of Elixir and/or Erlang/OTP than what the extension uses, you may not be getting all of the features that ElixirLS provides.

Last week, InfluxData laid off 27% of their staff, including me. As a result, I’m now looking for my next opportunity.

I was recently on the Elixir Mix podcast, talking about some of the Elixir open source projects I’ve worked on recently.

My team and I at InfluxData recently worked with Igor Escobar of Drover and the team at ConfigCat to develop an Elixir SDK for ConfigCat’s feature flagging and configuration management service.

With mixed emotions, I’ve decided to leave Zeal after more than five years and join the e-commerce team at InfluxData.

Because many floating point numbers can’t be represented exactly in a computer, most testing frameworks provide a way of checking that a floating point result is “close enough” to the expected value. In a recent Python project, I learned that pytest has a solution to this problem that I’d never seen before.

Some time ago, I wrote several posts about encapsulating the Redux state tree using reducers and selectors, the asymmetry between reducers and selectors, and the problems that arise when attempting to resolve that asymmetry in a modular-structured Redux application. Thanks to a wonderful blog post by Nicholas Gallagher, I now have a better solution to the problems.