Join us Wednesday, August 21, for a talk by Christopher Erin from Hashrocket! Monitor Your Elixir App with Telemetry meetup.com/ChicagoElixir/… #Meetup #ChicagoTech #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus #Erlang Sponsored by Hashrocket

I've come to hate git squash. I rely on `git blame` to tell me a story. When things are squashed, I lose the history. Now I just get some generic title, but the context is lost (or very difficult to track down in a PR somewhere...)

Bizarre quote from Leslie Hairston in Fran Spielman's column in this morning's Chicago Sun-Times in which she says the #SouthShoreNatureSanctuary is "all dead." This is what it looks like right now, for reference. chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2019… (Thread)

The world is gradually becoming less green, scientists have found. bit.ly/2YZnX1S

Domain Specific Languages and Metaprogramming in Elixir - Andrew Summers youtube.com/watch?v=_IwlCP… #elixirlang

Join us this week to learn about Monitoring your Elixir Application with Telemetry! Talk by Christopher Erin from Hashrocket meetup.com/ChicagoElixir/…

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"#Arctic permafrost isn’t thawing gradually, as scientists once predicted. Geologically speaking, it’s thawing almost overnight." Thawing #permafrost is reshaping landscapes & releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. More from National Geographic: on.natgeo.com/2OYNHqj.

Brazil’s space research center reports that wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year. Read more: reut.rs/31PQBiI

Our #Mars2020 rover will carry a special passenger with it to the Red Planet next year: an autonomous #MarsHelicopter 🚁 🔴. It'll be the first aircraft to fly on another planet & today engineers began attaching it to the rover. Get more details: go.nasa.gov/2MVuQLl

Coming up at noon: new Chinatown mural to be dedicated at Ping Tom Park. Join us! ⁦CBS Chicago⁩ ⁦NBC Chicago⁩ ⁦ABC 7 Chicago⁩ ⁦WGN TV News⁩ ⁦FOX 32 News⁩ ⁦WGN Radio News⁩

yeah algorithms are great but not a single programming course prepares you for what happens the first time you're asked to stay late at work

Backends are indeed needlessly, and extremely complicated! This is what I've been trying to say for years, starting with the famous table from EiA, which first shaped in my mind around 2012, after a few years of working with Erlang.

Upgraded my rowing app to React Native 0.61.0-rc.3 and the new fast refresh is dope! Thanks dan_abramov

After the Mueller report, Congress had a duty to begin impeachment. By failing to act, Congress is complicit in Trump’s latest attempt to solicit foreign interference to aid him in US elections. Do your constitutional duty and impeach the president.

We've reached out to major music festivals and asked them to make a clear commitment that they will not use invasive #facialrecogntion technology on music fans. Some have gotten back to us. Some haven't. We're keeping score, and we'll let you know soon. banfacialrecognition.com/festivals

I would use an ad blocker. I would use a password manager. I would block third-party cookies in the browser. These last three are steps that absolutely everyone should consider, because they're simple, cost little or nothing, and protect you while making your phone faster.

Data is what matters most in your application. Backends come and go, frontends come and go even faster. But your data stably remains the spine of your application. That's why I care about data integrity and think it should be heavily considered when designing DB migrations.

You CAN turn #lawns back to nature: This was all flat grass in the 1980s, largely unused, with much expensive mowing. Now it's thriving dunes, bird habitat--and a low-cost buffer against hurricanes. #SpringLake, NJ.

Jake Worth slightly hesitant to recommend since it costs 💰💰💰 and the free version is less than useless for javascript. that said it’s a totally diff paradigm than vim and now that i grok it i’m as efficient if not more so than with vim with a much lower learning/configuration curve