I've recently been making some small contributions to swc, a super fast javascript / typescript compiler written in Rust. It's orders of magnitude faster than Babel and requires significantly less memory and CPU cycles to get the transpilation process don…
Continue Reading →I recently invested in a Mac Mini M1 as a secondary machine and have been enjoying using it with VS-Code Remote. As a developer, the Apple Silicon experience isn't quite ready for full time use while minor incompatibilities are still getting ironed out. U…
Continue Reading →It's been possible to write your Ember applications using TypeScript for some time now using Ember CLI TypeScript and the library also helps if you wish to build an addon using TypeScript. There's a catch, however, if you want to build an addon to be cons…
Continue Reading →Ember + TypeScript is an excellent combination that has really helped improve our team's output whilst maintaining very low levels of runtime bugs. We're very heavy users of another library called ember-concurrency which provides some fantastic opportunit…
Continue Reading →Brief introduction to WebAssembly WebAssembly (wasm) is a technology which aims to allow the use of 'high' level languages (like Rust, C and C++) to create programs that are to be run in a 'web' environment, whether that be in a client or on a server. For…
Continue Reading →Introduction I'm not going to make the case for using Rust, there are hundreds of articles and videos out there which will do a much better job of explaining the case for why Rust is an amazing language. This guide is about how to put Rust to practical us…
Continue Reading →There's a lot of buzz in the Ember community about the upcoming release of Ember Octane Edition. It represents an enormous amount of work by the Ember core team and community. The release will roll out a hugely simplified javascript model and the use of G…
Continue Reading →Recently I've been working on an extension to one of our products and we decided that we should explore using an Ember Engine to properly separate concerns and make the extension mountable in multiple places. As part of the process we have plans to swap o…
Continue Reading →In this post, I'm going to explore how we can leverage systemd to ensure our apps are kept running even following a power outage or whole system crash. Running Elixir in production For those not familiar with running an Elixir application there are two ma…
Continue Reading →In this post I will try and explain how pattern matching and recursion work in Elixir with some (hopefully) simple examples. I’m not going go into the ‘why’, for that, there are many people better qualified than me to explain. What I hope to acheive is a …
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