Devon C. Estes

Patronizing Open Source

In this week's episode of The Bikeshed, Sean Griffin went through some of his issues with funding open source work through services such as Patreon, which allow individuals or companies to contribute to an individual or group on a »

My New Favorite Elixir Testing Trick

When I write my Ruby tests, I'm a big fan of using test doubles and asserting those doubles receive messages with the correct arguments. I guess I like to practice what Justin Searls calls Discovery Testing »

Refactoring for Tests in Elixir

I've been turning something over in my mind recently, so I'm going to try and write down some of these thoughts to get some clarity around my thinking here. Now that my talks are over for a while, I'm able to dive back »

On Programmers and Labor Markets

It looks like I'm going to have to learn some new things for work soon (specifically some machine learning stuff). This isn't at the top of my list of things I want to be learning, but since my manager said that it’s likely »

I Got My Programming Time Back And So Can You

I usually work remotely from Berlin (or wherever my family happens to be at the moment, which today is Sacramento), which I really like, but recently I spent about a month in the office. It was great seeing all my colleagues »