With years of experience, I’ve learned what activities I like and the ones I dislike about my job. Among the second category seats in a high place estimates. By chance, I worked on different teams with different relations to estimates, and I think I now have a clear idea of how I can work with it.

Truth is, they don’t bring much value to the developers. Often, it is a difficult process of guessing with a poor overall result. I may even be tempted to think we only produce accurate estimate by accident. However, legitimately, stakeholders request it because they need it for decision-making and budget tracking.

To my English readers: this post talks about electronic voting and how it impacts democracies. Even if this thinking can be applied to other countries, I wanted to remain focus on the French context. That’s why I exceptionally decided to write in French.

La Tech’ est politique ! Vous avez sans doute déjà lu cela quelque part, souvent pour dénoncer des inégalités créées ou amplifiées par celle-ci. Je suis d’accord avec cette affirmation, la Tech influence nos vies, elle change nos façons de communiquer, de consommer, de s’informer, de travailler… Mais au-delà même des impacts sur les individus ou des groupes d’individus, la Tech peut avoir de l’influence sur le fonctionnement même de nos sociétés.

This blog post is the last of a series where we’re using The Elm Architecture (TEA). If you haven’t, I strongly recommend reading the previous articles first.

So far we’ve learned how to build an application and run side effects. But as our programs grow, we may feel the need to break things down. Today we’ll see how to split our page in different modules. This can be for isolating some logic and reduce cognitive load, favor views composition or allow reusability.

This blog post is part of a series where we’re using The Elm Architecture (TEA). If you haven’t, I strongly recommend reading the previous articles first.

In the previous post, we’ve implemented our first application using our ElmishView and we saw how to render and update our Model. However, our application’s logic didn’t have to produce any kind of side effect (like API calls), making this example unrepresentative of most of the actual use cases.

In the previous post, we’ve introduced the Elm Architecture (TEA) and then wrote a PReact component to implement this pattern. Today it’s time to use it! If you haven’t, I recommend that you read the first post before continuing on this one.

If you have been searching for resources about the Elm Architecture on the internet, you must have encountered the “counter” example. This is literally the Elm Architecture’s “Hello world”.

A few months ago in my post Reaching a limit of Reactive Programming, I’ve mentioned the MVU (Model-View-Update) pattern could be a solution to the problems I was encountering at that time. I’m now using MVU since a few months on other projects and I want to write my own article where I present this pattern in more details.

This post is the first of a four-post series. We’ll be working on webpages, but this pattern can be used in other contexts like desktop applications.

If you’re working in IT, you’ve probably already encountered the “No deployments on Friday” mantra/dogma. It’s so ubiquitous that they’re many memes about it on the internet.

Recently, one of my LinkedIn relations commented a post that way saying something like “If you had to deploy today (Friday) and it went wrong, I’m sorry for you.” In his comment, he argued that he had shipped more than 10 versions that day and it was no big deal for him, starting a discussion with the author of the post. As I was reading them, I realized they were both right, and above all, by their positioning about “no deployments on Friday” I could make a lot of guessing about their respective business and organizational contexts as well as their technical practices.

I’ve recently finished reading Real-World Event Sourcing. It was a fun reading, but I found the book unclear on a very specific point and I want to express my thoughts on it in this blog post. I may have misinterpreted the author’s explanations but this doesn’t invalidate the following reflection.

As the book is about Event Sourcing and CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), events are naturally the central building block: they’re used to store states and trigger effects in the system.

In my career, I had (and still have) many opportunities to develop UIs on desktop and web applications using various technologies. With these experiences I’ve been using two main patterns: MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) and a Reactive approach.

In this post, I want to talk about the Reactive approach and especially about two features where it has become a burden to me.

I am not talking about a specific framework here. By Reactive I think of a specific way to code and organize behaviors for a UI.

In a previous post, I’ve mentioned I’ve read the book Programming Elixir 1.6.

As I was planning to read Real-World Event Sourcing, I chose to conduct a second reading because my limited knowledge and skills with Elixir were eroded over time. I took time to take many notes which are available on a dedicated repository.

In this post, I want to present to you the Elixir language, the Erlang VM and give you a taste of why you should learn it even if you will not use it in production.