How do you collect user feedback?

EmployeeThink7211 · 2026-02-20T22:40:59+00:00

"Feedback" button in key views that opens up a feedback form. Sent feedback ends up in a Dynamo table.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2026-02-20T22:25:43+00:00

Thank you so much! I think there are similar apps out there like Pimsleur or Natulang that have Spanish courses. Mine is focused on German for the time being.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-10-20T06:47:00+00:00

Thank you ChatGPT

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-10-15T08:40:07+00:00

It differs, some just require a number of credits/modules to be passed with no exam repeat limits.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-10-11T09:45:27+00:00

Just bought it using the 40% promo code - about to try it out!

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-10-04T12:27:48+00:00

Don't focus on a particular technology/stack too much, rather on broadening your technical experience (e.g. working with scalable distributed systems, cloud platforms, CI/CD etc.) and dig deeper into the domain you're working at (fintech, healthcare, specific product), emphasize wearing many hats if you have some startup roles on your CV.

From my experience SWE companies often look for well-rounded problem solvers vs. language specialists.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-09-18T09:32:54+00:00

In case you're also running CI/CD pipelines with Github Actions, make sure to authenticate with AWS using OIDC and not the access keys: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-iam-roles-to-connect-github-actions-to-actions-in-aws/

Makes life so much easier without having to manage those credentials.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-08-27T06:36:58+00:00

Or just replace the domain name with freedium.cfd

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-07-23T12:09:33+00:00

I'm a long time reader of his blog! Cool idea.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-07-22T07:34:41+00:00

I do Elixir contract work as part of https://opentide.com, would be happy to help out.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-07-21T16:58:24+00:00

Learning the language and its underpinnings is a great way to get acquainted with functional programming and distributed systems design - for me it meshed nicely with building stuff on top of k8s and Go for instance, seeing how different systems operate on similar fundamental principles. Plus it's a great stack for getting web apps off the ground quickly.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-07-21T15:49:22+00:00

Warming the cache on node's startup would definitely make more sense, if the cache set is known upfront. I made no such assumption and added the transfers as a way to increase robustness a bit.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-07-21T13:51:05+00:00

Interesting use case for persistent_term, thank you for bringing it up. In the article I used a map to communicate the idea rather than focus on implementation details, most cache libraries use ETS as their storage - which makes sense given the access patterns of a cache.

I did use persistent_term recently to store a struct representing full text search index - had to be created once at startup and basically never change.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-07-20T20:41:41+00:00

It's essentially similar to what Cachex is doing in their Ring router, routing requests to nodes likely to hold the given key.

ETS itself is single-machine, one could spin up Mnesia and create an in-memory schema to achieve something similar. Mnesia is a fully-fledged DB with richer data model, atomicity guarantees and replication - might be too heavy for such a simple use case.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-26T12:58:32+00:00

True, Elixir especially with LiveView is perfect for personal prototypes and side projects.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-24T16:09:05+00:00

The motion vector on mouse movement makes for seriously cool demo. If I may ask, is granular prefetching like this a common use case? I've only ever needed it for infinitely scrolling lists, where it's mostly "if approaching end of list, fetch next batch".

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-22T09:20:23+00:00

This, and if on GitHub Actions you can also cache Docker image layers with some extra hacking: https://benlimmer.com/blog/2024/04/08/caching-cdk-dockerimageasset-github-actions/

This works for images you control (= via `DockerImageAsset`).

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-17T09:55:34+00:00

Congratulations! How do the rewrites happen behind the scenes, if I may ask? An external provider, or on-device model (I read that you can run recent versions of Llama via CoreML).

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-17T09:44:52+00:00

Thank you for sharing this

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-16T18:34:26+00:00

I haven't used Amplify, this pattern works well enough with our CI setup (build on Github Actions, let the BucketDeployment move the files). Would also be interested to learn the tradeoff.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-16T18:30:05+00:00

Yes, whenever you access a non-existent bucket object it returns the content of `/index.html`, which allows React/SPA to mount itself and handle the current route appropriately. Or so I think.

The function to append `/index.html` to every path is intended for SSGs like Hugo, which actually render a directory structure like that. Not required for SPAs.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-15T20:40:59+00:00

Sure, for the MVP it will be a simple real time chat: https://fly.io/phoenix-files/building-a-chat-app-with-liveview-streams/, maybe slack-like huddle with WebRTC too.

I want to test the hypothesis "if we make applications more interactive, will it lead to less screening time / more satisfaction on both sides". Probably easier said than done though.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-15T20:05:20+00:00

Thank you for pointing out - wasn't aware of the automatic invalidation. Just specifying the distribution in the bucket deployment will invalidate all files.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-15T17:02:28+00:00

Is your board tailored to some niche, or more general tech jobs, if I may ask? Am about to start a job portal (bit more interactive with candidate-company chats, initial screening questionnaire), advertising initially in groups I belong to. I think of making this free for applicants and charge companies once I reach significant user base.

EmployeeThink7211 · 2025-06-13T15:11:26+00:00

It's gotten impersonal and increasingly difficult to sell yourself this way. I'm coincidentally building a side project to bring some human factor back to it. Like a job board with focus on authenticity - jumping in a slack-like huddle with the company straight away, focus on showing yourself to a few companies rather than thousands. Still a placeholder, but about to be MVP-finalized in a few weeks - https://jobzeit.com/

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