In the intricate dance of workplace communication, the feeling of having asked a seemingly “stupid” question in a public setting is a familiar chord that resonates with professionals across various fields. Whether you’re in an office or out in the field, there’s a shared experience of feeling like a clown…

Testing a Rails controller concern can be approached in various ways. Here are a few methods that come to mind, listed from my least preferred to most preferred: Including the concern test coverage inside a controller spec file The concept here involves invoking a method from your concern within your controller spec file. However, this approach can make controller tests…

My wife and I recently had our second child, and it’s official — we’ve once again joined the illustrious “No Sleep Club.” Yes, that’s right, this isn’t our first rodeo with sleep deprivation; we’re repeat members! Sleep? Sleep is overrated anyway :) Watching TV or listening to our record collection…

Immigrants made up almost one-fourth, or 23.1 percent, of all STEM workers in the United States in 2019, a significant increase from just 16.4 percent in 2000. - American Immigration Council Disclaimer: This is only based on my personal observations and my self experience as an immigrant who also works…

Many of my friends who have met me recently would probably assume that I was born in America or came here at a very young age. You see, from a young age, I possessed a peculiar talent for mimicking accents. Vietnam, my country of birth, despite its relatively small size…

Several years back, I was assisting at my wife’s workplace when a colleague of hers posed this unexpected question. I had only recently met her, so her straightforward inquiry caught me off guard: “Vietnam is such a great country, why did you choose to leave? I don’t understand.” The immediate…

Today, let’s compare updating multiple child records using put_assoc vs Ecto.Multi.update. put_assoc is convenient if you want to do either 2 things: 1. associate a list of child records to the parent 2. add a new child record to the association. However, it might take more work and not optimal…

In my experience and the apps I worked on, there were a few times I needed to find records based on empty associations. Let’s imagine a silly example where you were writing a software to manage your franchise of electronic stores. You wanted to find store locations that run out…

I picked up Elixir last year at work. While some debugging tools are good to casual debug things in Elixir, IO.puts/2 and IO.inspect/2 are sometimes much faster to show what I wanted to see in the console log output. The drawback of IO.puts/2 is that it can only take a…