Posts from 2018

How can we change our behaviour to have more positive code review experiences? Here is a simple framework we can follow.

We introduced participants at a pairing workshop to a framework for “pre-pairing” conversations, designed to help anticipate and prevent communication difficulties during pairing. The overwhelmingly positive feedback from the workshop reinforced to us how valuable this technique can be.

Module nesting in Elixir is syntactic sugar with some unexpected (undocumented) alias and import behaviours

A short introduction to the concept of circuit breaking in programming.

We recently had the opportunity to make a Visual Studio Code extension that needed to communicate with an embedded device. This post explains the architecture we chose to achieve that and the decisions that led to it.

We open sourced our shared configuration for tmux, Spacemacs and other tools we use daily for development

Cultivate do not differentiate between Front End and Back End Developers, yet we acknowledge that expertise in either field is too difficult for most people to achieve. How do we resolve this apparent contradiction?

Winning an argument by conceding in good faith

A tutorial to understand how Phoenix, Umbrella, Distillery and Docker fit together.