https://devth.com/The blog of Trevor Hartmanenhttps://devth.com/iteration-and-playhttps://devth.com/iteration-and-playThu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTEngineers should be having fun. Tweaking, tinkering, endless play.https://devth.com/dumb-yaml-cihttps://devth.com/dumb-yaml-ciMon, 14 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTYAML was a bad idea for CI pipelineshttps://devth.com/you-might-not-want-a-monorepohttps://devth.com/you-might-not-want-a-monorepoWed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTMonorepos have become popular in recent years. What problems are they solving, and what problems are they introducing?https://devth.com/survive-entropyhttps://devth.com/survive-entropyWed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTFor every component that makes up a modern web app engineers must decide where on the spectrum of fully-managed to custom-built the solution should lie. It can be useful to think through the lens of entropy and extropy.https://devth.com/leave-it-betterhttps://devth.com/leave-it-betterThu, 22 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTGreat engineers improve everything they touch.https://devth.com/essentiality-of-open-sourcehttps://devth.com/essentiality-of-open-sourceTue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTOpen source is the foundation we build upon.https://devth.com/unison-talk-at-strangeloophttps://devth.com/unison-talk-at-strangeloopTue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMTNotes on the Strange Loop talk 'Unison: a new distributed programming language' by Paul Chiusano. Warning: mind expanding future tech 🤯https://devth.com/fast-app-deploy-guide-for-startup-weekendhttps://devth.com/fast-app-deploy-guide-for-startup-weekendSun, 03 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMTThe aim of this guide is to demonstrate the fastest way to create a client-side web app and get it deployed.https://devth.com/dec-deep-environmental-confighttps://devth.com/dec-deep-environmental-configTue, 10 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTdec is a tiny library that embraces constraints to afford users equivalency between multiple ways of setting environment variables according to their particular requirements.https://devth.com/compiled-queries-in-scalahttps://devth.com/compiled-queries-in-scalaSun, 26 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMTCompile a data structure representing a query into native code to speed up a query loop using ASM.https://devth.com/yetibot-on-dockerhttps://devth.com/yetibot-on-dockerWed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTYetibot is now on Docker!https://devth.com/a-simple-type-classhttps://devth.com/a-simple-type-classMon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMTType classes provide a way of achieving ad hoc polymorphismhttps://devth.com/thrush-cond-is-not-a-monadhttps://devth.com/thrush-cond-is-not-a-monadTue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTClojure has a useful macro called cond-> — let's explore a Scala equivalenthttps://devth.com/monad-laws-in-scalahttps://devth.com/monad-laws-in-scalaTue, 17 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMTThe three Monad laws may seem pretty abstract at first, but they're quite practical. Let's try to internalize the laws by running through two of Scala's most popular monads and making sure they adhere.https://devth.com/beautiful-constrainthttps://devth.com/beautiful-constraintFri, 30 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTThe freedom to do anything you wish is rarely a good thing, whether you're an experienced engineer or a 2-year-old child.https://devth.com/on-learninghttps://devth.com/on-learningSun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMTIt wasn't until I was well into my twenties that I learned how to really learnhttps://devth.com/open-source-culturehttps://devth.com/open-source-cultureSun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMTWithin any big tech corporation are many disparate teams. Most of these teams know very little about the work, makeup or very existence of other teams, yet they depend on each other's output, directly or indirectly.