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Donald Merand

Director of Tech-sploration at EXPLO (www.explo.org)

Boston, MA, USA Joined on Mar 5, 2018 https://donaldmerand.com

Education

BA in CS, playing with computers for 30 years.

Work

Director of Tech-sploration at EXPLO

EXPLO

dlm-dot-bin

A collection of shell scripts that I've written to help me out.

Shell • 19 stars

donald.merand.org

Donald L. Merand

HTML • 1 star

FMBingo

Generate custom bingo cards from FileMaker. Then play bingo!

1 star

I'm always learning about the things in the "toolbox" :) Anything well-designed (Fish Shell, for example) or beautifully elegant (Erlang, for example) gets consideration.

Shell (Bash + Fish)
FileMaker (seriously, it's amazing)
Ruby (Rails + Sinatra)
Javascript + Coffeescript
Functional CSS (Tachyons) + sometimes SASS
Elixir (Phoenix)
Elm

Mostly I code at work, sometimes we open-source it!

Here's an Elixir+Airtable library: https://github.com/exploration/ex_airtable

Here's a word generator based on Markov Chains: https://github.com/exploration/markov_words

I like to help people who want to learn! Ask me anything!

7 posts published

165 comments written

17 tags followed

Donald Merand for EXPLO

Nov 9 '20

ExAirtable - Airtable in your Elixir

#elixir #airtable #phoenix #cms

3 min read

A collection of my favorites DNS servers

You can increase the speed of a slower, but more secure, DN...

Jan 31 '20

Any FileMaker Devs Here?

Thanks for sharing that resource. Perhaps others visiting t...

Sep 18 '19

Hand and wrist pain?

I'm so sorry to read about your pain. That must be frustrat...

Jul 1 '19

Rails to Introduce View Components

I have the same concern about diluting the existing approach....

Jun 14 '19

Post-Progress Software Development

Also: Hopefully, the harsh realities of the world facing ...

Jun 13 '19

Post-Progress Software Development

I love the idea that the future of computers + the internet...

Jun 13 '19

What is that one tool/stack/framework that you have no interest with despite the popularity?

Came here to say React, realized that everybody else alread...

Jun 8 '19

What are you "old enough to remember" in software development?

I didn't know about the battery trick! I really wish I had....

Jun 4 '19

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Donald Merand for EXPLO

Jan 30 '20

DNS is a Thing that People Hack Now, I Made an Open-Source App to Help

#dns #ruby #gem #cli

3 min read

Apr 6 '18

Any FileMaker Devs Here?

#discuss #filemaker

1 min read

Apr 1 '18

Is Touch-Typing an Important Skill for Software Developers?

#discuss

1 min read

Mar 27 '18

Do You Prefer Multiple Monitors or Just One? Why?

#discuss

1 min read

Mar 11 '18

Using JavaScript Promises for Non-Async Control Flow?

#discuss #javascript

1 min read

Donald Merand for EXPLO

Mar 6 '18

Explain It Like I’m #{[5, 10, 15, 20]}

#explainlikeimfive #pedagogy

7 min read

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