Jack Marchant

I'm a Software Engineer who writes about writing code.

Sydney Joined on Nov 29, 2016 https://www.jackmarchant.com

Education

University of Wollongong

Work

Technical Lead at Deputy

Jack Marchant

Apr 1

Maintaining feature flags in a product engineering team

#feature #flags #teams #engineering

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Offset and Cursor Pagination explained

The SQL you have is very close: Offset select * from posts L...

Jun 9 '20

3 simple tips to get better at working from home

It’s really hard to do without having a physical cue like s...

Apr 17 '20

You are not your code

This is such a hard balance to strike, especially when you ...

Apr 16 '20

Making Software - a three step process

I think it doesn't get spoken about enough how much people ...

Apr 16 '20

The problem with Elixir Umbrella Apps

Yes, I’ve been in that situation before, hence my frustrati...

Feb 14 '20

The problem with Elixir Umbrella Apps

Haha I’m glad you enjoyed it in the end. There are definit...

Feb 14 '20

A practical guide to Test Driven Development

I guess the point of this article was to encourage people w...

Sep 13 '19

Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 Highlights

Hi Arnaud, The conference was recorded, they usually post t...

Mar 4 '19

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Jack Marchant

Mar 18

What I’ve learned doing technical interviews

#interviewing #technical #interview #candidate

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Jun 3 '20

Using a Dependency Injection (DI) Container to decouple your code

#php #dependencyinjection #container

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Apr 16 '20

3 simple tips to get better at working from home

#productivity #wfh #remote

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Apr 14 '20

Making Software - a three step process

#software #process #development

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Oct 24 '19

Help me, help you - Code Review

#programming #review #team #git

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Sep 12 '19

A practical guide to Test Driven Development

#testing #automation #tdd

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Jul 5 '19

The Facade Pattern

#designpatterns #php #facade

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May 3 '19

The problem with Elixir Umbrella Apps

#elixir #umbrellaapps

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Apr 14 '19

Building Software with Broken Windows

#elixir #softwaredevelopment #techdebt

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Mar 4 '19

Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 Highlights

#elixir #lonestar #elixirconf

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Feb 6 '19

A Comparison of Elixir Supervision Trees and React Component Trees

#elixir #react #otp #trees

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Feb 2 '19

Using a GenServer to handle asynchronous and concurrent tasks

#elixir #genserver #task #concurrency

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Jack Marchant

Dec 19 '18

Best practices for integrating with third-party libraries in Elixir

#elixir #functional #dependencies

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Jack Marchant

Nov 21 '18

You might not need a GenServer

#elixir #genserver

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Jack Marchant

Oct 31 '18

Offset and Cursor Pagination explained

#elixir #api #pagination

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Sep 26 '18

Using Protocols to decouple implementation details

#elixir #protocols #polymorphism

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Aug 23 '18

Add Docker to Elixir/Phoenix projects in one command

#elixir #phoenix #docker

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Jul 26 '18

Working with Tasks in Elixir

#elixir

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Jul 14 '18

Understanding concurrency in Elixir

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Jul 6 '18

Composing Ecto Queries

#elixir #ecto

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Jun 27 '18

Streaming large datasets in Elixir

#elixir #stream #ecto

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Jun 25 '18

Yet another website rebuild

#elixir #phoenix

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Jun 6 '18

A Queue is just a Q with 4 silent letters

#elixir #computerscience

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Mar 23 '18

Composing Elixir Plugs in a Phoenix application

#elixir #plug #phoenix

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Dec 21 '17

Surviving technical debt in the real world

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Jun 8 '18

Elixir Pattern Matching in a nutshell

#patternmatching #development #elixir #coding

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Jun 19 '18

First Impressions of Elixir

#softwaredevelopment #elixir #programming #functionalprogrammi

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Nov 29 '16

No excuses, write unit tests

#javascript #unittesting

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Jack Marchant

Jun 10 '18

React – One year later

#javascript #programming #react #tech

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Jack Marchant

Jun 19 '18

Essential JavaScript Array Functions

#javascript #functionalprogrammi #programming #arrays

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