Ethan Gunderson
@ethangunderson.com
Elixir and observability stuff. Principal engineer at Cars Commerce.
Weird coffee person. Food enthusiast.
Father to two 👦, living in Minnesota, USA.
Weird coffee person. Food enthusiast.
Father to two 👦, living in Minnesota, USA.
Your light mode might be too light.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Your light mode might be too light.
Reposted by Ethan Gunderson
A long known irony of automation is that as you automate the most frequent (and easy) cases first, people are left to handle both increasingly rare *and* challenging situations, with less practice.
June 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A long known irony of automation is that as you automate the most frequent (and easy) cases first, people are left to handle both increasingly rare *and* challenging situations, with less practice.
Hm, I probably need to go back and read the patterns book and tease out the pattern vs what’s in Rails.
June 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hm, I probably need to go back and read the patterns book and tease out the pattern vs what’s in Rails.
I think I’m going to try and switch to Obsidian’s web clipper.
May 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think I’m going to try and switch to Obsidian’s web clipper.
When I was working on a budget app I used Money and couldn’t figure out why none of the docs were correct and I was missing features.
I was looking at ExMoney docs. 😂
I was looking at ExMoney docs. 😂
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
When I was working on a budget app I used Money and couldn’t figure out why none of the docs were correct and I was missing features.
I was looking at ExMoney docs. 😂
I was looking at ExMoney docs. 😂
Seems like a big miss that there's not a Laravel @pragprog.com book. Is anyone working on that?
May 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Seems like a big miss that there's not a Laravel @pragprog.com book. Is anyone working on that?
The leopard will never eat *my* face.
May 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The leopard will never eat *my* face.
This is really cool and looks like it would have been a ton of fun to work on. 🎉
May 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This is really cool and looks like it would have been a ton of fun to work on. 🎉
It took me a bit, but then I cackled.
April 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It took me a bit, but then I cackled.
I thought we were calling them “cracked developers” now?
April 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I thought we were calling them “cracked developers” now?
My last tax person was more surprised than I was about how much I owed. The only thing I could think of was “I’m paying you how much for this service?”
March 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
My last tax person was more surprised than I was about how much I owed. The only thing I could think of was “I’m paying you how much for this service?”