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Instrumenting Elixir Applications

A full day workshop on how to instrument Elixir applications using Telemetry and OpenTelemetry. We are in the process of writing a book with the same topic and name. It is currently in progress.

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Growing Software

A podcast that I hosted with Darby Frey on various software and startup topics.

Glean

A personal finance application. Similar to Mint or YNAB, but more flexible. I put this on pause when my second kid was born. Copilot is very close to what I was building anyways.

Papers We Love Chicago

The Chicago chapter of Papers We Love that I started in 2015. We would meet once a month to discuss a computer science paper. I handed this off to someone else in 2018.

ChicagoDB

A user group that I started in 2010 with Ryan Briones to discuss databases. Each month we would read a database related whitepaper and then have a presentation on a database that was inspired by the paper.

Gathers Us

A web application to quickly form groups of people. I built this to help organize the ChicagoDB user group. It gained some popularity in the Chicago area but never really took off because I didn't know what I was doing. I still think the market needs a tool like this.