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Mike Zornek

A Look Back: Week Ending October 18th

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Lots of times it’s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when you add it all up, it turns out a lot of things happened last week.

Guildflow

  • Got my pull request that adds Postmark broadcast email support to the Elixir swoosh library was merged in! More info.
  • Worked on a per-event Add to Calendar feature that lets you download an .ics file or create a new event in Google Calendar via a customize link. This was a feature request of a beta user so happy to see user needs starting to dictate feature development!
  • Started my official campaign with EthicalAds, which is a privacy-focused advertising network for developers from the folks at Read the Docs. I ended up tweaking the ad copy to hopefully improve the click through rate. I’ll share result in a few weeks.
  • Did a demo of Guildflow for IndyHall Show and Tell.
  • Improved the loading time of the new home page by optimizing lots of images.

Work

  • For the Android Book Club I read chapters: 24 HTTP and Background Tasks, 25 Loopers, Handlers, and HandlerThread, and 26 SearchView and SharedPreferences. I normally code these in too but did not do it this week as I had some other higher priorities.
  • Met with Kotaro to review progress on his iPad drawing app and share my own progress with Guildflow.
  • Finalized details for a new client project. Will be helping a team using Elixir and Phoenix for a large website relaunch.
  • Finished up my hello world greeter example Phoenix project and tutorial. Need to promote it this week.
  • Did a Remote User Testing Session for a customer. They loved it.

Personal

About the Author. Mike Zornek is a developer and teacher focusing on product design and development with a heavy focus on Elixir and LiveView. In between his projects, Mike helps other teams through consulting. During off hours, he enjoyed watching Phillies baseball and playing relaxing video games.

Hopefully, you found interest in my scribbles. If you have commentary or a response, I'd love to hear it.