Hello there

I’m AJ, a software developer at CodeSandbox. My interests in education and software lead me to…

Create educational content on Pluralsight’s Skills platform
Volunteer with FIRST Tech Challenge events and teams (and make content about it)
Build things that move around the room or light up the screen

Contact me if you are interested in teaching a technical skill, building robots, or making something in the Elixir programming language.

Writing

Feb

2023

Integrating Honeycomb.io with Elixir

Focused directions for integrating Honeycomb.io into your Elixir application with OpenTelemetry for observability.

Mar

2022

Phoenix Static Assets in the Post-Webpack World

Creating a small package to help with copying static assets in a Phoenix application.

Dec

2021

Migrating Data with Elixir

Migrating data to a new version of an application using Elixir.

Feb

2021

Absinthe and Apollo in Swift

Apollo in Swift, Absinthe in Elixir, sending GraphQL over websockets.

Jun

2016

Writing Commit Messages in Atom

A better way to use Atom as your Git commit message editor.

Nov

2015

Tombstones in Typography

Thoughts and examples of using the tombstone in typography on the web.

Sep

2015

End of the old FTA

Reflection on my volunteer role as the FIRST Tech Challenge changes.

Jun

2015

Using Other Lanugages in Ruby

Notes from my presentation at the University Ruby meetup at Cloudspace.

Mar

2015

Getting Started with Git

Notes from my lecture for PHY 3905 in Spring 2015.

Oct

2014

Terminal Basics

Notes from my talk "Exploring Terminal" for Design & Code at UCF.

Jul

2014

Notes from Front-End Design Conference 2014

July 10-11, 2014 in St. Petersburg, Florida

Jun

2014

CreativeQ Project Reflection

Reflecting on the development of my first production Rails application.