tommypalm

This is a great idea. I'd like to make a few suggestions though:

- Allow filtering by companies and libraries. I'm interested in both, but I wanted to look at just the list of companies to see if there were any I didn't recognise.

- Adding a company seems to be just adding _your_ app. It would be good to suggest companies to be listed as long as you have some evidence that they use Elixir. I know that Apple has Elixir in their Environmental team, but I'm not sure how I would go about adding that.

- Move the category filtering to the directory page. It would be more interesting to see the whole list at once and filter by category.

I worked at GOV.UK for a few years on what was effectively specialised CMSs all written in Rails. Mostly basic CRUD stuff. A contractor came along and built the most insane CMS I've ever seen. I found out later it was flavor of the Java Repository Pattern using dependency injection. It became so difficult to work with that the last thing I worked on there was to delete it and rebuild it using standard Rails patterns.

The KISS philosophy exists for a reason and that includes over-using advanced language features just to show off.

I was early enough to get my first name on Twitter and didn't, but did get it on Instagram.

The @tommy on Twitter was a dev at Gameloft who gets constantly harassed in his mentions to give it up. I had a similar problem on Instagram. I've mostly stopped using it, but when I did post and had an open profile I constantly got comments offering money for my username.

Eventually someone set up a follower bot on my account and I was getting hundreds of new followers a day. I made my profile private and don't post anymore, but it's still hundreds of new follower requests per day.

But most people in the UK can afford to go to them, which is maybe by design.

I'm a huge fan of your blog. _Part Time Creator Manifesto_ inspired me to start on side projects again and _Svelte for Sites, React for Apps_ was the first intro I had to Svelte.

Thanks for your great writing!

I always go! I've been lucky enough to play a few times. It's a very special festival.

Never thought I'd see it mentioned here.

I listened to a Podcast and one of the hosts was a British guy living in America. He had to speak in an American accent to his Xbox One in order for it to understand him. It seemed the voice recognition was based on your location setting and not independently configurable.

20 days is standard in the UK but most companies will give you 25. Some also give you the option to buy more.