Ben Church

I'm Ben, an Engineer who just loves to build. Products, processes, teams, front, back, etc. Below is just a collection of what I've been able to write on.

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Ben Church

Feminist Work Culture

February 19, 2020 • ☕️ 5 min read

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Life doesn't fall neatly into a 9-5 for everyone. There are appointments, sick children, dry cleaning, night owls and early birds. Life is hectic, people are different. We all know this. So why don't we build systems to account for this?

Don't Ad Me Bro

November 11, 2019 • ☕️ 3 min read

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What are we if we're not dictating our own thoughts and outcomes? The saying is "I think therefore I am". Should it now be "I'm statistically significant therefore I'm not"?

Let Business Write Business Logic

May 31, 2019 • ☕️☕️ 8 min read

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Using Erlangs built-in lexing and parsing libraries we can easily define restricted and safe grammars that will let your business team define simple rules in your system. Essentially offloading arbirtrary business logic to the business team themselves.

How to read and write Mindful Minutes from iOS’s HealthKit

August 6, 2018 • ☕️ 4 min read

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I absolutely love the route Apple has been going with their iOS SDK’s. (Their hardware not so much). Apple’s focus on security has allowed it to become a reliable company to trust your sensitive…

Writing a Reverse Proxy in just one line with Go

July 12, 2018 • ☕️ 3 min read

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Leave your programming language hang ups at the door and come admire the best standard library I’ve ever come across. Choosing a Programming Language for a project shouldn’t be like declaring who…

Remote Engineer: What’s in my Bag

May 4, 2018 • ☕️ 6 min read

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Not one to hide this opinion: I am a huge fan of remote work! I’m very vocal about my belief that this trend towards more distributed workplaces has no choice but to continue. However I’m not naive…

Get notified of user signups and plan changes automatically using Postgres & Phoenix PubSub

April 2, 2018 • ☕️ 3 min read

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A lot of time you need to make a system that can send out notifications to yourself or other users based on events, specifically events related to changes in your database. Postgres and Phoenix make…