Abstractions: A Tale of Keys and Values
summary
Built a live choose-your-own-adventure presentation as a real app using Elixir and Phoenix, syncing slides, speaker notes and chat with Elixir processes and Phoenix channels over WebSockets. The claim is concrete: the process-per-connection model simplifies state, supervisors recover failures, and the deck survives a room full of developers. Result: a small, maintainable system that actually ships and makes development feel joyful, showing how an abstraction can encode values like honesty and kindness.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 10:03git push --force
- 11:08QUANTUM MECHANICS
- 30:16IGNORANCE IS BLISS.
- 32:18SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF
- 41:28BUILDING A STATEFUL APPLICATION ON THE BACK OF A STATELESS PROTOCOL IS A TOTALLY REASONABLE PLAN.
- 42:44PROCESSES & MESSAGES
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