Brian Meeker

Have a Coherent AI Policy
2026-05-14
- leadership
- AI
My engineering AI policy at GetThru and tokenmaxxing as a lack of leadership.Continue Reading
2025 Year In Review
2026-01-25
- elixir
- unionization
Unionization, AI, and... management?Continue Reading
2024 Year In Review
2025-01-26
- elixir
- tattoos
(Another)New year, new talks, and same job.Continue Reading
2023 Year In Review
2024-01-31
- elixir
- virtual_coffee
New year, new talks, and new jobs.Continue Reading
Introducing LivePet for THAT Conference 2023
2023-06-13
Why have one virtual pet when you could have 120K? LivePet is a new Elixir and LiveView demo app for my talk at THAT Conference 2023.Continue Reading
Ecto dynamic/0 Compile Error
2023-05-24
- elixir
- ecto
Upgrading to OTP 26 without also upgrading Ecto to >= 3.9.5 causes compilation errorsContinue Reading
Obsidian with Dataview Lightning Talk
2023-04-03
I recently gave my lightning talk on Obsidian and Dataview for the second time. This time it was recorded and put up on YouTube.Continue Reading
One Month with a reMarkable 2 Tablet
2023-03-10
- remarkable
I finally gave in and bought a reMarkable 2 tablet. How has it worked out after one month?Continue Reading
2022 Year In Review
2022-12-31
2022 was a year of big professional changes for me across the board.Continue Reading
Aggregating Weekly Notes With Obsidian and Dataview
2022-11-25
- obsidian
- dataview
I like to end my work week with a weekly summary of what I worked, accomplishments, and other thoughts. This is how I pull that together with Obsidian and Dataview.Continue Reading
Stopping Docker Containers By Partial Name
2022-11-23
- docker
- cli
I've been closing some gaps in my Docker CLI knowledge. Recently, I've been needing to stop a running container by name more often.Continue Reading
Flipping Tiles With Angular and Tailwind
2022-09-27
Learn how to implement a nice tile flip animation with plain CSS, Tailwind, and AngularContinue Reading
Setting Up ABP With OpenIddict on Azure App Services
2022-08-29
ABP is switching to OpenIddict for authentication. Let's figure out how to set it up on Azure.Continue Reading
Switching From Evernote To Obsidian With Yarle
2022-08-09
- evernote
- obsidian
How I exported 5,408 notes from Evernote and converted them into Markdown for ObsidianContinue Reading
Debugging Transaction Issues In MariaDB
2022-06-07
- mariadb
Transactions are great until they aren't. I was reminded of this the past couple of days while trying to figure out why some code I was refactoring was all of a sudden timing out.Continue Reading
Combining the Default Policy in ASP.NET Core
2022-04-27
- c-sharp
- asp-net-core
ASP.NET Core's policy-based authorization allows you to combine policies. Using this in combination with the default policy can reduce duplication.Continue Reading
Using validateStatus in Axios
2022-03-04
- axios
- javascript
This past week I was working with an API endpoint where a 404 response is expected for invalid user input. I didn't want Axios to treat this as an errorContinue Reading
Custom Model Binders in ASP.NET Core 6
2022-02-13
- asp-net-core
- c-sharp
This past week I was integrating with a third party service that passes back boolean values in the query string as Yes/No. The built-in ASP.NET Core 6 model binding can handle true/false or 1/0, but not Yes/No. Let's look at how to make our own custom model binder for this simple use case and how to unit test it.Continue Reading
100 Days of Morning Pages
2021-12-02
- writing
Thoughts on my experiment with morning pages, both longhand and typed.Continue Reading
Lessons Learned With Stripe Subscriptions
2021-11-12
- stripe
So, you've got a new product or business idea and you think selling subscriptions is the way to go. Here are some issues to keep in mind as you get started.Continue Reading
Setting Expectations With the Cone of Uncertainty
2021-11-11
- agile
- estimating
I've been doing a lot of planning and estimating at work the past couple weeks. This led me to brush off an estimation technique I hadn't used in a long time, the cone of uncertainty.Continue Reading
Redirects in ASP.NET Core With Both HTML and JSON Endpoints
2021-08-27
- asp-net-core
- c-sharp
This past week I ran into the problem of retrofitting an endpoint that returns JSON into an app that up until now has returned HTML from all endpoints. Luckily, ASP.NET Core makes it easy to customize the behavior.Continue Reading
Creating Custom Assertions With Fluent.Assertions
2021-08-14
- c-sharp
Exploring creating custom assertions with Fluent.Assertions for the first time.Continue Reading
Dreyfus Model
2021-08-13
Working through where I am at in various skills according to the Dreyfuss modelContinue Reading
Ownership and Intention
2021-06-18
- husmus
- job-search
tl;dr: I'm joining Husmus as their Director of Engineering.Continue Reading
How I Focus: Cold Turkey
2020-08-19
- cold-turkey
- focus
How I use Cold Turkey to give me the power to fight against my tendency to fall down the internet rabbit hole and not actually get anything done.Continue Reading
How I Focus: Forest
2020-08-07
- focus
- forest
I have worked remotely from home as consultant for over eight years now. Keeping focus during work is a constant struggle for me. I'm endlessly inventive in coming up with new ways to distract myself from doing work when I don't want to. One tool I use to combat this is Forest, a distraction blocking app for your phone.Continue Reading
From Punch Cards to Git: A Brief History of Version Control
2020-08-02
- speaking
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RSI & Keyboards
2015-04-22
An overview of all the keyboards I've used over the years in an attempt to help my RSI.Continue Reading
Test Driving the Microsoft Band SDK
2015-03-23
TL;DR: The Band SDK is currently very much a preview and you should wait if you want to do anything serious with it. You're very limited in functionality.Continue Reading
Mapping View Model Dependencies with MvvmCross and AutoMapper
2015-02-22
AutoMapper is one of those amazing tools that I wish I was better with. It's incredibly flexible, but I often throw in the towel and map things myself when it starts getting complicated. A recent pain point has been view models in a MvvmCross project.Continue Reading
Startup Founders & Risk
2015-01-19
The importance of equalizing risk amongst startup founders.Continue Reading
Knowing When To Quit
2014-05-11
A personal story about how I knew it was time to quit a job that wasn't working.Continue Reading
Two Year Recap
2014-04-22
What have I been up to for the past two years?Continue Reading
CodeMash 2012
2012-01-28
- codemash
Brief thoughts on each talk I attended at CodeMash 2012.Continue Reading
The Wow Factor
2011-06-16
Brief thoughts on Perl, Rails, and "the wow factor."Continue Reading
Perl From The Outside
2011-05-23
- c-sharp
- perl
Reflections on Perl and the Perl community after six months as a full-time Perl dev.Continue Reading
Games::Tetravex
2011-04-04
Experimentation with building Tetravex in Perl using SDL and Moose.Continue Reading
From C# To Perl: Performance
2011-03-21
A superficial performance comparison of C# and PerlContinue Reading
From C# To Perl: Garbage Collection
2011-02-19
- c-sharp
- perl
A quick, surface level comparison of garbage collection in C# and Perl.Continue Reading
From C# To Perl: Code Analysis Tools
2011-01-28
A comparison of static code analysis tools in Perl and C#Continue Reading
From C# To Perl: Introduction
2010-12-30
- c-sharp
- perl
After over three years as a C# developer I have made the jump to Perl. Let's see what we can learn on this journey.Continue Reading