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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 12/08/2025

SavvyCal is hiring! I'm looking for a remote full-stack developer to join the team. You'll work directly with me on interesting problems and make a meaningful impact on thousands of customers. Stack: Elixir, PostgreSQL, Inertia.js, React, TS, Tailwind CSS Apply: savvycal.com/jobs/full-st...

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 06/01/2025

Sorry, should be able to now

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 05/01/2025

Lots of good things about the previous iteration, but it was a bit inflexible and we needed to play with using more copy and product visuals. I’d like to gradually get some of that personality worked back in though

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 05/01/2025

Hmm we do run some email validation checks automatically, but it’s possible some are getting through (some of the checks are not super reliable, so we don’t rely on them aggressively). By don’t resolve, do you mean they bounce when you email them?

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 13/12/2024

Feels like a sort of societal decay. A bit concerning.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 13/12/2024

At least it’s sunny! … 🫠

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 03/12/2024

Straight up Inertia + React

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 02/12/2024

I've been flirting with it, but still get spooked by those who claim adverse long-term heath affects on various organs. (I don't remember the specifics of their claims, just that I've seen them) 😅

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 30/11/2024

Strongly recommend it! Long-running branches that may diverge significantly from main are quite the momentum killer (stress, uncertainty, accumulating sense of inertia).

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 30/11/2024

I generally use whatever package is en vogue for my backend framework (in Elixir land, there's a package called FunWithFlags I'm using which gives me a little UI for enabling/disabling them, and some functions for checking status wherever needed in code).

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 30/11/2024

When in doubt, toss it behind a feature flag and get it into production early.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 30/11/2024

That would be really cool! I should also clarify that Inertia.js is more of a "protocol" that lets you use React, Vue or Svelte for your view layer, married up beautifully with your Elixir/Rails/Laravel/etc backend.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 30/11/2024

When in doubt, make the UI layer dumber.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 25/11/2024

It's fascinating to me how so much early education is focused on writing as an art form rather than writing as an optimized communication mechanism. I wonder if that's ideal...

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 25/11/2024

In school, I was taught to use bigger words and more complex literary devices to express ideas. Now as I product builder, I have to continuously battle against those instincts and instead optimize for clarity above all.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 22/11/2024

Thank you, Daragh! Here's the public booking link: savvycal.com/daragh/free-... (that URL above is your link settings)

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 21/11/2024

😂 yeah I’m sure mine was as well around that whole genre

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 20/11/2024

Redesigning a core interface. Vacillating between “this is amazing!” and “ugh this is no good…” 😁

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 19/11/2024

Yep! To me, it’s all about productivity risk. I don’t doubt most/all things could be doable, the question is how much time and effort will it cost?

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 19/11/2024

It does feel like LiveView is getting closer to where I’d want it to be, with packages like fluxonui.com. To date, I’ve just not wanted to give up the wealth of mature tooling for all things frontend that React has to offer.

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Fluxon UI · UI Components for Phoenix Framework

Elegant and accessible UI components for Phoenix Framework.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 19/11/2024

Inertia and Liveview are two different approaches (with Inertia, views are defined in React, Vue, or Svelte, and with Liveview they are defined in Elixir-based templates and components).

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 18/11/2024

Yeah, the main consideration is performance (first contentful paint) when browser cache is cold, particularly for public booking pages.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 18/11/2024

It's been soo good. We started out with Turbolinks + a mix of React-driven pages & server-rendered HTML. A few years ago, we transitioned our cobbled-together Inertia-like setup to real Inertia.js 👌

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 17/11/2024

Maybe! But yeah democratized fact checking seems pretty fundamentally good.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 17/11/2024

I wonder if Bluesky is working on a community notes feature? I’m seeing a lot of chatter about bans and blocks, but suppression doesn’t feel like the best tool for challenging factual errors in many cases.

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Derrick Reimer @derrickreimer.com · 17/11/2024

It even knew what the icon was based on just the SVG markup 🤯

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