Donald Merand

Donald Merand @dmerand

About: Director of Tech-sploration at EXPLO (www.explo.org)

Location:
Boston, MA, USA
Joined:
Mar 5, 2018

Donald Merand
articles - 7 total

ExAirtable - Airtable in your Elixir

If you use Elixir and like Airtable, check out a new library I wrote called [ExAirtable](https://github.com/exploration/ex_airtable].

Learn More 10 0Nov 9 '20

DNS is a Thing that People Hack Now, I Made an Open-Source App to Help

We released a Ruby gem / app called dns-monitor to help track changes to DNS entries.

Learn More 10 0Jan 30 '20

Any FileMaker Devs Here?

I spend a lot of my days in FileMaker, and I wonder: are there any FileMaker devs lurking around here...

Learn More 11 2Apr 6 '18

Is Touch-Typing an Important Skill for Software Developers?

When I watch my expert colleagues navigate their work, I'm impressed by how their tools look like an...

Learn More 11 25Apr 1 '18

Do You Prefer Multiple Monitors or Just One? Why?

A post by Donald Merand

Learn More 10 32Mar 27 '18

Using JavaScript Promises for Non-Async Control Flow?

I love functional languages like Elixir + Elm that give you a pipe syntax for control flow: data |&...

Learn More 16 7Mar 11 '18

Explain It Like I’m #{[5, 10, 15, 20]}

Asking for a 5-year-old explanation and receiving a 20-year-old explanation can be confusing! In this article I try to explain the same problem for different target experience levels, hopefully to help us all ask better questions and give better answers!

Learn More 15 1Mar 6 '18