Ben Barber

I’m a UK based Elixir, Ruby, and React developer with over 15 years of experience in crafting web applications, APIs and interfaces.

You can read more About me, book a Mentoring session, follow me on Twitter, and check out my code on GitHub.

When starting out a new Gatsby based project I have found myself going through repeated steps to convert the default starter over to… »

For the last two year's I have been working mostly with Typescript when developing for the front-end and it has fast become my preferred… »

I recently had the requirement to serve some static files from within a Elixir Phoenix application but this was not as simple as dropping… »

Tracking down issues by searching though log files can be difficult, especially if your application is deployed across multiple instances… »

When your Rails application depends on a lot of communication with external services and API's its important that these integrations are… »

Today me and some of my colleagues attended the AWS Summit in London's Excel, this consisted of attending talks and keynote presentations on… »

While the build process in Jekyll works great, it didn't quite fit my requirements and I wanted more control. While some of the things that… »