I have a role for a swedish intermediate/senior Elixir developer.

The role is based in Sweden (no exceptions, compliance reasons). Stockholm is preferred, flexible on-site is preferred but they can be open for remote for the right candidate.

The company is a small security product company making large moves. They are taking their cloud platform from Ruby and Go to Elixir. And they are developing hardware projects with Nerves. Significant experience with Elixir is required. Ideally involving Phoenix and Ecto, kind of standard. Experience in Nerves is a big plus, experience in Ruby and Go for the purposes of the migration are beneficial but not necessary.

I have worked with the company in a consulting capacity and now help them recruit for this role. I really like working with them. They have a scrappy approach and a lively culture in a field that is often suffocatingly boring. They are happy to support the community and ecosystem.

Again, Sweden only for now.

No longer a skill issue

Kids were down for the night. Wife is off at karate. I have time to myself and have decided to not try and grind through any extra client work this evening. There is a little puzzle I had planned to spend some friday silly time on but I'm feel like hacking on something so I pick it up. This neat little hack that puts your Nerves device on your Tailscale network is the result. It probably took 2 hours where most of it was making it consistent and more reliable.

Oh, no LLMs involved. Not that I'm that precious, I just haven't gotten into using them for things and besides, I already knew what to do.

This was a thing I hadn't done before. However. I knew all the components. I knew all the things that needed doing. I knew it could be done and should work. None of this is a given as a programmer. For example I am currently doing work with an annoying security chip that fights me every step of the way. It says on the tin that it should do what I want but every step is a process of pulling teeth. That's how programming often feels when doing a lot of new things.

There is something very heart-warming and satisfying when you get to sit back into the comfy chair of things you know how to do and just do them. For the people that are still very new to programming. Know that if you stick with things, it will become second nature, it is learnable. The parts where you are pushing yourself will always be hard. The parts where you've spent plenty of time cease being so hard.

Then a new challenge begins. Which things should you spend your limited time doing. That is next struggle. 

Where is your foundation and your strength? What are you comfortably capable and competent at already? What are you struggling into? You can get to me on the Fediverse where I'm @lawik@fosstodon.org or by responding to this email to lars@underjord.io.

Thank you for reading. I appreciate you.

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