Portrait of Nicolas Dular
Hi, I am Nicolas Dular

Staff Engineer at GitLab.
I am passionate about building products everyone loves to use.

Notes

Short notes and things I learned.

Posts

The value of side projects

Do you know that feeling when you receive a renewal reminder for an abandoned...

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Quitting Twitter

Twitter was my last social network, and nostalgia made it hard to quit. Growing...

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Building Sweatmaps.io

We have this nicely drawn poster with a map of Vienna in our apartment. One day...

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Complaining is easy

An error in a product? – β€œHow dumb can they be and not think about this beforehand...

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To Engineering Mangement and back

When my professional career as a software engineer started, a friend asked about...

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Structured problem solving

When I built the first implementation of Text Annotations for PSPDFKit for Web

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Working remotely – Expectations

In September I will join GitLab and while this a very exciting challenge on its...

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Applying For a Software Engineering Job

After being an interviewer and an applicant, I want to share my experience and...

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Database Transactions with Ecto

Let’s talk about transactions for a moment. Imagine this: You’re out with a friend...

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REST in Peace – Welcome to GraphQL

Thanks for clicking on this clickbait title πŸ˜‰. The post is a transcript of my...

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How to Run Your Phoenix Application with Docker

At PSPDFKit, we invested in Elixir very early. PSPDFKit Server is written completely...

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Test your GraphQL API in Elixir

While developing a new GraphQL API, I thought about the best way to actually test...

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My Experience as coach at Rails Girls

I was invited to coach at Rails Girls Vienna 2016 β€” it was the second time and...

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