Neat idea! Are you able to add a link to the documentation/hex package as well?

Thanks! Most certainly, coming soon! Apart from just linking directly to hexdocs I want to make sure all the linkable symbols in the documentation section itself are also properly recognized. This is doable with ExDoc.Formatter.HTML.Autolink but I haven’t fully figured out that interface yet.

FWIW I made some improvements live since the original posting:

• the function always links to hexdocs.pm
• there’s a “share on twitter” button now, I hope it works. I wanted to avoid vendor’s JS spyware so I came up with a custom button; can’t really tell whether that’s good enough - someone with twitter, please use it for science
• added a “roll the dice” link that lets you explore random functions on demand
• everything should feel significantly snappier, went from 0.1s to 0.007s max in my microbenchmark for random access

Many people suggested tightly coupled twitter/RSS integration. I’m not a fan but I’ll look into it soon-ish.

Coming up next:

The closest priorities are not really user-facing. I need to figure out how to deploy the site with proper erlang release/container (possibly docker), so that:

• loaded apps (and thus, functions in the pool) are somewhat constant and determined by the release configuration (embedded release, currently ecto and postgrex do not seem to be included due to some misconfiguration - to be investigated)
• I can develop a deployment pipeline that enables me to push it to a random ubuntu host I already own, rather than throwing at heroku

If there’s anyone out there willing to help - kindly consider this a call for action

The repo is at GitHub - aerosol/fotd: Elixir Function of the Day · GitHub

Thanks!