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I gathered some howtos and rules which work for me to harness my AI assistant. It might or might not work for you. The mileage might differ.
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Łukasz wrote a great article, 'guiding not ruling’ the way of writing tests. I agree with everything, short of his attitude to mocks. The...
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I spent the last few months building an ISO 20022 parser in Elixir after dealing with banking integrations professionally and repeatedly ...
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TL;DR: Give https://cure-lang.org a try—perhaps you will like it.
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Imagine a conductor forced to relearn musical notation every time a new instrument joins the orchestra. Violin—one system of writing. Cel...
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Summing up my thoughts about “slop advent.”
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As a slowpoke, I wrote my own take on Clean Code and other dogmas of a Computer Science.
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Wrote a rant on why knowing at least five main paradigms of software development is a must for a decent coder.
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Let’s do Open Telemetry tracing.. by doing Erlang tracing.
And also hot code updates for special software delivery.
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A bit of a rant about how we do develop software nowadays with an assistance of T9 on steroids aka LLM aka Artificial Intelligence.
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Just wrote a new blog post about how to deploy a Phoenix app using Kamal 2. Check it out and let me know what do you think:
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I’m closing out, for now, my series on questions at the heart of development with an analysis of when we need more abstraction. For exam...
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A comprehensive guide for deploying Phoenix 1.8 applications using Coolify on Hetzner servers. Covers server setup, Coolify configuration...
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In this article, we discuss how to create a Docker image for a Phoenix application.
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If I need to ship a new product in a week, Phoenix LiveView is my go-to framework.
Elixir LiveView is incredible, and an alluring choice...
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I didn’t have room for this in my book, Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir , but I still thought it was worth sharing on my blog.
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A new article showcasing some of Oban, and Oban Pro’s, distinct agentic workflow abilities.
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Wrote a rant on why knowing at least five main paradigms of software development is a must for a decent coder.
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I learn best by writing, so I wrote up some higher-level notes on Ash from the Ash Framework book. I thought others might find it useful:
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We built a Google Calendar-style scheduling interface entirely in Phoenix LiveView for a clinic management platform. This post walks thro...
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How the OSS community can democratize LLM context management
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More optics in Funx: when you need multiple foci, use a traversal.
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Hey gang, recently updated my core components and generated live views to fix a big frustration of mine. Wrote up a post here:
Does th...
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A worm crawling through the BEAM ecosystem.
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Couldn’t fit optics in my book, but I can build them into Funx.
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I wanted to refresh my knowledge on how to mix phx.gen.auth with local password users db, as well as OAuth providers such as ...
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I had a bit of a mini-adventure following Sobelow’s advice on adding a CSP to a Phoenix App. If you want to follow along, or want to add ...
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We all have varying degrees of exposure to Big Tech. Some of it seems fine, stable and can be relied on. Some of it feels like shifting s...
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Dialyzer is a tool that you’ve probably heard about in the Elixir community. You may have even used it. However, adding Dialyzer to an ex...
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One of the Erlang ecosystem’s spiciest nerd snipes are hot code updates. Because it can do it. In ways that almost no other runtime can.
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Elixir is a great language, but some behavior can be unintuitive, confusing and in the worst case lead to bugs. So, I took a look at 10 E...
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Our take on how to build a frontend style guide with Phoenix Components, Atomic Design and plain CSS, with focus on reusability and code ...
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OTP 26 was released and the Elixir 1.14.4 builds have been updated! Erlang OTP 26 changed how map keys are sorted, or not sorted actually...
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How the Elixir community can survive — and thrive — in an age of LLMs.
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In this article, I talk about the Elixir library Delta we at Slab just open-sourced, its various features including support for Operation...
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I’m showing you how you can customise the phx.new generator to give you a new Phoenix project the way YOU want it. In this post I show yo...
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How does a torrent client download huge files from the internet with just a .torrent file? In this post we’ll explore the BitTorrent prot...
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Use the new log handlers to plug Slack or any other provider into your logging system.
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This post explores different ways to do test automation in Elixir, focusing on how to handle dependency injection — covering patterns, li...
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In this post I explore the silos that exist in the Elixir ecosystem, the pros and cons, and what we can improve.
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Testing is an important part of any modern piece of software. But writing tests can quickly become an exercise in frustration, with tons ...
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Does the world need another How to create a blog article?
Maybe not.
But then again, creating something out of nothing is what we love....
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This is an overview of different ways to try and kill an OTP process (in Elixir) and the behaviour to expect when that happens. I know th...
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I wrote a blog post called Elixir Observability: OpenTelemetry, Lightstep, Honeycomb. The post post covers how to integrate ...
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Recently I was playing around with extracting and updating data in the DB and for fun challenged myself to try to implement a ...
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Blogged about the motivation and reasoning behind my idea to create yet another FSM library. Long story short: I did it in a proper way :...
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Here’s the story how one of the world’s first production deployments of LiveView came to be - and how trying to improve it almost caused ...
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Add drag-and-drop functionality to your Phoenix LiveView app with SortableJS and LiveView Hooks! This posts shows you how to create an in...
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There is a new community resource available on writing “Safe Ecto Migrations”. When we get a migration wrong, it can lock up your product...
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Building a LiveView powered chat app is easier than ever when using Streams! Sophie DeBenedetto shows us how in this article. She createa...
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This post asks if we can remove Alpine from the PETAL stack. Can we do everything we need with just LiveView? Also, let’s explore an area...
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The desire to produce structured logs is common. In this article, I will survey the major approaches one could take to achieve this goal ...
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What I genuinely value at my workplace is that I can easily explore new languages through internal mobility. Throughout my career within ...
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I ran into an interesting problem recently where simple concurrency on the BEAM via Task.async made my application a lot slower and a lot...
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You are storing some Phoenix LiveView state in the browser. You want to retrieve that saved state as early as possible to improve the use...
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