In this period, trying to slowly bootstrap myself on nerves!
Made a (dumb) thing GitHub - kpanic/nerves_morse: Toy nerves project to translate a string to morse through phoenix api to a green led · GitHub just for fun
kpanic
jwarlander
Recently I’ve been working on improving the systemd integration for our single Elixir / Phoenix app that we’ve got running so far, as well as improving logging, fixing some data synchronization bugs, working on our deployment config a bit, etc.
All this is mostly to prepare for moving from a manual workflow, where operators have been entering data into forms in the web UI in order to handle particular types of requests, to an automated workflow where these requests will be entering the system via Kafka.
I’ll be exciting to start working a bit with Kafka going forward, so really looking forward to that! 
sbr
Hello folks,
I’m very new to Elixir (and still a beginner programmer).
I’m working through the Udemy course by Stephen Grinder and the Pragmatic Programmers course.
After I’ve learned a bit more about Elixir and Phoenix, I would like to create a simple CRUD application.
I find Elixir a friendly language. The syntax is quite nice (except for anonymous functions imho). Pattern-matching is awesome.
sergio
Rewrote Magnetissimo to be an umbrella application and cleaned the hell out of my crawlers to be much much more straightforward.
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/tree/master/apps/magnetissimo/lib/crawlers
I’m focusing on adding support for torznab so Radarr and Sonarr can integrate with it seamlessly!
sbr
I finished the Elixir/Phoenix course by Stephen Grinder on Udemy. It was a nice overview but a bit shallow. I’m also not that happy that it uses Phoenix 1.2.
I will continue with the Pragmatic Programmers course which is much more indepth and then continue with the book “Programming Phoenix”.
crazymevt
I do lots of code reviews, and we have a standard where you always type a jira task number of the first part of a commit message. I had developed quite a few batch files for making this a little easier, but I always had to copy and paste the shas and files when i wanted to specific a subset of files (like non-compiled typescript files from node). I decided to write an elixir escript to make things even easier. now I just run gittool.bat and it’ll provide me a list like this
0 2f6d3c37 Author Mon Mar 25 16:15:51 2019 -0400 XXX-100: ignore case
gittool/gittool
gittool/lib/gittool.ex
1 240a852a Author Mon Mar 25 15:55:44 2019 -0400 XXX-100: gittool
gittool.bat
log-filename.bat
mremoterdp.xml
mremoterdp.xml.20190325-1057108793.backup
2 1124030a Author Mon Mar 25 15:55:13 2019 -0400 XXX-100: gittool
gittool/.formatter.exs
gittool/.gitignore
gittool/README.md
gittool/config/config.exs
gittool/gittool
gittool/lib/gittool.ex
gittool/mix.exs
gittool/test/gittool_test.exs
gittool/test/test_helper.exs
Now I have a list of all the files modified, who did it, when. Then I can just type the number of the commit I wish to inspect, and it’ll launch the default git difftool for each file in that commit. I haven’t made this one public yet, I still have some clean up and documentation to do. If you are interested in this let me know, if I get enough interest I’ll work on cleaning it up to make public.
jeramyRR
Ted
Right now I’m learning.
As a motivating exercise, I’m pondering the scenario that @Cruz posted regarding calculating subtotals and seeing what I come up with. Along the way I’m discovering that pattern matching + function heads really simplifies things. Very cool stuff. 
Meanwhile, I’m reading some books. I’ve made a first reading through the sequential-logic portion of Programming Elixir 1.6 (PragProg) and made it to the Ecto chapter of Programming Phoenix 1.4 (PragProg). I’m really enjoying these two books but I feel like I’m missing a little bit of detail and context, so I’m going to slow my pace just a touch.
I’ve also been catching up on some sample chapters of other books. I read the first chapter of Programming Erlang (PragProg) and instantly wanted more; Joe’s writing style really speaks to me (rest in peace, Joe), so I plan to take a break from the Elixir books and read this one to the end.
szjanecki
WFransen
Writing a queueing service that reads large csv / other files to save these in the database. Only problem 1. was to control the resources (cores that are reading/building structs and parsing strings) and 2. the database insert statements (too long causes timeouts, transaction conlicts etc…)
Next up is cleaning up the application! Want to follow “the little elixir & otp guidebook” principles for cleaner code with supervisors, after that going to try distribution for the processing part. (what if 2 people upload 2 huge zips at the same time?)