The Craftsman's Blog

I stumbled over this short video by Pragdave, Dave Thomas, at his homepage. It’s a good explanation why we have to use more cores instead of higher clock-speed in our modern computers and why Elixir is a very good choice to do ‘parallel programming’. Check it out at pragdave.me ….There is no direct URL I could provide to the vid....

Yesterday I unpacked my new iPhone and the transfer from the old to the new device was simple and straight forward. So, I reset/deleted the old device. Wrong! When I opened the security app for my banking account, it asked me to scan the QR code form the old phone. Hahaha. It costs me 3 calls to some hotlines to get this fixed for all of my security apps. So, take care and keep your old phone intact until you h....

Lately, I had troubles updating this “nimble-publisher-based“ website. But thanks to the continues work of the community, everything works just fine again with the latest versions. {:earmark,"~> 1.4"},{:earmark_parser,"~> 1.4.22"},{:nimble_publisher,"~> 0.1"},{:makeup_elixir,">= 0.0.0"},{:makeup_erlang,">= 0.0.0"},....

Obsidian Today, I learned about Obsidian and I’m excited about. Over the last decades I tried a lot of note taking approaches. I liked them more less. Some I used for years, others failed after some months. And guess what, between switching these tools, I always ....

Recently I bumped the version of Elixir for this project to 1.13.2 and faced some issues with dependencies between Earmark and NimblePublisher. Quick answer first, I found no solution by now but a workaround. The Problem By just updating my dependencies in mix.exs as intuitively assumed{:earmark,"~> 1.4"},{:nimble_publisher,"~> 0.1"},{:makeup_elixir,">= 0.0.0"},{:makeup_erlang,">= 0.0.0"}, … didn....

New features of Livebook José Valim presents latest features of Livebook. Really cool stuff. I’m excited where this journey will lead us to. Great job!....

Learn Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView with Dave Thomas Elixir for Programmers, 2nd edition It is worth buying this amazing online course, by one of the best teachers you may find out there, Dave Thomas, The Coding Gnome. At e-matrix we bought this excelent course twice because we think it is worth for every pr....

Learn Elixir with Exercism Angelika Tyborska at Elixir Conf EU 2021....

Follow the altex project If you’re interested in this project, you may follow it on Github For short updates and announcments of new features, please follow the tag ax here.....

new feature “private posts” now you can add the tag private: as a list of atoms. each atom can represent a username. the post will be visible for any user in this list. example%{title:"private posts",author:"andi",tags:~w/andi 2022 blog/,draft:true,private:~w/admin andi/a}....