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… my 3rd HEX package for Elixir Timewrap is a “Time-Wrapper” through which you can access different time-sources, Elixir and Erlang offers you. Other than that you can implement on your own. Also, Timewrap can do the time-warp, freeze, and unfreeze a Timewrap.Timer. You can instantiat....

Too many languages I love to write most of the project (~80%) in the language of my choice #Elixir. Compared to other frameworks where most of the stuff still has to be done in other languages. ....

500tj anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death Next year is the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death and there is a really cool project about his notes. I hope this will be available online some day. Read about The Da Vinci Codescope on GatesNotes.....

I’m using Elixir as a scripting language for the shell And it’s that easy … Write a file, hello.exs for example.#!/usr/bin/env elixirdefmoduleGreeterdodefhello(name),do:IO.puts"Hello, #{name}!"end# MainGreeter.hello(hd(System.argv()) Don’t forget to chmod +x hello.exs and then use the script from the terminal....

If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong! The Character of Physical Law, Cornell University, 1964. pic.twitter.com/jzoWaFx3D9— Richard Feynman (@ProfFeynman) October 4, 2018....

Did you know that almost any shell uses the READLINE library? If using the command-line is part of your daily work you really should read Gnu Software Manual - Readline and get comfortable with it’s keys ;-) Even setting an editor (export EDITOR=vim for example) is possible. Set that you can use Alt-E to edit the current input line of your terminal within your editor. Most important keys MovementC-a Move to the start of the line. C-e Move to the end of the l....

I’m using an older iPad without the apple-pen but with a mechanical stylus (“JotPro”). My experience with wrist-protection software is that it either doesn’t work or slows down my iPad. Here is my solution … ....

After publishing Bucketier, a simple KV store for Elixir as a Hex-package about a month ago, today let me announce Datasource. Source on GithubHex-packageDatasource is a side project used in my Raspberry Experiments and as a handler of client-activities in my work-project. A continues stream of data from any source The Datasource is a straightforward module providing one function ....

Elixir and Nerves is fun! A Phoenix-Channel listen on messages from web-clients and switch LEDs on and off. In the other direction, pressing the button triggers a Phoenix-channel broadcast to the server, the server randomizes the three leds and sets them through Nerves.GPIO. Becau....

A nice and easy to understand Introduction to Elixir & Nerves on a RaspberryPi. Thanks to SteveGrossi I’ll have some fun today, playing with my Raspberry. ....