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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. ....

Interview with Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong ....

I just registered for the ElixirConf 2018®. See you there! I’ll travel from FRA to SEA on Sep 4th. Leave a message if we can meet for the journey. Back from Seattle It was a gorgeous time and I’m exited to work with Elixir for the next project. Other than that, I had a lot of fun, meeting “old friends”. Selfie Ch....