The Craftsman's Blog

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!....

I love Elixir and the implementation of protocols. Here is an example of how you can implement a protocol for a given data type/structure. What this example shows: 1st: There is a protocol named Usecase. It declares all functions of the implementation of the protocol Usecase needs. So, you can execute it like so: Define a module for your use casedefmoduleDateUsecasedouseClean# <= this impl....

The last couple of weeks I ran ArchLinux and did a lot of “playing around with stuff”. Now, I finally decide, I will use ArchLinux for my daily workstation. I did all of my investigations on a cheep AMD-PC. But now, as I know what I really want to be my workstation looks like, I installed ArchoLinuxD with i3wm on an 10 years old MacBookPro. The old MacBook doesn’t work with current OS X anyways. But look what....

Since I set up my little Linux box- after sticking with Mac for decades -I could manage a simple and easy setup. The only thing that drives me crazy was the lack of “natural scrolling.” After a lot of research, try and fail, and hair scrambling, finally, here is how I managed to get natural scrolling back (for all applications) First, write a simple shell script. # $HOME/bin/natural_scrolling id=`xinput list | grep -i "Wireless Device Mo....

After decades using Macs only, I’m back to Linux. My last macBook pro has a broken keyboard (yes, butterfly :-/) and after only thre years the battery starts to get thicker. Shame on you Apple! So, I tried a really cheep AMD-powered PC with Linux and i3 t....