The Craftsman's Blog

OBSOLETE! Today there are better ways to deal with your config. Today, I wrote my fourth HEX-package and published it on “hex.pm”.Exconfig at hex.pmExconfig at Github When deploying via Docker-images I had some issues because the docker-image was compiled with System-ENVs which was used at compile-time and so was acti....

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....

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....

If you know me, you know I like to get rid of stuff, to keep things simple. And today I removed sass from my project. Thanks, Lea Verou for this brilliant talk. ....

One of the best talks about programming languages I’ve seen this year. ....

Yesterday I found this on twitter. 04 Dec, 1995. Published in The Sentinel of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I wonder how it can happen that, in 23 years, nobody fixed at least the stupidest errors of that crock. Sure, I’m not a Javascript expert –and I never will be– but from a language, alm....

Today, I wrote my first HEX-package and published it on “hex.pm”. It is an extract of my daily work and was part of an “Umbrella-App” initially. It is in a very early stage, and a lot of work will be necessary to make it a mature and useful contribution. ....

Pretty cool talk by Lea Verou about modern CSS features you might know.....

Let's just skip all the frameworks entirely. Learn how to do the work. Learn how to apply inspect and adapt to the work itself. Learn everything (all frameworks + underlying thinking). Build your own process. Nobody excels by following a rigid set of rules by rote.— Allen Holub (@allenholub) July 4, "2018" ....