Use simple password authentication with password managers support (ie. 1password) for your app

https://medium.com/@bartoszlecki/plugpassword-secure-your-plug-based-application-c3f80960a2d

https://medium.com/@iacobson/testing-the-genstages-under-umbrella-b55a2db37a28

The second article in the GenStage Under Umbrella series. Integration testing GenStages inside Umbrella apps.

You’ve seen the recommended way of managing state in an Elixir process.

Recently I learned how you can maintain process state through the Process Dictionary. Read what it is, how it works, and how it can be abused.

Stay safe out there!

ElixirScript 0.31.0 has been released.

This release includes a number of bug fixes and some enhancements https://elixirscript.github.io/post/elixirscript-0.31.0-released/

Hammer v2.0.0 has just been released, along with a corresponding update for the Redis backend.

This release brings a much simpler API, making Hammer easier to integrate into your system.

Let’s explore and compare two possible implementations of Ruby’s Thor CLI toolkit, one using Ruby’s dynamic metaprogramming and one using Elixir macros.

http://teamon.eu/2017/thor-like-cli-elixir-macros/

Let’s go further down the Bitcoin rabbit hole and start building out a basic blockchain explorer using Elixir and Phoenix!

I wrote a blog post about :applications vs :extra_applications. Enjoy!

We’ve just released ElixirJobs, a job board for Elixir enthusiasts and companies that want to hire developers for their Elixir/Erlang projects!

You can see it in the web and following the Twitter account

After the announcement of ARKit in WWDC, developers are using Augmented Reality for iOS 11 to surprise us with new demos of ARKit usage. Recently iOS developer, Felix Laplame found some clues from the Apple’s code related to the Maps app.

Click to View More - Traveling Around Is Now Easier With Augmented Reality For iOS11 Using Arkit

Version 1.3:

• fixes erlang modules mocking
• adds workaround for avoiding unnecessary compile-time dependencies when using module attributes

https://hex.pm/packages/mockery

I’ve just written an article about how we rewrote part of our Rails app to Phoenix service https://medium.com/@SergeyChechaev/rails-and-phoenix-microservice-synergy-5433598ab333

https://blog.ironbay.co/reading-named-pipes-with-elixir-c5c614a32f25

How to go about reading data from special files like named pipes

https://hex.pm/packages/clusterable

This version removes epmd dependency, and

• v0.1 only helps prepare a node before it can be clustered.
• v0.2 goes one step further to integrate libcluster into the library, performing the clustering for you.

Still not for release users though.

https://medium.com/@iacobson/genstage-under-umbrella-634160612cf6

Use GenStage to communicate between Elixir Umbrella apps and avoid internal dependencies issues.

Five talks from this year’s ElixirConf US that will teach you to be a better Elixir developer – both for beginners and advanced Alchemists.

https://medium.com/@pentacent/5-great-videos-from-elixirconf-2017-4d985386b55b

This post dives into how to control and query a Bitcoin full node from within Elixir using HTTPoison and Bitcoin’s JSON RPC interface. Check it out!

Short blog post in Polish about examples in documentation and how to use them to write tests. Everything with Slowsort algorithm background.

Finally, exometer_influxdb is available on hex.pm and ready to use with your Erlang/Elixir projects.

Cloudinex is an Elixir wrapper around the Cloudinary Image Upload API and Admin API using Tesla