A REST Client for Browsers
https://rfp.dev/blog/a-rest-client-for-browsers
We’ve built Polo, an open source REST client that runs in your browser. You can check it out at https://github.com/readyforproduction/polo. In this post, we will discuss some of its key features.
Babel - Data Transformations Made Easy
Did you ever have to write deeply nested JSON transformations and get increasingly annoyed by the “boilerplate-yness” of it all?
If yes, then this library is for you: https://github.com/alexocode/babel/
Babel is meant to make data transformations effortless by allowing you to specify the happy path. Take a look!
Nerves Meetup
The next Nerves meetup is Wednesday, May 29th! https://www.meetup.com/nerves/events/298253615/
Workspace - tools for elixir monorepos
We open sourced workspace a set of tools for working with elixir monorepos.
Petal Components and Phoenix 1.7
In episode 190, we explore how to setup Petal Components to work with Phoenix 1.7.
Thinking Elixir News 202
Episode 202 of Thinking Elixir. In this week’s edition, we dive into the exciting release of ElixirLS 0.21.0, enhancing the developer experience with new code actions and more efficient dialyzing on the latest OTP. We also discuss José Valim’s insightful commentary on Elixir’s upcoming type system, addressing bug-prone comparison operations, and additional advancements in exception handling. Don’t miss the unveiling of “Bloom,” an opinionated extension to Phoenix core components, alongside Chris McCord’s demo of lightning-fast hot code deploys across a global Fly.io cluster. We round off with the legal tussle over the FTC’s ruling on non-compete clauses and AWS’s S3 billing adjustments that provide relief from unauthorized access charges, and more!
An interview with Herminio Torres at Code BEAM America 2022
Adolfo Neto went to Code BEAM America 2022 (you can watch my talk with Lucas Tavano) and interviewed Herminio Torres, a software engineer at Simplebet (https://www.simplebet.ai/). YouTube: https://youtu.be/b_L5FUg2GRE Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/adolfont/p/an-interview-with-herminio-torres
Elixir Training for Beginners + Free Certification (17-21 June, online)
Introductory course introducing the key concepts in Elixir
5 days x 4h with Łukasz Pauszek from Erlang Solutions
THIS COURSE
Helps you understand the concepts behind Elixir
Gets you thinking concurrently about your application
Gives you the foundation knowledge needed to dive deeper in advanced subjects
Minimises typical beginner errors
Gets you up to speed with the development workflow
At the end of the training, developers will be offered the opportunity to take a Beginner Elixir Certification Exam valid for 1 year.
State of the Nerves Nation Survey
With NervesConf underway, we wanted to share a survey we’ve put together to help us better understand how you are using Nerves and how we can improve it.
https://nerves-project.typeform.com/sotnn-2024
The survey will be online until May 31st, and the results will be shared with everyone by June 30th.
Blend. A way to test your package against different versions of its dependencies.
We developed a new hex package that solves the problem of testing your library against different version of its dependencies.
Hope you like it!
Erlang Workshop, Erlang, and OTP with Kiko Fernandez-Reyes
In this episode of the Professor Adolfo Neto podcast, Adolfo Neto sits down with Kiko Fernández-Reyes, a Computer Science Engineer and Programming Languages Researcher at Ericsson, to delve into the world of Erlang, OTP (Open Telecom Platform), and programming languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xFmH3ohVgg
Toran Billups, Adventures with Synthetic Data
New talk from Toran Billups, Adventures with Synthetic Data (lessons learned building a chatbot from my SMS dataset), presenting at the Denver Elixir Meetup!
Thinking Elixir News 201
Episode 201 of Thinking Elixir. This week’s podcast dives into the latest tech updates, including the release of Lexical 0.6.0 with its impressive performance upgrades and new features for Phoenix controller completions. We’ll also talk about building smarter Slack bots with Elixir, and the LiveView support enhancements that bolster security against spam connections. Plus, we celebrate the 5-year milestone of Saša Jurić’s influential “Soul of Erlang and Elixir” talk. Of course we have to touch on the FTC’s impactful ban on non-compete employment clauses, a significant shift that will likely shake up the tech industry and innovation landscape. Stay tuned for this and more!
Elixir Streams |> 😎 A cool use of Elixir's `String.split/2` I didn't know about
Love having these tricks up my sleeve for when I need them.
This one is helpful when you have a string with two delimiters, and you want to get what’s inside of them.
👉 Elixir Streams |> 😎 A cool use of Elixir’s String.split/2 I didn’t know about
Elixir Streams |> LiveView's Automatic Form Recovery ⚡️
I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I’m filling out a long form and for some reason it disconnects, reconnects and I lose all of my form data. 😱
Thankfully LiveView ships with automatic form recovery!
Simple free CI/CD with auto configured SSL for Phoenix app
Implementation of simple cost- and dependency-free Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) flow to auto-deploy Phoenix app without downtime
https://dev.to/azyzz/free-simple-cicd-for-elixir-phoenix-app-50k2
Open graph image generator built with Phoenix
The SavvyCal team open sourced their open graph image generation service this week, built with Elixir, Phoenix, and a little Node.js + Puppeteer sprinkled in.
- Extensible templating system
- Tailwind CSS for styling image templates
- Emoji support
- Ready for deployment to Fly
Check it out on GitHub! ✨ https://github.com/svycal/og-image
PhoenixTest v0.3.0 is now out! 📣
- Removes deprecated code
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Adds
unwrapfor an escape hatch 🐣 - Handles buttons submitting forms when not nested in the form
- and more!
Grab it while it’s hot 🔥