To promote Tarearbol.DynamicManager I created the 😻-language (which is a brainfuck dialect.)

Code outputting “Meow” to the console looks like this:

😺😺😺😺 😺😺😺😺
    😸😼😺😺😺😺 😸😼😺😺😹 😸🐱😹 🐱😾😹
  😼😼😺😺😺😺😺😻
  😼😾😾😾😻
  😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😻
  😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😻

https://github.com/am-kantox/bf

A few months ago, I sped up one of our test suites from about 6 minutes to around 20 seconds. I describe my debugging journey and how I found out that fallback protocols could be causing slower tests when running with code coverage and defining protocol implementations can improve the speed.

https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/tinfoil-define-protocol-implementations/

Today I am happy to announce https://github.com/gordalina/hush - the simplest way to inject secrets into your app configuration.

Hush was purpose built to solve a common use case for projects that require secrets and want to inject them in a secure way without having to depend on secret files or hardcoded configuration.

Read more about the announcement in the blog post: https://gordalina.com/articles/announcing-hush

The version 0.5.1 includes package updates. Check it out: https://hex.pm/packages/event_socket_outbound

In episode 37 of Thinking Elixir, after covering the news, we share a live recording of the show from the Lambda Days conference. It was a lot of fun! We covered topics like learning and teaching Elixir, functional programming, strengths of Elixir over Erlang, the developer tooling, why Elixir is awesome even when not building distributed systems, and much more!

Podcast Episode

If you ever wondered, how to reference existing enum functions in Absinth enum macros, wonder no more.

Here’s a quick tip on how you can add more customized page, using own Phoenix LiveComponent to your LiveDashboard. https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2021/3/1/adding-truly-custom-page-to-phoenix-live-dashboard/

To build a supervised, fault-tolerant and robust system, to run many processes holding nearly the same state, it saves a lot of boilerplate, claiming to implement perform/2 callback only (and maybe two optional callbacks call/3 and terminate/2.)

▸ https://rocket-science.ru/hacking/2021/02/28/async-response-handling-with-tarearbol

This post describes how we can script Elixir applications, that is provide and execute some code after the application had been compiled. http://www.buguigny.org/english/2020/12/26/scripting-elixir_applications.html

This group is intended for those who wish to progress in learning Erlang-OTP technology including Elixir and other languages over the Erlang VM (BEAM). You can be start-up creators, beginner or expert, or simply seek to progress on this know-how with the intention of implementing it soon .

The Erlang Paris meetup is back! Come with your project and your questions to discuss. If you are planning to do a little presentation, please post a message on the forum here so we can get organized on D-Day. See you Tuesday!

RSVP & Forum: https://www.meetup.com/Erlang-Paris/events/276603063/

I came up with a way to test a Phoenix Controller’s plug call without regular requests tests (conn tests). By digging a little deeper into Phoenix.Controller.Pipeline & some minor meta-programming:

https://www.adiiyengar.com/blog/20210225/testing-phoenix-controller-plug-setup

Order the beta from the Pragmatic Bookshelf:

https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/

Latest episode of Elixir Wizards is out today! Check it out here: https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s5e13-robinson-billups/

Live Coding with Nx: trying it out locally, deciphering the example neural net, and attempting to run it on an AWS instance with GPU.

https://youtu.be/HcO0yu740a0

So I tried to summarize my efforts in setting up an Elixir-based Telegram bot for other people that want to do the same. This is a getting started step-by-step guide. I also include the repo of the application I’m building if you want the bigger picture.

https://underjord.io/a-telegram-bot-in-elixir.html

Companies operate in an uncertain environment. Uncertain technology is certainly not something that will interest them. What makes companies decide to use Elixir language?

https://bartoszgorka.com/why-choose-elixir

The version 0.6.1 includes a bug fix and package updates. Check it out: https://hex.pm/packages/incident

In epsiode #130 we’ll use Cloak to encrypt Ecto fields.

https://elixircasts.io/encrypting-ecto-fields-with-cloak

Webhook might sound like some scary, exotic term but at the end of the day webhooks are nothing more that a web server endpoint configured to receive HTTP POST requests in some agreed upon format. The concern however is, without any additional security, anyone could discover the endpoint and start sending their own malicious payloads to your web application.

https://phoenixbyexample.com/posts/securing-webhook-payload-delivery-in-phoenix/

What are the benefits of Elixir for SaaS products? Find the answer in our interview with Alex Reichert, the co-founder of Papercups.

https://serokell.io/blog/elixir-in-production-papercups