I just released new versions of my benchmarking library benchee, now supporting multiple inputs, along with benchee_csv, also introducing new formatters benchee_json and finally benchee_html to create nice HTML reports, with graphs that can also be exported as PNG images! And of course, there also is a blog post about all of it.

We show a working example of how an Elixir Agent can Learn to solve a simple classification problem on its own via Machine Learning. We make use of the Single Neuron Perceptron Network fully implemented in Elixir. http://www.automatingthefuture.com/blog/2016/11/30/training-elixir-processes-to-learn-like-neurons

Plug v1.3.0 has just been released, and the Router has a great new feature. https://christopheradams.io/articles/2016/11/new-router-features-in-plug-1-3/

After attending in Orlando this year, I finally got around to compiling our group’s notes into a blog post.

http://www.brightball.com/articles/belated-elixirconf-2016-recap

Wrote an Elixir library to make File Sizes human-readable. For example, it will turn the number 1284727 into a nice “1.23 MB”.

Find it at github.com/arvidkahl/sizeable or at hex.pm/packages/sizeable. Feature requests, feedback and pull requests are very welcome.

I decided to write up a couple tutorial posts for getting started with the Absinthe GraphQL library in Phoenix. This is the first one https://ryanswapp.com/2016/11/29/phoenix-graphql-tutorial-with-absinthe/

I recently gave a talk in the city of La Plata about Elixir and Phoenix for Rails developers. I share with you the complete text of the talk in spanish with a link to the slides.

Recientemente dí una charla en la ciudad de La Plata acerca de Elixir y Phoenix para desarrolladores Rails. A continuación el texto completo con link a las diapositivas.

http://nicanor.github.io/2016/11/29/phoenix-desde-una-perspectiva-rails.html

An Elixir Nerves powered Raspberry Pi which uses Raspberry’s GPIO to make a LED on a breadboard blink: http://www.carstenblock.org/post/project-blinkenlights/index.html

https://github.com/sotojuan/playlist

Maru v0.11.0 has been released. https://github.com/elixir-maru/maru/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

https://github.com/roperzh/medium-sdk-elixir

https://www.meetup.com/budapest-elixir/events/235642606/

The video of the talk I gave at Rubyconf Portugal is online along with the slides. It’s a look at Elixir & Phoenix focusing on the explicit part of the title. Namely, how do Elixir and Phoenix make my programming life better apart from just raw speed? The talk is aimed at people not yet too familiar with Elixir & Phoenix and should serve as a good introduction, especially for ruby folks.

Sky is a library that exposes functions, macros and operators for dealing with functions.

It is common in elixir to pipe data through functions, and since functions are also data, why not extending the idea?

Error propagation in Elixir follows a different logic from that of mainstream languages. Here’s a blog post showing you how to capture all errors in an Elixir application.

http://semaphoreci.com/blog/2016/11/24/how-to-capture-all-errors-generated-by-a-function-call-in-elixir.html

https://blog.codingpl.us/2016/11/17/phoenix-first-impressions/

I just shipped a feature on https://libraries.io to help library maintainers find out which versions people currently depend on: https://libraries.io/hex/poison/usage

Check it out here!

Check out how to use the Apollo #GraphQL client in conjunction with Elixir’s Absinthe library. http://www.east5th.co/blog/2016/11/21/using-apollo-client-with-elixirs-absinthe/

How to send raw binary data through channels in the Phoenix framework using the MessagePack format to deliver the payload.

https://nerds.stoiximan.gr/2016/11/23/binary-data-over-phoenix-sockets/