This is my first successful Elixir project that was actually released. I've been following Elixir for a while now and I'm in the wider diaspora, so it was time to do something productive besides solving Elixir koans and the Elixir track at Exercism.

If you run Kafka like we do …

Dieses Wochenende war nicht nur für mich besonders. Wir hatten Besuch eines Bekannten aus Brasilien, der unbedingt mal Schnee sehen wollte - witzig, hätten wir doch gern weniger davon... Er war schon Skifahren, Schlittschlaufen, einen Schneemann bauen, Schneeengel machen und alles andere wonach uns normal der Sinn nicht mehr steht. Er …

Am Wochenende ging es wie jedes Jahr mit der Rentnergruppe meines Vaters wieder nach Rinnen, um dort das Wochenende zu kochen und mit den Schneeschuhen zu wandern. Dieses Mal hat es auch wieder mit Schnee geklappt und wir mussten nicht auf normales Wandern zurückfallen...

Leider hatten wir nur am ersten …

Lately I've been watching the Distributed Systems Course on Youtube and really enjoy the teaching style.

If you skip the lessons on Blockchain (I'm not really interested in that) it roughly takes you 2 laid-back evenings or one tour de force evening.

Also while I watched the lesson on the …

If you ever talked to me you probably noticed my Neil Gaiman fandom. Here are some reasons to love him:

Broken hearts

Q:

"How do you get over a broken heart?"

Neil Gaiman A:

"You don’t, ever. Not quite. But time can do amazing things. A deep wound scabs …

Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers.

20 Writing Tips from Fiction Authors

"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for …

Background

A friend of mine approached me with the task of writing a program. Sometimes he gets a call and has to check if something's going on at another production site. He wanted a tool to download still images from a security camera, which should be converted to an animated …

Dies sind meine gesammelten Notizen zu "Wie schreibt man eine Geschichte?":

5 Tips für kreativere Fiktion

1. Starte mit Spannung: Verlust einer geliebten Person, Niederlage bei einem Rennen gegen den langjährigen Widersacher, etc.
2. Wissen, was die Charaktere mögen: Wünsche treiben die Charaktere an
3. Beende jedes Kapitel mit einem Cliffhanger: Durch unbeantwortete …

Maybe you've read this article about how to create incrementing versions for your Elixir apps with the help of Git tags. The Git tag is used as the release version Distillery uses.

This is the way you would it with the help of Mercurial:

1. Commit your new version and …

Some months I received my C.H.I.P. - a 9$ computer with a 1 GHz CPU, 512 MG RAM and built-in WiFi. My plan was to run distributed tasks with Elixir on it. But how did I get there?

Open up C.H.I.P. flasher tool with Chromium …