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 …

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 …

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 …

Neil Gaiman:

When you watch TV or see a film, you are looking at things happening to other people. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and …

• Code even you cannot understand a week after you wrote it -- no comments
• Code with no specifications
• Code that is shipped as soon as it runs and before it is beautiful
• Code with added features
• Code that is very very fast very very very obscure and incorrect
• Code that is …

Today I listened to episode 41 of the Functional Geekery podcast with guest Eric Normand. Eric talked about teaching functional programming ideas, wherein he already has broad experience from doing LispCast, Closure Gazette and PurelyFunctional.tv.

His idea of how to teach functional basics is simply brilliant. Instead of providing …