Elixir

• Syntactic Extension with Elixir Macros.
• Publish-Subscribe in Elixir.
• Writing and Publishing Elixir Libraries.
• ejabberd joins the Elixir revolution.

Elm

• Elm Maybe - Dealing with null/Nothing.
• Testing in Elm.
• Writing Friendly Elm Code.

Gamedev

• Video: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past's dungeon design.
• Video: The Legend of …

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 …

Elixir

• This is kinda related to Elixir as a language. It runs on the BEAM. Introducing ML-Flavoured Erlang.
• Announcing GenStage.

Gamedev

• Backtracking and Level Design - Making a Way Out.
• Cocos2D-X V3.12 released!
• Source code for Lucasfilm Games' '80s MMO Habitat released - Before LucasArts, and well before the MMO online …

#Hotchpotch of releases!

Elixir

• Credo 0.4.5 released.
• Ecto 2.0 released.
• Elixir 1.3 released (see also the CHANGELOG.
• Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released.
• Phoenix 1.2 released! - also see the official mailing list.
• Tail Call Optimization in Elixir & Erlang – not as efficient and important as …

Elm/Elixir

• Putting Down Elm.
• Elixir 1.3’s mix xref working its magic in a real world example.
• On the largest available Droplet with 64GB of RAM and 20 CPU cores Phoenix was able to accept and maintain 2.3 million websocket connections. The limit was the amount of …

Elixir

• Rails asset pipeline vs Phoenix and Brunch.
• Refactor a pattern match.
• Separate JS & CSS for admin panel in Phoenix.

Gamedev

• Krita 3.0: The Animation Release.
• Cocos creator v1.1.0 released!
• Instant Preview: new rendering engine in Krita 3.

Rust

• There are updated versions of several Rust books …

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 …

Intro

OK, so you've decided to use another framework instead of Phoenix's default bootstrap. Foundation is one of the biggest competitors to Twitter's bootstrap (currently over https://github.com/zurb/foundation-sites[23.000 stars on GitHub]) and was created by Zurb, which offer a wide variety of so-called http://zurb …

Elixir

• http://www.elixirconf.eu/elixirconf2016/volker-rabe[ElixirConf - A Transmuting Journey: From a Ruby on Rails Monolith to Elixir and Elm Microservices].
• http://www.elixirconf.eu/elixirconf2016/ben-tyler[ElixirConf - Experimenting with Superpowered Web Services: Phoenix on Riak_Core].
• https://kkob.us/2016/05/26/elixir-anonymous-function-shorthand/[Elixir anonymous function shorthand].
• https://dockyard …