Elixir

• Enhanced Embedded Systems with Nerves.
• Setting up Elm with Phoenix has been updated to accomodate the latest changes in Elm.

Gamedev

• Game design is one of those nebulous terms to people outside the game industry that’s about as clear as the “astrophysicist” job title is to me. It …

To be honest, I'm no big fan of using the default Bootstrap framework provided by Phoenix. The basic version isn't even the problem, it's just I think that Bootstrap-y sites look boring and all the same. There are so many frameworks out there, why don't use another one?

UIKit may …

Elixir

• Elixir: A year (and a few months) in.
• The Programming Phoenix book just came off the printing presses!
• Erlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional - Chris McCord explains a new Phoenix feature: Phoenix.Presence.
• How Honeybadger uses Elixir to monitor Heroku.
• Tracing and observing …

If you've ever read "Uncle Bob" Martin C. Fowler's Book Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship there's an example in chapter 2 of what good (or bad) use of context means.

It reads as follows:

private void printGuessStatistics(char candidate, int count) {
  String number;
  String verb;
  String pluralModifier …

Elixir

• What's new in Elixir 1.3.
• Example project of combining React/Redux + Phoenix.
• Using Guardian and Canary with Phoenix.
• Consolex : A web console for IEx.
• Using Functions in Elixir Guard Clauses.
• Introducing Wallaby – Concurrent Feature Tests for Elixir and Phoenix.
• Why Erlang Matters.
• Debugging techniques in Elixir.
• Inspecting, changing …

Elixir

• Choosing your future tech stack: Clojure Vs Elixir vs Go.
• The actor model in 10 minutes.
• Railway development in Elixir using with.

Gamedev

• GAQ Chapter 0 - Overview of PureRef.
• Game Engines: Past, Present and Future.
• Successful Game Design.

Rust

• Announcing Rust 1.8.
• Rust combinators: a little web page …

Yesterday there was a retro computing event at my university. Here you get some impressions:

Have you seen the beautiful game running on the Amiga? It's Dragon's Lair :)

Elixir

• Announcing Bamboo, Email with a Functional Twist.
• Joe Armstrong's dissertation: Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors.

Gamedev

• How to setup a wacom tablet for digital art.
• So you want to write a trans character.
• Two hundred developers have three days to make a game — on …

Yesterday I listened to 2 interesting episodes of 2 different programming podcasts:

The first one is called New Rustacean and covers the Rust programming language, which was created by Mozilla as an alternative to low-level language like C/C++. Of course you can write high-level code as well, but I …

BSD

• Why OpenBSD?
• OpenBSD 5.9 released (early!) - more information here.
• FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE Release Notes.

Elixir

• Writing a Blog Engine in Phoenix and Elixir: Part 10, testing channels.
• Writing a Blog Engine in Phoenix and Elixir: Part 11, better UI.
• What makes Phoenix Presence special, and a sneak peek …