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 …

Accessibility

• Video: How to build a toggle button - A11ycasts #25.

Elixir

• Monads and other dark magic for Elixir.
• Mock Responses with Stash.
• Using Webpack 3.x with Phoenix 1.3.
• Rate-Limiting Phoenix (with Redis too).
• Adding Semantic UI Sass to Phoenix with Brunch.
• How I Use Bulma with the Phoenix …

Accessibility

• Video: Managing Focus - A11ycasts #22.
• Video: The new way to test accessibility with Chrome DevTools - A11ycasts #23.
• How blind programmers work.
• Video: Accessibility - The Curb Cut Effect is about a11y in games.
• Video: How to Label Custom Elements - A11ycasts #24.

Elixir

• Elixir v1.5 released.
• Phoenix 1.3.0 …

Accessibility

• Video: Why headings and landmarks are so important -- A11ycasts #18.
• Video: Accessible Modal Dialogs -- A11ycasts #19
• A blind customer couldn’t use Winn-Dixie’s website. He sued. Changes are coming.
• Video: Does reordering content affect accessibility? -- A11ycasts #21

BSD

• OpenBSD and the modern laptop.
• A ReST api for creating …

Elm

• elm-html-a11y makes writing accessible websites easier.
• Tour of an Open-Source Elm SPA.

Elixir

• Elixre - An Elixir regular expression editor & tester.
• Phoenix and Elm, a real use case (pt. 6).
• Logging slow Ecto queries: adventures in metaprogramming.
• Dave Thomas: An Elixir Project Generator.
• Elixir App Deployment with Nanobox.
• Versioned API …

Elixir

• Mix Task Creation in Elixir Project.
• Elixir App Deployment with Nanobox.
• Setting up a Phoenix application with Webpack 2 and Bootstrap 4.

Elm

• Introducing Elm Bootstrap.

Gamedev

• Video: The Secret of Mario's Jump (and other Versatile Verbs) | Game Maker's Toolkit.
• Video: Value Contrast Tutorial: get it right and improve …

Accessibility

• The art of labeling -- A11ycasts #12.
• Intro to ARIA -- A11ycasts #13.

Elixir

• Reusable Templates in Phoenix.
• Simplifying Elixir Releases With Edeliver.
• Upgrade releases with Edeliver.
• Seeding the Database from a CSV file in Phoenix.
• Bleacher Report has gone from needing 150 servers to just five, thanks to its decision …

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 …

Accessibility

• 7 Ways Form Accessibility Can Boost Conversions.
• 4 Design Patterns That Violate Back-Button Expectations.
• Video: Alerts! -- A11ycasts #10.
• Video: How I do an accessibility audit -- A11ycasts #11.

Elixir

• Coherence and ExAdmin - Devise and ActiveAdmin for Phoenix.
• Connecting Elixir Containers, With DNS-Based Discovery.
• Phoenix GraphQL Tutorial with Absinthe: Add CRUD …

Elixir

• Beyond 10,000 Lines - Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project.
• Mix.Shell.Quiet - This is Mix’s default shell when the MIX_QUIET environment variable is set.
• Strategies for Migrating a Phoenix App on Heroku.
• Mock Modules and Where to Find Them.
• Mocks and explicit contracts.
• How We Deploy …