
Making a dent in the tech universe
Making a dent in the tech universe

Are Local LLMs the solution to all our problems?
It feels like there is a growing gap between people who are deep in technology/AI space (like myself) and everyone else about whether AI is good or bad. Take, for example, this study [1] done in the US on whether people think AI will have a positive or negative effect on the US over the next 20 years.

Setting Kafka’s pace with Broadway
Looking to turn your push dataflow into a pull Broadway pipeline? Here’s an introduction.

An introduction to Elixir
Find out more about Elixir by sitting in on this Abletech tech talk from Nigel and David at Abletech.

Optimising Docker for Mac and Elixir
The minimum set of files we want to sync is the actual source code that is committed into git. Look at your .gitignore
for hints on what to remove in your project. For our Elixir service we have dependencies, and build artifacts, that are written to disk, so moving deps
and _build
folders external to the shared project folder should speed things up.
How to configure VS Code to format Elixir code
Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Visual Studio Code to automatically format your Elixir code using the new built-in formatter included in version 1.6
.


Elixir for JavaScript and Ruby developers
This talk will be an introduction to Elixir in the form of a walk-through of a real-world application (Addressfinder).
Elixir Learnings #2: Simple caching
Recently I’ve been working on a side project to relay messages between two messaging services, starting with Slack and IRC.
Elixir Learnings #1: First Learnings
TL;DR: Use — no-halt with mix run
to keep an app with non-blocking processes running!

Setting Kafka’s pace with Broadway
Looking to turn your push dataflow into a pull Broadway pipeline? Here’s an introduction.

An introduction to Elixir
Find out more about Elixir by sitting in on this Abletech tech talk from Nigel and David at Abletech.

Optimising Docker for Mac and Elixir
The minimum set of files we want to sync is the actual source code that is committed into git. Look at your .gitignore
for hints on what to remove in your project. For our Elixir service we have dependencies, and build artifacts, that are written to disk, so moving deps
and _build
folders external to the shared project folder should speed things up.
How to configure VS Code to format Elixir code
Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Visual Studio Code to automatically format your Elixir code using the new built-in formatter included in version 1.6
.


Elixir for JavaScript and Ruby developers
This talk will be an introduction to Elixir in the form of a walk-through of a real-world application (Addressfinder).
Elixir Learnings #2: Simple caching
Recently I’ve been working on a side project to relay messages between two messaging services, starting with Slack and IRC.
Elixir Learnings #1: First Learnings
TL;DR: Use — no-halt with mix run
to keep an app with non-blocking processes running!