How Abe Lincoln improved my software development practices.

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax. — Abraham Lincoln”.

Instead of just starting to chop with a blunt blade for hours on end it’s a whole lot smarter to…

Sushruth Siv in Tiny Tech Tales

Aug 16, 2016

Introducing rebar3_elixir, now use Elixir in Erlang projects

For all the Erlang folks eager to use Elixir in their projects.

So after a long long time with Barrel, Rebar and Elixir, I managed to spin this up with the help and guidance of benoît chesneau. We…

Sushruth Siv in Tiny Tech Tales

Apr 22, 2016

GSoC @ Barrel: Adding Elixir to Barrel

Hey folks, it gives me immense pleasure to let you know my proposal has been selected for this year’s Google Summer of Code with the wonderful BEAM Community. So I will be spending the summers and hopefully more coding away at Barrel.

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Apr 17, 2016

Consolex : A web console for IEx

I have been working with Elixir for a while and noticed the lack of easy to use web console for IEx, especially if you need to run it against something like

iex -S mix phoenix.server

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Apr 1, 2016

Mixgraph : Now visualise your hex package dependencies

Create a dependency graph for any hex package published in hex.pm

Source: https://github.com/sivsushruth/mixgraph

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Mar 27, 2016

CloseEnough: Typo correction in Elixir

Not for production apps, or is it ?

There is a fun new package in town — CloseEnough. https://github.com/sivsushruth/close_enough

You need to add a process flag for :error_handler to let CloseEnough capture all…

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Mar 25, 2016

Hey Jude : A functional programming tribute

You will be surprised, but Hey Jude by The Beatles can actually broken down into an algorithmic approach.

I have written a script in Elixir to generate the lyrics of Hey Jude. A partial flowchart I had for reference here.

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Mar 24, 2016

Barrel : Taking CouchDB to the next level

Relax! Check Barrel out.

Two kinds of people usually use technologies like CouchDB.

Technology enthusiasts, exploring new stuff and just happened to glance through it

Sushruth Siv in Tiny Tech Tales

Mar 24, 2016

Ruby -> Elixir

Get ready to un-unlearn and learn a lot of things when you head over to a functional programming language like Elixir from Ruby

One of the main reasons for using Ruby was the beauty and elegance that Ruby offered. The codes just speak to you and I am sure, tiny Ruby snippets…

Sushruth Siv in Tiny Tech Tales

Mar 24, 2016

My journey so far …

I was going to write a big story on how I switched from one language to other and one technology to other. But as the blog title says, I will keep it tiny.

initial_knowledge = [] #Nothing at all, 3.5 years ago

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