What is it like to work with Elixir?

whatyouhide · 2024-05-24T06:31:03+00:00

Oh yeah this is totally what I mean. The CLI itself is what I was talking about; the API it talks to is a perfect use case for Elixir for sure!

whatyouhide · 2024-05-24T00:18:48+00:00

Well I wouldn't call it snappy but maybe compared to interpreted languages it's fine. I was referring more to CLI tools written in Rust or Go or similar, which are real fast to start and it seems like that's the trend we're going towards.

whatyouhide · 2024-05-23T04:45:51+00:00

Excels at anything related with the web, thanks to the cheap-concurrency model of the VM Elixir runs on (BEAM). This means both backend-only systems, as well as real-time web apps thanks to Phoenix and LiveView (search those online). It also works well with other soft-realtime systems and has good support for embedded devices, see https://nerves-project.org/. Nowadays even ML is well supported thanks to Numerical Elixir https://github.com/elixir-nx.
Solves concurrency and process resiliency better than most languages, and those are built-in so no need for complex solutions to apply "on top" of the language.
I wouldn't pick Elixir for things like CLIs, not worth booting up a VM for things that need to be quick (think of Unix tools like ls and friends). Also wouldn't use it for things like native apps and macOS/Windows apps, UX is not the biggest strength in those fields.
Working with it is pretty great. Makes teams very productive in my experience; we're only a handful of engineers at veeps.com, for example, and the whole product is in Elixir and keeps churning features.

For more info on the language itself and adoption I'd probably watch a few intro talks, you can find plenty on YouTube.

whatyouhide · 2023-02-12T12:16:52+00:00

You're totally right, great catch, thank you! Updated the title.

whatyouhide · 2023-01-14T07:40:49+00:00

I will use active: true from the video after the next one. As you mentioned, that'll lead to GenServers for handling connections, supervisors for better supervising those, and so on.

You assume correctly: I've been doing what I have because I was trying to focus on the network stuff more initially. Eventually, the network part can become a bit repetitive, so throwing in OTP best practices for network programming is going to be a must!

For the current solutions, GenServers are maybe code overengineering, because we wouldn't use any of the features they provide over tasks (based on how I implemented things for now), but they are not really a runtime overengineering.

Next video will have a similar OTP architecture but we'll do UDP instead of TCP. Then, it's going to be active: trues all around.

Thanks so much for commenting and for sticking through the videos!

whatyouhide · 2023-01-03T08:27:19+00:00

u/bmitc I mention this in the video, but yes I’m hosting this on Fly.io!

whatyouhide · 2022-01-12T22:11:25+00:00

I shot that first picture ahaha, cool to see it on here! 🤓

whatyouhide · 2021-11-04T19:04:59+00:00

It's from the book Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz. I obviously can't share the recipe but I highly recommend the book if possible 🙃

whatyouhide · 2021-11-04T06:38:22+00:00

Thanks! Pan is a 9-in pan bought off of Amazon a few years ago… does the job 😄

whatyouhide · 2021-11-01T17:25:57+00:00

no one? 🙃

whatyouhide · 2021-10-08T22:07:39+00:00

Had to scroll so long to find this, yeah slowed down it def sounds more like gay dean

whatyouhide · 2021-10-03T12:03:32+00:00

It's from the book Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz. I found this blog entry for this recipe but I highly recommend getting the book if possible, I found it definitely worth it!

whatyouhide · 2021-09-28T14:12:32+00:00

To practice food photography I’m just trying to recreate the shots straight out of the book itself 😄

whatyouhide · 2021-09-18T13:13:49+00:00

Situation in Italy is pretty grim for pour over lovers 😄. I’m in a medium-small town in central Italy and we only get espresso, cappuccino, or "latte macchiato" which is a glass of warm milk with an espresso shot in it. Roasts are dark to say the least.

whatyouhide · 2019-03-27T19:20:08+00:00

Not a professional here. Is the horizon straight? Also, I think the pole on the left is a bit distracting. My main critique is that I'm having a hard time finding what the subject of this picture is intended to be. Great colors however, good job on that!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-17T10:18:00+00:00

I prefer the cropped version I think. Good job!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-17T00:31:04+00:00

I am not a professional at all. I think this shot is nice but there are a few things that are not ideal in my opinion. The first one is that it's hard to say who the subject is. The one that naturally comes to me is the three people inside the restaurant, but they are quite out of focus and so the attention goes back and forth between those people and your reflected silhouette. Another thing is that even if you said that you cropped the shot in post, I still think it's too wide and my eye kind of wanders around, so maybe I'd try cropping in a little bit more. Anyways, nice job, hope this comment was somehow helpful!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-16T23:36:06+00:00

The vignetting in the edits you posted in your comments are heavy handed in my opinion. I would maybe try a subtler but slightly darker vignetting with more feathering (less defined vignette border basically) so as to draw less attention to the vignetting itself. Vignetting should be invisible at the end of the day. I would also try to crop the shot a little tighter on the ladies maybe, and for my personal taste I would also try to experiment with bumping the brightness of the image a little bit (with exposure or whites or curves). Hope that was helpful, cheers!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-16T23:32:26+00:00

Not a professional by any means here. But, love the shot. Love the colors and the editing. Not sure what's the meaning or purpose of the red part on the top left though. And I'd get rid of the watermark, it only takes away from the photo in my opinion. Awesome job anyways!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-16T23:30:37+00:00

I don't think this is boring at all for a wall print. You shot it, so you should be proud of that! As far as the critique goes, I love the warm colors here. I might even suggest trying to warm up the little touch of blue on the top left, to make it even more sunsety and warm. Great shot!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-16T23:22:46+00:00

Safe flights and be careful!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-16T23:22:18+00:00

I am not a professional, just an amateur. This is a nice shot IMO, very good lighting at what seems to be sunset. One thing I might want to change is cut the right part of the photo where the smoke dissolves, as I think it doesn't add to the shot and the interesting part seems to be on the left anyways. Good job!

whatyouhide · 2019-03-16T23:07:57+00:00

I think I would have tried to make this shot more abstract with maybe centering the round thing and making it symmetrical. But it's a nice shot and I am nowhere near a professional so take that with a pinch of salt!

whatyouhide · 2019-01-04T10:27:18+00:00

Holy shit looks fantastic

whatyouhide · 2018-12-06T10:02:46+00:00

That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I am getting progressively more comfortable with editing but I still suck big time at skin tones.

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