Apr 20, 2016

I attended my first Elixir-related meetup yesterday, tokyo.ex 1. (If the slides don't work here, I have also uploaded them to YouTube.) In my 5-minute lightning talk, I talked a...

Feb 10, 2016

I'm a big Let's Encrypt fan. They provide free SSL certificates for your web servers so you can protect the traffic from prying eyes. In fact, the connection between your web br...

Feb 8, 2016

There's a guide to writing browser acceptance tests for Phoenix. Acceptance tests are nice, but sometimes you want to have unit tests. This is very easy to do with your Elixir c...

Jan 23, 2016

In Ruby, there is a very handy class called StringIO . Basically, it allows you to treat a string like you would an IO object, such as an open file, etc. Very useful for in-memo...

Jan 9, 2016

Edit Sept. 30 2016: PostgreSQL 9.6 was released today, and these instructions should work -- just replace 9.4 with 9.5 and 9.5 with 9.6 . I also have a guide using pg upgradeclu...

Jan 3, 2016

- case in a fun is usually redundant - if is even worse - keep it simple

Nov 24, 2015

Note (2019/07/05): I've posted a follow-up to this post about limitations about the technique used here, especially when hosting an API on the same domain. Amazon S3 is a great...

Nov 23, 2015

My wife Naoko wrote a reply to this post. It was fun comparing how different the podcasts we listen to are. :) First, I'd like to plug a podcast that I'm a semi-regular guest on...

Nov 9, 2015

I recently released a simple API to un-shorten URLs. A few people wanted a super-simple interface to this, so I whipped one up: /unroll/. Enjoy! Some notes about the tools I've...

Sep 23, 2015

As a small side project, I recently launched a "link unroller" service. This is a very simple service. You give it a URI, and it follows any redirect chain for you. Then it spit...

Jul 28, 2015

So, this is a thing: Now, Basically -- you run bundle install --without once, and that's saved in .bundle/config . So next time you run bundle install without any arguments, it...

Feb 15, 2015

Note : This blog post covers the legacy SSL Endpoint. Heroku now recommends the use of Heroku SSL, which can provide you with a free certificate and HTTPS (provided you are usin...

Jan 4, 2015

Edit 2016/4/29 I have written a follow-up piece to this blog post. As many of you probably know, I am a professional programmer. I started my professional career with WordPress...

Dec 20, 2014

Edit 2016/1/9 I have updated these instructions for upgrading from PostgreSQL 9.4 to 9.5. As you may know, I am a big PostgreSQL user and fan. I also use Homebrew to manage 3rd...