New GraphQL course; Phoenix LiveView is now available; The value of older coders; All glory to the monolith

We’ve released a new course, GraphQL: Zero to Awesome. In it, we build a GraphQL forum backend in both Elixir and JavaScript, and write clients for it in Vue, React Native, Elm, and Flutter. There’s over four and a half hours of content, and all of the ... more

Agile is Bullshit at the DoD, Deplatformed is the new black, Lua’s architecture, easy web performance gains

Lua is cool, been around a long time, and here is a deep dive into its design. Everyone will learn something useful from this article. Gab.com is a weird cat. They support free speech, but have been deplatformed for that notion. At the same time, some ... more

Open Source Spotlight: Milligram - A minimalist CSS framework

Our weekly spotlight of a cool project in the open source community that isare looking for exposure or assistance. If you'd like your project to be featured, hit reply and let us know about it. This week the spotlight is on Milligram, which was created ... more

Getting started with React 360 and Elixir

Overview We will be using Elixir, a little phoenix ( little ), and React 360. You can read up on each here: React 360 Elixir Pheonix It should be noted that it is, at the time of writing this, hard to find good supporting docs for React 360, it has been ... more

WASM goes back to the Future, Give Lisp a chance, Microservices vs Monoliths, MongoDB RE-licenses, and Linkdump meta

WebAssembly's post-MVP future - Mozilla publishes the pièce de résistance on WASM--where it started, where it's at, and where it's going. Seriously, don't miss this. They outline the full development process and the long term goals of WASM. If you've ... more

Hacktoberfest! Get a sweet t-shirt for opening 5 PRs

This is one in a series of weekly spotlights on cool projects in the open source community that are looking for exposure or assistance. If you'd like your project to be featured, hit up us up at support at this domain and let us know about it. This week ... more

Dropbox details their edge services, on replacing Redux, and the debate over Protobuffers

Dropbox traffic infrastructure: Edge network - An overview of how Dropbox keeps exabytes of data available and fast 3 Ways We're Using Elixir to Solve Real Problems - Websockets, Webhooks, and load balancing, Oh my! Protobuffers Are Wrong [Orange Site] ... more

PyTorch makes ML easier, Minecraft programming insanity, Vue.js += 1, Grindr/Fuckr spurs open source debate.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-of-the-machines This week in neural networks... PyTorch, which provides tensors and dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration, released a preview of their 1.0 release this week. In conjunction ... more

Spotlight: Verk - background job processing

Our weekly spotlight of a cool project in the open source community that are looking for exposure or assistance. If you’d like your project to be featured, hit reply and let us know about it. Project Spotlight: Verk Verk is a asynchronous job processing ... more

Open Source Spotlight: Remote Meetup - learn and network without leaving your house

On meetup.com you can search for meetups around your area. Remote Meetup is similar for remote meetups, where you can look for your your favorite programming languages and find interesting people and meetups. We wrote a bit more about Why We Need Remote ... more

[Weekly Drip 074.1] Waffle Fries as a Service; Elm 0.19; has OSS failed?; design for devs

A free ReasonML video series from SmoothTerminal Introduction - Installing ReasonML and getting to know its ecosystem, including refmt, Merlin, BuckleScript, and redex. Fundamentals Part 1 - Dive into the core fundamentals of ReasonML, including let, ... more

Unity; For More Than Just Games

Unity has a reputation as the go-to game engine for indie game development. It offers great licensing and a plethora of learning materials It also comes batteries included, with a vast array of features that can take almost any idea from paper to reality ... more

[Weekly Drip 073.1] Design for Developers, {:elixir, :cars}, Code Review Review, Top 20 Languages

Redmonk updated their regular programming language popularity study , and with no changes in the top performers: no one was surprised. Javascript, Java, Python, PHP, and C# were the top performers. Check out the sweet graph and the full write up. Patrik ... more

Open Source Spotlight: GitPitch

Open Source Spotlight: GitPitch Our weekly spotlight of a cool project in the open source community that are looking for exposure or assistance. If you’d like your project to be featured, let us know about it. Save 20% on tickets to The Big Elixir Congratulations ... more

Achieve more with Less code, Elm vs React-Redux-Flow

Elm Language was specifically designed to build front-end applications, and it offers a great experience as a whole. Its most shiny features are: Great performance using the virtual DOM Functional language Safety through a Powerful type system State ... more

[Weekly Drip 072.1] Dart 2: The Dartening, Pwning Homebrew, Prod Minimalism, Unethical Development

Heya! The team at SmoothTerminal (formerly DailyDrip) wants to keep the lights on, and these awesome emails coming at you. We are finishing up a couple big projects now, and on the hunt for more. Hit Reply if you’ve got a particularly interesting project ... more

[Weekly Drip 071.1] Re-Distributing the (D)web, Vue vs React, Keeping secrets, Typescript 3 released, ❤️ Mechanical Keyboards

We are giving away a copy of @pragmaticstudio’s course Developing With Elixir/OTP. Enter the contest to win. Congrats to Mohamed, Alex, and Wheeler for winning a copy of Exploding Rails by Ryan Bigg. If you want to pick up a copy of your own, here’s ... more

[Weekly Drip 070.1] Exploding Rails; Knative k8s Serverless; Elixir QoL; JS fundamentals; Stable APIs

Have you felt the pain of using Active Record on a large codebase? How about messy controllers? Well, you should probably enter to win a free copy of Ryan Bigg’s Exploding Rails. We are giving away 3 copies of it! News Robin Wieruch provided a detailed ... more

[Weekly Drip 069.1] 9 Biggest Mistakes in CSS Grid; �� Love Letter to Vue; ☕️ Java types broken

News Alex Balashov wrote a love letter to Vue. Alex discusses Vue’s component-centric design, amazing documentation, and distinct project vision as reasons for why Vue is great. If you’re only experience with a FE framework is Angular 1.x, Alex can probably ... more

[Weekly Drip 068.1] Python drives away BDFL; Monads sans ��; System Design Explained

News Guido Van Rossum has decided to remove himself from the position of BDFL in the Python community. In Guido’s letter he says I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions. For some context read ... more

[Weekly Drip 067.1] 3 Nerds in a Garage, /([Pp]+okemon)/, TypeScript|OCaml for React Native

Alex Clemmer wrote one big Regex to beat Pokemon Blue. Alex dives into what a finite state machine is, which he defines as a collection of states with transitions between them. Alex used a FSM, a simple data model, a massively surprising AWS bill, and ... more

[Weekly Drip 066.1] Vue.js Handbook, Elm generative art, Gentoo Github compromised, and Kubernetes’ effects on an organization

Having Trouble Reaching Devs? Does your business rely on reaching software developers, but you find yourself struggling to get the right kind of eyes? Recently realized that buying ads targeting developers is near impossible, due to adblock usage? Hit ... more

[Weekly Drip 065.1] Facial Recognition, Crystal != Ruby, FreeBSD turns 25, Wireshark Rocks, and Pascal => D

Title: Facial Recognition, Crystal != Ruby, FreeBSD turns 25, Wireshark Rocks, and Pascal => D News Adrian Rosebrock used OpenCV, Python, and Deep Learning to build a face recognition app . Watch a video demo of the app or follow the step by step tutorial. ... more

[Weekly Drip 064.1] Vue Native Launches, Intro to Data Structures, Adopting Elixir, and unsecure bluetooth padlocks

News Vue released Vue Native . Key features are declarative rendering, two-way binding, and it compiles to React Native. Get started with the the documentation or look at the code. Adrian Mejia has created a series that focuses on Data Structures for ... more

[Weekly Drip 063.1] GitHub Acquired, Node Mistakes, C inspires madness, Elixir Project Structure

News GitHub sold for 7.5 billion dollars to Microsoft. Not everyone is happy about the decision, and there has been a lot of discussion about it. Brandon Kelly found immediate repercussions to the acquisition, and GitLab had 10x more repostories than ... more

[Weekly Drip 062.1] Linux has the Power, Internet Trends, Intro to Pony, (Game) Devs Love Doom

News In Nachoparker’s article, ‘The real power of Linux executables’, everything from the basics, to the kernel and ELF binaries are covered. If you aren’t sure exactly what happens when a file is executed in Linux, this is where you should start. The ... more

[Weekly Drip 061.1] Building a Ray Tracer ⚡️, ☀️ Solar Fridges ❄️, WebAssembly and Elm Starters

News Eric Mellino made a Portable CPU/GPU ray tracer with C#, and yes it is as cool as it sounds. Ray tracing is a rendering technique that traces the photon paths from the light sources for each pixel, and calculates the pixel’s state. Ray tracing is ... more

[Weekly Drip 060.1] Front-End Tooling Survey, VIM Pacman, Agile & Estimation don’t get love.

News What happens when you combine Create React App, Rails 5 & Heroku? A Rock Solid Modern Web Stack, that’s what. Also, Charlie Gleason has already done it, and has a step by step tutorial on how you can do it too. Finally, a tool to learn Vim based ... more

[Weekly Drip 059.1] Google IO & PyCon Do Not Disappoint, DIY Pool Table (With JavaScript) & Cool Stuff in FireFox 60

News This week we saw Google IO 2018. The most contentious demo was Google Duplex pretending to be a human when it makes appointments for you. Flutter saw some nice talks. If you build Android apps, you’ll be interested in checking out Android Jetpack. ... more

[Weekly Drip 058.1] Is C stifling processor development? Kubernetes gets Operators. A new Electron challenger has appeared!

News David Chisnall writes an insightful piece on how C Is Not a Low-level Language. It’s the story of how our processor designs are stifled because C/C++ developers really want to pretend they’re still programming a PDP-11. Some properties of C programs ... more