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Retrospection on my 17 years in the IT industry

on May 18, 2023

It’s heen a while since my last post. A lot of things have changed in the last 3 years. No Covid restictions, russia invaded Ukraine, global inflation. As always a lot of changes in the IT industry, Elon Musk acquired Twitter, Microsoft dominated AI market introducing Chat-GPT, massive layoffs in Facebook, Google, Amazon, Linkedin, Dropbox, Stack Overflow and in a thousands of small companies that nobody is going to mention in the news.

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Phoenix liveView 0.9.1 breaking changes

on March 16, 2020

If you updated your mix dependencies to use {:phoenix_live_view, “~> 0.9.0”} you might be surprised that …the web socket connection is gone. It’s due to backwards incompatible changes: “LiveView no longer uses the default app layout” which basically means you your liveView redendered template is no longer wrapped by the default layout which (in most cases) includes app.js that makes a connection to live web socket. what’s the fix? The fix is very simple.

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age_guard - hex package for age verification

on February 12, 2020

After having fun with building Claritas, I knew I want to publish more packages. Claritas is very simple and doing just one job (darkens or lightern colors) but looks like 79 people (at the time of writing it) were interested to download it. It’s 78 more than I expected :) (that makes me happy! :)) what is age_guard? AgeGuard verifies if a person born at a given date meets provided age requirements.

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Claritas - my first hex package

on January 30, 2020

Yesterday I published Claritas - my first hex package! The idea for the package came when I worked on some task and needed dynamically generate a heatmap where the more intensive colour, the higher value of given scale in the heatmap. I used CSS for that, but I though that a pure solution in Elixir would make the code much cleaner. Here it is: Installation The package can be installed by adding claritas to your list of dependencies in mix.

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