Dimitris Zorbas

I wrote my first Livebook smart-cell which renders diagrams from a textual description.

This year’s ElixirConf marks Elixir’s 10th birthday, in the rest of this post I’m sharing my experience of what took place this time.

Keeping your dependencies up-to-date is essential to ensure that your applications stay healthy, secure, and performant. Thankfully, the BEAM ecosystem has its own package manager, Hex, which is fast, mature, and simple to use.

This article explores the available tools and commands to manage Hex dependencies and some tips to make the process more enjoyable.

An exciting new feature landed in Livebook (through Kino) which gives the ability to animate any output.

In my previous post about “Organising Book Highlights and Notes”, I wrote:

“Some day I may build a gadget for my desk to display a daily quote”.

A few days later, it’s on my desk and it couldn’t have been a better pretext to give Livebook on Nerves a try.

Telemetry is becoming the defacto library to instrument and publish metrics in Elixir apps. This post is a step-by-step guide to integrate Telemetry in a Phoenix app which leverages Opus.

I’ve always been fascinated by well-made applications for the terminal. Who doesn’t install htop on a new machine, am I right? My plan was to build something that I’d use daily and other people would potentially find useful. Therefore I decided to build a cli app for Tefter. It’s built on Elixir and Ratatouille and it’s open-source. Check out the source or download and try it or install via brew. … Read more

This post describes how we used Elixir and Opus in one of our services at Tefter, which implements bookmarking collaboration in Slack. My relationship with Slack I remember, when Slack started getting viral and it was set as the main chat app at work, I was very reluctant to use it. I was quite happy with IRC and always in favour of open protocols. Since it supported an IRC / XMPP gateway, tweaking my irssi config and later finch was trivial and my overall experience was good. … Read more

I was lucky enough to attend ElixirConf.EU for the third time and in this post I’m sharing some thoughts about the talks I saw, some of my notes and insights on the future of this community in general. Location I’d never visited Prague before and the conf was an amazing opportunity to combine business and pleasure. While writing this post though, a week after, I realised I didn’t visit most of the landmarks that I was planning to. … Read more

Yesterday I published a demo of my port of observer_cli using LiveView. It took me a few of minutes to familiarise myself with this new web development concept. The docs are clear, accurate and provide a very smooth introduction to the capabilities of this interactive server-side rendering way of doing things. I have to say that I’m really impressed 🙂. You can try the demo yourself here. Or.. check out this gif. … Read more