Daily tips for Elixir!

Joined April 2014
I didn't know that you could get runtime info of the erlang system using `runtime_info`, this is really cool. Run it on your server and check out your stats #myelixirstatus
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Graphvix 1.0.0 released! Along with the final (for now) blog post in the series: blog.songsaboutsnow.com/elix…. Thank you to anyone who's been reading, and also to @ElixirTip and @planeterlang for helping share the series. Release: hex.pm/packages/graphvix
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🔥 Use this one liner to be able to pry in the middle of a pipeline, just like you would with IO.inspect/2. #myelixirstatus
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Published from Amsterdam, NL: Part 7 of the @ElixirTip-noticed blog series on Graphviz + Elixir -- blog.songsaboutsnow.com/elix…
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Since @ElixirTip was kind enough to mention my On Graphvix blog series (thank you!), I thought I'd try to keep the momentum up and publish part 6, coming at you live from Bruges, Belgium! blog.songsaboutsnow.com/elix…
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Elixir Tip retweeted
#ElixirLang PSA: Be cautious of `with` inside tests. I spent a good amount of time thinking this test was passing, when really it was failing silently. The second pattern match fails, causing the `with` to drop into the (omitted) `else` block, skipping the assertion entirely.
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Elixir Tip retweeted
If you want to comment a public function, but hide it from the documentation system, try the following. (The trick is the "!" operator.) #myelixirstatus
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My ramblings on whether Elixir (or any other BEAM language) is worth learning/using given the existence of K8s reddit.com/r/elixir/comments…
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Elixir v1.6 is coming in the next month! Take a look at what may be in the new release: elixir-lang.org/blog/2017/12…
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Elixir Tip retweeted
What happened on the Nerves Project last month? Here's an update: embedded-elixir.com/post/201…
TIL You can use multiple lockfiles in elixir project github.com/teamon/tesla/pull… #myelixirstatus #elixirlang
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TIL `IO.inspect(binding())` single IO.inspect for every variable in current context #myelixirstatus
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In Elixir v1.6 you can invoke "mix test --slowest N" to print the N slowest tests in your suite.
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Elixir v1.4.5 will be released this week with compatibility improvements for Erlang 20. Elixir v1.5.0-rc shortly after.
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ExDoc v0.16.0 is out with a whole new sidebar entry for your Mix Tasks! Thanks @michalmuskala!
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Deal of the Day May 23: Elm in Action! Use code dotd052317tw at bit.ly/2rK5UYz @rtfeldman @elm_in_action #elmlang
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