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Elixir Comprehensions - The "for" macro

23 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Unhedged

  In this post we will be going over comprehensions in Elixir. A “Comprehension” is another word for Elixir’s for macro. It can be used to iterate through an enumerable, like Enum or Stream: for element

The Weekly Summary - Issue 24.1 - Learning Edition

21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 7 comments tvlachak

Issue 24.1 / September 21, 2020 Learning “Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.” - David J. Schwartz A simple, minimalist visualization on 10Xing yourself. Boost your productivity while work...

The Elixir Enum Module

19 Sep 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Unhedged

To help myself in learning more Elixir, I'm going to continue these Elixir guide/tutorial posts where I try to explain a different piece of Elixir in each post. Today's post will be covering the Enum module and it's usage. The Enum Module provides a...

Indie Game Dev Log: 17/9/2020 (Shader Graph Procedural Planet Tutorial)

17 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Timanious

Hey all I recently published a new Unity Shader Graph procedural planet tutorial on my blog over here:https://timcoster.com/2020/09/03/unity-shader-graph-procedural-planet-tutorial/ In the tutorial you'll learn how to create a planet shader with dif...

Recursion in Elixir, We Don't Get No Loops!

13 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Unhedged

As Elixir is a purely functional language, it doesn’t have loops. Instead, it uses a wide variety of recursive functions to achieve the same or better results. Below is an example of a list and calculating it's length. This shows how recursive funct...

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11 Sep 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Maarannn

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GeckoAPI - Crypto data in a Ruby CLI!

9 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Unhedged

This is an old post of one of my first projects in Ruby. Kind of funny to read now. I settled on the latter and decided to use CoinGecko's free cryptocurrency API. It provides data on the 100 largest crypto projects. Below I will be briefly going ove...

Learning Elixir a Functional Language

8 Sep 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Unhedged

So, I have a weird fascination with checking out new languages. I'm a Ruby developer by trade. But, that's not enough for me. So, I often find myself dabbling in other languages to see what they have to offer. Nothing against Ruby either, I love it....

Vagrant - How to setup? Part 2

29 Aug 2020 4 minute read 0 comments El.Vin

We are now on the second part of our series, Vagrant - How to setup?. In case you missed the first part, you can just read it here. Let's proceed. First, open your terminal, change directory (cd) into the folder where you want your Vagrantfile to liv...

Vagrant - How to setup? Part 1

29 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments El.Vin

What is my operating system? I am currently using Ubuntu 18. The steps that I will be mentioning here are slightly different than windows but you will still get the general idea of what we're doing. For Windows users, in case you got stuck at somethi...