Matt kritoke

Elixir installation guide

Version numbers should be the ones you want. Here I do it with the last ones available at the moment of writing.

The simplest way to install elixir is using your package manager. Sadly, at the time of writing only Fedora shows the intention to keep its packages up to date. There you can simply sudo dnf install erlang elixir and you are good to go.

Anyway, if you intend to work with several versions of erlang or elixir at the same time, or you are tied to a specific version, you will need to compile it yourself. Then asdf is your best friend.

Essential JavaScript Links

A curated list by Eric Elliott and friends. Suggest links in the comments below.

This is a very exclusive collection of only must-have JavaScript links. I'm only listing my favorite links. Nothing else makes the cut. Feel free to suggest links if you think they're good enough to make this list. The really curious should feel free to browse the comments to find other links. I can't guarantee the quality of links in the comments.

Full Disclosure

Some of these links are affiliate links, meaning that if you make a purchase, I might earn a little money. This has absolutely no bearing on whether or not links make the list. None, whatsoever. However, it does allow me more resources to fight poverty with code. Every little bit counts.

How to implement a custom search for Hugo usig Gruntjs and Lunrjs.

Requirements

Install the following tools:

Setup

User env setup

Setup your user environment just the way you want with Nix.

Add packageOverrides to the attrset returned by your ${HOME}/.nixpkgs/config.nix (see my example above).
Then with one command you can setup your whole environment: nix-env -i desktop-mbbx6spp.

Then all you need is a simple ~/.bash_profile script like so:

`Local Variable Scope, especially how local variable interact with blocks and methods`

Local variables cannot be accessed in a method, but can in a block.

ex. this is not possible

greet = 'hello!'

def greeter(str)
 puts greet + str #greet is not accessible inside the method.

Visual Studio Code and Elixir

Here I wanted to share my own configuration of Visual Studio Code that I currently use when programming in Elixir. The section about Tasks and Shortcut is taken from this post: Running Elixir Tests in Visual Studio Code/ElixirLS.

Required extensions

vscode-elixir

	git stash # Stash changes if any
	git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/${NEW_BRANCH} # Change head to a new, non-existing ref
	git rm -rf . # Delete files from version control and working directory
	rm -r . # Delete files from file system
	git commit --allow-empty -m "Created new branch ${NEW_BRANCH}" # Commit changes in the new branch

	#
	# File compressor plugin for jekyll
	# =================================
	#
	# By [mytharcher](https://github.com/mytharcher)
	# 2012-05-20
	#
	# Updated by [nicoespeon](https://github.com/nicoespeon)
	# 2013-04-12
	#

	<?php
	/*
	* RandomChunk
	* Salvatore Sodano
	* http://salscode.com
	* Revolution Version 2013, Jay Gilmore aka smashingred
	* [[!RandomChunk? &chunks=`chunk1, chunk2`]]
	* Randomly generates a chunk from a comma separated list of chunks.
	*
	*/

	#!/bin/bash

	# export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable because cron hates me
	PID=$(pgrep -u USER gnome-session-b)
	export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$(grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$PID/environ\|cut -d= -f2-)

	/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name 'Flat-Plat'
	/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Flat-Plat'
	/usr/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri 'file://WALLPAPER-PATH'
	/usr/bin/gsettings --schemadir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected] set org.zzrough.gs-extensions.drop-down-terminal background-color 'rgb(69,90,100)'