A while back Scott Wlaschin posted a great blog post on what he called “Railway Oriented Programming.”  It’s a great treatment of a common problem in adopting functional programming; how to handle a chain of functions when one of the functions in the chain may return an error.  Of course stopping the chain when the […]

There’s an excellent and practical write-up on configuring an EC2 container to host a WordPress site here.  But there are a few minor amplifications I’d add.  So I thought I’d write them up here. 1.) As some folks noted in the comments, you should assign the Elastic IP address before you install WordPress.  Everything with WP […]

So recently I’ve been working on automating some interactions with a website.  Elixir’s Hound library is a great help, of course.  But I also ran across an interesting and unexpected benefit to pattern matching that greatly simplified some code. I was trying to dynamically build a URL to pass parameters. The URL would be in […]

I had a need for the Erlang build tool rebar for a project I was trying to start on; a bit of pen testing via Elixir.  I was going to pull down the rebar3 script from the site and fix it up for myself and it occurred to me that others might want a way […]

Quite some time ago, I took over maintenance of the Chocolatey NuGet (CNG) packages for both Elixir and Erlang.  I did release new versions of both packages as new versions of Erlang and Elixir became available but I didn’t do a lot of work on either of them.  That changed a little bit today. One thing that […]