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A couple years ago my wife, who is an 8th grade US History teacher, came to me for help with a spreadsheet to simulate the US stock market leading up to the crash in 1929. The spreadsheet was cumbersome, very complicated for the students, and a major pain for her … Read more

Update 2024-04-10: This article has been updated with a better Workaround that uses your generated MyappWeb.Endpoint.start_link/1. The original article called directly into Phoenix.Endpoint.Supervisor which was more brittle. In Phoenix 1.7.11, the Endpoint.init/2 callback was deprecated. If you have defined it, then … Read more

A pretty common setup for front-end design work is to use Sass to compile .scss files into a single .css file. It's also pretty common to use a CSS Reset, such as normalize.css or sanitize.css, to reset your CSS to a common base. For that CSS Reset to … Read more

Django has added support for Postgres's built-in full-text searching as of version 1.10. This is a great alternative to a heavier search system such as elasticsearch or SOLR, when we want decent search capabilities without having to setup and maintain another service. Postgres's full-text search is Good Enough for … Read more

When running Django's runserver management command in a Docker container or under a PyCharm run configuration (in Linux at least), I very often had issues with the process not getting killed in a timely manner. The symptom is that the process doesn't die immediately after it receives a SIGTERM or … Read more

Here's a quick Plug for a Phoenix project that allows you to quickly and easily set template variables (assigns) in either a Pipeline or for all actions in a controller. I used this recently as a way to set a variable, admin: true, for all of my controllers under an … Read more

When I decided to port this blog to be statically generated, I also decided to redesign it from the ground up. Since I had recently learned about Bourbon Neat, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to try it out. These are just a few thoughts on the process … Read more

I’m happy to finally announce the release of my little pet-project, AnswerCast, an app that helps you play question-and-answer board games with your friends. Read more

A class to allow you to set arbitrary anchor points on any sprite with little overhead. Read more

Using matrices and matrix math to apply transformations such as translate, rotate, scale and skew when programming graphics. Read more

Optimizing a basic Bezier curve class for better performance by selectively reducing point counts while maintaining high quality, smooth curves. Read more

I recently started using Sublime Text 2 to edit the Lua project I'm working on, however, it did a couple strange things with indenting. Here is how I fixed them. Read more