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