A Lib Abandoned I have a web app built on Phoenix/Elixir that up until today used Coherence as its user authentication lib. Unfortunately the maintainer of this lib has straight ghosted, and so my options were fork Coherence and maintain it myself, build my own user auth system, or search out another lib. I did …
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Edeliver is an awesome deployment tool for Elixir applications, including Phoenix apps, but one thing it lacks (intentionally) is support for auto-restarting your Elixir app after server reboots. Out of the box, if you want to restart your app after a server reboot, you can just run $ mix edeliver restart production in a terminal …
In this article, I’ll show you how to setup your Phoenix 1.3 app to use the binary serialization format MessagePack for sending and receiving web socket channel messages. What is MessagePack? MessagePack is a binary serialization format. You know how JSON uses strings to represent different kinds of data and objects? Well MessagePack does the …
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When I first started doing live testing of Breakfast of Champions, I was using Heroku because it’s cheap, easy, and it’s what I was used to. Unfortunately, Heroku allots you very little CPU power regardless of your dyno size. Not to mention they restart every app once a day, hot swapping is not possible, nor …
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According to the “experts” sourced in click-bait articles, playing video games during work can be beneficial in helping restore your “affective abilities” so as to “restore [your] mood in response to stress“. Furthermore, “Stepping away from a tricky task for a few minutes of gaming might spur a new perspective on a business problem or …
We’ve got a big announcement to make — Breakfast of Champions has now reached the playtest phase! It’s been under development for a couple months now, so presenting the game to our friends and family is a really exciting milestone for StrongWing Studios. Not to get sentimental on this post, but I tear up when …
Ok, we’ve made it to the end of this Tech Stack article series – or the beginning of the end anyway. In part 1, I discussed why I chose Elixir for the backend, and in part 2 I talked about why I’m using plain old JavaScript for the web frontend. All that’s left now is …
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In Part 1 of this three part series, I explained why I chose Elixir for the back end of our flagship game, Breakfast of Champions. Here in Part 2, I’ll talk about the decision process for the frontend tech. There will be three frontends because we’re planning on making the game playable through browsers, an …
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Ah yes, starting a new project. All roads are open and the potential is limitless… I’ve got a rough idea of the thing I want to build, but how to choose a tech stack?
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