Mar 9What’s a process in Elixir?To learn what a process is in Elixir, you must first know what a function is. For example, IO.puts/1 is a function that writes something to the screen. The function is called puts, it is in the IO module (input I and output O), and it takes one argument: iex(1)>…Elixir1 min readElixir1 min read
May 9, 2021Bolsonaro é um genocida corrupto43117Conrado GouvêaE quem quiser ver uma entrevista com Diego Aranha que não tenha sido feita por um apoiador…E quem quiser ver uma entrevista com Diego Aranha que não tenha sido feita por um apoiador (passado) de Bolsonaro (a primeira que o YouTube geralmente mostra), sugiro esta aqui que eu fiz: https://youtu.be/JnM7bDqWR181 min read1 min read
Nov 6, 2020Titles of all Elixir Fountain podcast episodesElixir Fountain was the first podcast focused on the Elixir language. The first episode was published on June 9, 2015 and the latest on 09 Aug 2019. In the past, I wrote “Top 9 episodes of the Elixir Fountain podcast”. The host and creator of Elixir Fountain is Johnny Winn…Elixir3 min readElixir3 min read
Jul 8, 2020Art-Education and “Creative Programming”I have a podcast in Portuguese. It is called “Podcast do Professor Adolfo Neto” (Professor Adolfo Neto’s Podcast). In the most recent episode I interviewed Alexandre Villares. Alexandre Villares is a professor, visual artist and consultant in new media. He has a major in Architecture from the University…Podcast2 min readPodcast2 min read
May 8, 2020Simple TDD in Erlang, by Brujo BenavidesIn the video above I experimented with Brujo Benavides’s description of TDD in Erlang. His post is below: Simple TDD in Erlang Or how to use Pattern-Matching for Testsmedium.com The tweet he mentioned is this one: What is the right way to say/write? Simple TDD in Erlang or Simple TDD with Erlang?Erlang1 min readErlang1 min read
Jan 30, 2020Elixir Brasil 2020 will be postponedAlert! Elixir Brasil will be postponed. Whenever we have new dates, I will publish them here. So here we go again. This will be the third edition of Elixir Brasil, the only Elixir conference in Brazil. The first two editions of this event were: Elixir Brasil 2018, a one…Elixir3 min readElixir3 min read
Jan 24, 2020The problems with AcademiaExcerpts from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Skin in the Game, which is part of Incerto. Read the book! These are just a reminder for me. (…) one (now “resigned”) department head one day came to me and emitted the warning: “Just as, when a businessman and author you are judged by…Taleb2 min readTaleb2 min read
Nov 1, 2019Elixir, Erlang and BEAM newslettersAs far as I know, there are currently five active newsletters related to Elixir, Erlang or the BEAM: Elixir Radar (now at https://elixir-radar.com/), a weekly newsletter by Plataformatec (the company was acquihired by Nubank). Latest issue, as I write, was issue 213. Elixir Digest — “One email per week, 5…Elixir1 min readElixir1 min read
Oct 29, 2019Exercises on Elixir Maps, Keyword Lists, Sets, and StructsMy students from the “Introduction to Functional Programming” course are studying Chapter 8 of Dave Thomas’ Programming Elixir 1.6, which is about Maps, Keyword Lists, Sets, and Structs. These are the exercises they will have to do today: 1) Let kl be a keyword list defined as following: kl =…Elixir2 min readElixir2 min read
Jul 11, 2019Classical Propositional Logic in ElixirI am a professor and I teach Introduction to Logic for Computing. One of the subjects I teach is Classical Propositional Logic. I use a Brazilian book as my main reference but this book is also quite good. In Classical Propositional Logic there are two truth-values: true and false. …Elixir3 min readElixir3 min read
