When dealing with collections, I frequently find myself filtering and mapping a collection to extract the results I need. Elixir’s Enum library has a great filter_map/3 function to simplify this…

As part of Google’s DNI project, we built ‘POST’ at Edenspiekermann, a Slackbot to help journalists track article performance. Here’s an overview of our adventures with a new tech stack of Elixir and Phoenix…

At Edenspiekermann we recently built a multi-tenant site on Ruby on Rails using PostgreSQL schemas and the apartment gem. I wrote about it on the Espi Dev Blog…

I’ve been working on my first Phoenix project recently. I found it very annoying to have to add an aliases for every model I want to interact with in iex. There’s an easier way…

Recently I wanted to add basic text search to an application I as working on. It took me a while to figure out the right way to index columns for LIKE lookups, especially for indexing compound columns. Here’s how I did it.