TIL: Debugging "Column Cannot Be Null" Error in MySQL despite nullable column definitionApr 29, 2025·2 min read·165
PinnedMy Elixir Mix PodcastRecently, I got the opportunity to be a guest on Elixir Mix podcast. Though I was nervous(super nervous) but the hosts of the show Sascha Wolf, Adi Iyengar, and Allen Wyma were very welcoming and made me comfortable. The podcast was about my blog Fet...Jul 23, 2022·1 min read·249
Creating Tabular Representation of Database Indexes using Elixir Mix TaskRecently, while working on one of my personal Elixir projects. I came across a scenario where I needed to make some changes to the database schema.The changes mainly revolve around adding and removing indexes due to changes in the business requiremen...Jun 5, 2024·9 min read·672
Adding PDF generate feature in Phoenix LiveView appGenerating pdf is very common in day-to-day web applications. In E-commerce websites like Amazon when we do any shopping we get the option to get the invoice. It's not an easy task to implement it people often have a hard time implementing it because...Jan 9, 2024·6 min read·3.9K
TIL: How to add a form in a table in Phoenix LiveView?Suppose, we want to add an inline edit feature on a table row. It can be a little tricky to implement. I had a hard time implementing it because I wasn't about one of the concepts of HTML that we cannot add a form tag inside a table. Something like t...Jan 4, 2024·2 min read·394
TIL: Add the "download" attribute on the link tag when calling the download endpointDownloading pdf or any other documents is very common in day-to-day web applications. We often see buttons like Download, Generate Invoice, etc buttons in web applications that makes calls to a GET endpoint which does some computations and downloads ...Jan 3, 2024·2 min read·326
TIL: Use the `useMaster` property to fetch data from the write pool in Sequelize.Sequelize offers support for read replication, enabling the use of multiple servers for executing SELECT queries. In this configuration, you designate one or more servers as read replicas, while appointing one server as the primary writer. The primar...Dec 25, 2023·2 min read·337
Creating a React component to render normal SVG in react-pdf.Recently, while working on a React project, I encountered a bug (or requirement) where SVG images weren't getting exported in PDF. The PDF export feature was an existing feature developed earlier by one of my colleagues in the project. He developed t...Dec 25, 2023·9 min read·1.5K
