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Debugging a False-Positive Hex Advisory in an Elixir CI Pipeline

Sep 19, 20267 min read60

Understanding Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors: A Visual Introduction

Aug 9, 20265 min read9

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My Elixir Mix Podcast

Recently, 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

Jul 23, 20221 min read264

How to Set Up Multipass with VS Code on Mac: A Step-by-Step Guide

Jan 23, 20266 min read82

TIL: Debugging "Column Cannot Be Null" Error in MySQL despite nullable column definition

Apr 29, 20252 min read243

Understand and implement Builder Design Pattern in Javascript and C++

Recently, I was exploring design patterns courses on my LinkedIn Learning subscription. I came across a course, Node.js: Design Patterns by Alex Banks. It is a wonderful, easy-to-understand course. I started with the Builder Pattern, and the explanat...

Nov 20, 20244 min read120

Implement Table DOM Search in Phoenix LiveView

Suppose you are working on a table in a LiveView project. This table has limited static data of not more than one page (you can avoid questions about pagination in the comment section 😊). From a user's point of view, it becomes hard to look into the...

Sep 9, 20246 min read140

Creating Tabular Representation of Database Indexes using Elixir Mix Task

Recently, 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, 20249 min read677

Adding PDF generate feature in Phoenix LiveView app

Generating 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, 20246 min read4.0K

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, 20242 min read395

TIL: Add the "download" attribute on the link tag when calling the download endpoint

Downloading 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, 20242 min read329

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