The Krihelinator reached end-of-life

Thu 09 April 2020

After more than 4 years online, the Krihelinator was shut down today. The idea behind this project was to propose an alternative to github's trading page by highlighting projects with high contribution rate instead of stars. I'm a bit sorry to let this project go, as it was one of …

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Python vs. elixir for a web-app wrapper for a script

Sun 27 August 2017

I'm a facing a project with the following requirements:

• An existing script should be wrapped with a web server.
• The script takes 10-30 seconds to run, so just let the user wait for it to complete.
• Multiple users should be able to call the script concurrently.
• Make sure to protect …

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Phoenix, templates, and active navbar items

Thu 22 December 2016

We build a web-app, and want the items on the navigation bar to be active when the user visits the corresponding page, like this:

I'm not saying that this is a complicated task in other frameworks, but it often feels "hacky". Here is a phoenix solution that feels pretty elegant …

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