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Jekyll2022-10-11T07:07:54+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/feed.xmlMichał Łępickia weblogMichał ŁępickiRun Visual Studio Code inside Ubuntu or Debian Distrobox containers2022-06-02T00:00:00+00:002022-06-02T00:00:00+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/run-vscode-in-distroboxMichał Łępicki

Distrobox is a toolbox (similar to Fedora’s toolbx) for creating containerized Linux development environments. It is built around Podman (or Docker), and can run any “Dockerized” distro, on top of any systemd-based host distribution.

Format HEEx files quickly on CI2022-04-17T00:00:00+00:002022-04-17T00:00:00+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/format-phoenix-quicklyMichał Łępicki

Phoenix LiveView 0.17.8 provides a HTMLFormatter plugin to mix format your Phoenix templates and LiveView ~H snippets. Because the plugin module comes from a Hex dependency, Mix requires it to be compiled to do its magic. As per Mix module plugins documentation:

Playwright and Phoenix Ecto SQL Sandbox2021-11-06T00:00:00+00:002021-11-06T00:00:00+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/playwright-and-phoenix-ecto-sql-sandboxMichał Łępicki

Playwright is a library for browser automation from Microsoft. There’s an unofficial playwright-elixir library for using it from Elixir. You can think of it as an alternative to Wallaby or Hound, but using different technology underneath. The Elixir client library is not complete yet and is still under development, but let’s make it work with the Phoenix Ecto sandbox!

Using structs for Oban worker arguments2021-10-10T00:00:00+00:002021-10-10T00:00:00+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/using-structs-for-oban-worker-argumentsMichał Łępicki

Oban is a very good background job library for Elixir. It performs well, doesn’t need Redis (uses PostgreSQL), has many nice features and is rather intuitive to use. I have one small issue with it - it’s easy to make small mistakes (typos and similar) in job arguments. What if we could use Elixir structs to help with that?

Capturing terminal as HTML2021-09-06T00:00:00+00:002021-09-06T00:00:00+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/capturing-terminal-as-htmlMichał Łępicki

Here’s a little script to record terminal sessions. It uses script to neatly record the commands and their output, and then transforms that typescript with aha to HTML with some minimal styling.

Notes on using Sesterl2021-06-06T00:00:00+00:002021-06-06T00:00:00+00:00https://blog.michallepicki.com/notes-on-using-sesterlMichał Łępicki

Sesterl is a new statically typed programming language for the BEAM (the Erlang virtual machine).