Darian Moody - Lead Product Developer

If you're just starting to learn Elixir, you will see both of these terms bandied about quite a bit and if you've taken the same route I did back when I first started then you've mostly ignored them until now, aside from reading short blurbs here and...

Let's set the scene. You've written a piece of code that you would like to work with a variety of different "things" – yeah, we're getting properly scientific here, bare with me. These various things share a common trait in that they achieve the same...

This article also offers an intro to the Keyword List type in Elixir; non-beginners can almost certainly skip to the last section.
An intro to Elixir's Keyword Lists
Keyword lists in Elixir are simply a special case of a list, their contents being made up entirely of 2-item "pair" tuples with the first item of each being an Elixir :atom. Unlike maps, they are ordered and may contain multiple values for the same key...

First off, the md5 and sha1 cryptographic hash functions should only be used when security is not a requirement or when compatibility with legacy applications is needed. md5 was physically broken a very long time ago, and sha1 was theoretically broken...