Josh Bavari's Thoughts

Lately I’ve been learning a ton more about Elixir and really working towards refactoring and hardening the system.
On my current project, I’ve got about 200 tests that exercise various parts of the system. Lately though, I’ve been trying to analyze which parts of the system aren’t being covered, and of course, theres tools to help with that....

I’ve been playing around with mDNS lately for broadcasting some services for applications to auto-connect with.
The first experiment I had was setting up a server that broadcasts a TCP endpoint for an Electron application to discover and connect for the application data....

I’ve been using Elixir a ton at work and in some fun side projects and I’m absolutely in love with it.
One tool I especially love is the Erlang Observer tool, that shows you IO, memory, and CPU usage used by your app and the Erlang VM.
Once I got some apps deployed, I wanted to observe them remotely. I found a few google forum posts and the IEx docs, but i wanted to wrap up this knowledge for when I need it in the future....

I recently have been working a lot using Leaflet.js to do some mapping.
In some of my models, I use the lovely Geo package for Elixir point and geospatial usage. I needed to add support for Poison to encode my model.
I’ve been serving geo json from my models, and I needed a way to use the JSON encoding way easier. I’m sending some data out to a ZeroMQ socket so I need to encode it by transorming my Geo module in a way that I could encode it with Geo JSON....