(bauer blog)

Simple Things I Forget with SSH

As I can never consistently remember all of the following, I'm putting it in writing for my future self. If anyone else finds it useful then that's great... but it is selfishly meant for me. There are countless other resources that go into far greater and specific detail. We are

CCSPiP

Maze Generation with Elixir

Get lost in the land of maze generation. A basic maze generator is showcased in Elixir, derived from Classic Computer Science Problems in Python.

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DNA Search with Elixir

We revisit the land of bioinformatics and try to find a codon in a proverbial gene haystack. Linear and binary search are implemented in Elixir to find if a gene contains a specific codon.

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Unbreakable Encryption with Elixir

Explores the basic cryptographic technique known as a one time pad using Elixir. Based on examples found in the book Classic Computer Science Problems in Python.

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Trivial Gene Compression with Elixir

Foray into an introductory compression technique for genes using Elixir. Based on examples found in the book Classic Computer Science Problems in Python.

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Fibbing with Elixir

Investigates a handful of simple approaches to generate Fibonacci numbers in Elixir based on a similar section in Classic Computer Science Problems in Python.

Retrospective

The Phantom (Latency) Menace

Recollection of a production issue causing high latency in a Node application with little observability. Covers initial symptoms, potential avenues of investigation, and ultimately the solution.

elasticsearch

Bash and quoted strings with Elasticsearch

This is one of those fun edge cases where you don't know that you don't know something until it beats you over the head for about an hour. My situation was simple - I was trying to add a document to Elasticsearch via curl. I've done it multiple times in

Clojure

Refer a macro with CLJC

When you want to refer a macro in CLJC, you get into an interesting situation where Clojure, ClojureScript, and potentially other dialects begin to diverge. For instance, Clojure refers macros in one manner while ClojureScript does so another. How best to handle this split? The answer is reader conditionals if

Clojure

Tiny Clojure Tips - Part 1

Suppose you love Clojure (of course you do), anonymous functions (doubly so!), and syntactic sugar but you need to have more than one argument. What's a person to do?! You could write the anonymous function out like so, but look at that - an extra pair of extra parentheses. Even

Docker

Set up Piwik in Docker

Once you set up a blog and generate some content, you might eventually wonder if anyone is actually reading what your are writing. Down that line of thought is web analytics. After all, it would be nice to know if people are visiting... it gets so lonely out here... hello?

Ghost

Update Ghost in Docker

This was actually relatively painless for me! I was on Ghost 0.7.x and updated to 0.9.x with no troubles. Since I have no idea how you set up your Ghost container, it is assumed you followed my previous post about Ghost and Docker. There shouldn't be

Clojure

Target Practice with the Arrow Macro

Sometimes I end up with rather ugly looking code that shoots to the far right and looks like a cliff hanging over the code below. While the line works, it certainly does not looks nice and can be a pain to decipher in the future. Here is an example of

Clojure

Library: Cheshire

Grinning like a Cheshire Cat Anytime I work with JSON and Clojure my mind goes immediately to a library that puts a grin on my face: Cheshire. This is not only due to the great name, but it is truly a library that betters the Clojure landscape - fast, effective,

Retrospective

Project Retrospective: link-service

When a project is finished, or comes as close to finished as possible, it is nice to spend some time pondering what has been achieved. Reflecting on the things learned as well as the successes and failures allows for an opportunity to grow. I will call this a retrospective, but

Docker

A Ghost at the Dock(er)

Note: This post was written for Ghost 0.7.1, which is no longer a recent version. I've been eyeballing Docker for months now. Always popping up in my feeds with their enthusiasm and lively community. Their mascot, Moby Dock, temps me with his gentle whale song of isolated applications,