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Create a git branch archive

This week I needed to prepare some files for the buyers of my book Deployment from Scratch. I use various git repositories for the content and case studies, and I needed to create archives for the current release quickly.

Elixir and Phoenix after two years

Thoughts on the Elixir language and its Phoenix framework after two years of professional work.

InvoicePrinter 2.1 with Ruby 3 support

Ruby 3 was released three months ago, so it was a time to support it in InvoicePrinter, a pure Ruby library for generating PDF invoices.

Live previews with Rails and Stimulus 2

Who wouldn’t want a live preview for writing their great content? If you happen to be running Rails with Hotwire, it’s surprisingly easy with a small Stimulus controller.

Creating a ZIP file in Elixir

Creating ZIP files in Elixir is easy because of Erlang’s :zip module. Here’s how to create a ZIP archive both on disk and in memory.

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