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Hey, I’m Peter! Developer & Educator.

I'm a Senior Elixir developer with a Psychology background, PragProg Author, Public Speaker and Blogger, Founder of Letter to Yourself. I'm passionate about Software Architecture, Product Engineering, and sharing knowledge.

Products

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Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView

Data is at the core of every business, but it is useless if nobody can access it. This book shows you how to generate business value by making your data accessible with advanced table UIs.
The book cover of the Builting Table Views with Phoenix LiveView book showing three meerkats.

Build an MVP with Elixir

New to Elixir? This video course gets you started by developing a real-world product using Phoenix LiveView, deploying it to Fly.io, adding payments to it using LemonSqueezy, and more.

Blog Posts

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Animate a Side Drawer with LiveView.JS

LiveView.JS is great for client-side animations because no round-trip to the server is needed. Here's how you can use JS to animate a side drawer.

– 7 min read
liveview js elixir
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Unaccented Name Search with Postgres and Ecto

Postgres does not support searching for names with special characters by default. Here is how to fix it.

– 8 min read
postgres ecto elixir
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How malicious libraries can steal all your application secrets

Adding libraries is a massive security risk. They gain FULL access to your configuration, database, and file-system. Here's how they could steal them and how to protect yourself.

– 21 min read
security elixir
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Kill your Phoenix Context

Phoenix Contexts often become a dumping ground for code that doesn't have an obvious place. Learn how to organize your code using services, finders, and repositories.

– 13 min read
architecture phoenix
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Upload Encrypted Files to S3

Encrypting sensitive user files before uploading them to S3 is a must. This post shows how to encrypt and upload them and also how to download and decrypt them again using encryption keys unique per user.

– 24 min read
liveview s3 encryption aws
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Announcing my new Video Course!

My first video course "Build an MVP with Elixir" helps you to get started with Elixir by building a real-world product together!

– 1 min read
postgres liveview elixir
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Listen to Database Changes with Postgres Triggers and Elixir

Postgres Notifications allow you to subscribe to any changes in your database, even if they weren't made by your Elixir application! Let's learn how to set them up!

– 11 min read
postgres elixir
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Build dynamic Forms with JSON Schemas

Define custom forms without writing a single line of HTML. JSON Schemas help you define and adjust forms and validate user input all through a single configuration file.

– 13 min read
elixir liveview
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Use Neural Networks in Livebook

The latest Livebook version 0.8 comes with a new smart cell type that makes experimenting with neural networks like StableDiffusion, GPT2, and others incredibly easy. Let's learn how to get started.

– 7 min read
livebook elixir-nx
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Build a Roles and Permissions System for Phoenix - Part 2

Learn how to prevent PII leaks from your Ecto queries by adding query restrictions to your Roles and Permissions system.

– 18 min read
rap elixir