80: Waffle Making with Boris Kuznetsov

We talk with Boris Kuznetsov to learn about the Waffle library and how it is used to attach images, video, and audio to your Ecto records while also processing the attachments for thumbnails, encodings, and more. We learn about the history of the project having forked from Arc, which is no longer maintained. We cover the challenges of supporting and maintaining a library created as a fork. We talk about Second System Syndrome and the desire we often feel that it would be easier to just start over. All this and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/80

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/phoenixframework/tailwind – New Phoenix library makes adding TailwindCSS support easier
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/tailwind-standalone/ – Chris McCord's blog post on how to add it to your existing projects now
• https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/pull/39 – Alex Koutmos added Broadway support into PromEx
• https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1473784677521633282 – Alex Koutmos tweet about it, shared a screenshot
• https://hexdocs.pm/rebar3_ex_doc – Erlang projects can more easily publish documentation using ExDoc using a hex package called rebar3_ex_doc
• https://tutorials.membraneframework.org/tutorials/videoroom/ – Membrane Framework put out a multi-part tutorial for creating your own video conference room

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/elixir-waffle/waffle
• https://curiosum.com/blog/how-upload-file-elixir-waffle
• https://github.com/stavro/arc – Arc is the project that waffle forked from
• https://github.com/elixir-waffle – Github organization with 3 waffle projects
• https://github.com/stavro/arc
• https://rubygems.org/gems/paperclip
• https://rubygems.org/gems/carrierwave
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
• https://elixircasts.io/file-uploads-with-waffle
• https://elixirforum.com/t/emacs-like-text-editor-in-elixir/44676
• https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
• https://elixirforum.com/
• https://github.com/achempion/alice – Text editor prototype written in Elixir
• https://elixirforum.com/t/emacs-like-text-editor-in-elixir/44676 – Announcement and discussion of Alice on ElixirForum
• https://www.twitch.tv/achempion – Boris' TwitchTV channel

Guest Information

• https://github.com/achempion/ – on Github
• https://achempion.com/ – Blog
• https://www.twitch.tv/achempion – on Twitch
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGP7X21WMpxbq9QJP9PCGjQ – Youtube Channel

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