Shane Logsdon's musings

Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Elixir

Big ol’ note: By no means am I an expert on any of the below content. I’m currently learning this to the best of my ability and thought to write down my experiences and thoughts with implementing these in Elixir.

We’re going to be comparing Elixir protocols with Haskell’s type classes using a go-to type for the subject at hand: Maybe. The Maybetype encapsulates an optional value. A value of…

Pitstop with the Elixir GenEvent Module

Wanting to learn more about WebSockets, I decided to create an easy to use, drop-in tool for Elixir’s Plug library that adds WebSocket support for those using Plug and Cowboy, the only officially supported web server. One important piece of the puzzle I needed to align required an interface for users to broadcast and subscribe to events. What’s the point of a WebSocket connection anyways of the…