Indielixir

Apr 16 2021 12 ep. 23 mins 47
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Indielixer is a show about side projects built with the Elixir programming language. Follow along with me, Carter Bryden, as I talk to you each episode about the ideas, frustrations, tips, and tricks that I uncover while working on my own indie projects using Elixir.

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#12 - Building a CDN is hard

Apr 16 2021 20 mins  
Episode Notes This episode I talk about building globally distributed proxy servers for approximated.app, and my struggle with finding a way to have one IP address route to the server nearest the user. Mentioned in this episode: fly.io AWS Route 53 DNSimple Reach me @carterbryden on twitter Find out more at http://indielixir.com

#11 - Approximated.app, Code Base, Tap.Works

Apr 01 2021 28 mins  
Episode Notes Back again after a pandemic hiatus! This episode I talk about what's happened with earlier projects (forte.chat, tap.works) and some new projects - Approximated.app and CodeBase.app - that I'm working on. Want to get in touch? Send me a message on twitter: @carterbryden Find out more at http://indielixir.com

Tap.Works

Oct 04 2019 22 mins  
Episode Notes In this episode I talk about: What I've been working on over the summer with Forte Chat A new project Tap.Works for deploying Elixir & Phoenix projects to your own servers without docker Using liveview all over the place and LOVING it Using tailwindcss in combination with liveview (no extra CSS or JS!) You can reach me on twitter @carterbryden or at car

#009 - Focusing On Being Useful

May 21 2019 24 mins  
Episode Notes I tried out Phoenix Liveview for the first time and talk about my experience with it. I also go over a change in focus on my project forte.chat to provide more immediately useful features to freelancers like myself. Find out more at http://indielixir.com

#008 - Taking Breaks and Launching

Mar 06 2019 38 mins  
Episode Notes It's been a while and I'm glad to be back! In this episode I talk about taking breaks, launching and going forward with Forte Chat, and also a new project called Git Vendor. Forte.Chat GitVendor.com Find out more at http://indielixir.com

#007 - Favorite Tools & Services

Jun 13 2018 30 mins  
Episode Notes I've been out of town and unable to work on my own indie projects for the last few weeks, so I thought this would be a good time to do an episode about some of my favorite tools & services that I use with my own projects. None of these have paid me or are associated with me, I just like them! List: Cloud 9 IDE CodeAnywhere Eclipse Che Gogs Git Server Gitea Git Ser

#006 - Why Indie Projects?

May 13 2018 27 mins  
Episode Notes Heads up, this episode is more about the Indie side of Indielixer. Talk about coding and Elixir will be back in the next episode! In this episode I talk about why I believe in Indie projects and make an argument for doing one yourself. I explain why I chose Forte as my current Indie project and use it to discuss how and why you might choose one project idea over anoth

#005 - Testing & Refactoring

May 05 2018 17 mins  
Episode Notes Talking about where Forte is at, and philosophies on testing and refactoring in software development. Website: indielixer.com Twitter: @sudocodes Email: [email protected] Find out more at http://indielixir.com

#004 - Realtime & Channels

Mar 27 2018 17 mins  
Episode Notes This episode I talk about channels, presence and other realtime features that drew me into elixir/phoenix and how I use them in my indie projects. Find out more at http://indielixir.com

#003 - Event Tracking

Mar 15 2018 15 mins  
Episode Notes This episode I talk about one of my favorite little projects, an event tracking phoenix app I call Almanac. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @sudocodes Find out more at http://indielixir.com