Livebook is very powerful application which can be used in many different ways with your Phoneix project. I have few apps running on my VPS and sometimes I would like to run some functions without creating interface for them from admin side, such as cache clean up. Perhaps run some analytical queries to the database and much more.

Meet PhonenixPlayground

I found this library on github suggestions and I always wanted to have something simple and quick to test out LiveView prototypes. What can be quicker than opening Livebook and trying something there? Folks behind PhonenixPlayground made both of my wishes come true!

If you would like jump straight into the code:

Data is expensive

I write around 2-3 important notes a day. And don’t actually worry if my laptop will be stolen, but the data on it..

Since Im heavy notion user I was looking for automated backup solution. Not that I don’t trust notion, trust but verify, right?

Backup

1. Create a private github repo

2. Go to actions tab and click on set up a workflow yourself ->

lalabuy948/genvutils

Motivation

As you probably saw my founding of two nice libraries that allow you beauty and easy abstraction on dot and just environment variables. You can check it there

After some time I decided to create another open-source library for the world and I merged the functionality of packages which you can find in the article above. I started from scratch and you are more than welcome to have look on it on my GitHub -> github.com/lalabuy948/genvutils

How to use Hashicorp Vault as dot environment manager?

I decided to share this because I was looking for small, simple and easy to use tool where I would store dotenv secrets for my apps. And I found this nice and elegant solution which will allow you to control your application secrets with small bash script. 🙂

Pre Requirements

• Installed vault
• Finish setup instructions

You can find nicely described steps here: Getting started