I use elixir and the Phoenix Framework in
many of my projects along with esbuild. While Phoenix includes an esbuild
Elixir package that provides a streamlined "out of the box" experience.
But if you want full build customization, you need to write your own build file.
I have a deep affection for email and regard it as one of the most crucial components of modern communication, and to some extent, society at large.
But email is badly treated. Yes, it has flaws, but it accomplished something unique: an universal way to contact someone, for free, from anywhere on the planet.
In this post, I will rant about email, about what I love and what I hate. Some of it will be constructive, while most of it will be a graybeard grumbling about how society ruined something great.
I will use the term email to speak of everything, from protocols to the user perspective. It is an over simplification, but I reassure you and I'll brag about it just now: I know "a lot" about emails.
Also, when I say you I mean developers, sysadmin, webmasters but never users. Users are sacred, users are never wrong, users are like babies in cribs and should be looked after. This is important and should drive our industry.
I wanted to watch a file under OpenBSD to synchronize my PowerDNS database between two hosts.
I use Ansible to manage all my infrastructure. It's about 50 bare metal servers that sit in my basement.
It works well, but I have a few issues:
The third one is the biggest pain point. I spent sometimes hours trying to get how to use some plugin to do something simple.