25 Oct 2016
Using Webpack with Phoenix and Elixir
Phoenix, by default, uses Brunch for a build tool – and for most folks, it’ll work, but I’ve grown fond of webpack because of features like hot module replacement and the ease of configuring loaders/processors in the build process. In my opinion, Elixir and Phoenix is the best for choice for server side architecture currently, so, naturally these should be paired with the best client side tools.
20 Oct 2016
naptha/tesseract.js
Pure Javascript OCR for 62 Languages
Tesseract.js
supports over 60 languages, automatic text orientation and script detection, a simple interface for reading paragraph, word, and character bounding boxes. Tesseract.js can run either in a browser and on a server with NodeJS.
20 Oct 2016
Machine Learning is Fun!
This guide is for anyone who is curious about machine learning but has no idea where to start. I imagine there are a lot of people who tried reading the wikipedia article, got frustrated and gave up wishing someone would just give them a high-level explanation. That’s what this is.
This is a great five-part introduction to machine learing.
20 Oct 2016
Robohash
Robohash is a easy web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text. Put in any text, such as IP address, email, filename, userid, or whatever else you like, and get back a pretty image for your site.
20 Oct 2016
weareleka/Arduino-Makefile
Makefile for Arduino sketches. It defines the workflows for compiling code, flashing it to Arduino and even communicating through Serial.