Using Webpack With Phoenix and Elixir

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.

naptha/tesseract.js

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.

Machine Learning Is Fun!

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.

Robohash

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.

weareleka/Arduino-Makefile

weareleka/Arduino-Makefile

Makefile for Arduino sketches. It defines the workflows for compiling code, flashing it to Arduino and even communicating through Serial.