Elixir on Jake Worth

Opaque IDs, editable titles in TIL URLs

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:46:54 -0400

Today I’d like to highlight something I built with some colleagues that I think is cool: the dynamic paths of Hashrocket’s daily learning site, Today I Learned (TIL).

Autoformat Your Code

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Auto-formatting code is good, and you should be doing it all the time. Why? It helps you write better code in real-time, preempt trivial discussions, and maybe even democratize programming.

What We Learned Porting a Rails App to Phoenix

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Tilex, our Phoenix port of Today I Learned, is coming really well. After a personal hiatus for RailsConf prep, I’m back full-swing. My coworkers have really been bringing quality commits as well, and I feel we are very close to a successful port.

Reset an Ecto Heroku Postgres Database

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

We introduced some breaking database changes to our Phoenix port of Today I Learned on Friday; today I deployed them to staging. Resetting an Ecto Heroku database, with new seed data, turned out to be a little tricky, and I wanted to document what I learned.

Porting TIL from Rails to Phoenix: Initial Commits

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Last week, I started a new project: porting Today I Learned from Ruby on Rails to Phoenix (Elixir).

Why Elixir?

Wed, 06 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been learning and using Elixir lately, and loving it. More than once, I’ve been asked some version of the question: why are you learning Elixir? What makes this language unique? I thought I’d take a moment and try to distill my rationale.

Recreating Elixir's Enum.sum

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’m learning Elixir, and today as an exercise, I was challenged to recreate Enum.sum using recursion. Here’s my solution.