We talk with Boris Kuznetsov to learn about the Waffle library and how it is used to attach images, video, and audio to your Ecto records while also processing the attachments for thumbnails, encodings, and more. We learn about the history of the project having forked from Arc, which is no longer maintained. We cover the challenges of supporting and maintaining a library created as a fork. We talk about Second System Syndrome and the desire we often feel that it would be easier to just start over. All this and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/80

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/tailwind – New Phoenix library makes adding TailwindCSS support easier
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/tailwind-standalone/ – Chris McCord's blog post on how to add it to your existing projects now
https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/pull/39 – Alex Koutmos added Broadway support into PromEx
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1473784677521633282 – Alex Koutmos tweet about it, shared a screenshot
https://hexdocs.pm/rebar3_ex_doc – Erlang projects can more easily publish documentation using ExDoc using a hex package called rebar3_ex_doc
https://tutorials.membraneframework.org/tutorials/videoroom/ – Membrane Framework put out a multi-part tutorial for creating your own video conference room

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/elixir-waffle/waffle
https://curiosum.com/blog/how-upload-file-elixir-waffle
https://github.com/stavro/arc – Arc is the project that waffle forked from
https://github.com/elixir-waffle – Github organization with 3 waffle projects
https://github.com/stavro/arc
https://rubygems.org/gems/paperclip
https://rubygems.org/gems/carrierwave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
https://elixircasts.io/file-uploads-with-waffle
https://elixirforum.com/t/emacs-like-text-editor-in-elixir/44676
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
https://elixirforum.com/
https://github.com/achempion/alice – Text editor prototype written in Elixir
https://elixirforum.com/t/emacs-like-text-editor-in-elixir/44676 – Announcement and discussion of Alice on ElixirForum
https://www.twitch.tv/achempion – Boris' TwitchTV channel

Guest Information

https://github.com/achempion/ – on Github
https://achempion.com/ – Blog
https://www.twitch.tv/achempion – on Twitch
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGP7X21WMpxbq9QJP9PCGjQ – Youtube Channel

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80: Waffle Making with Boris Kuznetsov

Thinking Elixir Podcast

80: Waffle Making with Boris Kuznetsov