80: Waffle Making with Boris Kuznetsov

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 We learn about the history of the project having forked from Arc, which is no longer maintained.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 [email protected] 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 Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!