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I'll more or less echo what nelsonic said.

No one where I work has come in with Elixir experience. We look for people that are motivated to learn. Elixir has been one of the easier languages in my career to learn, and I think others that I work with would agree with that.

After working with the PETAL (Phoenix, Elixir, TailwindCSS, Alpine.Js, Liveview) stack at $JOB for a while now, I have to say I've never been more productive.

Early on I would still have to lean on Alpine heavily for various JS interactions but with all the features Liveview has been adding and improving on (Hello JS module!) I find myself needing it less and less. Liveview really has been a game changer for me. Tailwind has more or less fixed most of my frustrations with CSS and has worked itself nicely into the company design system resulting in nice re-usable components that can be easily customized for those one-offs. Elixir is a nice language to use and I find myself missing features of it when working with other languages. Phoenix is well structured for projects and the newer generators solve a lot of common issues/features in projects like user auth in a reasonable way.

Depending on the needs of the app I'd look into deploying to Fly.io otherwise I've been using Kubernetes with little issue. I've toyed with Nomad for orchestration but haven't used it enough to give an opinion. I do wander if it's a nice middle ground for those who don't need the full suite of what K8s offers.

Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:58AM (#30943292)
https://embersofsolace.com This site shows off the game I've been working on in my free time for way too long. It's very much a labor of love and just something I do because I enjoy it.
I've ran into the same problems. My voice gets consistently muted with it on. I've been able to get it to sort of work by manually setting input sensitivity but even then I still get muted at times.
Embers of Solace Game Development

My journey through creating an RPG game

https://www.embersofsolace.com/

Xbox 360's that had a red ring of death problem could sometimes be solved by baking them or at least applying some heat via a heat gun (in the right place).

I got an extra 2 years out of mine before it died doing this

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks? on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:51AM (#22106421)
I use https://ulluminate.com/

It lets me add links into different collections easily and I can even share those collections with other people if I want. It's really nice to be able to just share a collection of links when someone ask for something. Ex. I have a nice collection of recipes that I can just share out when someone ask me for a recipe for something.

Re:Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool? on Monday November 18, 2019 @11:19AM (#21565468)
The best free tool I've used is Draw.io[1], can create diagrams online or offline and has nice integrations with things like OwnCloud.

If you don't mind paying for something and want something that looks great visually, I would recommend Lucid Chart [2]

[1]: https://draw.io

[2]: https://www.lucidchart.com

Re:Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:08AM (#21462705)
Yeah agreed. I remember trying around 15 different dedicated editors and Typora was the first one to really grab my attention. I've been using it ever since. I don't usually buy much software, but would be happy to buy Typora if it was a one time payment.