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Files are used to store information, and when we need to access the information, we open the file and read or modify it. We can use the GUI to perform these operations in our systems. Many programming languages include methods and functions for manag...

This tutorial shows how to build an inverted index search engine in Elixir.

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Some background on mbtiles files from mapbox/mbtiles-spec MBTiles is a specification for storing ti...

In part two of this three-part series on testing data with Elixir, we'll look at using data generation functions.

Many data structures including arrays don't translate equally from imperative to functional programming languages and there are important reasons why.

:dets allows us to persist items on disk quickly and natively in Elixir, however there is a chance we can loose data when using this method. In this article we discuss how to create a persistant cache module in Elixir with :dets, why we can lose data and what we can do about it

Resizing and optimizing images using Elixir!

The one-page guide to Erlang ETS: usage, examples, links, snippets, and more.

The one-page guide to Elixir: usage, examples, links, snippets, and more.

Update video metadata with ffmpeg and Python

I would like to copy the file creation date of an mp4 file into the file's metadata. I'm pretty sure this can be done with ffmpeg and some nifty Linux commands.

I want to read the metadata in media files and then save that metadata in a text/xml file, so that I can later insert that data in my database. I would prefer to use ffmpeg. Also is the same thing

I tried to make video uploading on Elixir phoenix project using Arc. I need to have different size versions of video. So I used FFmpeg to do this: def transform(:large, {file, scope}) do {:ffmpe...

With Bumblebee and Whisper you can now use audio-recognition models directly from Elixir.

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I would like to create a tool (a shell script, or maybe a Python script) to generate and associate an hash code to a file, and then be able to use that hash to retrieve the file in the filesystem (...

I need to calculate the md5 sum of a file in Elixir, how can this be achieved? I would expect that something like: iex(15)> {:ok, f} = File.open "file" {:ok, #PID<0.334.0>} iex(16)> :c...

Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

Experiment and debug with Elixir Scripts!

we will discuss our experience building an online weather application in Elixir using Phoenix LiveView. We created a real-time weather application that allows users to see the past, current, and forecast temperature and precipitation data for any UK postcode.

Creating and visualizing decision trees can be simple if one possesses the knowledge of the basics. Understand how to do it with the help of Python.

You can now use vector search with Elixir, thanks to ExFaiss.

'with' is a powerful tool in Elixir, but it's not without its quirks. This blog will help you understand how to use it best and how to manage unexpected behaviours.