Resources

A running collection of resources I find valuable. Whatever’s worth returning to, grouped by language so it’s easy to scan.

Elixir

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References

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• Awesome Elixir — Long-running curated index of Elixir libraries and resources. The starting point when you need a library and don’t yet know its name.
• Erlang Documentation — Official Erlang stdlib reference. Indispensable when you need :gen_tcp, :ets, or anything else Elixir doesn’t wrap directly.

Blogs

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• Andrea Leopardi — Elixir core team member; author of Redix and Mint. Practical writing on protocol design and library API decisions.
• German Velasco — Phoenix and LiveView writing from an Elixir consultant. Strong on testing patterns and incremental design.

Books

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• Joy of Elixir — Free online intro by Ryan Bigg. The book to hand a friend who’s coming to FP for the first time.
• Elixir School — Free, community-maintained lessons from beginner to intermediate. Multilingual; the natural next step once you’re past basic syntax.

Tools

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• Livebook — Interactive notebooks for Elixir. I reach for it when I need to save IEx workflows or play with graphs.
• Observer CLI — Terminal-based BEAM observer. The one you reach for when :observer.start/0 isn’t an option — production boxes, SSH sessions, headless containers.

Rust

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Blogs

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• kerkour.com/blog — Sylvain Kerkour on Rust, security, and engineering. Author of Black Hat Rust; posts weekly-ish.

Tools

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• Bacon — Background cargo check watcher. Park it in a terminal pane and let errors and warnings surface as you save.