DaisyUI Now in Phoenix 1.8

Phoenix 1.8 now includes DaisyUI support. Here's how I'm using it in tcg247.com.

Phoenix Elixir DaisyUI Tailwind

ui frontend

Trying Out MCP

Exploring Model Context Protocol (MCP) with a practical Postgres example for building smart inventory notifications.

MCP

database learning

Building Real-Time MTG Card Search with Rails 7 and Hotwire

I tried Hotwire by building an MTG card search to browse different prints and check market prices in real-time.

Rails Hotwire Turbo Stimulus API

tutorial rails hotwire search api

Fixing Slow CSV Imports with Sidekiq Background Jobs

How I fixed frozen page loads during bulk CSV imports by moving the heavy lifting to Sidekiq background jobs. No more timeouts, no more blocking requests.

Rails Sidekiq Redis CSV

tutorial rails sidekiq background-jobs performance

Dev Series – Phoenix Part 4 – UI Improvement using TailwindCSS

I'll pick up where we left off with improving the UI. I've been using a lot of Tailwind lately, and since it's built into Phoenix 1.7, we'll switch from Bootstrap to Tailwind + Flowbite. Also, since this is a new setup, we'll replace Flex with the built-in mix phx.gen.auth.

Phoenix Elixir Tailwind

tutorial phoenix tailwindcss ui design flowbite

Upgrading Sorting and Filtering in Rails with Ransack

A practical upgrade from custom Rails queries to clean, powerful sorting and filtering with the Ransack gem.

Rails Ransack

search filtering tutorial

Dev Series – Phoenix Part 3 – CRUD Generators

After getting our authentication setup, we will now implement our first feature: CRUD for our exercises.

Phoenix Elixir PostgreSQL

tutorial phoenix crud generators ecto

Dev Series – Phoenix Part 2 – Authentication using Pow

Authentication is a crucial part of any web application. In this tutorial, I will guide you through setting up user authentication using Pow, a powerful library for user authentication.

Phoenix Elixir PostgreSQL

tutorial phoenix authentication pow security

Dev Series – Phoenix Part 1 – Elixir Phoenix Installation

This will be a dev series about on how to install, build and deploy an application using Phoenix framework and other third party libraries.

Phoenix Elixir

tutorial phoenix elixir installation setup

Finally! Deployed, Launched and the First Blog

After few years of planning, designing, developing (including changing tech-stacks 😅) and most importantly contemplating... it is now finally online!

milestone deployment launch reflection