Dairon Medina Caro

¡Hola mundo! 👋 I'm Dairon [/Die-ron/], a remote Software Engineer. You will find all my articles related to programming, DevOps and more.

Latest articles

You will find here all the articles that I have published, happy reading!

Formatting an existing Erlang codebase

Dairon Medina Caro - 5 minutes read
How to format an existing codebase without messing git history. Using an Erlang project with erlfmt as an example.

Git tricks - worktree

Dairon Medina Caro - 3 minutes read
How to use git worktree or how to work on different things and not get crazy

Fixing the Erlang observer on OSX with dark-mode.

Dairon Medina Caro - 2 minutes read
The Erlang observer looks a bit bizarre in OSX when using dark-mode. This guide helps fixing it.

REST API with Elixir/Phoenix - A beginner's tutorial.

Dairon Medina Caro - 10 minutes read
Elixir and Phoenix are a very exiting stack running in the Erlang VM. This Phoenix 1.5 tutorial will walk you through creating a simple Bookstore REST API with this platform.

On IPython and other utilities I use to profile Python code.

Dairon Medina Caro - 9 minutes read
A brief introduction to IPython magic commands and other utilities to profile Python code.

Hey command, ping me when you are done

Dairon Medina Caro - 2 minutes read
A simple bash alias to notify you when a command is done.

Released a VerneMQ plugin to monitor the cluster using AWS CloudWatch.

Dairon Medina Caro - 3 minutes read
On how to monitor the VerneMQ message broker using AWS CloudWatch.

Using Faker to make your Python tests awesome.

Dairon Medina Caro - 5 minutes read
A simple and quick way to generate fake data for your Python tests.

Pipenv - Managing your Python projects like a boss

Dairon Medina Caro - 8 minutes read
A modern Python package manager that solves the problems of dependency hell, separation of development and production, and managing virtualenvs and packages separately.

Setting up a Golang development environment on Ubuntu Linux

Dairon Medina Caro - 3 minutes read
A simple guide to set up a development environment for Golang on Ubuntu Linux.

Make Short URLs with Python and goo.gl

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
A simple Python function to shorten URLs using goo.gl

Send e-mails with attachments in Python

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
A simple example of how to send e-mails with attachments using Python

Disabling USB storage devices in Linux

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Trick for disabling USB storage devices in Linux.

Show flags in gnome keyboard indicator

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Simple trick to show flags in the Gnome keyboard indicator.

PHP short tags: a bad practice

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Recommendations about the use of php "short tags".

Join PDF files in linux.

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
How to join two or more PDF files into one.

Linux: how to mount partitions at startup.

Dairon Medina Caro - 3 minutes read
How to mount partitions at startup on Linux.

Jquery Ctrl + Key function

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Reusable JQuery function to bind a Control + Key combination to an element

Python: Notificaciones con DBus.

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Como enviar notificaciones al escritorio Gnome mediante Python y DBus.

Calcular el trimestre actual en PHP

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Una pequeña función en PHP que permite calcular el trimestre del año dado el número del mes.

Rotar videos con memcoder y mplayer en linux.

Dairon Medina Caro - 1 minutes read
Rotar videos con memcoder y mplayer en linux.

See archive for all the articles.