Some of the more interesting or useful side-projects I worked on

Rexbug

A thin Elixir wrapper for :redbug production-friendly Erlang interactive tracing debugger. It tries to preserve :redbug’s simple and intuitive interface while making it more convenient to use by Elixir developers.

Since I created rexbug, it became the de-facto standard Elixir tool, totalling over half a million downloads to date. I’m coming back to being active in the Elixir community, so a new major release might be coming soon ;)

Ampersand Table

A kinetic sculpture in the form of an interactive coffee table. While it might not end up being commercially available, the tech side of things was a success, especially considering the bootstrapping approach in a small team. From the aluminum and 3d printed plastic mechanism I designed from scratch, through the electronics, microcontroller “brain” with some clever C++ code on it and the Flutter app that controlled it all - it all works pretty damn well and looks good in the wood and concrete package.

I’m open to selling the IP while I focus on other things - get in touch if you’re interested.

markdown-resume

I always felt a developer’s CV should be easy to edit in a code editor and compiled into a handsome and consistent pdf at a moment’s notice. After using someone else’s LaTeX template (which I couldn’t really understand, much less improve) for years I decided to make this project, for both myself and others.

I made a simple default style, but made sure new ones can be added easily and that anyone can use the tool regardless of their computer setup.

Raxx/Ace/Raxx.Kit

All three projects started by Pete, presenting a simple and powerful alternative to the standard Elixir cowboy/Plug/Phoenix web stack. For a while I was contributing to them as much as I could and Raxx has now reached 1.0 and stabilised a bit.

Hoplon

An Elixir developer tool that helps you validate your dependencies contain no hidden malicious code. Motivated by horror stories from the JavaScript community such as this hypothetical one and this very real one.

After presenting the project at Code BEAM STO I dropped active development of it, but I hope something like it will become reality when the tech community is ready for it :)