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How to install Elixir on Ubuntu 22 using asdf

Arek Panek — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:05:22 +0000

I decided to learn new technologies – Elixir and Phoenix, but I was close to giving it up because I couldn’t get them to work on my machine. I’m using Ubuntu 22, and every time I tried to install Elixir, something was wrong, and I could not run anything related to it. Finally, I figured it out, so here are the steps. Interestingly, when you use good, old it won’t work, most probably.

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How do I quit being a workaholic

Arek Panek — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:35:35 +0000

Some time ago I realized that I’m a workaholic. I have to make a few things clear: I don’t feel too much pressure and I do enjoy what I’m doing. No bad feeling about it at all. Furthermore, Buffer, my current employer, is literally the most work-life balance-aware company I have ever heard about. We work 4 days a week, entirely remotely, and we focus on being asynchronous so we don’t force others…

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2021 in review and plans for 2022

Arek Panek — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:35:38 +0000

This article is treated as part of my diary, where I’m trying to reflect on this year as it’s coming to an end and make public statements on plans for the next year – so it motivates me more to accomplish them. After nearly three years of being a DataOps Engineer at Facebook, I decided it was time for me to make a change. When the year started, I didn’t anticipate that move…

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Learn fundamentals before learning a technology relying on them

Arek Panek — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:54:01 +0000

When you’re starting out in Software Engineering, or IT in general, there’s a big pressure to learn a lot of technologies. Just take a look at the flood of articles in the manner of ‘X Roadmap – from Zero to Hero’. A couple of popular examples: They’re really cool, and all of the courses in the manner of “Learn Docker in X Days” are cool as well, but there is one problem for intermediate…

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Elasticsearch and Kibana on Docker using non-default ports

Arek Panek — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:40:26 +0000

Lately, I’ve been working on a new search service, and we decided it’ll be the best to use Elasticsearch given the workloads it can process and the ease of queries, as compared to MongoDB. I was setting up the local environment for testing the infrastructure and business logic I prepared, but I encountered an issue when doing it – my Kibana service, after opening it, was returning the “Kibana…

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How to make $10,000/month developing for WordPress? The definitive guide

Arek Panek — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:03:33 +0000

This is my very own history of WordPress-based freelancing business leading me to $10,000/month, on a regular basis. The most important thing: I’m not unique, and, believe me or not, if you’re eager enough, you can achieve the same results. The other thing is: I know the title sounds like a clickbait, I could use something else like “WordPress Development: The Definitive Guide” or so…

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How to learn a new plugin to gain more clients

Arek Panek — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 23:30:28 +0000

The most important thing as a developer and freelancer is to learn continually. Just like I mentioned in my other post How to make $10,000 per month developing for WordPress, the more technologies you know, the more clients you can land. You have to sacrifice your time to learn, of course, but it’ll return to you in a much more plentiful amount. Given the above, I decided I want to broaden my…

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DigitalOcean setup for WordPress website – secure, performant and budget-wise

Arek Panek — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 22:23:37 +0000

DigitalOcean is an excellent choice for your website if you want to have maximum control over what’s happening there. You have no limitations, like on regular hostings, and you’ll be able to do anything you’d like. DigitalOcean is also a great choice when you know you’ll have a high-traffic or heavy-resource website. I use DigitalOcean to host Apollin, and a few of my clients’ big websites…

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How to display custom post fields in Elementor archive page

Arek Panek — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:21:47 +0000

Recently I’ve encountered one small issue when creating a website for my client. He was managing a couple of apartments and needed an easy way to add new apartments to his page – Elementor and Custom Post Types created with Pods were a perfect candidate for these requirements. However, Elementor is missing a very basic feature – you can’t add custom pods fields to archive widgets!

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