https://dairon.org Recent content on Dairon Medina Caro en-us https://dairon.org (me@dairon.org) Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) © 2026 Dairon Medina Caro Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:36:38 +0000 https://dairon.org/connecting-to-beam-nodes-in-kubernetes/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/connecting-to-beam-nodes-in-kubernetes/ A kubectl plugin that makes connecting to Erlang and Elixir nodes running in Kubernetes pods as easy as running a single command---with full TTY support and Observer GUI. https://dairon.org/estimating-software-like-a-galician/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/estimating-software-like-a-galician/ Estimating software is absurd. How to estimate like a Galician person. https://dairon.org/fast-erlang-builds-asdf/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/fast-erlang-builds-asdf/ How I stopped wasting time compiling Erlang from source and started using prebuilt packages with asdf https://dairon.org/editing-kubernetes-with-zed-editor/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/editing-kubernetes-with-zed-editor/ How to edit the Kubernetes configurations confidently using the Zed Editor https://dairon.org/formatting-a-large-erlang-codebase/ Fri, 02 Sep 2022 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/formatting-a-large-erlang-codebase/ How to format an existing codebase without messing git history. Using an Erlang project with erlfmt as an example. https://dairon.org/git-worktree/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/git-worktree/ How to use git worktree or how to work on different things and not get crazy https://dairon.org/fix-erlang-observer-osx-dark-mode/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/fix-erlang-observer-osx-dark-mode/ The Erlang observer looks a bit bizarre in OSX when using dark-mode. This guide helps fixing it. https://dairon.org/simple-rest-api-with-elixir-phoenix/ Mon, 06 Jul 2020 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/simple-rest-api-with-elixir-phoenix/ 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. https://dairon.org/how-do-i-profile-python-code/ Sat, 21 Jul 2018 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/how-do-i-profile-python-code/ A brief introduction to IPython magic commands and other utilities to profile Python code. https://dairon.org/ping-me-when-you-are-done/ Sun, 10 Jun 2018 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/ping-me-when-you-are-done/ A simple bash alias to notify you when a command is done. https://dairon.org/released-vernemq-cloudwatch-metrics/ Sat, 09 Jun 2018 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/released-vernemq-cloudwatch-metrics/ On how to monitor the VerneMQ message broker using AWS CloudWatch. https://dairon.org/using-faker-to-make-your-python-tests-awesome/ Sun, 25 Feb 2018 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/using-faker-to-make-your-python-tests-awesome/ A simple and quick way to generate fake data for your Python tests. https://dairon.org/pipenv-python-package-manager/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/pipenv-python-package-manager/ A modern Python package manager that solves the problems of dependency hell, separation of development and production, and managing virtualenvs and packages separately. https://dairon.org/setting-up-a-golang-dev-environment-on-ubuntu/ Sun, 21 Feb 2016 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/setting-up-a-golang-dev-environment-on-ubuntu/ A simple guide to set up a development environment for Golang on Ubuntu Linux. https://dairon.org/python-goo.gl-urls/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/python-goo.gl-urls/ A simple Python function to shorten URLs using goo.gl https://dairon.org/send-e-mails-with-attachment-in-python/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/send-e-mails-with-attachment-in-python/ A simple example of how to send e-mails with attachments using Python https://dairon.org/disable-usb-storage-devices-in-linux/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/disable-usb-storage-devices-in-linux/ Trick for disabling USB storage devices in Linux. https://dairon.org/show-flags-in-gnome-keyboard-indicator/ Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/show-flags-in-gnome-keyboard-indicator/ Simple trick to show flags in the Gnome keyboard indicator. https://dairon.org/php-short-tags-a-bad-practice/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/php-short-tags-a-bad-practice/ Recommendations about the use of php "short tags". https://dairon.org/join-pdf-files-in-linux/ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Dairon Medina Caro (me@dairon.org) https://dairon.org/join-pdf-files-in-linux/ How to join two or more PDF files into one.