daytonhaney / elixicon

identicons in elixir

What is an identicon?

An Identicon is a visual representation of text as a hashed value, that serves to identify a user of a computer system as a form of avatar while protecting the user's privacy. Some websites ues identicons as the default profile picture when the user does not uoload their own.

examples

install elixir and run:

iex> %Elixicon.main("your name here")

elixir

• provides a complete development environment

  • testing
  • documentation
  • logging
  • memory store
  • distributed computing (erlang nodes)

• functional paradigm with heavy emphasis on pattern matching

  • no concept of assignment
  • " = " sign is the match operator

• modules are objects in memory that have zero concept of a class or instance of a class or variable

• return types are always implied

• passing references to functions ...

• concisenes of elixir code may appear incredibly complex compared to OO, however efficient

• repl driven development, no real way to run code blocks from a .ex file

• user defined types and OO programming is the natural way to model a system, imo

• std lib is filled with incredibly useful elixir wrapped erlang functions. example: Enum.shuffle()

• truthy and falsy non existent

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and published on HexDocs. Once published, the docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/elixicon

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elixicon's Issues

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