Yariv's Blog

I just published a small library called ReactScriptLoader to make it easier to load external scripts with React. Feedback is appreciated! ht...

I just released an open source a library called HDMNode . It’s a Node.JS based API server and client for hosted HDM (Hierarchical-Determini...

(This was originally posted a few months ago at https://medium.com/on-banking/how-to-secure-your-bitcoins-29b86892fc64.) In the past few m...

(This was originally posted at https://medium.com/@yarivs/bitcoins-money-supply-and-security-10cbf87ce39e.) It’s evident that Bitcoin has ...

Mortgages can be quite confusing and comparing them can be difficult. That's why I created the Mortgage Hacking Calculator at http://www...

Check out PicLike, the new app I made using the Flickr API, Google App Engine and the Facebook Like button: http://piclike.appspot.com .

In my last post I described how to use LFE to overcome some of the weaknesses of parameterized modules. Unfortunately, all is not rosy yet i...

One of the features I dislike the most about Erlang is records. They're ugly and they require too much typing. Erlang makes me write Dog...

I attended the Bay Area Erlang Factory last week. It was a great event. I met many Erlang hackers, attended interesting talks, learned about...

I've been thinking lately about the problem of scaling a service like Twitter or the Facebook news feed. When a user visits the site, yo...

Check out the announcement on the developer blog about a project I've been working on at Facebook . It's a feature that lets you cr...

Last week, I attended the Numenta workshop. I didn't know much about Numenta before I went. My friend's excitement about the techno...

Since its launch, Twoorl users have helped translate it to Spanish, German, French, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Russian. This...

With the recent brouhaha over Twitter's scalability problems, I thought, wouldn't it be fun to write a Twitter clone in Erlang? Last...

In my time wasting activities on geeky social news sites, I've been seeing more and more articles about Scala. The main reasons I became...

I just read on the Facebook engineering blog this post describing how Facebook used Erlang to scale Facebook Chat to 70 million active use...

I occasionally hear people say things such as "Erlang makes concurrency easy because it doesn't have shared memory" or "p...

I attended startup school on Saturday. It was a great experience and a rare opportunity to hear to a such impressive speakers share their ...

Damien Katz's article Lisp as Blub has sparked a lively debate on Hacker News on the relative merits of Erlang and other languages for...

I just caught Amazon's announcement of the new persistent storage engine for EC2. This is great stuff. It lets you create persistent bl...

Nick Gerakines wrote a good tutorial on how to make tag clouds in ErlyWeb. Check it out at http://blog.socklabs.com/2008/04/tag_clouds_in_er...

Erlang is *almost* a tipping point. Thanks to reddit, many people are interested in it. However, it's not there yet. Despite being the ...

I just hacked together an (alpha) implementation of the FriendFeed API for Erlang. You can get the code at http://code.google.com/p/erlang-f...

Nick Gerakines, the Author of Facebook Application Development , created with ErlyWeb the very cool Facebook app I Play WoW . I Play WoW bri...

You may have noticed I put SnapTalent (http://snaptalent) ads on my blog. This is the first time I have put ads on my blog. I've avoided...

Damien Katz's latest blog post lists some ways in which Damien Katz thinks Erlang sucks. I agree with some of these points but not with...