New post in my Ash Framework series. This time I’m lifting a few of Ash’s DSL ideas (or stealing them outright) to build an Either DSL in Funx. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/12... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

A new post in my series on the Ash Framework. This one looks at calculations and includes functional programming strategies for managing uncertainty. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/11... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

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A new post in my series on the Ash Framework. This one explores the underlying mechanics of Ash validation and where Funx can help when checks need more structure or concurrency. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/11... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

Another in my series on the Ash Framework. Understanding actions from a functional programming perspective. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/11... #elixirlang

Yet another in my series on the Ash Framework. I wanted to explore what it’s like to bring Ash into an existing project. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/11... #elixirlang

Adding to my series on the Ash Framework book. Exploring how Ash works with Ecto and taking the opportunity to try a promising new library called Electric. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/10... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

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Adding to my series on the Ash Framework book. Taking a closer look at messy authorization. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/10... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

Back from vacation and I thought I'd add to my series on the Ash Framework book. Why does authorization logic get messy? www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/10... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

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Next in my series on the Ash Framework book. What makes Ash different? www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/10... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

I learn best by writing, so I wrote up some higher-level notes on Ash from the Ash Framework book. I thought others might find it useful: www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/10... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

I walked away from ElixirConf thinking it was time to take a serious look at Ash. I don’t have time to wander around, so I picked up the Ash Framework book. Halfway through, I get it. pragprog.com/titles/ldash... #elixirlang @pragprog.com

An early reader had a suggestion. Connect functional programming patterns to the libraries Elixir devs already use. It’s a good idea, but I didn’t have space in the book. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09... #elixirlang #funx #PragProg

One package. One update. A worm crawling through the BEAM ecosystem. A dark “what if” — and how we can stop it before it’s real. erlef.org/blog/securit... #erlang #elixirlang

Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir just climbed back to #1 on the @PragProg best seller list! pragprog.com/best_sellers/ #afpelixir #elixirlang

Want to tinker? Sharing to see what folks think. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09...

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Elixir Radar issue 484is out! 📣 You can read it here: buff.ly/vWcu6fa This issue comes with content from @peerstr.bsky.social @jkwa.bsky.social @mikezornek.com @josevalim.bsky.social , Mike Hostetler and Sven Van Caekenberghe .Thank you! #ElixirLang

Another deleted scene from my book: There are many ways to solve equality: duck typing, injection, protocol dispatch. Here's why Funx uses the one it does: www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09... #elixirlang #funx #AFPElixir

I 💜 this passage from @jkwa.bsky.social buff.ly/xIVq6gW "... understanding doesn’t parallelize, and complexity doesn’t distribute. Each new contributor must climb the same tangled mess... even more time is spent coordinating, clarifying, and patching over mismatches in mental models." #elixirlang

Funx now has Livebooks. I considered a plugin, but thought this might be a good job for an LLM. This short post covers my strategy: www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09... #elixirlang #funx

Most personal blogs are in the low hundreds of unique visitors per month. Mine was too. This month I passed a milestone. #elixirlang

I just finished putting together interactive Livebook notebooks for every chapter of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir. You can now run all the examples in your browser. Or like me, spin them up locally with Docker: www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09... #elixirlang hashtag#AFPElixir

Just checked in to see if Funx had hit 80 downloads. Any ideas on what happened? www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09... #elixirlang #funx #AFPElixir

Some comments on an earlier post had me thinking about polymorphic equality in Elixir, and how == can fall short. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08... #elixirlang #AFPElixir

Just got The BEAM Book by Erik Stenman in the mail. Time to go spelunking in the BEAM! #elixirlang #erlang #beam #AFPElixir

Follow-up post on polymorphism in Elixir. This one looks at how structs help avoid pitfalls from other languages. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08... #elixirlang #AFPElixir

I wrote this post about polymorphism in Elixir. Details I wish I had known five years ago. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08... #elixirlang #AFPElixir

Why is learning FP so hard? I wrote a short post on my blog about this a couple of weeks back. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08... #Elixir #LearnFP

I can already tell I'm going to be spending most of my labor day reading through the beta edition of @jkwa.bsky.social's @pragprog.com book: pragprog.com/titles/jkeli... #ElixirLang #FunctionalProgramming

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