My wife asked me if I would love her if she were a Funko Pop and I hesitated longer than was wise

In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing 500 million years ahead of schedule. His critics say they are — literally — fool's gold. At stake? The question of when and how complex life arose at all. My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social!

Who do you know who wants to come work full time on #ElixirLang OSS tooling? (Boosts appreciated!) jump.ai/careers?ashb... #ElixirJobs

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word! block.xyz/careers/jobs...

New awareness campaign

Support the Interim Computer Museum! Donations can be doubled by your employer! icm.museum they are carrying the torch of the Living Computing Museum

Hey so I’ve been looking for my next role and striking out. If you know anyone looking for an Elixir dev with experience managing and advocating for teams, I’m your guy!

AI systems are not being used here “despite their biases,” but because of them. We live in a time where power means the power not to care. I wrote recently on the weaponization of AI & error. www.techpolicy.press/musk-ai-and-...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Sweet. mix hex.search hex.pm/blog/announc... #elixirlang

The State of Elixir Survey for 2025 is live! elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition Fill it out if you have any connection to the Elixir ecosystem. It really helps us understand what happens. Curiosum are awesome to run this for the community. #elixirlang

Like an overtaxed server, a team at 90% utilization completely breaks down when one person stumbles. There’s a damage cascade you might not be accounting for.

Recommended. It dips into some bleak waters, but finishes wholesome and hopeful. "The poisonous tumour installed in my brain by a decade of reading about Silicon Valley always thinks 'this [bakery] is a business that can never scale' and it's like well yes that is the fucking point actually."

Announcing the Gleam community game jam! gamejam.gleam.community

New talk! @sasajuric.bsky.social and "Tell Me A Story" Check it out - it is one of the most fun talks we've ever seen! youtu.be/1SWO3c75Mn4 #Elixirlang

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

If you loved the Living Computer Museum in Seattle as much as I did, you should know that SO MANY of those systems are still alive and running at icm.museum?donate under the same stewardship of Stephen Jones who was curator at LCM. You can visit OR connect remotely! DONATE AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!

With @adolfont.github.io (UTFPR) and many friends from the #ElixirLang / #Erlang community, we’re planning an Elixir event in Brazil in 2026 🇧🇷✨ We’d love to hear from you! 💜 Quick survey (3min): forms.gle/SZjUfWoSKtLG... #ElixirBrasil #Erlang

This is Cincinnatus the Roman our city was named after. He is returning the symbol of leadership called a fasces (the root of the word fascism) to return to a life of farming, thus becoming AFAIK history’s first anti-fascist

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

Elixir v1.19 released: enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/

it's not FOR us

Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional. One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

When you inherit a Jupyter notebook

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

Why I don't believe in "small giants": mechanicalsurvival.com/blog/team-dy...

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ^G

Hey bksy, I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years commercially, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle.

Good morning! Have you switched to the new community gem server yet? It's as easy as this: github.com/sidekiq/side...

~20 years of Ruby/Rails experience ~5 years of engineering management ~15 years public speaking at confs …a lifetime as an artist and designer I'd be great as: -StaffEng -Senior EM / Director -VPE (at small/medium size company) shanebecker.dev

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

Why do they call it model view controller when you view the controller viewcontroller model control the view model?

Just noticed that my little COVID project, lettertoyourself.com, sent out its 550th letter! These are physical letters with messages written by folks to their future selves! I make very little money on this, but am super happy that after 5 years it's still alive and kicking!

I've just learnt that there's many AI generated e-books about Gleam on amazon, all incredibly inaccurate. Is there anything I can do prevent people wasting their money on these?

"Ship concurrent features with confidence. Bruce Tate turns OTP building blocks into everyday habits. Buy Programmer Passport: Elixir at: pragprog.com/titles/... @redrapids.bsky.social #elixir #otp #concurrency "

Hey! Join me at the newest #ElixirLang conference in Austin TX in November! ExMex!! I’m giving the opening keynote. 🎉 Use the code WithTheBand for a $50 discount exmexconf.com @exmexconf.bsky.social

The AlchemyConf version of my "Tell me a Story" talk is finally out 🎉 content.subvisual.com/talk-roundta...

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

I hope some of these disaffected #Ruby folks will give #ElixirLang a fresh look So many Elixir developers come from Rails including Elixir's creator José Valim The ecosystem is growing, it's inclusive (me <- 🏳️‍⚧️), and we could 100% use your energy and your devotion to developer happiness

Recently I started to write #ElixirLang in a bit different way... katafrakt.me/2025/09/23/o...

"AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism …” zenodo.org/records/1706... 36/🧵

Here’s your post rock fix for the day: 65daysofstatic just released 32 new tracks from No Man’s Sky 🚀 album.link/s/2yDUAuD1IJ...

Hey #ElixirLang folks - if you were to buy a Nerves “getting started hardware kit”, what sort of sensors/components would you want on there, what sort of projects would you want to do with it?

proposal: make the lifetime single-quote marker in Rust a combining acute accent before: 'arr, 'num, 'obj (boring, americano-centred) after: árr, ñum, öbj (delightful, festive, welcoming)

One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extorts even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free. Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice. Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice

We're planning to move DC Elixir away from Meetup.com. It turns out there's an open-source Elixir alternative that seems to meet our needs! Help us try it out at mobilizon.us/events/05bd6.... We'll briefly discuss Oct 8.

Here'a a little #elixirlang library prototype for having plain old Elixir structs (POCOs, but POESs). No GenServers, just immutable data structures. Use at your own risk, and check-out the @livebook.dev here: github.com/chgeuer/reac...