my favorite past time when talking to much younger men is to give them advice on wooing women that is really just care and feeding instructions for iguanas

Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

my cat training me to finally give the ultimate skritches

The Linux Kernel is just a program: serversfor.dev/linux-inside...

johnelmlabs.com/posts/magic-... This is some great stuff from @johnelmlabs.bsky.social, who continues to turn out just really excellent work in the #elixir space.

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

it's so goofy to believe making software that mimics human thought is related in any meaningful way to making software that thinks. building the most amazing lifelike animatronic horse the world ever saw does not represent progress if your goal is to create a real horse. huge waste of time actually

the thing about "AI" "agents" is a depressing number of people move through the world as if they are the only real person in it. when they "talk to" these chatbots they don't notice the shallowness because that's as far as they ever plumb anyway. the obvious if:then shadowplay fools them completely

working on a Rails app but eyeing the Go gopher sticker on my desk and itching to leave OOP behind and this popped into my head

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...

and tiny tim, who was NOT in the epstein files,

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

Getting ready to beta release "Practical Flutter & Phoenix" in a couple of hours. Thanks to all early purchasers 🙏 😀. This early version has elixir and phoenix crash course. I tried to stay focussed and only keep relevant topics. excited, but a bit nervous 😅

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is a very good and interesting rhetorical analysis of AI's very particular and strange quirks

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you are in a twisty little maze of markdown implementations, all alike

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

that "Their brains worked less, but they 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.” jumped out at me. and just feels like such a capturing of current times. reminds me of watching a movie or TV show while second-screening — you 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 just as engaged, but are probably missing a similar 47%

> LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems Been thinking this for years, well said (and I agree with the reasoning about the consequences)

like big tobacco funding cancer research

Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.

Integrator A numerical integrator written in Elixir for the solution of sets of non-stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs). #ElixirLang github.com/woodward/int...

Hi Elixir friends, After 3 years on Hologram full-time (transpiles Elixir to the browser), I'm at a crossroads. 60+ hr weeks balancing contracts & dev isn't sustainable. Where we are & how you can help: hologram.page/blog/seeking... Even sharing helps 💜 #Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev

I'm looking for a remote Rust/Elixir role (EU-friendly timezones, US East is ok). I have 7 years of #rustlang, 9 years of #elixirlang, 20+ years of #linux. I have over 20 years of experience as a professional developer, and I've been working remotely for 12 years.

And the big tycoons are relieved, of course, because they see AI as the magical solution. They're willing to do anything, drink any snake oil, toady to any fascist, fellate any tech bro, complement the emperor's new clothes, if it saves them from having to fairly remunerate workers for their labour.

It was only a failure if you assume they ever had good intentions. If you assume they intended to destroy the federal government from within, they succeeded. We’ll be dealing with the results of this monumental breach of the federal government for many years to come.

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

One of the most insidious fallacies built into the modern political economy is the idea that mandatory social and economic competition for existential stakes instills virtue. The exact opposite is true. It instills vice.

This is a great moment to revisit this insightful talk! @adolfont.github.io, M. Claudia Emer, and Zoey Pessanha interviewed @josevalim.bsky.social, the creator of the Elixir programming language. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGLC... 💜Elixir em Foco is one of the projects proudly supported by the EEF

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

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