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The lifecycle of ideas in software development goes something like: Problem -> Solution -> Book -> Cargo Cult -> Problem

split-screen mode for the sky today

impressive trick lol

'No way to have predicted this', says the only community where it regularly happens.

>an app called "SVG Illustrator" >export to SVG is a paid premium feature

Meanwhile of Fosdem (photo from Mastodon, I'm not there)

Github status: SNAFU

meanwhile on Microsoft's support learn.microsoft.com/en-au/answer...

Lesser known philosophical principles: OCaml's Razor

Dry Monads 1.1.0 is out. This release introduces complete JRuby support, via fixes to our RSpec extension, courtesy of @katafrakt.eurosky.social. It’s also our first automated release to our gem.coop namespace! github.com/dry-rb/dry-m... beta.gem.coop/@dry/dry-mon...

So delighted that @katafrakt.eurosky.social, the OSS developer on my team at Jump, just got a long-awaited fix for using checkbox groups merged into PhoenixTest. It fixes one of the last few cases where we couldn't use PhoenixTest. 🙌 github.com/germsvel/pho... #ElixirLang

Every UX designer for the past 40 years: the carousel fucking sucks and users hate it Stakeholders: 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺

Claude Code repo gets about 25-30 new issues per hour. Some of them are... interesting github.com/anthropics/c...

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

lol, this is new (new low for automated linkedin recruiting)

Localize, a successor to ex_cldr, is out now: github.com/elixir-local... #ElixirLang

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Remember that time when Remote collaborated on the official Elixir language server to make it work well on large codebases? Me neither.

A lot of my concerns about agentic coding essentially boil down to this dichotomy Agentic coding emphasizes extrinsic understanding of a system (surface behaviors) and ordinary coding emphasizes intrinsic understanding of the system (authoring and understanding the underlying code)

Is there a name for a rule that the fewer lines are changed in a commit, the longer the message should be?

curling.io have written a great post about using lustre's server components in their admin dashboard ui. seems like interest in server components has been picking up recently, super exciting! curling.io/blog/live-ad...

Wow, Anthropic really tasting their own medicine today. First source code leak due to vibe coding bug. Then inability to exercise takedown notice, because the leaked code was rewritten using AI to a different language.

In retrospect this is very funny

The presence of "moreright" component in the leaked Claude Code source implies there was "lessright" in a previous iteration. But I think the important question is about the next iteration. Will it be "morerighter"? "Morerright"? Or maybe "evenmoreright"?

The v0.1 release of Expert (the new, official #ElixirLang LSP) is now final! 🎉 The best Elixir LSP experience keeps getting better. 😎 Tremendous thanks to all the contributors, and to Jump for sponsoring @katafrakt.bsky.social to work on this full-time. 🙏 github.com/elixir-lang/...

not sure what it does, but you have my attention

Windows is the only OS that does not work well with spaces in paths. And also the only OS that installs programs in a path with spaces (C:\Program Files) by default.

Can anyone explain to me why someone came up with this and thought "yeah, this is a good idea, let's ship it"? (this is from cmd.exe help)

Please share: I'm currently looking for an artist to do illustrations for Keila (Open Source newsletter tool). I'm looking for a cute, minimal style of vector illustrations. Not looking for AI stuff 🙏 Attached image is an example of the style I'm looking for. #art #design #illustration #commission

Claude Code added /btw command, but I don't think it works correctly.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The first release candidate for Expert is out! You can read the announcement here: expert-lsp.org/the-first-re... #ElixirLang

This is a huge milestone. At Jump, we’ve had @katafrakt.bsky.social working full time getting Expert dialed in for our large codebase. The stability and reliability are now hands down the best #ElixirLang LSP experience I’ve had, and we’re not done yet. Congrats to all the contributors. 🥂

5% 🙈

Man, I wonder how you "noticed" that, given I did not do such thing.

🤔

Gleam + curling curling.io/blog/the-nex...

Looks like MinIO was successfully killed by its maintainers. github.com/minio/minio

Building Websites With LLMS 🧌 blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of...

#TIL "This happens a lot on OS X, where an Emacs instance launched as a GUI app inherits a default minimal set of environment variables that are probably not the ones you see in a terminal window." This apparently is a thing for all GUI apps on MacOS.

compiles Rust to what?

Wait, so that's what the "Doom Emacs" is about? github.com/minad/doom-o...

zig libc ziglang.org/devlog/2026/...

TIL about %_{} in Elixir katafrakt.me/til/short-no...

Mistral Vibe 2.0 has been released and it's finally starting to look like a proper agentic coding tool

Think twice before you hit that "Yes, I trust the authors" button in VSCode. runjak.codes/posts/2026-0...

An official VSCode extension for Expert LS has been released. You can be a 30th person to download it. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... #elixir

jQuery 4.0 was released yesterday 😯 blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...