Wow, I remember we hosted a private gem repo at my first job and it was super complex and convoluted. Granted, it was almost 15 years ago. A lot of progress has been made to make things simpler.

that's me, especially this week

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

Introducing agent-shell. A single consistent experience, powered by the agent of your choice. xenodium.com/introducing-... #emacs #claude #anthropic #ai #google #gemini #linux #github #macos #oss #foss

Are you a Hiring Manager or Engineer in a company that’s struggling to hire for experienced Elixir devs? With 11 years experience recruiting in the market & a wide-reaching candidate network, I’m keen to speak with potential new clients this week Beamrec.com/employers

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

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

Autistic folks are _heavily_ represented in STEM fields, so it would be far more accurate to say: Autism causes vaccines.

"wins lottery using ChatGPT" jesus

Mystery half-solved

Which reminds me: COVID-19 taught us to use rolling 7-day average to visualize changes in data with clear weekend drops. Should hex.pm do the same thing with downloads, perhaps?

If you'd like the amended version of the Credo check that would have caught this: github.com/rrrene/credo...

Interesting question came up on Reddit. Many popular #ElixirLang packages see drop in downloads number decrease by around half starting this week. Phoenix, Ecto, Jason, Req, Mimic, Mox - these are some I looked up and it checks out.

Can't wait for Macrohard Doors operating system, Open space 24/7 suite and YCardboard console.

Interesting "uuidv47 lets you store sortable UUIDv7 in your database while emitting a UUIDv4-looking façade at your API boundary" github.com/stateless-me...

Well, this is a bit surprising. I have a pretty complex SELECT query in PostgreSQL, which ends with LIMIT 0, and Postgres does not short-circuit it, instead taking almost 4 seconds to execute.

I've been super quiet on socials (because everything is a screaming burning hell for everyone amirite) but I'll try to post a bit more. What better excuse than the first 1.0 release of Gettext for @elixir-lang.org, which is 10+ years old?! Fresh of an Hex near you??? hex.pm/packages/get...

winter is coming

You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual. That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.

Big news! My book, "Shift: The Playbook for Event-Driven Architecture Advocacy," is officially available for pre-order! It's been a long time coming and I'm super excited to finally get this into your hands.

'No way to prevent this', says only ecosystem where this regularly happens.

LLMs work a lot like business: Just tell people what they want to hear and most of the time that veneer is enough substance for both parties.

meanwhile on prod

oh this can't be good for my productivity #emacs www.nongnu.org/nethack-el/

Radical Object Orientation radicalobjectorientation.substack.com

Tcl and Mathematica

Released phoenix_bakery 1.0.0 hex.pm/packages/pho... I got back to updating some of my packages, and this is the first one. Prepared for OTP 28 with built-in ZSTD support.

And in the naked light, I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People coding without typing People pushing without reading People writing code that shouldn't have been shared But no one cared It would disturb the vibing

here we go #myelixirstatus

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values. If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

oh wow

Taurus: All your prayers will be answered this week! The answer will be no.

best PR of this week

A recurring theme for past few months 1. Have a non-trivial problem on a larger codebase 2. Throw an LLM on it 3. It doesn't do shit 4. Repeat 2-3 with different approaches for half a day, getting same results 5. Take a walk 6. Solve it yourself in half an hour

After some search based on a scan of a map from a local Facebook group, I managed to find a "magical twisted forest" near where I am on holidays. It's... interesting. No one knows for sure what caused this.

Seems accurate

I’m honestly not quite sure what we expected to happen: 1. We told programmers to not learn business 2. We told business to not understand tech 3. We threw unrealistic salaries and unique worker treatment at engineers and pretended it was indefinite 4. Then put immature technofascists in charge ??

📝 The “sit on your ass” approach to web development might make you more productive than ever! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/sit-on-...

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

If you have an error from monitoring and the solution is to wrap a piece of code in a transaction with a pessimistic lock (SELECT ... FOR UPDATE) - would you write tests for that?

When people complain about tech debt, and business disregard for it, they don't usually *actually* mean a limited set of specific issues. What they're complaining about is a lack of "slack" to take on un-prioritized, but important work. Slack is important for any healthy team.

'Hey, John, we have this old SOAP API, but people are complaining that now JSON APIs are all the jazz. Can we have it by the end of the week?' 'Sure thing boss, just let me get some coffee.'

Recently I'm finding myself more and more inclined towards creating my own #Emacs configuration on top of something like bedrock and ditch Doom. How do I fight it? I'm too old for that...

Forgot to post here so... Hello network! It's time for me to move on and I'm kicking off the search for my next role. Let me know if you're looking for someone who obsessively ships, takes on whatever work has the highest impact, and consistently gets feedback like "you're too impatient".

I think we did pretty good for our first year in the SO survey 😎 survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technol...

An unexpected find: "Micro-slices" in Hanami katafrakt.me/2025/07/29/m... #ruby #hanami