Time to roll up the fabric and start on the next column of pages! (yes this is being stitched sideways because my scroll frame isn't wide enough to stitch it the right way around)

Having a bit of fun lately asking Claude to explore my app ideas by asking me questions, and then creating wireframes/prototypes. I haven't tried actually building the apps yet though, that's the hard part 😅

Friday afternoons are the best time of the week, when the whole weekend stretches in front of you and it feels like everything is possible

Decided to play my PS5 for the first time in ages. First I have to update the system software... Then I have to update the *controller* software.... Then I have to install game updates.... I might get to play soon....

I picked up my cross-stitch project again last week, and hit a tiny milestone today so I thought I’d post another photo :) This is officially 16.5%! (Yes I’m celebrating every 0.5%…) Pattern: Treasure Hunt Bookshelf, artwork by Aimee Stewart, charted by Heaven and Earth Designs

I wrote up some notes about the recent Ash Summit, in Varberg, Sweden alembic.com.au/blog/reflect... #AshFramework #ElixirLang

Whew, Bobby Akart's Ring of Fire series was a rollicking read. Many volcanoes. Much disaster. Nature is awesome

today I learned how to write my name in Hangeul ✨

Feels pretty surreal to finally be holding the Ash Framework book in my hands. Thank you to everyone (especially @zachdaniel.dev and the team at @pragprog.com) who helped make this happen!

Better late than never, but I'm finally enjoying a long weekend on the couch watching Bloody Game 2 - and Dex is back yeeeeeeeeeeah I am totally on team Dex

One of my Discord accounts has started nagging me for age verification - I guess I have one less Discord account now. No I will not upload my government ID to Discord, thank you very much

If you missed out on Goatmire Elixir, read about what an awesome event it was (and don't skip it if it runs again!!) underjord.io/conference-r...

Last Call! The PragProg flash sale ends today! 45% off all books/audio (except The Pragmatic Programmer). Code: flashsale -> pragprog.com

If you haven’t picked up the Ash Framework book yet, there’s never been a better time - it’s fully content complete, and this is the biggest discount it will have! pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

Holy freaking jetlag 😭 Infinitely worse when coming home than when travelling away

Just backed this - if you use Erlang, Elixir, or any BEAM language, consider chipping in to make the whole ecosystem better!

Todo list: * Become a paid member of the EEF * Back rebar4 on Kickstarter * Add a security policy and automated tools to my open source projects #goatmire #ElixirLang

#Goatmire #Elixir Take 35% off all Elixir, Nerves and related titles Just use code Goatmire2025 (Only at Pragprog.com#Goatmire

Achievement unlocked in Sweden: Nearly got flattened by a speeding cyclist

Packing a suitcase to go on a trip is awful. Why do I have so many clothes? And why do I have to pack them all just in case?

Celebrating Ash Framework by Rebecca Le and Zach Daniel, now in print! 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4mVClik 🔗 Book club: elixirbookclub.githu... 📘 ebook: pragprog.com/titles/... 📘 print: tinyurl.com/ashframe... #AshFramework #Elixir #WebDev #FunctionalProgramming

And I thought I was doing weird things, parsing Morrowind game files to be stored in a database - this guy ls like stuff it, let's just convert them into Elden Ring game mods! 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=n89N...

Dear social media apps - I just want a goddamn chronological feed of content from people I follow. That’s it. Why is this so bloody hard???

Two weeks after starting to use HabitKit to make myself do some Japanese study every day, I've cleared my massive backlog of overdue Wanikani cards (which was over 500). Next challenge, maintain it and finish clearing the Marumori backlog...

After 25 years we finally get an mixed international season of Survivor and I am *here for it*!

Achievement unlocked: in a Google Meet, managed to screen share the little dialog box that says “do you want to share this window?”

At the risk of getting into "it doesn't matter which tool you choose, its more important to just *start*" - what are folks using for tracking habits these days? The tick-off-every-day-don't-break-the-streak type habits?

Why does Kayo show more cricket than Foxtel does, when they are owned by the same company and Foxtel is like 3x the price??

Cinder v0.5.0 has been released, with fixes for array fields including a new `match_mode` option - select records where any or all of the array values match the filter! hexdocs.pm/cinder/

I scored 11/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. (Admittedly most of them were guesses)

<me on Thursday> hmmm do I feel like trying to reverse engineer Unity asset bundles to extract some images... <@barnabasj.bsky.social> that might be a good question for Claude and so I spent the next three days mucking around and got all the glorious data I wanted and its so beautiful

It’s impossible to get everyone on the internet to agree on anything. But *everyone* on the internet thinks that Channel 10 fucked up by firing JLP from Australian Survivor!

What’s with the latest version of Firefox on macOS, and why does it take 100% of my CPU just existing with no tabs open?

We’re HUGE supporters of the #ElixirLang community, which is why we’re super excited to be supporting #Goatmire, Sweden's 1st Elixir conference as a Founding sponsor! 🥳 Book your tix & meet the @teamalembic.bsky.social and #Ash team there this Sept! goatmire.com

I published my first open source library last week! Introducing Cinder - customisable data tables for your Ash resources, without all of the fuss. hexdocs.pm/cinder/ #AshFramework #ElixirLang

"I want your bad English. I want your bad art. I want to see the raw unfiltered expressions of humanity. I want to see your soul in action."

Growth hacking my vision to scoremax at bowling 💪 🎳 (am I doing it right? I got new glasses yay)

Happy World Test Championship day to those who celebrate! 🏏 ....and as I type that, Khawaja nicks one to slip. Fuck.

Newsletter: I want my damn tech industry back. I'm sick of these sociopathic and directionless freaks wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on AI and ruining products in search of perpetual growth. It has never been more urgent to hold them accountable. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

My first real experience with "vibe coding", asking Claude 4 (in Zed) to build new functionality in an app following existing patterns. It's... okay? Not great? Just okay? Really frequent Claude 'too many tokens' errors, overly long debugging cycles, and too often I have to... 🧵

This promises to be a very interesting talk about using Reactor for Nerves device startup. I think Reactor is also interesting in itself and I look forward to learn more about it. goatmire.com/speaker/jame... #elixirlang #embedded

Went down a rabbit hole looking for cute little house mods for Morrowind. Remembered that I made a few in like, 2005. Managed to actually find them via the Internet Archive. And they're exactly what I wanted! Thanks (very very) past me

There's never been a better time to check out the Ash Framework book! 40% off is a bargain!! pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

This book shaped a lot of my thinking about software development, when I read it very early on in my career. This, and The Pragmatic Programmer (which is a much shorter read!)

Reinstalled OpenMW and the latest version of Tamriel Rebuilt, to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of Morrowind. I still love everything about this game

The #AshFramework book is now content complete, so now is the perfect time to pick it up! The latest update includes many to many relationships, custom code interfaces, pubsub, Oban, atomics… I told you it was a big one! pragprog.com/titles/ldash... #ElixirLang

One of my all-time favorite video games is on big sale on Steam at the moment. I'm not saying you should buy it, but if you like visual novels, you really should. store.steampowered.com/app/648580/4...

Reminder, the Goatmire CFP is only open until the end of the month. We'll be doing a bunch of review today and then again after it has closed. Get your talks in for Goatmire Elixir and NervesConf EU! https://sessionize.com/goatmire-elixir-2025 #elixirlang

I’m always so hesitant to ask for help at work, but I always feel so much better and more energised after actually chatting with other devs. Even if it’s just rubber ducking. Everyone should talk more often!!!!

The number of todos for the final, most epic chapter of the #AshFramework book is shrinking rapidly - there's *so* many goodies in there which is why it's taking so long! I can't wait to get it in everyone's hands!! #ElixirLang @ash-hq.org