It's Friday night baby

> "Trust me bro, this new tech startup isn't a pyramid scheme" > Looks at codebase:

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

I was able to wire up Popcorn to run Elixir and PGlite to run Postgres, both in the browser. This means we can have an interactive and safe sandbox for arbitrary code. Which means a really good experience learning Ecto on a website. I'll publish it soon :) #ElixirLang

I think ketchup beans should just replace ketchup as a condiment. We could all use more fiber in our diets.

To all who celebrate

still can't believe daft punk co-creator came out of retirement to do a set with fred and it was filmed/posted to Apple Music.

Just need to get done with this half marathon then my talk in malaga then sit down and really think. (About what race I wanna run next)

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

A Taylor+20 landslide victory is legitimately in play right now.

THE AP CALL IS IN: CHRIS TAYLOR HAS WON THE RACE FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT

took me all of 5minutes to vote and most of that was me dodging middle schoolers on the way to the school gym

real "man I hope TACO kicks in soon" vibes going on here. obviously my preference would be 25th or the articles but

More about that XML thing. cigrainger.com/blog/simdxml/

So at Amplified we do a lot of XML parsing. I wrote an XML parser. It's quite fast. github.com/cigrainger/s...

earnest skeet time: over the past 6 months strength in numbers has been gaining an average of 150 new readers per day. covering politics/public opinion isn't always fun but i feel truly blessed to be able make this a new career. and big things to come. thank you all for making this possible!!

That DuckDB extension I was working on landed in community extensions today! I'm pretty excited about it -- prefiltered ACORN-1 HNSW approx nearest neighbours in #DuckDB. Even pgvector does postfiltering, for example. INSTALL hnsw_acorn FROM community; LOAD hnsw_acorn; github.com/duckdb/commu...

We are still looking for more sponsors for Goatmire Elixir. If your company wants to be on the banners and be part of making the event happen that'd be awesome. Please contact me :) #elixirlang #goatmire

mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0... Very thoughtful post on ai.

“Get me the data!” This movie appears to have been designed for me in a laboratory. 👏

SAVING MILLIONS ON IT SERVICES AND SOFTWARE CONTRACTORS BY BRINGING IT IN HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason the IC, "wow it's really great we have all these new tools to write code I'll be so much more productive!" but little did he know that forces beyond his control were conspiring against his calendar.

This guy knows data science and duckdb is incredible.

Shout it from the rooftops. The day I realized that problems were not usually code problems was a big day of growth for me.

Beauty of the American Dream is nobody can really define it but everyone agrees we can do better.

So this video was sequenced, composed and beat matched by codex in Elixir. I picked a CC song and told it the bpm, and where the drop was.

I was worried Project Hailmary wouldn't land cause the book is pretty nerdy/technical/dry but they did well, by glossing over all he super nerdy/technical shit. In hindsight it is obvious that they had too.

#ElixirLang folks using Explorer -- is this of interest? github.com/cigrainger/e... Polars has become a bit of an albatross. It's a very complex project with a ton of churn and it's putting the whole Explorer project at risk. So exploring alternative backends.

today I visited the internet archive and checked out an out of print wood working book to look something up, while listening to a professionally recorded live performance of a band I never heard of (but enjoyed deeply), then I chatted with my friends from around the world and video calls for work

the internet has probably surpassed everyone's wildest imaginations of what it would become during the dotcom bubble

me: I've got 1000 things todo also me: lets add another

imaging showing this video to 2000 Jason listening to Afroman cause it was popular on Napster, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM8E...

"My philosophy in all of this was: if I don't need it, it won't be built. And I don't need a lot of things." Best philosophy. mariozechner.at/posts/2025-1...

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

... jesus christ we live in such an age of miracles

we in software have nothing to limit us but our imagination, that's always been true, if you aren't raising your own bar of whats possible right now you are are missing out.

it's wild that gop presidents keep directly causing recessions and wars in the Middle East.

re-upping for morning crowd, sound on btw

Elixir canvas to rasterized terminal rendering has never been easier!

the friends we made along the way are more important than just about anything, unless you really want to be remembered by posterity or something, but thats a real tricky gambit.

using code output by an llm makes you a fraud is a weird take?

Bold of folks to assume this is even running a database! The only medium where the messages are stored is the receipt paper 😎

Livebook desktop now supports Linux! #ElixirLang

we were always limited by our imaginations and our patience, and we still are.

I build a Neovim blink.cmp source for Hex.pm. Now you can search hex packages from your mix.exs file, and autocomplete versions. github.com/dbernheisel/...

Now you can render to a terminal using Easel using the same Canvas API. github.com/jeregrine/Ea...

Did you know ios reminders can now be set as alarms? Some good things are happening!