The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

💜📘 The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book! #ElixirLang Think Distributed Systems Our first meeting for the new book is Sunday, ## Sunday, January 25, 2026, and we will discuss chapters 1 and 2. Join our Discord to participate! elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

You'll note a new co-author on the cover, @aparker.io 👏 We have a stellar lineup of guest contributors, case studies, and deep dives. The material is almost entirely new (maybe 5-8% carryover from 1st ed?), and at least 40-50% longer. Books will be out by June, with preview chapters much sooner.

👨‍💻 Hot take: Keeping "soft deleted" entities in the database is never the right call. To enable entity restoration, serialize the entity and store it elsewhere. If they want to "undelete," then you take that serialized entity and put it back into the system.

📕 Just posted a ballot for the next book inside the Elixir Book Club Discord. #ElixirLang The ballot will close on Friday, and the first meeting will probably be on January 25th. elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

🚀 Today is the day 🚀 @hugobarauna.com and I are pleased to announce that Programming Nerves is officially in Beta 🥳 Check it out at programmingnerves.dev and see all the cool projects that you will learn how to build and program with Elixir! #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

🔗 pg_large_objects -- Elixir library for working with PostgreSQL Large Objects Seems neat. #ElixirLang github.com/frerich/pg_l...

❤️ Happy Friday to all those who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FIS...

👨‍💻 React Native, Tauri, NativeScript, Capacitor, Flutter -- all tools to deliver cross-platform solutions on iOS that still rely on CocoaPods despite its upcoming death date. Hard to take any of these seriously for new work unless that angle is addressed. blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Sp...

What a great quote to end the last talk @exmexconf.bsky.social Thanks Amos King! #elixirlang

Happy Halloween folks! If you're looking for a way to make it memorable, you can grab a Manning book, say Elixir in Action, at 50% off this weekend 😅 www.manning.com/books/elixir...

✅ Today's Goals: - Sleep in - Full shave and shower - Wash bed sheets - Get some breakfast out - Clean up / dust the bedroom - Bit of client work (have a set of infrastructure PRs and other cleanup to get out of my head)

My team is hiring a front end focused LiveView dev. If you know of anyone with those skills hit me up.

✅ Today's Goals: - Extra-long sleep after being out on Sunday with family. - Catch up on email. - Client work: Get Android tablet running app and printing to new receipt printer. Look into some on-deck tickets. Check-in meeting at 5 pm.

👨‍💻 Been working through a chunky `phoenix_live_view` version bump on a client project for the last few days. So many duplicate DOM ID warnings. Also need to move a bunch of other things forward in the same push (Oban Web, Storyboard, Flop, etc.), each with their own little things to fix. #ElixirLang

👨‍💻 AppSignal (an observability platform I've used in the past and enjoyed) now has a free tier, great for those little side projects: www.appsignal.com/plans

🔗 Philly tool library is looking for a new home for its 5,000 tools and roster of classes The West Philly Tool Library has become an institution in its neighborhood over 18 years. It recently learned its lease wouldn’t be renewed. billypenn.com/2025/10/14/w...

✏️ #GitHub #Copilot and Unhonored Branch Protection > GitHub Copilot commits directly to `main` and ruins my night. mikezornek.com/posts/2025/1...

🐸 Frogs together strong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

💰 With much gratitude, I share that I have regular client income and have removed the `looking for work` subtitle of my social name plates. I still have some hours available, but I'm just as happy to keep those to myself unless a well-fitted opportunity presents itself.

🤔 With Phillies baseball done, I am trying to decide where I want to invest those weekly hours. My consulting work schedule is built to allow me time for side projects, but I don't have a solid one right now.

✅ Had a pretty good Sunday. - Overslept my alarm (not good). - Attended book club to talk about the Ash book. - Did book club web update chores and recording export. - Caught up on some client documentation efforts and a bug fix after being off project Friday, not feeling well.

⚾ Some High Hopes on this crisp fall day. #Phillies 🎵 "Just remember that ant..."

Up next….

Buddy Kennedy could get a ring this year if the Phillies, Blue Jays or Dodgers win the World Series.

Good morning #goatmire! Get 45% off Elixir in Action with the code goatelix25 www.manning.com/books/elixir...

✅ Today's Goals: - Hit snooze aggressively past when I should get up. - Morning routine, and then to the diner for some breakfast. - Book reading time. - Work on new client project onboarding tasks. - Tinker with some Grafana and Prometheus things inside my side project. - Evening: Mets at Phillies

🍿 Started catching up on ElixirConf videos after owning a virtual ticket, but not doing much with the live streams. Still very torn on Chris McCord's perspective and pitch of AI. Can't say I'm excited about the idea where most of my day is spent doing code review of the robot output. #ElixirLang

🔗 User eXperience focused IDentifiers (UXIDs) for Ecto #ElixirLang hexdocs.pm/uxid/readme....

🔗 A solid resource to check out if you are interested in observability in #ElixirLang. Comes out of an Elixir Conf talk, and includes a list of relevant readings. github.com/Nezteb/telem...

💜📘 The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book! Ash Framework: Create Declarative Elixir Web Apps We meet on Discord for an hour every other week. Our first meeting is Sunday, September 14, 2025, and we will discuss chapters 1 and 2. #ElixirLang elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

Is it October 2022 or is it just a

This umpiring crew is like when all the Batman villains get together

👨‍💻 Merged a quick `sobelow` configuration change to make sure failures are reported properly in CI. #ElixirLang Thanks to @tylerayoung.com for the suggestion. github.com/zorn/flick/p...

📕 We still have a few meetings to finish our current book, but if you are interested in the Ash Framework book, you might want to join the Elixir Book Club. We will do more formal promotion soon™, but the next book votes have been tallied. elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba. If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.

📕 Well into my first David Foster Wallace #book this week. #books

🎟️ Standard tickets for #ElixirConfUS are still available and the schedule has been announced. Join us one last time in sunny Orlando - this is your final chance to catch ElixirConf in Florida! 🌴☀️ Don’t miss it 👉 elixirconf.com#tickets #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

👨‍💻 Updated my very fresh side project tonight. `phoenix` from `v1.8.0-rc.3` to `v1.8.0-rc.4` `phoenix_live_view` from `1.0.9` to `1.1.0-rc.3"` and other friends. #ElixirLang github.com/zorn/wayfind...

🔗 The BEAM Book: A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM. #ElixirLang Available under Creative Commons Attribution license and in print. github.com/happi/theBea...

🍿👨‍💻 Watched a technical talk, Waterpark: Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors by @bryan-hunter.bsky.social, with lunch after seeing it recommended by @sasajuric.bsky.social. #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm...

Finally got to watch @bryan-hunter.bsky.social's Waterpark talk. It's a great demo of how BEAM and Elixir can help build systems with zero downtime, while significantly reducing technical complexity. Curious about what makes Elixir special? This is the talk to see! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm...

⚾️ How can you not be romantic about baseball? #Phillies

Don't forget: Once you get an @letsencrypt.bsky.social cert for your domain, it's public. This is mere seconds after I deployed an app for the first time on a previously unused domain. #selfhosting #security

🐸 Related, this is a comic on my office wall.

🍿 I've been obsessively (as I do) consuming a lot of David Foster Wallace content in the past few days. This commencement speech is worthy of your time if you want to consider the value of your attention and how to think. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbG...

📕💣 I finished chapter 8 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications. I paired my reading with the Oppenheimer soundtrack. It was a bombastic match with the book reviewing the complex ways distributed systems can fail--from unreliable networks, unreliable clocks, and the complex concept of truth.

🤖 The robots can not sort alphabetically.

👨‍💻 Made the tiniest first step tonight for a new side project I've been conflicted and unsettled around. Still not sure it will be the right long-term choice, but I need something to flex on to keep sharp.

🎶 If you are not playing the CLUE movie explanation music in the background while doing technical Root Cause Analysis screencast for your peers, you are missing out.