"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt." Software as Fast Fashion

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a new role/project and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any relevant opportunities please reach out! 💼 Senior/Lead/Principal Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Engineering Manager 🌎 Hybrid in Munich or remote in Europe/UK 📅 Available from 15 Jan 2026

The art and skills for delivering software in much more smaller incremental steps were lost with the global adoption of Pull Requests.

Damn, the folks at @elixir-munich.org never cease to impress me. It's just a bunch of niche and knowledgeable people that I wish I could work with every day!

Does anyone here know which books one should read to get *really* good with #Postgres? #PostgreSQL #LazyWeb

I started a lu.ma calendar for SWE meetups in Munich: luma.com/devmuc Please share & subscribe if you're interested in meeting people in #meatspace Next up: @elixir-munich.org on Tuesday, 25th. Nov. #munich #meetup #swe #elixir

Focusing on the Rust Unwrap in the CloudFlare outage is really the scalability equivalent of "When a sage points to the moon, all the fool sees is the finger". At that scale, failures *will* happen. Programming error are unavoidable. What's interesting is why it took down the entire system.

No, hiring isn't hard for #OCaml. The Blub paradox is real. I have 30 resumes in my Inbox. The hard part is saying no. terrateam.io/blog/is-ocam...

Did you know that according to ISO 27001, 8.28 Secure coding, pair programming, refactoring, and test-driven development are considered to be secure coding practices? Next time someone ask, shh, just let it happen!

At Code BEAM Europe 2025 @runlevel0.me : Functional domain modeling in Gleam. Make business logic elegant and safe.

One of the most beautiful songs ever made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2EJ... #Death

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#Haskell, #OCaml and co are like the Progressive Metal of the Programming Languages :)

This is great stuff! Zod is one the first things I install on a #TypeScript project, and I missed it soo much on #Elixir! Not anymore! hexdocs.pm/zoi/readme.h...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Since BYOC solves the data residency concerns that come up with EU companies, I am planning to experiment with it next week. Coming from AWS Serverless (Rust/TypeScript) and Elixir/OTP, I'm curious how Unison's approach to distributed computing feels in practice. More to come :) #UnisonLang

Thanks everyone who joined our #Meetup yesterday! We had @runlevel0.me talking about Running #Elixir on #AWS without #Kubernetes (with #CDK and #ECS #Fargate), and a Lightning Talk by @j4nk.dev about his alchemy_pub project: github.com/j4nk3e/alche... Recording: www.youtube.com/live/SUexJAY...

We’re excited for tonight’s Meetup! Join us in person from 18:30, or tune in online: live.globalelixirmeetups.com/watch/munich Main Talk: @runlevel0.me - Running Elixir on AWS without Kubernetes -> Lightning talks + networking follow! Event details & full agenda: www.meetup.com/elixir-munic...

News: the #Elixir & #Erlang #Munich Meetup has now a dedicated Bluesky profile! Follow @elixir-munich.org to know more about our upcoming events!

I just backed From Rebar3 to Rebar4: Integrating with Erlang/OTP, as this is critical tooling for not only #Erlang, but also for @elixir-lang.org and @gleam.run! #ElixirLang #Gleam www.kickstarter.com/projects/pee...

A great reminder from a great blog! henko.net/blog/as-litt...

So, #LinkedIn on mobile browser is now basically forcing me to get their app to "get the most out of it" when trying to open the feed. Instead I'm questioning how much I want to be there in the first place... It's a good reminder to use it less and less!

Web dev is just thousands of hopeless romantics telling themselves "I can fix him"

If you have a resting meetup covered with a bit of dust. This is the moment to brush it off and see if the speakers still work. The Elixir community is doing a big ol' global meetup. That is, we all run local meetups around the same time causing global vibrations to be more Elixir-shaped. Mmkay?

We're excited to announce our September 2025 Elixir & Erlang Meetup! This time, it's a special GEM edition 💎 #Elixir #Meetup #Munich #BEAM www.meetup.com/elixir-munic...

✨ Gleam Ecosystem Growth at CodeBEAM Europe 2025! Hayleigh Thompson, Meks McClure, Michael Buhot, @runlevel0.me & @ihh.dev explore type safety, BEAM integration & functional modeling codebeameurope.com#speakers

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I'm Speaking at CodeBEAM Europe 2025! 😁 My talk: Functional Domain Modeling with Gleam Gleam's type system builds domain representations that work technically and make sense to business people. Plus you get BEAM reliability and concurrency. #CodeBEAM #Gleam #DDD #BEAM

Gleam sponsorship has been slowly dropping over the last few months. The project is free from influence by any corporation, but it means the team and I need your support! Just a few dollars makes a big difference, so please sponsor if you appreciate Gleam. github.com/sponsors/lpil

Phoenix contexts are simpler than you think. My new blog post explains why: arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/phoenix...

Our third #Elixir & #Erlang #Meetup #Munich of 2025 has just been announced! www.meetup.com/elixir-munic...

I've seen hype cycles you people wouldn't believe. AI in the 1980s, natural language 4GLs, ecommerce, service buses, big data, and many more. I watched CTOs quiver with the latest FOMO. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time for disillusionment.

The BEAM is such a superpower

If we don't even have the basics right, if we don't even really understand what software development is or how to do it well... how can we do it better and faster with AI?

How @KentBeck thinks about AI coding tools and agents: "They're like a genie. They grant your wishes... but not quite how you expect it. Then you tell it that it's not what you wanted. 'Oh, I'm sorry...' The genie is good at apologizing. But it's not good at meaning it."

I'm a huge fan of #TDD because I find that it helps me do my best work, but the 3, 5, or 10 steps of the process can't think for you, can't encourage you to do the right thing, and can't force you to do anything. You still need to think, and reflect, and learn over time.

Assigning agency to techniques seems to me to be an attempt to avoid responsibility. “I used TDD & got poorly designed/unreliable/hard to understand code—not my fault.”

"Platform teams are full of folks who aren’t very worried about what the company they work for even does" - egoless.engineering Yep. And most of them are too deep down the #Kubernetes rabbit hole to be able to worry about it in the first place!