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Good for Talarico. There's a huge issue on the far left with outright racism towards Jewish people. You can have take issue with Israel but don't let that position apply to all Jews.

Major progress on Zap over the past few days. I introduced some very difficult perf benchmarks which exposed a Zig IR lowering retain issue with the ARC memory mgmt model. These three benchmarks were recording 7GB - 13GB of memory. Now memory is on par with other major languages.

Zap benchmarks in 🧵

Thanks, Gandolf

This guy is accusing me of being a racist and mysoginist because I mostly follow Elixir devs on here. Bluesky is not a serious place.

@liberallibrarian.bsky.social It was literally party policy to lose working class voters in favor of winning over more affluent voters www.c-span.org/clip/public-...

I love all of the dipshit arm-chair social media warriors coming out of the woodwork on this. Only on bluesky. God damn this platform is a complete waste. Democrats *were* the working class party. They had country-wide union support. Then they decided they wanted to get rich and favored white collar

This shows how the city Dems look down on the working class. The Democratic party was this guy's party. Why did the Dems lose him? Because they left him behind, not the other way around. If the Democrats want to *earn* voters like this back they need to stop talking down to them.

On the night of her election loss Kat Abughazaleh vowed to "continue the fight" and that despite the loss the movement was just getting started and a bunch of other empty platitudes... then she immediately got a job at CNN. What a joke.

Glad to see the the old bag Janet Mills finally drop out. Paving the way for Platner, the people's choice.

I built a basic snake game in Zap Compiles to 51K with ReleaseSmall opt flag Source: github.com/DockYard/zap...

Because tailwind_compiler is written in @ziglang.bsky.social I can build an in-browser compiler pretty easily by targeting Wasm. Here is a demo Try for yourself: beaconcms.github.io/tailwind_com... The full @tailwindcss.com v4 tailwind_compiler is a 122kb Wasm asset

Heat pumps are increasingly becoming required by regulations and thus suppliers are intentionally over pricing them to make more money. Meanwhile, "get 'er done" installers are forced to install them in low ventilation locations where they are completely ineffective and provide worse outcomes.

I've completed the Zig 0.16 update for Zap. Now just waiting on the linux builds to complete then I can push.

Decided to look into what the 0.15.2 -> 0.16.0 upgrade for Zap's Zig fork would require. Two hours later and I'm nearly ready to push it all up. Async will still wait for now but Zap should get some nice additional optimizations especially from the newer LLVM.

With Zig 0.16 now out I'm going to continue to work with Zig 0.15 for now for Zap. I may update Zap's Zig fork once 0.16.1 comes out but the big feature I was hoping for is Io.Evented but that's still marked as experimental.

Enums are now working in Zap github.com/DockYard/zap...

I'm declaring victory on the Beacon CMS memory issues

Just landed anonymous closures in Zap github.com/dockyard/zap

Wrote tailwind_compiler in Zig with an Elixir NIF wrapper that has an order of magnitude faster Tailwind v4 compilation compared to Tailwind CLI v4. This is for Beacon, API is being adjusted for Beacon. Feel free to use but I won't be accepting PRs. github.com/beaconcms/ta...

New eager loading feature, which is configurable per site in Beacon. if cache is cold on first hit it kicks off the cache warming job then will show this temp page until the site is available. Stampeding herds are properly managed as well.

She ducked off for a bit. There were more important things to address. It is our absolute pleasure to welcome Quinn Wilton back. Last I handed her a mic she threw DIY dental care to people. I think this one is about Elixir... www.goatmire.com/talk/a-hundr... #elixirlang #goatmire

I don't know why people keep insisting that AI is good at writing @elixir-lang.org

I've got for-comprehension working in Zap

High-level programing languages are just prompts for machine code.

This is just going to make me swear at it more

If there is anything to be learned from Pam Bondi, it's that she is a horrible person.

I've never liked `with` in Elixir. So Zap is going to have a "catch basin" operator that will jump to when anywhere in the pipe returns {:error, _value}

If you do good in America, you need to do good for America. There is too much wealth inequality. We need a Marshall Plan for America. That means investing in 1,000 new trade schools, tech institutes, affordable childcare and eldercare, and national health insurance.

I see takes like this all the time. As someone who owns and runs a small software business I can say with absolute certainty this is a bullshit take paiting a wide brush like this. None of the other small business softwares shops I know want to lay people off.

I originally was just going to spike out a proof of concept language in Zap to show how Cog's tools can make building hard things easy with AI coding... but I'm kind of considering pursuing it as a legit language. Just not sure if people would accept an agentically coded lang.

If you're trying out the preview for cog-cli we have a Discord: discord.gg/42RMhWry

The Phorkining is happening...

Watching the cog-cli debugging tool work is wild

cog-cli is now available for developer preview trycog.ai/cli Three tools: * local long-term memory graph * code intelligence * agentic debugger Has configuration for most agents. It's been primarily tested against Claude Code and Opencode

Tail call optimization is now in Zap github.com/DockYard/zap... Getting closer to adding map/reduce...

I just released a lil @elixir-lang.org library for generating docs about telemetry events from structured data. Love me some telemetry events but they're often an underdocumented aspect of libraries. hex.pm/packages/tel... Feedback welcome 👐

I wonder what district Kat Abughazaleh will move to next to carpet bag. I guarantee we haven't seen the last of her

Working on nice parser errors today for Zap. Inspired by Elm's

Proud to be doing my part contributing to the @elixir-lang.org ecosystem. My libs and contributions just crossed 1 million downloads! Working to hit the next milestone. #MyElixirStatus

For those that want to follow, or try, Zap the project is here: github.com/DockYard/zap I've turned off Issues, PRs, Wiki, and Discussions for now as I have some opinions on what I want to do with it and want the freedom to explore.

One of the goals of Zap using Zig's compiler was to target WASM. Something that I chased for years with Elixir is now just a compiler flag with Zap.

Everybody should read this. Vibe coding is basically a replacement for template generation. If you want something that is production-quality you still need to put in the work and know what you're doing kanfa.macbudkowski.com/vibecoding-c...

For those curious, I was only able to build Zap so quickly because of Cog. I'll be releasing the cli next week for general use but Cog's tools have cut down agentic coding time by probably an order of magnitude.

Zap now has pattern matching

Zap: Hello, World!

Ok, maybe "zip" isn't a good idea for the language name

Ok, here is the spec of the "bad idea" Zip - an Elixir-like syntax that lowers to Zig IR gist.github.com/bcardarella/...