I am struggling with AI and wanna write down somewhere some scattered thoughts.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

This year in music has been really in line with my general taste, with very few excursions to other genres - suppose it's a form of comfort!

I've been researching and playing with Event Sourcing and related patterns for years now, but it's an expensive hobby. If anyone's interested in (paid) introductions to the patterns and ideas, or workshops on the matter, hit me up! I honestly believe understanding it can provide a lot of value.

Even if now that I think about it, he doesn't have fingers to snap, or even an arm to put the gauntlet on. Maybe that's why he looks upset.

Half of the hair population needs to die.

Another good find in a charity store for a mere 3 pounds.

@burningshed.com I’m trying to find out information about a uk prog band I heard on radio, it’s called Axiom Shift. Both music and what I could find (little) makes me think it’s an AI experiment, but I was wondering if you had more info?

@burningshed.com thank you for the early delivery! Really looked forward to Lunatic Soul’s latest effort.

Charity shop find of the day - have never listened to it but I’ve never been disappointed by Peter Gabriel.

The creator of the vibe coding expression did not use AI agents full capabilities for his latest system

@stevenwilsonhq.bsky.social I recently dug into a few of your Bass Communion records and really enjoyed them! It would be nice to hear some stories about them.

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

i'm putting the feelers out for frontend-y dev rel-y docs-y gigs that are 2-3 days a week. if you know someone looking for someone who can do gleam/elm/react/write words, hit me up 💕

So DHH has gone fully open right winger and racist? Maybe that gets people to stop sharing and reading his takes. If you still share that motherfucker's writing (even on tech) or advertise his business rethink your whole life decisions and move to the woods or something.

Just backed this - core tooling needs support from the whole community.

Somehow desperately looking for speakers for the Elixir London meetup on Sep 25 #ElixirLang

Some small snags around CI to take care of, but I migrated a personal #ElixirLang project from fly.io to a self-hosted VPS using Coolify.

Didn’t miss dealing with DNS and proxies.

Anyone have a space in London that the Gleam London meetup can use? Would love somewhere we can have a few short presentations from folks

LazyGit is better 😉

Got a delivery for a certain Daywalker, first name Blade?

Recently I’ve been working a lot on #ElixirLang LiveView forms with nested, non obvious association patterns, with JS hooks in places.

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Someone forgot about to add a ref to the message #elixirlang

Today I got both Classic Rock and ’80s Throwback in 1! playvinyltap.com (an album cover Wordle-like built on MB/CAA) #vinyltap #30

I think @sainsburys.bsky.social didn’t really nail the quote-on-the-package thing here.

Off to the long awaited @stevenwilsonhq.bsky.social gig!

Did you know that the BBC serves almost all of its web traffic using @elixirlang.bsky.social ? #elixirlang

This and

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

The current market wants lean, profitable, efficient companies and that requires tech that can be that. Bang for the buck. The current world climate demands things that are reliable and resilient, both technically and culturally. Elixir makes sense in this world. I hope folks see it.

I know you didn't ask but I have two music recommendations: The Last Will and Testament by Opeth, and Dominion by IQ.

How basic, how boring, how courageless and vapid. This is the most unsexy, unconvincing statement ever put out. It's fucking cool to care, to try to learn something new. From Shakespeare to a 4 year old writing their name for the first time yelling: I did it! That I did it demolishes this garbage.

TIL on erlang OTP 28 regexes in module attributes will no longer work, @elixir-lang.org is working around it but will emit warnings when it's done github.com/elixir-lang/... Shoutout to Thijs for fixing it for benchee and alerting me to this! github.com/bencheeorg/b...

(haven't seen the talk but read the slides) big push to use :gen_statem as well for #ElixirLang (and BEAM in general) projects - I always end up having one or more of them in every codebase I work on, one example being processes that fetch/cache data in an automated fashion.

Love little touches like this quote form the #ElixirLang Ecto docs at hexdocs.pm/ecto/replica... > Ecto also allows you to start a repository with no name (just like that famous horse).

To help promote and bring more attention to events in the Elixir community, there's now a bluesky account for elixirevents.net! As always, ideas and suggestions are super welcome! #ElixirLang

In case anyone missed it, we're running a joint Elm / Gleam meetup next wednesday, if you're around london come by and hang out! meetdown.app/group/407053...

I'd be curious to hear stories from engineers who built/are building #ElixirLang applications and decided that specific components should be written in Erlang: which ones, why, how. Thanks!

Yesterday I upgraded a small #ElixirLang Phoenix LiveView application from Tailwind v3 to Tailwind v4. Two resources helped: - Hex package upgrade docs at github.com/phoenixframe... - This gist: gist.github.com/frankdugan3/...

A short summary of the #ElixirLang London meet-up held yesterday: we dove into the source for LiveView’s assign_async/3, trying to figure out how it works. This was accomplished by jumping around the source code in an editor. No preparation done in advance.

We start in two hours! #ElixirLang

On my way to watch Fish for his farewell tour. A few years ago I wrote about what his music means to me claudio-ortolina.org/posts/fish/ #music #progrock

I flunked an interview yesterday, and I think it boiled down to how I answered a specific question. A reminder that interviewing is a skill, and that it's ok to make mistakes. I'll do better next time.

Woohooh! The next #ElixirLang London Meetup is scheduled for Feb 27 - see www.meetup.com/elixir-londo....

Does anyone have/know of an app which can show me where I can buy CDs based on an Apple Music playlist? e.g. I have a playlist on Apple Music and I want to buy all albums included in the playlist on a physical CD 💿. #Music #CD #IndieDev

A lot of blog posts nowadays have a “Conclusion” paragraph which seems unnecessary.

@lpil.uk in your presentation yesterday you had a board with things to build/write about for gleam (e.g. rendering a simple PDF). Is that public? Open for contributions?

Back from @codebeam.bsky.social London and feeling inspired #ElixirLang.