AI has not changed the way software is built. Code is written using the same syntax, version controlled using the same version control systems, compiled using the same compilers, deployed to the same servers, and neglected by the same developers.

jj cultural victory

A pair of raccoon butterfish in one particular bay off Kauai would mad dog me every time I got in the water last week. gopro.com/v/5cf4e6e8-7...

A fish skritching it's back on a Honu/green sea turtle gopro.com/v/96ac82d5-9... I shot this footage the other day on a GoPro while snorkeling off of the Napali coast of Kauai. I found myself alternating between chuckling and in complete wonder.

It's here! gleam_stdlib v1 released!

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Make it quick

TIL: PUF - physical unclonable function "...a physical object whose operation cannot be reproduced ("cloned") in physical way" - hardware-based security en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physica... via www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn9h...

"Don't Look Up" was prophetic.

An interesting distributed systems convo surfaced by @bartblast.com 's hologram project over here - chime-in in if you have ideas/dreams/opinions: elixirforum.com/t/designing-...

Everyone has been asking for bubble-sort illustrated by Hungarian Folk Dance, so here it is www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQ...

2026: "I have a pacemaker. Here's how I wired-up OpenClaaaakakkkad <sputter>.....................💀"

Software Mansion @swmansion.com releases LiveStash, a library solving LiveView state loss during WebSocket reconnects. github.com/software-ma...

The v0.1 release of Expert (the new, official #ElixirLang LSP) is now final! 🎉 The best Elixir LSP experience keeps getting better. 😎 Tremendous thanks to all the contributors, and to Jump for sponsoring @katafrakt.bsky.social to work on this full-time. 🙏 github.com/elixir-lang/...

I like Ousterhout's ideas on deep modules and noticed Claude seems to expose a lot of functions I would keep as internal implementation details - so I had Claude build me a SKILL.md for deep module design.

NYC needs to do this. There are endless blank canvases.

gofundme but for gas money #SaaSterday

This is up on Hex today. One of my colleagues put it together and it's been a real QoL improvement for us. github.com/amplifiedai/... #ElixirLang #Elixir

Not saying they have nothing to offer but it's always a bit odd to me to see people making a career out of teaching entrepreneurship while never having started a business, let alone a startup - especially from the "ex McKinsey" crowd. "Creator of the StartupMethod TM" - former corp consultant

This looks pretty slick: a token compression layer between your agent and common commands www.rtk-ai.app

Hey Elixir friends! :) Elixir Gets JavaScript Interop - Hologram v0.8.0 is out! Use npm packages, call JS functions, work with Web APIs and Web Components - all from Elixir, with zero client-side latency. hologram.page/blog/hologra... #Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev

It's still a shell of a library, but personally I'm really excited about it. BEAM nodes are easy to deploy near users, getting the data there as well has always been the hard part. Hopefully this solves that. For now, it's just me having fun with NIFs. #elixirlang github.com/bytebottom/t...

Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest He was perfection. RIP, my baby.

After caring for a sick cat post-ER I'm thinking about how patient discharge for pets is kind of broken. We're still getting paper handouts with hand-typed text instructions like it's 1975. IDK if my thing is a *thing* but I hope somebody solves this problem. www.linkedin.com/posts/chad-f...

This seems about right molochinations.substack.com/p/no-more-co... "A former coworker of mine, Michael Novati, the fastest coder at Facebook for years, had a day this February where he landed 417 PRs on GitHub. How long would it take you to review that?" 😬

The level of game for much of the user-facing software out there right now is so low that I expect vibe coding will likely improve affairs for a lot of it. And be at the price point Bob and Bob and Bob and Bob's Autoparts Direct wants to pay.

We were kind of hyping Elixir to the OpenAI dev at the Elixir BoF table at The Pragmatic Summit. Kinda makes me wonder if this new OpenAI thing being in Elixir has any relationship to that convo (probably not but would be cool!) github.com/openai/symph...

Noice.

rip dan simmons arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

New blog post up: the culmination of my past few months working with agents Opus 4.5 and beyond, and the *many* things I learned. Also, the discovery of an optimization trick with promise. As a bonus: this post will make Rust engineers very mad. minimaxir.com/2026/02/ai-a...

An interactive learning platform with a built-in code editor, 24+ structured lessons, and gamified progress tracking. Write, run, and learn Go #golang golang.codes/

why do nerds suddenly appear every time I post here

We just released Sentry Elixir SDK 12.0.0! This is a massive release that brings support for structured logging, distributed tracing, improves LiveView support in tracing, introduces new HackneyClient and more! 🎉 Check out the changelog and upgrade ⬆️

How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto changed, thanks to AI tools? Mitchell is one of the most influential infra engineers of our time (created the likes of Terraform and Ghostty), and is one of the most pragmatic builders I’ve met. YouTube: youtu.be/WjckELpzLOU (cont'd)

This talk was packed with great (and of course, perishable) data.

Useful distinction re: Accuracy vs Reliability "When we consider a coworker to be reliable, we don’t just mean that they get things right most of the time. We mean something richer" www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-...

This looks super promising. Isolation level: QEMU micro-VMs "Sandboxing the compute isn't enough as you need to control network egress and protect secrets from exfiltration." And just as important: thoughtful DX/packaging

Huh, Rust kind of owns the messaging cryptography space rn e.g. github.com/signalapp/li... github.com/openmls/open... Fascinating and clear overview of how MLS efficiently rotates keys in group chats: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESp...

DurableServer keynote by Chris McCord at ElixirConf EU 2026. GenServer + automatic state persistence + cluster-aware recovery. Complexity melts away. Málaga, April. Save your spot: www.elixirconf.eu#register

Twin brothers teach an LLM class at Stanford - looks pretty good cme295.stanford.edu/syllabus/

oh word is this stuff useful when you’re using it like a tool

This is such an obvious play and Tailscale DX is so good - looks very promising: tailscale.com/docs/feature...

Lot of interesting ideas in here - I'm realizing that I've been leaving some LV fine tuning on the table. One positive side-effect (to me) of LLM-driven workflows is how heuristic stuff that used to only live in the heads of developers is getting documented in markdown. Huge learning potential.

Another Elixir/Erlang/Python interop library. This one supports several parallelism modes: * Sub-interpreters- Each interpreter has its own GIL * Free-threaded Python (3.13+) - No GIL at all * BEAM processes - Fan out work across lightweight Erlang processes github.com/benoitc/erla...

We are living in the golden age of the TUI 😍

Elixir and Python jobs running together, living side-by-side in the same Oban Web dashboard

Big day: The Pragmatic Summit! First-ever in-person @pragmaticengineer.com event. 17 standout speakers. 500 incredible attendees. Starts in an hour!

Some fresh research from Laura Tacho of DX at Pragmatic Summit. Take-away: AI is a multiplier of existing cultures - defect improvement / degradation is a reflection of existing systems/culture. Lots of new numbers on adoption and outcomes here!