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🎵 vectors in high dimensional space all we are is vectors in high dimensional space 🎵 Solid framing of current debates on language models in relation to language acquisition, language "understanding" etc arxiv.org/abs/2401.03910

Whatever thoughts about the river have arisen now, they never describe the river at this moment. The actual state of the river is indescribable. It is eternally unique, just as it is, now.

Zed has really matured - finally switched over to it FT over the weekend. Wonderful project. zed.dev

HNY programadores maarthandam.com/2025/12/25/s...

I just realized Lovable.dev - $200 million ARR (WAT) / probs fastest growing startup on the planet runs on...fly.io. jobs.ashbyhq.com/lovable/9f49...

As someone who has tinkered with building an SDK, I'd say this is the (alternative) way: dashbit.co/blog/sdks-wi... It's even harder when the SDK wraps multiple services that are not uniform as with LLM abstractors: Anthropic just added a structure outputs schema, Gemini already had a version etc.

This is sad, reads like a linux ad hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Cloudflare Zero Trust is one of my new favorite tools for working with smaller orgs - create an intranet site on public infrastructure with all kinds of access handy rules (passwordless auth, IP whitelist/blacklist etc). Free for orgs under 50. www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/p...

Full stack engineering and product management roles will continue to converge

Of course there is a Rick and Morty API rickandmortyapi.com/documentation

This has been making the rounds it seems - it's good: generativeai.pub/the-eternal-... A lot of this rings true to me. Krzyś sprinkles the piece with hilarious tech jokes, so there is that too.

It's a major award!

Dope!

📣 New article on @frontendmasters.com about a visual problem that bugged me for years: making a card that truly feels deep. frontendmasters.com/blog/the-dee... Would love your thoughts.

An IoT prototype written 100% in Elixir: sensors, Pi hardware, backend, frontend. No C, no Python, no JS… and I didn’t miss any of them. Huge thanks to @adolfont.github.io 🙌 dev.to/tuliocalil/e...

It is time. I was going to hold off, release in bulk. When all were ready. Stina suggested an advent calendar. And I try to heed her wisdom. Goatcember begins! Marc Lainez gave us this fantastic start on his teams work on The Nerves Car. goatmire.bold.video/v/ywpqe #elixirlang

I'm looking for a remote Rust/Elixir role (EU-friendly timezones, US East is ok). I have 7 years of #rustlang, 9 years of #elixirlang, 20+ years of #linux. I have over 20 years of experience as a professional developer, and I've been working remotely for 12 years.

Hi Elixir friends, After 3 years on Hologram full-time (transpiles Elixir to the browser), I'm at a crossroads. 60+ hr weeks balancing contracts & dev isn't sustainable. Where we are & how you can help: hologram.page/blog/seeking... Even sharing helps 💜 #Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev

This looks amazeballs:

@pcharbon70.bsky.social released a really cool tui library for elixir hexdocs.pm/term_ui/read...

DeepSeek-Math-V2 means we now have an open weights (Apache 2) model that can achieve gold medal performance on this year's International Mathematical Olympiad - previously proprietary models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind had achieved that 689GB from Hugging Face! simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/27/...

I had a delightful chat with a local C-Sci prof at a tech meetup night before last. He teaches comparative programming languages. Thesis: language design matters. I agree but hold it lightly. Wish I had time to squeeze in this course! It's available online at: www2.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs37...

What cruel monster decided a keyboard shortcut for (accidentally) sending an email draft was a good idea?

The best approach I know of for reducing the risk here is to make sure that any credentials that are visible to coding agents - like AWS keys - are tied to non-production accounts with strict spending limits That way if the credentials are stolen the blast radius is limited

I built a thing - Elixir Phoenix, LiveView - making sense out of home service quotes to learn about LLMs and AIOps (and home services): chadfennell.com/lab/2-bidkra... #elixir #llms

FastAPI's use of Pydantic Models for validation (query, body, headers, etc) is a really lovely declarative pattern: fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/que...

Goto Mix docs example app: NOT a to-do app. But a distributed key value store. The primagen approves 😁 #elixirlang youtube.com/shorts/7zMUh...

Hey Elixir friends! :) We need help completing Elixir's browser runtime by porting some Erlang functions to JavaScript. No Erlang knowledge required. Each function unlocks multiple Elixir stdlib functions! More here: hologram.page/blog/elixir-... #Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev

Fun side project: I had the idea for GAC bags this summer while hiking and climbing in the Wind River Range (WY), where there is a serious problem with human waste. For now, I'll be focusing on providing free waste bags to my desert climbing community in Southern Arizona. giveacrapbag.com

I present: playwright_ex A simple Playwright client for #elixirlang. Experimental. Extracted from phoenix_test_playwright. PRs welcome! It's not comprehensive, because that's a daunting task (see playwright-elixir). But it should be easy to add anything that's missing. hexdocs.pm/playwright_ex/

A little script to hydrate a fly.io app env with 1Password (via 1Pass's cli, op) gist.github.com/chadfennell/...

Tailscale + fly.io tailscale.com/kb/1132/flyd... Very handy for small projects involving privately networked services. Tailscale is fantastic. Hat's off to the Fly team for making platform networking tweakable / open, moreso than similar services I've touched. Not a trivial thing to do well.

Just realizing my spouse has been prompting me for over twenty years. Who's the stochastic parrot now?

My crack UX and CSS friend (the middle guy below) is about to head out on tour with his (heavy) metal band. If that's your kind of thing - give them a listen and spread the joy. theperilousones.com

I think Mishka Chelekom needs a full development phase just for forms 🦷, from calendars to integrated ones. It’s not an easy task, but it’ll help cover everything we need for the dashboard. I wish a company into LiveView & #Phoenix would sponsor a phase so we could go full-time on it. #ElixirLang

Claude Connectors + Trello Board is quite nice for capturing tasks while doing R&D.

I spent a couple of days building a basic AI voice assistent system just to get a little experience in this space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNwy... I'm amazed at how powerful these tools are but can also see how evaluation and tuning would be an ongoing effort. #elixir

I've been digging into websocket support (via Websock) in Phoenix and this convo with Mat Trudel provides excellent context for the history around Bandit, websockets in Phoenix, supporting multiple HTTP standards, etc. Smart guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xe4... WS PR: github.com/phoenixframe...

WeUseElixir Find apps, libraries and companies that use Elixir #ElixirLang weuseelixir.com

Some interesting product insights from the founder of Kagi - why they are building a browser (Orion) and email - it's a winner take all market news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474...

Hey bksy, I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years commercially, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle.

Software Engineer @ Motorola Solutions / Onsite #job #ElixirLang

Fascinating.

Whelp. Fell in love with Jaime Branch's music today upon discovering her and then mourned her untimely death at 39 after reading up on her life. What a gift and what a tragedy. open.spotify.com/album/2JVEwF...

Good convo on equity for engineers at startups youtu.be/bBQhzsoJ0uM?... e.g. * % Sizing of Employee Pools * Dilution * Final Sale (what you split) = Money Offered Minus VC Investments

"If you’re too resolutely and uncompromisingly sceptical, you’re going to miss (or resent) the transforming discoveries in science, and either way you will be obstructing understanding and progress. Mere scepticism is not enough." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Joshua Rogers, using AI tooling responsibly and professionally, reported 22+ genuine issues in curl that are now being addressed Especially notable because curl had problems with floods of garbage slop AI "security issues" in the past that were nothing of the sort simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/2/c...

"Our study reveals that structured generation constraints significantly impact LLM performance across various tasks." arxiv.org/abs/2408.02442 Probably best to handle analysis in another step if you must structure.

A couple of /LEARNINGS/ from my AI-driven side project: 1. Apps that rely on AI-generated content need to have resiliency at all levels, from model provider failover right up to how you design the UI (e.g. not assuming a value will be present and deciding how to present its "missing" state)