if 100 chrome tabs were a song, what a treat

It's amazing how LLM driven development is both good and bad at the same time. I don't see any extreme stance on it winning. We'll have to learn how to use this goddamn tool properly: without frying our brains or slopifying software.

I once again have some extra free time on my hands, so I'm going to dig into why DBConnectionErrors are seemingly never grouped correctly and see how many yaks require shaving. Our first stop is naive `Logger.error` calls. We need to figure out what to do with them!

📡 New Blog Post LLMs looove markdown, but the best chat interfaces go beyond and let models use rich UI elements. In this post I demonstrate one possible way to achieve this: by teaching models to use custom HTML elements. distantprovince.by/posts/teachi...

I never wrote to my MP before, but if @apenwarr.ca tells me to, I will

Wrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...

🎉 InstructorLite has passed 50k downloads on Hex! It started as a fork almost 2 years ago and quickly transformed into a full rewrite. I'm very happy that there are people (and companies!) out there who find it useful! #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

I dusted off my blog to explain the AI engineering policy I wrote for work. It morphed into more of a rant on the lack of leadership in tech than I intended. Yelling "MOAR AI!" is not leadership and your teams all feel it. brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/h...

I wrote about model permanence - a very natural but false idea that models exist between conversation turns. distantprovince.substack.com/p/chatting-a...

Anyone is looking for Senior Elixir Developer based in the EU? My CV available at hauleth.dev/cv #elixirlang #job

Spot on. I personally employ 2 tricks to ease the pain: 1. Draft PRs. As soon as you're more or less set on the path, push it and request a review. Once there is something tangible on the table, it's much easier to get feedback. This also forces you into iterative approach.

Looking for an #ElixirLang dev? I'm officially on the market! 4+ years of Elixir in production. Natural affinity to testing, o11y and DX. My most used OS libraries are InstructorLite and PostHog SDK. Remote from 🇨🇦, PDT, links in bio. RTs appreciated 🙏 #MyElixirStatus

Shit like this made me go to therapy

Code reviews are definitely dead and many of us, including myself, are grieving. I don't know how things will turn out, but I felt the need to write a farewell. distantprovince.by/posts/a-fare...

Working on improving PostHog error tracking for complex OTP errors. Chained exceptions is a fairly good fit. Hopefully will ship soon!

Maybe AI has made writing code an obsolete skill, but every engineer who plays with coding agents today gained their experience by writing code. To understand the real impact of AI, we'll have to look at a world where engineers _never_ had to write code. distantprovince.by/posts/ai-fut...

Handwave 👋 New Hex package that allows you to point in the general direction of desired outcome and let LLM figure it out. Sometimes, you just need a smarter if: #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

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Patch release 1.1.1 for InstructorLite * Make ChatCompletionsCompatible adapter more forgiving to Mistral's API responses * Fix rare bug when InstructorLite.ask/2 would refuse to call adapter because it wasn't loaded #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

I vibe coded an entirely new PostHog SDK— Actually, no. This summer I locked in, learned what needed to be learned, and built an error tracking library from first principles, that became an official PostHog SDK for Elixir Here's why I think it's good #ElixirLang distantprovince.by/posts/postho...

caller tracking has been part of Elixir for quite some time now, but is still a relatively obscure mechanism. we need to fix this. #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus distantprovince.by/posts/5-minu...

caller tracking has been part of Elixir for quite some time now, but is still a relatively obscure mechanism. we need to fix this. #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus distantprovince.by/posts/5-minu...

If you're a junior engineer, don't ask cheap models for advice. Ask the most senior engineer on the team. The latency is garbage, the personality is questionable, but your employer pays for subscription 💅

Last week InstructorLite hit 100 stars and 10k downloads on Hex 🎉 Almost a year after its initial release! InstructorLite is the best way to get comfortable with structured outputs before you inevitably transition to raw Req. #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

If food can only be soup, salad or sandwich, then functions can only be pure functions, side-effects or call sites

That was unexpected

Registry is such a versatile tool. How did we live without it? How do I stop using it for everything?

I finally updated one of my side projects to Phoenix 1.8 and DaisyUI. Looks much better now. Under the hood it runs ~100k Oban jobs per day and costs less than $5 per month to host. #ElixirLang is truly a miracle tech.

I think the question is, does the world need DiscoHog?

Hmm, so with all my work on LogHog and DiscoLog, I have all building blocks in place to create a bot that will forward Discord gateway events to PostHog 🤔

What have I done my silly AI essay is "on HN front page". I don't even know how hacker news work. Should I open comment section?

A tech lead who I highly respect once told me that in order to get something _really_ right, you need to rewrite the code ~5 times. I think about this often.

InstructorLite is slowly catching up with Instructor, huh

AI etiquette, I'm telling you distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

I distinctly remember that I discovered this blog somewhere in late 2010s, although I don't remember how exactly. Time has passed, I myself became Canadian, and the man continues to drop gems like this 😭😭

I am an AI optimist, but sometimes I feel like I am at war with AI. Or maybe with other people. Ugh, listen, you just need to imagine you are a scrambler. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

Posthog is such a branding powerhouse. I know they have stories now. I wrote an error tracking library for them. And I don't even use the product that much! I barely know what they do!

I am an AI optimist, but sometimes I feel like I am at war with AI. Or maybe with other people. Ugh, listen, you just need to imagine you are a scrambler. distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...

`check_possible_steal_victim` is probably the best function in the otp codebase

I'm a big fan of playful naming in code and I really love the concepts of "task stealing", "task immigration", and "scheduler evacuation" in Erlang schedulers.

Ever wondered what `Sentry.PlugCapture` does? How come we need a plug to log Plug errors? Aren't they... just logged like any other error? The answer is for 🏛️ historical reasons 🏛️. These days, it's not necessary. #ElixirLang

In the meantime, fully human-made, hand-crafted banger libs InstructorLite 1.0.0 and DiscoLog 2.0.0 are coming next week, I think

Basically, LogHog hogs your logs and posts them to PostHog

🚀 Time to announce LogHog - PostHog 🦔 Error Tracking for Elixir #ElixirLang elixirforum.com/t/loghog-pos...

My logging era is in full motion and my poor pet app is running Sentry, DiscoLog and LogHog handlers 💀

Just spilled my diet coke

PostHog Error Tracking might not support Elixir, but that won't stop Elixir from supporting it! #ElixirLang

Did a deep dive into logging metadata and what it means to have an "unhandled" error in Elixir. Hence the two new pages in LoggerHandlerKit docs! hexdocs.pm/logger_handl...

Took me a while to realize but this isn't a proper highlighting, Github!

Every once in a while I open Bandit repo just to check what weird corner case was discovered this week github.com/mtrudel/band...