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...

today i'm planning to torture phoenix logs until they tell me who sent them

Alright, so @posthog.com Error Tracking requires backend implementation for each supported language. If anyone asks, Elixir is Python now 🥸

After tinkering with DiscoLog for quite some time I decided to share my findings as LoggerHandlerKit - Hex package that helps you write logger handlers elixirforum.com/t/loggerhand...

Sometimes I open Hex front page and browse newest packages just to discover things like this (by @binaryape.bsky.social ) hexdocs.pm/unicode_smug...

Great stuff

no excuses

Oh boy I just received an AI generated github issues and the future is not bright

Daily caller tracking appreciation post

Ever found yourself inside an ExUnit test with a caught error on your hands wondering how to fail with this exact error and stacktrace? Well, it's a little too late, but I'm not here to judge, I'm here to show you how

my silly little post mentioned 🥹

Is there a way to package tests in #ElixirLang ? Lots of libraries package adapters separately, but are there examples of packaging test suites to make them easier to develop?

"I asked chat gpt and it gave me this response ... " ok, I'm at the point where I consider this rude

I run my #ElixirLang apps on a single VPS and for the most part their life was uneventful. Until one day someone tried to connect to them. distantprovince.by/posts/hide-y...

Your outie can always make a test async

Yep, Plug.BasicAuth is good enough