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@hellosmithy.com

Cross-functional Software Engineer with a love for product and design. Based in Japan. Working in TypeScript / Node / React. Diving into #ElixirLang and #Python. 日本語OK.

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It’s a rare chance to have an Elixir event that’s in a Japan-friendly time zone - looking forward to attending this

27.02.2025 01:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh, that’s very cool

21.02.2025 09:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s a blast from the past. deli.icio.us was great for a period in time before it got spammed to high heaven.

I remember it used to be great for discovery too, if a link was heavily bookmarked on a topic you were interested in it was usually pretty good.

18.01.2025 23:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is one of those good kind of problems

17.01.2025 01:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@winchester.dev also has a good starter kit: go.bsky.app/2dPJ7NM

15.01.2025 11:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This seems like a problem that can be solved in time though. I think we’ll start to see coding LLMs be more aware of these kind of things, and also providing more weight to up-to-date versions etc.

14.01.2025 23:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Out of interest why inertia and not one of the libraries that connect LiveView to react?

14.01.2025 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They could have handled this so much better. I would be more understanding if they’d offered some kind of offer in place of what they’re taking away, but as others have said this is all for their convenience and not for the customer. I guess they see us as liabilities rather than their customers.

12.01.2025 23:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Turn type inference up to 1000 by josevalim · Pull Request #14145 · elixir-lang/elixir Prior to this PR, we performed type inference only in patterns. This pull requests adds type inference to most expressions in Elixir, including function calls, paving the way for us to add inferenc...

This is exciting for my #ElixirLang peeps github.com/elixir-lang/...

05.01.2025 21:37 👍 70 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1

This was my intro to Elixir (after watching the Soul of Erlang talk). Fantastic book - you’ve reminded me I need to re-read it as I’m sure a tonne went over my head that first time.
Anyway you’re in for a treat.

04.01.2025 08:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Almost worth setting the QT_BEARER_POLL_TIMEOUT env var to avoid this potentially biting future self

02.01.2025 06:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Berkeley Mono™ A love letter to the golden era of computing.

Ligature explorer with Elixir examples: usgraphics.com/products/ber...

02.01.2025 05:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It looks like this one supports with and without ligatures too

02.01.2025 05:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This font looks pretty nice.
I never used to be a fan of ligatures in my code fonts, but have really come round on this - especially since writing more #ElixirLang

02.01.2025 05:49 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Parents accountability hack: Just agreed with my 6 year old that if I stick to my New Year’s resolution for 3 months he gets the toy he wants. He’s already reminded me 3 times today.

31.12.2024 08:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll second that!

29.12.2024 05:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s funny how these UI component frameworks grow and then age, especially when they get super popular. Bootstrap looks terrible now. MUI also looks stale. And there’s a Vercel influenced trend peaking which is already starting to look a little same-y.

23.12.2024 07:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Somewhat off-topic but how have you found Sonnet-3.5 with Elixir / Phoenix code?

20.12.2024 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"From upcoming Elixir 1.18

> For example, you can invoke IEx.configure(auto_reload: true) and IEx will automatically reload modules changed elsewhere, either by a separate terminal or your IDE.

This is beautiful! 😍

#ElixirLang"
@hugobarauna.com

14.12.2024 15:20 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Other than some pre v1 LiveView iteration (which is understandable and expected) that’s been my (limited) experience of Phoenix so far too.

12.12.2024 09:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
pragdave - Elixir for Programmers Second Edition

He has a reasonably up to date video course which is excellent value for money: pragdave.me/learn/e4p2.h...

12.12.2024 09:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Music Theory that isn't boring - Lightnote Interactive lessons for learning Music Theory.

Saw @nan.fyi share this on Twitter and I just had to share it over here. It’s so beautiful.

lightnote.co

11.12.2024 07:26 👍 59 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1

@pragdave.bsky.social which (if any) frameworks would you say have bucked the trend on this?

10.12.2024 14:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve been missing that intro music on my dog walks!

10.12.2024 13:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh, I like this kind of micro blogging TIL idea! If for nothing else it's probably a great way to cement the learning.

10.12.2024 12:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I ended up going with this approach bsky.app/profile/andr... which worked well for my current use-case without pulling in another dependency. But learned a bunch of other options from this thread which I may use in the future, thanks all!

10.12.2024 04:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh that's pretty nice actually

10.12.2024 01:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good to know!

09.12.2024 06:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interesting, I *think* I get what you mean but if you have examples when you're back at a computer would love to see them!

09.12.2024 06:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0