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buddy, my challenge isn't generating more content, it's figuring out how to produce a lot less.

Please don't install Clawdbot YouTube video by Alberta Tech

"So these agents are burning tokens to shitpost on AI Facebook."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=11sx...

Yes, Social Media Is Destroying Civilization YouTube video by The Art Of Storytelling

The consequences of short form storytelling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc5s...

How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong YouTube video by Economy Media

Balance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0n...

💜📘 The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book! #ElixirLang

Think Distributed Systems

Our first meeting for the new book is Sunday, ## Sunday, January 25, 2026, and we will discuss chapters 1 and 2.

Join our Discord to participate!

elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

I love this tip: respond to metric requests with pairs (example: speed and quality/risk).

addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

#programming #work #tips

Tell me a story - Saša Jurić YouTube video by Goatmire International

"Just approve the damn thing."—Saša Jurić

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrK...

#Elixir #CodeReview #Collaboration

Which one?

Hank Green on God, Science, and Alien Consciousness YouTube video by Alex O'Connor

If you enjoy philosophy, science, and atheism — especially when they are all jumbled together — this Alex O'Conner and Hank Green discussion is a listen that I really enjoyed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLb...

ChatBots Explained: Not Conscious, No Revolution — Just Searching's Next Step YouTube video by Internet of Bugs

This is the best video I've seen for putting LLM's in historical context:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qnZ...

Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311 YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay

"So it’s culture?" How do flawed humans keep nuclear reactors safe? By building a culture of open communication. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0af...

Break apart your features into full-stack slices Our communication practices can be very disrupting. Remote work has taught me to be more considerate of how I communicate with others. We should treat other people's time as we like ours to be treated...

Don’t let the age of this article from @germsvel.com scare you off, vertically slicing features is still a great idea:

www.germanvelasco.com/blog/break-a...

#AgileDevelopment

Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) — join my team at the BBC to design, build and scale #Elixir services used by millions

careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-S...

Please share 🙂
#elixirlang #myelixirstatus #hiring

9 years ago, I released v0.1.0 of Paasaa, my very first open-source Elixir project. Today, I'm incredibly happy to announce the release of v1.0.0! It’s a natural language detection library for Elixir that doesn't use any AI.

github.com/minibikini/p...

#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

If you want to work with Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and/or myself, we have some contract availability:

groxio.com

We excel at designing and building Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView systems. We also train teams in how we do it. Get in touch!

Ash Framework Explore the power of Ash Framework by modeling and building the domain for a real-world web application.

Congrats to @sevensea.cat & @zachdaniel.dev - their book Ash Framework is finished & heading to print with @pragprog.com !

📚 Packed with insights & best practices for Elixir devs. Order it here & use promo code AshRelease for 35% off till end of 2025.
👉 pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

💜📘 The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book!

Ash Framework: Create Declarative Elixir Web Apps

We meet on Discord for an hour every other week. Our first meeting is Sunday, September 14, 2025, and we will discuss chapters 1 and 2.

#ElixirLang

elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

The Groxio team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang #Consulting help from one or more of us, let’s talk! groxio.com

The ICFP is this coming weekend:
icfpcontest2025.github.io

Open Source is one person The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...

#OpenSource is (usually) one person: opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...

Spent the afternoon chatting with folks who care deeply about the #elixirlang and community. It’s going to be a great @elixirconf.bsky.social!

For my @elixirconf.bsky.social talk, I'm comparing #ElixirLang's mocking libraries.

It'll be a tournament-style bracket! 🎉

I want to start by introducing the participants! 👇 🧵

What do you think of their characters? 😬

Why is this hard? This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. In a previous article of this series I talked about how we must remain ever vigilant against what is making it into our code. I talked about the ne...

I'm closing out, for now, my series on questions at the heart of development with an analysis of when we need more abstraction. For example, taking @germsvel.com's advice about architecting more accurate models can reduce future bugs.

programmersstone.blog/posts/why-is...

#ElixirLang

Phoenix LiveView: Mastering Reconnects for a Seamless User Experience -Giovanni Francischelli YouTube video by Code Sync

This talk by Giovanni Francischelli on handling #LiveView reconnects is a great blend of fun and educational!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbW...

#ElixirLang

What will it cost to carry and remove this dependency? This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. I've built a lot of applications with a lot of teams. I've seen a lot of the problems with software development. There are two problems that I've s...

In this third article of my questions series, I'm coming for your dependencies! I do my best to add a fifth cost to @martinfowler.com's costs of YAGNI. You can also find out what my favorite programming book is.

programmersstone.blog/posts/what-w...

#TechDebt #YAGNI #dependencies

What are we afraid of? This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. One of the lessons I learned during my time in management is that it was far more important for me to worry about creating environments where good ...

In my second post of key questions for developers, we dig through the insights from multiple @ferd.ca posts to determine how products evolve and the environments that facilitate that process.

programmersstone.blog/posts/what-a...

#ProductDevelopment #PsychologicalSafety

How will we know it works? This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. As programmers, our primary function is to achieve Product's roadmap. We will into existence the features Product believes will move the product fo...

The first article in the series is about all of the great things that can be learned from my favorite @jessitron.bsky.social presentation and how developers work best in a Product Dev team:

programmersstone.blog/posts/how-wi...

JEG2's Questions My System by Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the early chess books that had a big impact on me. The first part of the book, called The Elements, is where Nimzowitsch lays out the specific criteria he is m...

I'm publishing a new series of articles on my blog this week. It's my attempt to condense and share what I've learned in over 20 years of #ElixirLang / #Phoenix / #LiveView and #Ruby / #Rails development. I hope you find it helpful.

programmersstone.blog/posts/jeg2s-...

I'm reading a classic programming paper tonight. Can you name it from the following quote? "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."

dashbitco/lazy_html: Efficient parsing and querying of HTML documents #ElixirLang #html #reading-list #tools

🔗 dashbitco/lazy_html: Efficient parsing and querying of HTML documents

#ElixirLang #html #reading-list #tools