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https://x.com/elixirtap Have *you* fallen for #ElixirLang yet? TILs and reflections from my 10 years with Elixir. Cranking out Elixir for jumpapp.com on weekdays. Cooking on my days off.

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Interesting! So, if this runs checks on a feature branch, then <your-base-branch> would most often be 'main', right?

10.03.2026 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A small TIL for Git lovers: `git merge-base HEAD main` gives you the nearest common commit between the current branch and main. That's the commit where those two parted ways.

10.03.2026 04:57 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Did you know it was a Laravel meetup when you walked through the door?

02.03.2026 02:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Much less value for those of us who use tmux windows, I suppose.

22.02.2026 23:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh now I know what my OpenClaw bot should be using for web search instead of Brave API (the clawed assistant agrees).

Also, great talk!

14.02.2026 02:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I especially like the haircut

10.02.2026 10:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Loved your thoughts on this.

10.02.2026 07:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Still beyond me why it has only 144 stars on Github.

10.02.2026 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TIL about SigNoz, read up on it, and I'm definitely giving it a spin!

09.02.2026 04:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

People have always been wary of computer viruses, and for good reason.

Now, we have much smarter non-deterministic (!) systems running our VPSs and laptops, online, with increasing access to other services.

What can go wrong?

31.01.2026 03:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh so you meant encrypted group chats, not one-on-ones, got it.

24.01.2026 05:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

e2e encryption comes at a cost of usability, and in Telegram it does exist since day 1, I think, you only need to explicitly start e2e-encrypted chats

24.01.2026 03:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What sort of spam? For example, I'm being added to groups without permission sometimes, but it's only because I didn't disallow that in the privacy settings (I'm fine with opting out). Spam in groups can be handled with spam watching bots. Other than that, I'm not seeing spam in Telegram.

24.01.2026 03:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So sad that Telegram has a bad reputation in the West. It's *by far* the best UI/UX messenger out there. WhatsApp doesn't even come close (although I love the fact that it runs on the BEAM).

23.01.2026 05:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

I do the same with Telegram. It also stores pics, documents, forwarded messages, locations, etc, pretty handy.

15.01.2026 05:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Low quality of Claude Code CLI shows that it probably will.

14.01.2026 01:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do you do hot code swaps, or are you just fine with short downtimes during deployments?

05.01.2026 12:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do you think this could work for me as an Elixir developer wanting to build a Swift iOS app? I know 0 of Swift.

05.01.2026 01:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That video already has my thumbs-up, but I'll rewatch it anyway.

03.01.2026 03:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Haha, great catch!

03.01.2026 02:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Agree! It's a nice warm feeling, though, that we have room for optimizations like this for those cases when it's less about DBs.

03.01.2026 02:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Rather, it takes an ADVANCED developer to understand why.

24.12.2025 03:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please, share your impressions!

24.12.2025 03:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For as long as I can remember, I thought these were equivalent:

1) if foo, do: bar, else: baz

2) foo && bar || baz

Until the day bar was nil.

#ElixirLang

22.12.2025 07:00 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

on a new project? or did it have tests?

20.12.2025 02:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

what a subtle manipulation

20.12.2025 02:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember the times when I thought seeing this would make me happy

19.12.2025 11:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I _suspect_ that being active on Twitter with my Elixir TILs helped me land my last job.

19.12.2025 06:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
LiveView and Web Components - Chris Nelson | Code BEAM America 2025
LiveView and Web Components - Chris Nelson | Code BEAM America 2025 YouTube video by Code Sync

Another talk where the speaker is really into using web components (and Lit) whenever LiveView falls short: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEnN...

18.12.2025 08:10 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

😂

18.12.2025 07:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0