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Elixir I love you, but you’re bringing me down. New chapter.

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Gemini 2.0 Flash is really good (and fast!). It’s now my current default in Cursor.

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We have been overwhelmingly impressed by getunblocked.com. It essentially renders code documentation irrelevant. Our latest hires got onboarded insanely easily to our code base.

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everything is fine

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Oban is too good of a tool to be limited to be used only from elixir apps. I wonder what would be the lift for being able to use it as a lightweight replacement for Temporal (which is polyglot)

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The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g. - Small changes - Test that the change works before moving on - (unit) tests wherever you can

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I’m not sad that stackoverflow is dying because of LLMs. It walked so we could run.

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Remember onavo? Good, old American spyware.

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Not all fast software is great but all great software is fast

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Zero discussion about Explode on my feed. If I weren’t on Twitter, I would have missed the boldest app launch of the year. Who do I need to follow?

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The explode app and launch is a masterclass. Nikita has done it again.

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I have been watching the devastation in LA from Greece and I cannot start to comprehend the vastness of destruction

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“A moment on your lips, the rest of your life on your hips”. Applies for ice cream but also for LLM-generated code. Code is a liability you must live with and support for months and years after it’s written. Just because you can commit 1000s LoC in a day, you probably shouldn’t.

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What a devastating week for LA.

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I am so itching to play with Zero. Knowing Aaron, this is probably gonna be epic local-first infra. What to build?! zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/introdu...

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New Year, great questions to ask yourself stephango.com/40-questions

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Woke up to crazy photos and videos from back in LA. Massive fire, our house already used for friends being evacuated.

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The unfair advantage of building with mainstream tech like React is that the LLMs have a ton more training data on them. So you can build + iterate faster. Languages don't matter, products do.

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Two marathons. Two solo trips with my boy to Greece. Second app launched with the team. Pretty fucking good year.

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If you take all the time it takes to configure nvim, calculate how much you make as a developer and boom! You have enough money to buy a new MBP that can run cursor that works epic ootb and go on with your life.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

good day

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Great small QOL I've discovered with golang: you can click and run a specific unit test in cursor/vscode.

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I wish elixir could check all these missing boxes: - supported by a massive tech co (that’s the big one) - large ecosystem - great for teams (eventually when types are in and everyone’s using them by default)

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travel buddy extraordinaire

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If your wife gets to the airport with bag(s) to check, I have a very good divorce lawyer for you.

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First time checking a bag for a flight in years (gifts). I remember why I always fly with carry on only 😅

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As a professional developer, your #1 goal should be to make money on the internet. If it’s not, Jan 1st is coming up, time for reflections :)

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react is good, actually

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My big commitment for 2025 is to finally learn #golang. It has won as the de facto language for building backend stuff. It is insanely fast, scalable, strongly typed, has a rich ecosystem, and runs as a single binary. Sign me up!

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Same benchmark, even with Jose’s PRs applied, Elixir still gets its ass kicked by golang both in latency and QPS 😭 golang is just such a beast! youtu.be/6EnJjOKFrc0?...

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xmas morning hike

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As annual perf reviews are here: if your engineers are not using tools like cursor, you can assume they're coasting and don't have agency to be high performers.

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I used Phoenix for web quite a bit this weekend. Bit of a first, since I've almost always used it to build REST APIs. It is complicated to use, if you're coming from React, Astro, Svelte, etc. What is a view? Which template is used? Can you have interactivity "islands"? Not for beginners for sure.

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Two quick things I discovered hacking on LiveviewFaster: 1. Prefetching on hover is a superpower to optimize cross-site navigation. NextJS, Astro and others have it. 2. Ditto for auto image optimization. I’ll investigate how to bring both those features to Phoenix so it catches up with competition

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