After caring for a sick cat post-ER I'm thinking about how patient discharge for pets is kind of broken. We're still getting paper handouts with hand-typed text instructions like it's 1975. IDK if my thing is a *thing* but I hope somebody solves this problem.
www.linkedin.com/posts/chad-f...
This seems about right molochinations.substack.com/p/no-more-co...
"A former coworker of mine, Michael Novati, the fastest coder at Facebook for years, had a day this February where he landed 417 PRs on GitHub. How long would it take you to review that?" 😬
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
The level of game for much of the user-facing software out there right now is so low that I expect vibe coding will likely improve affairs for a lot of it. And be at the price point Bob and Bob and Bob and Bob's Autoparts Direct wants to pay.
Why Elixir?
"Elixir is built on Erlang/BEAM/OTP, which is great for supervising long-running processes. It has an active ecosystem of tools and libraries. It also supports hot code reloading without stopping actively running subagents, which is very useful during development."
We were kind of hyping Elixir to the OpenAI dev at the Elixir BoF table at The Pragmatic Summit. Kinda makes me wonder if this new OpenAI thing being in Elixir has any relationship to that convo (probably not but would be cool!)
github.com/openai/symph...
Noice.
New blog post up: the culmination of my past few months working with agents Opus 4.5 and beyond, and the *many* things I learned. Also, the discovery of an optimization trick with promise.
As a bonus: this post will make Rust engineers very mad. minimaxir.com/2026/02/ai-a...
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We just released Sentry Elixir SDK 12.0.0! This is a massive release that brings support for structured logging, distributed tracing, improves LiveView support in tracing, introduces new HackneyClient and more! 🎉
Check out the changelog and upgrade ⬆️
How has the day-to-day workflow of Mitchell Hashimoto changed, thanks to AI tools? Mitchell is one of the most influential infra engineers of our time (created the likes of Terraform and Ghostty), and is one of the most pragmatic builders I’ve met.
YouTube: youtu.be/WjckELpzLOU (cont'd)
This talk was packed with great (and of course, perishable) data.
Useful distinction re: Accuracy vs Reliability
"When we consider a coworker to be reliable, we don’t just mean that they get things right most of the time. We mean something richer"
www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-...
This looks super promising.
Isolation level: QEMU micro-VMs
"Sandboxing the compute isn't enough as you need to control network egress and protect secrets from exfiltration."
And just as important: thoughtful DX/packaging
Huh, Rust kind of owns the messaging cryptography space rn
e.g.
github.com/signalapp/li...
github.com/openmls/open...
Fascinating and clear overview of how MLS efficiently rotates keys in group chats:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESp...
DurableServer keynote by Chris McCord at ElixirConf EU 2026.
GenServer + automatic state persistence + cluster-aware recovery.
Complexity melts away.
Málaga, April. Save your spot: www.elixirconf.eu#register
Twin brothers teach an LLM class at Stanford - looks pretty good cme295.stanford.edu/syllabus/
oh word is this stuff useful when you’re using it like a tool
This is such an obvious play and Tailscale DX is so good - looks very promising: tailscale.com/docs/feature...
Lot of interesting ideas in here - I'm realizing that I've been leaving some LV fine tuning on the table.
One positive side-effect (to me) of LLM-driven workflows is how heuristic stuff that used to only live in the heads of developers is getting documented in markdown. Huge learning potential.
Another Elixir/Erlang/Python interop library. This one supports several parallelism modes:
* Sub-interpreters- Each interpreter has its own GIL
* Free-threaded Python (3.13+) - No GIL at all
* BEAM processes - Fan out work across lightweight Erlang processes
github.com/benoitc/erla...
We are living in the golden age of the TUI 😍
Elixir and Python jobs running together, living side-by-side in the same Oban Web dashboard
Big day: The Pragmatic Summit! First-ever in-person @pragmaticengineer.com event. 17 standout speakers. 500 incredible attendees.
Starts in an hour!
Some fresh research from Laura Tacho of DX at Pragmatic Summit. Take-away: AI is a multiplier of existing cultures - defect improvement / degradation is a reflection of existing systems/culture. Lots of new numbers on adoption and outcomes here!
I feel like I'm turning into the "you could pickle it" people from Portlandia but I'm using Incus to mount containers to specific directory scopes with a shared system user between them and the host.
Some hacked-together scripts to ease the setup YMMV github.com/MixTapeSoftw...
Martin Kleppmann (Designing Data-Intensive Applications) on LLMs & their potential for unlocking formal verification (at last) martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a... I wrote some Rocq ages ago, neat but *non-trivial* barrier to entry. These systems prove the existence of subtle unhandled assumptions
Cool, thanks for the heads-up!
