@ash-hq.org core team member and renaissance man James Harton just launched Beam Bots, a framework for building resilient robotics applications in Elixir. Epic 🤯
harton.nz/blog/announc...
Generating more code is never and has never been signs of success in engineering. Generating the least amount of clear and maintainable code is always the answer.
I know this context is a little different but I’m triggered.
October moments in the Pacific Northwest.
A box of pastry’s on a sunny picnic table. 4 treats are inside: a gochujang sticky bun, sweet+ savory garlic roll, a 5 spice cinnamon sugar donut and a brown butter donut.
Beautiful day for treats outside. Got donuts and pastry’s this morning and then read in the park.
It does a great job absolving individual responsibility if you don’t dig deeper.
These huge corporations obviously just pollute for giggles, and not because we pay them to.
Insurance costs ($) is an information signal to discourage doing extremely costly behavior with long tail risks. Something I’ve been struggling with. To make everyone whole regardless of the risk they took on is not going to end well. Too many millions in flood and fire zones
Screenshot of comments from Poor BonoPublicoay, August 14, 2025 at 2:21 am “This is the best news Bono has seen in Cambridge in years, or possibly decades! Bravo for pushing back against this tyrannical, unelected administration and the tiny cabal of protected city employees who take pride in not listening to anybody but bicyclists, whether they live here or not. At the very first community meeting on the "redesign," that many argued was not even necessary, then CDD project manager Cara Seiderman declared that the paved path would be "widened to 14 feet where feasible" and there would be no discussion allowed at all of this key element of the project. Now retired, Seiderman was a nationally recognized promoter of bicycle infrastructure. Her replacement doesn't live in Cambridge but he told me he "rides his bike through the area." Widening the paved surface endangers trees, does damage to an award-winning refuge from city noise and traffic, and will make it even easier for bicyclists - who are already allowed to go way too fast - to go even faster. Had enough??”
They don’t want more people to bike, they want the park to be their personal backyard and ignore the fact it’s a critical transit corridor between Alweife, Mass Ave and Davis Sq
www.cambridgeday.com/2025/08/13/j...
Jealous. Gotta find those gravel routes. Did a loop out near Georgetown that was nice but have to drive to the start.
GPT-5 is so amazing it can make 52.8 higher than 69.1 on a bar chart
It can even make 69.1 and 30.8 THE SAME SIZE
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
A man and his e-bike provided an essential lifeline in the Texas floods: electrek.co/2025/07/14/h...
Man under-biking is a whole thing. Looks like a great time, mountain bikes may make it easier but where’s the joy? People are haters.
I really like this article's perspective on software development as theory building; it succinctly conveys a lot of what I've felt is lost when too much of your code is generated by AI: cekrem.github.io/posts/progra...
The problem is with modern print on demand services the bar to a physical book is lower than ever. Gonna start being hard to trust a physical book isn’t AI bs either.
Five years ago, coding was the easy part, and knowing what to code and promoting it (talking to customers, positioning, sales, etc.) was the hard part.
Right now, coding is still the easy part, and knowing what to code and promoting it is the hard part.
Programmers are usually fed a steady diet of features and bug fixes. But occasionally they get to work on performance problems. This development methodology is known as intermittent fasting.
Spent more time and money on the mural than the racks 😭
Yup! And then tariffs are changed one month in on your $1B multi year commitment to build a brand new manufacturing supply chain.
Never wrote a blog post or library but at my last company we leaned really hard into live view with pure react components with callbacks plumbed to LiveView and it was nice. You can’t make modern charts, maps, tables etc without it feeling hacky in Elixir, but Elixir solve the state management👌
Super nice post about @elixir-lang.org's nimble_ownership library by Alex Martsinovich:
distantprovince.by/posts/what-d...
Great stuff to know about. Also, great technical writing 👏
"Saying the need for housing outweighs parking needs is like saying the need for water outweighs the need for food. Sure, you can survive on one for a bit, but not forever."
PARKING IS ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN LIFE!
Where and when have y’all been meeting? I haven’t heard of a Boston elixir meetup before.
The conversation needs to be about how data centers are causing coal plants to be kept online longer, not about water usage.
Plausibly correct is the worst code. Debugging code that looks right but isn’t written by anyone and has no coherent strategy just doesn’t feel scalable. This is where people get stuck debugging for hours testing every assumption.
How long before all these “coding is going away because of AI” people have giant balls of mud no one understands that just get thrown out? To me the work isn’t in the generating code, it’s writing the correct code to systematically build the product. #AI #software
Brown and white hawk standing in the left of the frame looking past the camera to the right.
Morning Bluesky, is this a good spot for backyard #birds?
The Eiffel Tower with an illustrated concrete arc structure built across its middle. Each side has corkscrew ramps and you can see little cars driving on it.
there was a 1936 proposal to build a concrete ramp structure up to the midpoint of the eiffel tower so you could drive up it. and i, for one, think it’s a shame that there was never a trend of making world monuments more car-accessible.
Very cool! We're basically on the early stage of building out similar functionality. Right now just aggregating and pulling from Postgres, with charts defined via vegalite in elixir and handed off the a simple LiveView hook that renders the vegalite spec.
