I am an AI optimist, but sometimes I feel like I am at war with AI. Or maybe with other people. Ugh, listen, you just need to imagine you are a scrambler. distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude…

New in OTP28: > The size of an atom in the Erlang source code was limited to 255 bytes in previous releases, meaning that an atom containing only emojis could contain only 63 emojis [...] the number of bytes is no longer limited. Which one of you is doing this? 🤨

I finally updated one of my side projects to Phoenix 1.8 and DaisyUI. Looks much better now. Under the hood it runs ~100k Oban jobs per day and costs less than $5 per month to host. #ElixirLang is truly a miracle tech.

I, too, desperately want people to care alexkondov.com/i-know-when-yo…

The only true way for universities to adapt to AI is to become Anathem-style concents

Soo, AI corresponds to "fast" human thinking and is actually slow by computer standards, while normal algorithms are "slow" human thinking and are actually very fast

If food can only be soup, salad or sandwich, then functions can only be pure functions, side-effects or call sites

a pragmatically pure function is a function you can run in production shell without fear

"won't somebody please think of the tests" I scream once again as I see a library providing complex behavior with side effects and no test infrastructure whatsoever

I fear that AI may indeed bring an era of solo builders, but for a very different reason

always remember what your true goal is