Just published my first Hex package—one that no one else should even consider using. It was simply the easiest way to get its documentation into Dash. Am I doing it wrong? #elixirlang Still picked a fancy name for it, just in case.

AI won't create anything fancy itself. It's good at producing building blocks, though, from which you, human, can build the fancy.

When to name your #ElixirLang function with a bang? Only if the function is *expected* to throw errors during normal execution. Do not simply 'inherit' bangs from what’s inside that function (`Repo.update!`) if those exceptions would signal a bug (that is, should never happen).

Vibe Mitigation Engineer. Full-time, on-site.

At work, just submitted my first PR which is 100% vibe-coded. It literally saved me a couple hours of codebase research and coding. AMA.

YES

Using two screens, I find it tiresome not to quickly see which screen is currently active. I googled it and found HazeOver. Quickly felt relief, recommended. #protip

Me: What's your current favorite escape hatch when LiveView doesn't quite cut it? Chris McCord: Web components with Lit. #ElixirConfEU cc Adam Kirk

I never miss a talk by Evan Czaplicki, and here's a fresh new one: youtube.com/watch?v=YPAaUF…

A very nice, concise introduction to Elixir and BEAM. Share it with anyone who's willing to understand why you're so lucky to work with the tech. youtu.be/_5B_B_IgtAg

Isn’t it neat that Elixir’s AST is valid Elixir? What other languages besides Lisp can claim that?

It's easy to keep nudging the AI until it 'fixes' the tests, and it feels like achieving something, while the value of such tests may be plainly negative. Seeing too many false positives like that lately.

Want to disable all unmocked HTTP calls from Req at once during #ElixirLang tests? Simply add this to test/test_helper.exs: Req.default_options( adapter: fn req -> raise "Unmocked call to #{req.url}" end ) (replace `raise` with a log warning if that's more useful)

My favorite application of AI? Sharpening my tools. Just vibe-coded this toggle for #ElixirLang maps in Neovim.

Neovim geeks 🫶 — this helps me debug in #ElixirLang: With the cursor inside a function, :ElixirCopyFuncFqn copies its fully qualified name (FQN) to the clipboard — ready to paste into IEx, local or remote. github.com/mxgrn/dotfiles…

Are you learning a foreign language by any chance? And what are the odds you use Telegram too? 🤔 I’ve been building a Telegram bot that finally makes vocabulary learning with spaced repetition fun for me, thanks to LLMs. Maybe it will for you, too: t.me/lexicornbot?st…

Just downloaded ChatGPT Atlas, and I see how direct browser-ChatGPT integration can be very useful. It just walked me through creating a free-form Google Analytics report, which I had no knowledge of. Previously, I had to send ChatGPT screenshots of where I was, it was tedious.

Want a supervised task to finish (not get killed) during rolling The Elixir programming language deployments? Trapping the exist will give it 5 seconds: Task.Supervisor.start_child( MyApp.TaskSupervisor, fn -> Process.flag(:trap_exit, true) do_work() end )

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but this works in #ElixirLang (new line after :foo is key): if true, do: (:foo :bar) Can you guess what it returns?