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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 22/09/2025

The last jump was from 3m to 1y. Showing up every day for a year is a huge commitment. This app did almost nothing to help me celebrate the success and then I immediately felt like the next 365d were going to be a slog. I’ve stopped. Not because of the app, but it didn’t help.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 17/09/2025

Reddit is not a terrible place to do business. Good marketing is offering a solution to a problem people have when they need it. When you do that, you can see good results anywhere.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 27/08/2025

Added configurable spam blocking to Mailcast.io You can now set the score at which to block spam. And you can see what’s being blocked in the logs so you always know what’s happening with every email.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 27/08/2025

Sometimes you only want validation to be applied if some condition is met. In one of my projects the first workflow step always runs immediately (0 days) and the rest have to be at least 1 day apart (>= 1 day), so I only wanted validation from the second step. #MyElixirStatus

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 26/08/2025

My favourite email reply. Personal reply always. No AI automation

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 22/08/2025

Confirmable button in #Phoenix #LiveView #ElixirLang Also my first colocated hook which makes sharing something like this super easy.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 08/08/2025

Just overhauled Mailcast’s test suite. Lot’s of global state in GenServers. Every test is now async: true and it’s ended up more reliable and twice as fast #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 23/05/2025

Abusing LiveView to have events that update data but don’t re-render and abusing LiveComponents to get change tracking on comprehensions #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 17/04/2025

Scopes in Phoenix make it much easier to add user specific, global UI elements (like an unread count) #ElixirLang #phoenix

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 17/04/2025

Ah, that one commit that calms everything down 🍬

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 08/04/2025

Upward doing live upgrades in action Give it a try at upward.andrewtimberlake.com #ElixirLang #Phoenix #LiveView

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 08/04/2025

I love how José manages Elixir. He makes you feel great when you contribute, even for small, seemingly insignificant updates.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 27/03/2025

The problem with treating AI like a junior programer is that it’s not going to remember what I “taught” it tomorrow 🤦‍♂️

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 27/03/2025

New greenfield project. Don’t even know what to name it yet. Working with Phoenix 1.8.0-dev, Tailwindcss 4, and gonna give DaisyUI a try at least for the initial prototype #ElixirLang

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 25/03/2025

Hot code upgrades working for Phoenix LiveView app Quick updates without WebSocket reconnect #ElixirLang #Phoenix #LiveView

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 07/03/2025

Add environment config to your Phoenix Javascript. Make sure latency simulation never makes it to production. #ElixirLang Blog post: andrewtimberlake.com/blog/2025/03...

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 07/03/2025

Great idea. Here’s a video, and I’ve added it to the blog post.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 06/03/2025

This snippet in your app.js file will highlight areas that change on the screen which can be useful for debugging Phoenix LiveView changes. Sometimes more is changing than you expect. #ElixirLang

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 19/02/2025

What’s nice is Elixir’s type system catches it in this case where it’s always going to be a test of disjointed types.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 19/02/2025

Be careful, Elixir has structural comparison so the following test passes even though you might expect it not to hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kerne... #ElixirLang

Elixir code that shows that nil >= 3000 resolves to true

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 18/02/2025

iif/3 - check a value against a condition, if true, then execute a function, else return original value #ElixirLang

def iif(value, condition, func) when is_function(condition, 1) and is_function(func, 1) do
if condition.(value), do: func.(value), else: value
end

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 01/02/2025

Made Eggs Benedict with salmon for the family this morning. Another restaurant-at-home meal 😋

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 31/01/2025

Working on a new feature for @mailcast.io. Mostly there but a few edge cases need to be ironed out before shipping #buildinpublic

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 30/01/2025

It was all pay from the start, with a free trial. Thanks, interested to see if it adds value over build in public on X or BSky

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 29/01/2025

A simple change to CoreComponents to enable multi select checkboxes in Phoenix You also need to be explicit about the checked attribute `checked={value in List.wrap(@form[:field].value)}` #ElixirLang #Phoenix

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 14/01/2025

Sometimes you have to protect users from themselves Good UI should make things obvious, but still too many people have made this mistake.

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Andrew Timberlake @andrewtimberlake.com · 03/12/2024

I love looking through a database and finding this (someone else’s, off course)

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