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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It was reasonable to have Brewers vs. Dodgers as your NLCS prediction to start the season. I don't think many had Rays vs. Guardians in the ALCS though. I still don't think the Guardians are very good, but I'm happy for Jose Ramirez to hit so well during their comeback.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

❗Attention, union supporters ❗ We're asking Wizards and Hasbro to voluntarily recognize our union—and you can help! Sign our petition today and show our leadership that you want change in the gaming industry. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The biggest quality of life improvement I've made as a manager is Claude skills to wrangle Jira. One skill gives daily summaries of all relevant Jira updates. Another one gives me an update on all of our quarterly goals. The real win would be ditching Jira, but that's not happening. Yet.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The two rules of software development: - Up-front thinking is Waterfall; we can only learn by shipping - There's no room on the roadmap for rework, so everything needs to be done right the first time Bosses love AI because they think it can give them up-front certainty on the cheap. But it can't.

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The fake double diamond is dead. The real double diamond is immortal.

AI is not a substitute for divergent thinking, and the false certainty it gives will never save you from having to iterate.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because why would engineering students ever need to study the ways their very expertise has been used and abused in the past, the way 'oh, I'm just an engineer solving a problem' has been a necessary and foundational lie in every modern system of oppression or extermination?

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New single from Wulver rips. And I’m not just saying that because my brother is the drummer 🤘 #metal wulver617.bandcamp.com/track/destro...

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Destroyer of Worlds, by Wulver

track by Wulver

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hard yes on that tip. I gave a lightning talk a couple of weeks ago. Wrote a script in Obsidian. Left some annotations telling it where to pull example code snippets from a project. Gave that to Claude with some brief instructions and got a reveal.js deck that was 95% done.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Lightning talks from #ElixirConf are already up. I talked every bit as fast as I thought I did to squeeze everything into 5 minutes ⚡️ youtu.be/Vb1Rr9d6h9E?...

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LT: Verified Pub/Sub - Brian Meeker | ElixirConf US 2026

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Typos are the new way of proving human authorship… 🤦

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The entire GetThru team is in Chicago for #ElixirConf. If anybody wants to meet up for dinner the next couple of nights, let me know. #ElixirLan

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Pumpkin Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

100's of fascists storm Dover *explicitly* to block roads with the threat of violence in a racist "protest": No arrests. Just Stop Oil members plan to disrupt a highway in a zoom call: 4-5 year sentences. The pigs don't go after fascists for the same reason Peter Parker never fights Spider-Man.

A line of hundreds of gormless fascists lining & blocking a road. All in black.

Five smiling people posing in a churchyard. All different ages, one with a mobility aid.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We can also just point it at flaky tests and it usually fixes them on the first try.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As I'm working on other tickets, I'm mostly able to just tell it to port the legacy tests to our new test suite. We've documented the patterns we want to use in that suite and their are a lot of examples, so it can almost always port them without issue.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's wild to think that this time last year I was a backup speaker at ElixirConf with a talk lined up about cleaning up legacy test suites. Now I'm just burning down large sections of said test suite with LLM tooling on a daily basis. #ElixirLang

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Elmo Excited in Fuego

ALT: Elmo Excited in Fuego

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Looking forward to chatting with folks at #ElixirConf AI Edition! I’ll be there with my entire team this year!

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excited to be traveling to Austin in November to speak at ExMex!

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Happiness is unexpectedly finding a place with delicious gluten-free waffles while traveling 🧇

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My decision to stop supporting the Browns when they traded for a sexual predator and gave him what is arguably the worst contract in NFL history continues to be vindicated every day.

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NeoEonOne @neoeonone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

An American interviewer asked Count Binface where he stands on the political spectrum.

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David Bernheisel @david.bernheisel.com · 14/08/2026

New #ElixirLang ERLEF sponsor site is up, hopefully providing much clearer impact sponsors have on the community sponsor.erlef.org If you're at a company that uses the BEAM, send the site to your CFO and give back!

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Support the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

Sponsorship powers our working groups, security advisories, and the events the BEAM community runs on.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

All done and installed by the patio now. Removing all the dirt and gravel from the old one was a nice reminder that I’m in my 40s now. #mybackhurts

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Still working on clearing out the old planter, but I’m very happy with this new one I built. I don’t do much wood working, but it’s always nice to build something physical. Hurts my back a lot more than bits, but I enjoy building something tangible occasionally.

Two large wooden planters connected by a wooden bench. The planters and benches are attained in two different tones.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 08/08/2026

Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The companies Bending Spoons acquires tend to have 100’s of employees. Low 1000’s at most. They cut very heavily. I expect at least 50% of employees at Airtable will be laid off.

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 29/07/2026

I’m not worried about agents, but I am worried about humans. It doesn’t take a very sophisticated rock for humans to humanise it, worship it, and make very poor choices

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Today I learned I've been doing mostly product engineering for the past 20 years. One of the perks of working at small companies I guess.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Condolences. I've been considering the same thing recently. I was still playing a little until WotC tried to union bust the Arena team. Now I'm out for at least a bit. A friend pitched to me the idea of converting my collection into tattoos. I could cover a huge chunk of my remaining space.

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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 06/07/2026

Companies adding AI features to products that need zero AI features

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's #Pebble Time (2)! My original Pebble Time Steel had a battery rupture back in 2021. Very happy to have a new one. Almost no setup. Everything works just like I remember so far. Still at 94% battery after almost two full days.

A close up image of a Pebble Time 2 watch on a wrist. The watch face is two tones of green and shows the time, date, weather, and battery percentage.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 05/06/2026

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Got my rejection too. I was excited to put together a talk for any of my submissions. I still might lead a round table discussion though.

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Ryan Winchester @winchester.dev · 22/05/2026

btw Ecto version 3.14 is out and has UUIDv7 support! #elixirlang

examples of Ecto.UUID with UUIDv7 suport

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Neil Webber @larpsidekick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Bad : that this rubbish is going around again Good: I get to share this excellent history by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c... It’s long but in depth and shows really well the amount of work it took to survive for the vast vast majority of people in the past.

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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households

This is the first post in a series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peas…

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s not a coincidence that the Cavs stopped playing ball stopping iso ball and this being their best showing in the playoffs.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Very proud of my brother. First video from his band, Wulver, is out. Full EP coming soon. #metal youtu.be/nzEkgqvHfKg?...

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Wulver - Hostile Takeover

YouTube video by Wulver

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Published and walked out for game night. Did not expect to come back to being on the front page of the orange site. 😅

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Brian Meeker @brianmeeker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I dusted off my blog to explain the AI engineering policy I wrote for work. It morphed into more of a rant on the lack of leadership in tech than I intended. Yelling "MOAR AI!" is not leadership and your teams all feel it. brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/h...

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Have a Coherent AI Policy

Yet Another Software Engineer's Blog

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We’re pleased to share that UWOTC-CWA has a scheduled election date! While WOTC still has the chance to voluntarily recognize our union before then we're looking forward to voting and winning recognition of our union. ✊

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