iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 29/09/2026

If you liked Project Hail Mary, and haven’t read the Bobiverse books… go check them out. Great upbeat hopecore engineering sci-fi series. Book 6 just came out.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 15/04/2026

Despite how we all might feel about another competing #elixirlang LSP, Dexter is *surprisingly* good. I haven’t had a single problem with it after using it for a few days, which just hasn’t been the case with others. And it’s _fast_. Fast enough that I don’t need to think about it.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 26/03/2026

Project Hail Mary was really great, definitely recommend it!

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 25/03/2026

I have a theory that a lot of the problems we see with agents are the same problems we’ve always had working with and managing actual devs, too. When we compare agents with people, we tend to imagine some ideal dev in comparison. But even the best devs I’ve known also occasionally do things like:

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 20/03/2026

Approximated.app runs thousands of servers, and this is true. Similarly, each 9 added to uptime is exponentially harder. Downtime allowed by uptime percentage: 90%: 36.5 days/yr 99%: 3.65 days/yr 99.9%: 8.8 hrs/yr 99.99%: 52.6 min/yr 99.999%: 5.26 min/yr 99.9999%: 31.5 sec/yr (!!)

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 23/10/2025

Picked up a Mac Studio recently because my daily driver Linux desktop hardware was showing its age at about 10 years old (some upgrades along the way). Most impressive to me is that it seems to generate no heat or noise, EVER, despite maxing out every core pretty often with elixir concurrency work.

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LostKobrakai @kobrakai.de · 14/09/2025

There‘s still a bit to go to making this happen. Rebar is an important piece to using erlang not just for erlang, but just as much for elixir, gleam, … Consider backing this effort.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 22/07/2025

When liveview first came out, I thought it was really brilliant that it can be nested. Even when live components were released, I preferred to just nest liveviews for a while. Today I use components a lot, and like them, but I still think nesting LVs have more use cases than people realize.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 12/06/2025

Wearing a white shirt when you have young kids is the height of hubris. I’ve flown too close to the sun once again.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 06/06/2025

A lesson learned by all who have tried to make Reese’s pieces by just mixing chocolate and peanut butter

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 11/04/2025

I have the dumbest trick ever when I can't figure out how to implement something, but it works. I ask "If a person had to manually do this, how would they do it". That's it. So many things feel complicated when I think only in coding terms, but dead simple if some guy named Steve had to do it.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 04/04/2025

Added upstream load balancing to approximated.app! Now you can: - Set multiple upstreams per custom domain - Set policy (least conns, round robin, etc) - Optional sticky connections - Upstream health checks and rerouting - Configurable over API or dashboard And it'll just... work!

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 03/04/2025

We should 100% steal this idea for #elixirlang Phoenix. Such a simple but obvious in hindsight idea. Automating turning controllers/routes into importable frontend packages would eliminate a lot of boiler plate for frontend heavier teams.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 26/03/2025

So far I've found pair programming with AI to be a bit like pairing with a junior dev who has an insane breadth of knowledge, not much common sense, and doesn't ask the right questions. Using claude 3.7 with reasoning mode + a 200k context window, it's an intermediate dev who asks half of them.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 20/03/2025

Sometimes people ask why there's a 'restart cluster' button on Approximated, since the whole idea is that it manages itself. Partly it's just a relic from early days. But also, I like when products let me give them a bit of a kick if I want to. Its *your* cluster, that's why you can restart it.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 18/03/2025

Want to allow users to connect their custom domains to your #laravel app? A while ago I wrote a developer guide with a companion example repo to help: approximated.app/guides/larav...

approximated.app

Laravel Custom Domains Guide

How to add custom domains as a feature to Laravel apps.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 18/03/2025

Ah, refactoring from a json column to tables, hello again.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 13/03/2025

#elixirlang devs, what are your personal guidelines in liveview for when you make a function component vs a live component? Function component: no state, send events to the parent for handling Live component: maintains it's own separate state, event handlers, etc.

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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 28/02/2025

I’m speechless. Watching these arrogant, undisciplined, childish fools yell and threaten a legitimate hero on live TV is so fucked up. I hope the rest of the world sees it too.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 11/02/2025

We've got a pretty snazzy "Hybrid" self hosted version of Approximated these days: approximated.app/self-hosted You can use the same cloud API endpoints and dashboard, but run traffic and SSL certs through your own infra instead of ours. Great for compliance and we'll set it up for free.

approximated.app

Approximated Self Hosted Plans

Easily and reliably automate custom domains on your own infrastructure.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 11/02/2025

If you ever need help figuring out custom domains for your app, feel free to get in touch. I'm always happy to help folks come up with a plan whether they decide to go with Approximated or not. I have lots of tips!

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 24/01/2025

So many of my wins in dev (life?) are not me doing something smart, just doing something less stupidly

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 23/01/2025

@aaronfrancis.com you could start a newsletter called Trying Times and the wordplay would be off the charts

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 28/12/2024

@ash-hq.org is there a good YouTube video or something you'd recommend for getting the gist of Ash? I'm short on time over the holidays but I want to get a decent understanding of it before they're over.

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Rob Walling @robwalling.com · 06/12/2024

I’m recording a @microconf.com @YouTube.com video next week filled with SaaS/micro-SaaS ideas. Any B2B SaaS add-ons or ideas you would like to exist in the world? I’ll mention you in the video if we use one you suggest 😉

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 06/12/2024

Someone should do a hackathon with some devs using LLMs for coding/help and some not, just to see what happens.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 06/12/2024

General webdev tip: If you ever want to allow users to connect their own custom domains to your app, avoid JS that gets a tenant ID/slug/etc from the address bar (client side). Super common with frontend stacks, and it can make life difficult when you want to replace that with a custom domain.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 04/12/2024

Life would be a lot easier right now if every language had #erlang #elixirlang OTP

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 04/12/2024

The fact that @coulb.com and @johnrudolphdrexler.com don't call their in-house product experiments "Thunkworks" is a little upsetting honestly

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 27/11/2024

Anyone have any clever solutions to preventing registration spam for an app *before* sending out a verification email? For some people, getting that verification email sent out IS the spam attack they're hoping for.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 24/11/2024

If Elon was actually funny, he'd make a bluesky account and post "I'm sure you're all wondering why I've gathered you here"

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 21/11/2024

Ah #elixirlang NIFs. The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 18/11/2024

I suspect folks could gain some decent income/notoriety/career advancements just recreating things from the Laravel ecosystem in #elixirlang (or any other ecosystem).

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 17/11/2024

Is anybody working on the equivalent of laravelshift.com for #elixirlang and #elixirphoenix? I'd pay for that.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 17/11/2024

Real people being mistaken for bots is like a reverse Turing test that begs the question: If we can't tell, then is there a meaningful difference between you and a bot?

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 15/11/2024

Some things get brokey But but but but... that's okay We can fix it, Dad - a haiku, my 3 year old

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 10/11/2024

Is there a worse design trend than hotel rooms using sliding barn doors on their bathrooms?

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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I'm open for work! I'd love to help #Elixir companies leverage #LLMs and #AI! I'm the creator and maintainer of the leading library github.com/brainlid/lan.... and host of the Thinking Elixir Podcast. I'm open to part-time and full-time positions. Please repost for reach! #MyElixirStatus

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GitHub - brainlid/langchain: Elixir implementation of an AI focused LangChain style framework.

Elixir implementation of an AI focused LangChain style framework. - brainlid/langchain

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 05/11/2024

Well, time to get to work on this normal Tuesday and surely not be distracted by anything today

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Zach Daniel @zachdaniel.dev · 01/11/2024

Hear ye, hear ye! 📜📯 It hath been decreed by royal proclamation that #ElixirLang shall be our rallying cry henceforth! 🎉 Mark thy profiles and spread the word through the land— #Elixir alone shall leave the townsfolk befuddled and bemused! Long live clarity, long live #ElixirLang! 🎊

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 01/11/2024

Accidentally reusing #elixirlang ecto changesets (as in the struct) is probably one of my most common footguns. I have no idea why but I keep expecting them to be composably reusable and they definitely aren't intended to be.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 30/10/2024

All I want for my kids is for the bluey soundtracks to fit their life.

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Carter Bryden 🇨🇦 @carterbryden.com · 28/10/2024

Folks still using #myelixirstatus, in these early(ish) days of bluesky, can we make the group choice to switch to the #elixirlang hashtag instead? It's so much easier to use in context.

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