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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 26/06/2026

coincidentally, did something similar! * fan out subagents (of diff models) * review some work * write comments * an agent compile + anonymise comments * main loop triage + rate comments * ratings stored in a db I wanted claude to be unbiased but I wanted to keep score of which models it likes

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 28/02/2026

I just published hex.pm/packages/pi_ex, an #ElixirLang library for interacting with pi.dev agents (the thing that powers #OpenClaw). I included some example apps to demonstrate how it can be used. Try it out!

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pi_ex

Elixir client for the Pi coding agent RPC protocol.

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 29/01/2026

Another one of my favourite things about AI: the barrier to diving in and understanding problems one level deeper, is lower than ever. blog.chay.dev/no-more-excu...

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No more excuses to not go one level deeper

My favourite thing about LLMs

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 17/01/2026

First blog post of the year: a fun trick to check if Claude is paying attention blog.chay.dev/the-brown-mm...

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The brown M&Ms trick

One simple trick to figure out if your LLM is on the verge of misbehaving

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 30/11/2025

And also this article from nytimes: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...

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Hong Kong’s Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs On (for Now)

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 10/07/2025

I tried Kagi for a year, went back to Google for a few months to make sure I wasn't hallucinating the improvements, and now I'm back. Kagi is great!

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 09/07/2025

Send me an invite please! 🥹

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 04/07/2025

Apparently ThePrimeagen will be writing an app in Elixir (live on Twitch), then inviting @josevalim.bsky.social to the broadcast to rewrite it together. That seems like a pretty dope approach for learning a language. And sharing the gospel of #elixir of course.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 19/06/2025

Workaccount2 on Hacker News just coined the term "context rot" to describe the thing where the quality of an LLM conversation drops as the context fills up with accumulated distractions and dead ends news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4430...

Comment by Workaccount2, 9 hours ago:

They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot will start to become apparent around 100k tokens (with Gemini 2.5).

They really need to figure out a way to delete or "forget" prior context, so the user or even the model can go back and prune poisonous tokens.

Right now I work around it by regularly making summaries of instances, and then spinning up a new instance with fresh context and feed in the summary of the previous instance.

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 10/06/2025

Philip Munksgaard created an Elixir wrapper for libtailscale, so it's now possible to run a Phoenix application that is automatically connected to your tailnet. Amazing work. gist.github.com/Munksgaard/9... #elixir #tailscale

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Your Phoenix application, directly on your Tailnet

Your Phoenix application, directly on your Tailnet - 2025_06_08_libtailscale_elixir.md

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 27/05/2025

I use the "Chat with Copilot" button (at the top right corner of any Github repo) pretty often, to quickly understand how a codebase works. Where the entrypoints are, how certain functions are used, what core libraries it depends on etc.

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José Valim @josevalim.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Introducing Tidewave: tidewave.ai While working on our web apps, we run code, query the database, read logs, search docs… but our AI tools are limited to reading code. Tidewave closes this gap by introducing Runtime Intelligence, for Phoenix and Rails. More coming soon, check out the website!

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Tidewave

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 19/04/2025

+1. This is the painful side of the dual edged sword of Phoenix's usage of codegen rather than an abstraction layer. If the new things are part of the generated code, you are expected to maintain them, so you gotta apply the patches manually. I hope I'm wrong. Does anyone know a better approach?

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 13/04/2025

Is it open source? 😇

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 10/04/2025

Excerpt from the rules: Canadian residents must correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question to win. Hmm

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 03/04/2025

🎉We're celebrating 5 years of Tailscale! Read on for key lessons learned from half a decade of simplifying secure networking + enter to win one of five lifetime Personal Plus plans! Repost to win 👉 Read more tailscale.com/blog/5-thing... 🗒️ Full rules here - tailscale.com/blog/5-thing...

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 07/04/2025

I finally found the 2025 way of interacting with cookies from a LiveView. Much thanks to @steffend.me! Pretty elegant, hope it gets merged into LiveView soon. gist.github.com/SteffenDE/38... #Elixir

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lv_session_example.exs

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 01/04/2025

The link goes to a "this video is unavailable" page!

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 26/01/2025

Thanks for the shoutout! What's the software you use at the 1:44 mark? I'll fix the bad paths asap!

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 20/01/2025

I'm excited to share that I created a font! It is monospaced, and designed to be used in code editors and terminals. Fellow programmers, do try it out and give me some feedback! More details here: blog.chay.dev/i-made-a-font #programming #typography

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I made a font

A quick look into the process of creating a font.

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Chay Choong @chay.dev · 13/12/2024

First post (skeet?) here! I was looking through the ingress-nginx documentation when this magic URL localdev(dot)me caught my eye. Wrote a short blog post about it here: blog.chay.dev/localdevme/ #dev #webdev

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localdev.me

Hosts files love this one simple trick!

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