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Cam Cook

@elixir.blog
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👋 FOSS tech and engineering guy 🏳️‍🌈 🤓 I gab about #elixir, #programming, #linux, nerdy stuff 📍 Washington, DC area

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 09/09/2026
If you're in the DC area, come hang out with DC Elixir while we play around with gleam. 📅 Sept 16, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM Eastern 📍 Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, Silver Spring, MD luma.com/oojmtq7e?tk=... #elixirlang #gleam #beam
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DC Elixir Meetup · Luma
Hang out and learn Gleam!
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 13/08/2026
The local DC Elixir group meets up monthly. As always, no matter your BEAM experience, you're always welcome to sit with us #elixirLang #beam
A bunch of BEAM nerds at a meet up
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 09/08/2026
Don't let me near colorful paint. I have either the homosexual audacity and/or mania where sometimes I wake up and decide, I don't like white window frames. #mcm #homeimprovement
Stay with me here, there's a lot of color happening. In the US near the 1950s and 1960s, a lot of consumer goods were made with just a single shade of one color...there's *one* orange, green, etc. My walls are the green and orange and my window panes are now...also bright ass orange.
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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Currently looking for companies willing to chip in to support the next EEF stipend for Bart's awesome work on Hologram. Either contact me to have the EEF manage the stipend, milestones and follow-through or contact Bart directly to support him more hands-on. youtu.be/qqpNovT7cys?... #elixirlang
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Hologram: The Journey to Local-First Elixir in the Browser - Bart Blast | ElixirConf EU 2026
This talk was recorded at ElixirConf EU 2026. Check our upcoming ev...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 13/07/2026
Reminder to bring a laptop with Elixir 1.19+ installed See y'all there! #elixirlang #ziglang
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 16/06/2026
Join DC Elixir for a hands-on build night - we're building with Zigler. 📅 July 15, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM Eastern 📍 Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, Silver Spring, MD 🎟️ mobilizon.us/events/ab531... #elixirlang #zig #beam
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Build Night: Hands-on with Zig and Zigler
Jul 15, 2026, 6:30:00 PM - GMT-4 - Silver Spring Library, 20910, Silver Spring, United States - Unleash the Power of Zig in Your Elixir Projects Ever wondered how to turbocharge your Elixir code wit...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 03/03/2026
Curious about building IoT and embedded systems with Elixir? Join DC Elixir for a special session with Frank Hunleth, the creator of Nerves! 📅 March 25, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM Eastern 📍 Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, Silver Spring, MD 🎟️: mobilizon.us/events/28e5a... #elixirLang #nerves #beam
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Building up to Nerves w/ Frank Hunleth
Mar 25, 2026, 6:30:00 PM - GMT-4 - Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, 20910, Silver Spring, United States - Curious about building IoT and embedded systems with Elixir? DC Elixir is delighte...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 03/03/2026
Curious about building IoT and embedded systems with Elixir? Join DC Elixir for a special session with Frank Hunleth, the creator of Nerves! 📅 March 25, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM Eastern 📍 Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, Silver Spring, MD 🎟️: mobilizon.us/events/28e5a... #elixirLang #nerves #beam
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Building up to Nerves w/ Frank Hunleth
Mar 25, 2026, 6:30:00 PM - GMT-4 - Brigadier General Charles E. McGee Library, 20910, Silver Spring, United States - Curious about building IoT and embedded systems with Elixir? DC Elixir is delighte...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 25/02/2026
See y'all soon
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 02/02/2026
Hello. I just had the most delightful experience trying to explain Groundhog day to my Brazilian co-workers. "Oh! And i forgot about the tophats - yes the rodent is clairvoyant"
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 30/01/2026
Our next DC Elixir event will be a social 🍻 Whether you’re deep into BEAM development or just curious, come hang out and meet others in the community. 📅 February 25, 2026 6:30 PM Eastern 📍 BabyCat Brewery, Bethesda, MD mobilizon.us/events/8cac4... #elixirLang #erlang #gleam #BEAM
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DC Elixir Social @ BabyCat Brewery
Feb 25, 2026, 6:30:00 PM - GMT-5 - Baby, 20814, Bethesda, USA - Join us at BabyCat Brewery in Bethesda for a relaxed evening of food, drinks, and great conversation about all things Elixir, Erlang, Gl...
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Giacomo Cavalieri @giacomocavalieri.me · 28/01/2026
Friendly reminder that there's still time to fill in the survey! Anyone can, no need to be a seasoned Gleam developer!
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 29/01/2026
Fantastic turn out for DC Elixir's "Introducing to Tele" - y'all showed up despite a foot of ice and slush outside! Stay tuned - next month's event is a social. As always, no matter your BEAM background or experience level you're welcome with us! #elixirLang #erlang
The most haphazard group selfie that was Macgyvered using a chair
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 28/01/2026
It's still on, see y'all there #erlang #elixirlang
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 10/01/2026
Come join DC Elixir for an Intro to Tele from the creator Harley Swick! No matter your BEAM background or experience level, you're welcome to join us! 📅 January 28, 2026 7:00 PM Eastern 📍 Rockville Memorial Library, Rockville, MD #elixirLang #erlang #beam #gleam mobilizon.us/events/96981...
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Introducing Tele - an alternative syntax for Erlang
Jan 28, 2026, 7:00:00 PM - GMT-5 - Rockville Memorial Library, 20850, Rockville, USA - For this month, we'll be getting an introduction to Tele from the creator Harley Swick. Tele is a radically simp...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 30/12/2025
"I have to make the chicken happy" Tell me a phrase your engineering team uses that would sound strange to anyone else. ("chicken" - noisy alert, as if the sky is falling) #engineering #software
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 13/12/2025
If you're not using Chumbawamba's Tubthumping to explain Elixir Supervision Trees - you're doing it wrong. (for you youth: *I get knocked down, but I get up again - you're never going to keep me down*) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5u... #elixirlang #beam #erlang
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Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
YouTube video by ChumbawambaVEVO
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 28/11/2025
From my chosen DC family to yours, happy thanksgiving!
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Bart Blast @bartblast.com · 27/11/2025
Hi Elixir friends, After 3 years on Hologram full-time (transpiles Elixir to the browser), I'm at a crossroads. 60+ hr weeks balancing contracts & dev isn't sustainable. Where we are & how you can help: hologram.page/blog/seeking... Even sharing helps 💜 #Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev
Seeking Sustainable Sponsorship
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 21/11/2025
📣 DC area Elixir, Erlang and Gleam friends Our end-of-the-year DC Elixir Social is happening at BabyCat Brewery in Bethesda! Whether you’re deep into BEAM or just curious, come nerd out with us. 📅 Wednesday, December 10th 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM #elixir #erlang #gleam #beam #dmv
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DC|>Elixir Social @ BabyCat Brewery
Dec 10, 2025, 11:30:00 PM - GMT - BabyCat Brewery, 20814, Bethesda, United States - Join us at BabyCat Brewery in Bethesda for a relaxed evening of food, drinks, and great conversation about all thing...
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Erlang Ecosystem Foundation @erlef.org · 20/11/2025
The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation CNA now publishes vulnerability data directly to OSV.dev. No more relying solely on CVE→OSV conversion. This update means faster, cleaner, and higher-quality security data for the BEAM ecosystem — including Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, and Hex.pm.
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 18/11/2025
It's a Christmas light kind of night for me
Vintage Christmas lights hung with care
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Bart Blast @bartblast.com · 16/11/2025
Hey Elixir friends! :) We need help completing Elixir's browser runtime by porting some Erlang functions to JavaScript. No Erlang knowledge required. Each function unlocks multiple Elixir stdlib functions! More here: hologram.page/blog/elixir-... #Hologram #Elixir #ElixirLang #BEAM #WebDev
Elixir → JavaScript Porting Initiative
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 13/11/2025
Happy GitHub is down, to all who celebrate
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 12/11/2025
The opensource FFmpeg project, used by companies like Google for multimedia processing, urged Google to fund its volunteer developers. FFmpeg is overwhelmed by bugs reported by Google's AI security tools and lacks resources to fix them quickly. thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
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FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 07/11/2025
Who do you know who wants to come work full time on #ElixirLang OSS tooling? (Boosts appreciated!) jump.ai/careers?ashb... #ElixirJobs
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Careers at Jump | Jump
Jump is empowering financial advisors and their clients to thrive in the age of AI. We're growing incredibly quickly with a team that comes from Google, Stripe, JP Morgan, BILL, Nitrogen, Harvard, Sta...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 02/11/2025
📣 DC folks: Come join us for the next meetup! Elixir, LSP, Expert - all from our own Cameron Duley. #elixir #gleam #erlang
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Elixir and the Language Server Protocol
Nov 12, 2025, 7:00:00 PM - GMT-5 - Rockville Memorial Library, 20850, Rockville, United States - For this month, we will have a presentation by Cameron Duley. Cameron has contributed to Lexical, a lan...
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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The State of Elixir Survey for 2025 is live! elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition Fill it out if you have any connection to the Elixir ecosystem. It really helps us understand what happens. Curiosum are awesome to run this for the community. #elixirlang
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Curiosum Elixir Survey 2025
Elixir Survey 2025 by Curiosum - a global community survey collecting insights about how developers and teams use Elixir, their favorite tools, challenges, and expectations for the future of the…
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 30/10/2025
My best friend, Jazz, passed away in her sleep this morning surrounded by me and her son, AJ. She started life as a show dog, then came into my life and I couldn't have asked for a better friend. #dogs #rip
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Hauleth @hauleth.dev · 29/10/2025
If you are looking for Elixir consultation, then I have some free slots available now.
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 29/10/2025
🙌 it looks great!!
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 21/10/2025
Happy aws outage to all who celebrate! Also, zero days since it was DNS. health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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Service health - Oct 20, 2025 | AWS Health Dashboard | Global
View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 19/10/2025
It's been a busy week, but a quick life update. I've joined the engineering team at Community.com to continue my Elixir dev journey. Thanks to everyone along the way who made it possible
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Jon Rowe @jonrowe.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
👋 I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle. I’ve worked […]
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Original post on fosstodon.org
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Hacker News 100 @hn100.atproto.rocks · 16/10/2025
Elixir 1.19 elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/eli… news.ycombinator.com/item?id=456024…
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Elixir v1.19 released: enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects
Elixir v1.19 released: type checking of protocols and anonymous functions, broader type inference, improved compile times, and more
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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 11/10/2025
🚨 New Blog Post 🚨 EXTRA EXTRA! Hot off the press! The power of binary pattern matching revealed! The in-depth investigation you don't wanna miss! Get your copy now! #ElixirLang peterullrich.com/binary-patte...
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Binary Pattern Matching in Elixir
Decode bits and bytes into meaningful parts using the magic of Elixir pattern matching.
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 09/10/2025
It was a blast to meet everyone! Any DC area Elixir/Erlang/Gleam folks, come join us for the next meetup. #elixirlang #erlang #gleam
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nervesmeetup.eu @nervesmeetup.eu · 29/09/2025
Following the wave of successful Global Elixir Meetups last week, we are excited to announce the launch of Nerves Meetup EU! We're a remote meetup with a focus of #ElixirLang on embedded systems via #Nerves. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 7pm CET via Zoom nervesmeetup.eu
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ExMex Conf @exmexconf.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🎟️ One-ish week promo: Get $25 off your ExMex ticket with promo code shown below Valid for the next 9 days only. Nov 6–7 | Austin, TX → exmexconf.com
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Frank Hunleth @fhunleth.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We're planning to move DC Elixir away from Meetup.com. It turns out there's an open-source Elixir alternative that seems to meet our needs! Help us try it out at mobilizon.us/events/05bd6.... We'll briefly discuss Oct 8.
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Elixir, Erlang, and Gleam: in-person in MoCo
Oct 8, 2025, 7:00:00 PM - GMT-4 - Rockville Memorial Library, 20850, Rockville, United States - ​If you’re interested in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, or any other BEAM language, join us for our first in-per...
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 17/09/2025
📣 The DC area Elixir meetup is back on line. Come nerd out with us October 8 in MoCo www.meetup.com/dc-elixir/ev... #elixirlang #gleam #erlang
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Elixir, Erlang, and Gleam: in-person in MoCo, Wed, Oct 8, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
​If you’re interested in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, or any other BEAM language, join us for our first in-person gathering in the DC area since before the pandemic. We’ll start
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 13/09/2025
My copy of The BEAM Book arrived 😀 It's chonkier than I imagined but fits nicely with my other desk references #elixirlang #erlang
Photo of the sides of three books stacked on each other. From bottom to top

1. Smalltalk-80: The language and it's implementation 
2. The K&R
3. The BEAM Book
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Flavio Escobar @flavioescobar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Maybe most of #ElixirLang folks won’t care, but for those of you using npm in your projects, please pay attention to this 0-day attack! www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb... Tons of npm packages compromised. Make sure to check your apps and local envs too, especially if you do anything crypto-related.
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npm debug and chalk packages compromised
The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 05/09/2025
It's happened. My muscle memory now defaults to "behaviour", even when not in my IDE. #elixirlang
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 03/09/2025
48 years, quite the commit 😆 #programming #microsoft #microprocessors
A GitHub screenshot of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessors. The commits show all but one are from 48 years ago
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JEG2 @jeg2.me · 02/09/2025
The Groxio team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang #Consulting help from one or more of us, let’s talk! groxio.com
groxio.com
Groxio Consulting - Expert Elixir Development
Expert Elixir consulting from the authors of key Elixir books. System architecture, training, and development services.
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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 30/08/2025
Do any of y'all have conference swag that you won't let go? This clojure/conj shirt of mine from 2013 comes to mind #programming #clojure #functionalLanguages
A clojure conj t-shirt from 2013
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