iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

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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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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 · 28/11/2025

From my chosen DC family to yours, happy thanksgiving!

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 18/11/2025

It's a Christmas light kind of night for me

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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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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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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 31/08/2025

Smoke tests pass 🎉 Special thanks to Mick for the expertise

Mick holds an underwater diving camera harness

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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

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 15/08/2025

Cursed but hilarious

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 04/08/2025

Always loved the illustrations in The Hobbit. Also, name the edition I'm reading 😁 #booktok

Illustration in The Hobbit

ilustraĵo en la Hobito

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 18/07/2025

PubSub's presence detection to the rescue! I needed expensive background Oban jobs to snooze themselves when users are using the app. It was shockingly easy to do with Tracker and a Plug. #myElixirStatus

Code showing a barebones implementation of Phoenix.Tracker. Its just handling "Hey is anyone currently browsing?"

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 14/07/2025

Comic reader is coming together. Added a FTP interface (+ JSON:API, GraphQL) in case a client didnt have HTTP ability. Used ExFTP and was delighted at how easy it was (full disclosure: I was on the team that made ExFTP) Can't wait to replace my current comic book reader with it. #myElixirStatus

Listing of all comics, you can see x men comics here.

The reader as it currently is - it optimizes the pages on the fly.

You can store comics in deeply nested collections.

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 12/07/2025

sometimes programming is writing code, sometimes its looking at graphs. Playing around with max_concurrency and oban queue limits. A ton of intensive jobs are launched on a fresh db; but then rarely again, if ever. Terrified of pegging the CPU with image processing. #myElixirStatus

two graphs, one is a CPU usage graph over time, the other is oban's web interface. I'm not currently pegging any CPU, but still.

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 07/07/2025

oban_web is so nice to have, especially when your jobs launch more jobs. These jobs are walking a massive nested directory with digital comic books scattered throughout. Organizing, extracting metadata, making previews, optimizing them all, etc etc. #elixirLang

Oban Web admin panel showing a cool execution count graph showing a high-level view of whats being processed.

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 24/06/2025

Now getting a daily feed of reef creatures from him 📸

A nurse shark (I think?) on a reef off Honduras

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 22/06/2025

End of Chapter 3 for the Ash Framework book for my copy of Tunez. It's been neat. #elixir #elixirlang

My copy of Tunez, the app you build while following the Ash Framework book.

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 18/06/2025

Started working on a homepage as a portfolio. I'm particularly proud of this curvy social media thing. (it's all phx live view) #elixir #elixirlang

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 13/06/2025

Played around with Tidewave with Claude. I have 1000s of digital comic books. They're often filled with massive bloat. I wrote code that optimizes and streams the pages on the fly. Nice to prototype with - claude's code was god awful. tw was super cool though. #myelixirstatus #phoenixliveview

Viewer claude created using tidewave's mcp. Comic is "Light Carries On" by Ray Nadine

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 08/06/2025

added more implementation details to the README TODO: - document and test the *many* opt parameters - finish OpenSSF scorecard recommendations then this project is buttoned up and I can move on to what comes next. #elixirlang #myelixirstatus

Documentation for a project called Aura I've been working on.

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 06/06/2025

Utilize your partner's neuro-spice to make fun software #programming #neurodivergent #beekeeping #scuba

Me: I'm going to make an app for one of your many hobbies, be prepared to infodump about scuba or urban beekeeping

Them: I've returned to land... And I'm always ready

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 04/06/2025

My docs are better! ... or at least different. #elixir #elixirlang #myelixirstatus

hexdocs for a package I'm building called Aura.

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Cam Cook @elixir.blog · 01/06/2025

Its a write-the-docs kind of morning for me. #myelixirstatus #elixirlang #elixir #hexpm

Hex documentation for a package I'm making called Aura.

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