iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SpaceX full of self-congratulation about their big rocket thingy. How easily we forget that Thunderbird 1 was doing this in 1965.

Thunderbird one heading off through the skies towards space

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 20h

Elixir Melbourne is on tomorrow - Patrick Smith on WebAssembly in Elixir: Zig, C, new component system QIP, and Plug integration - Xavier Maruff talking - Regular hiring pitches Thu 1 Oct, 6pm Rialto, 525 Collins St, Melbourne meetup.com/elixir-melbourne/events/316760241/ #MyElixirStatus #Elixir

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Elixir Melbourne meetup, Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Elixir Melbourne is TOMORROW! Kip Cole on Tempo 1.0 (time as intervals, not instants) plus Agenda, a scheduler built on top of it. Speaking slot open. DM if you're keen. Reminder: new venue! Now at 525 Collins St. 📅 Thu 3 Sept, 6pm 🔗 meetup.com/elixir-melbourne/events/315484114/

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Elixir Melbourne meetup, Thu, Sep 3, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Elixir Melbourne is this Thursday! Both speaking slots are open. Got something to share? Message me, or email julian@juliandoherty.com Also: new venue! We've moved to the Rialto, 525 Collins St. 📅 Thu 6 August, 6pm 🔗 meetup.com/elixir-melbourne/events/314932519/ #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

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Elixir Melbourne meetup, Thu, Aug 6, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

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Alembic @teamalembic.com · 08/07/2026

Elixir Sydney is back with a new website and new energy! elixir.sydney Next meetup is Wednesday 15th July - 5.30pm AEST in the Sydney CBD and online. ▸ Finding and Plugging a CVE: @bedogs.bsky.social & @madlep.bsky.social ▸ It's time! PostgreSQL 19 for temporal data: @mikebuhot.bsky.social

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Elixir, Erlang & BEAM Meetup in Sydney, Australia

Elixir Sydney is a regular meetup for the Elixir, Erlang and BEAM community in Sydney, talks, workshops, and beginners always welcome. RSVP for the next meetup.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Elixir Melbourne is on this Thursday! 🙌 Braidon Whatley and I are talking about how Braidon found a HIGH severity CVE in Plug. A great open source security story. Plus hiring pitches and an open speaking slot. 📅 Thu 2 July, 6pm @ SuperAPI, Melbourne 🔗 meetup.com/elixir-melbourne/events/314557256/

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Elixir Melbourne meetup, Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

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Josh Price @joshprice.com · 24/06/2026

💥 Elixir PSA: update Plug *immediately* to the latest possible (1.20.1) The latest CVE makes it trivially easy to DOS a plug based server. cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-202... This one is a doozy stay safe out there and keep your deps updated! #elixir-lang

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Plug: quadratic-time decoding of nested query/body parameters enables denial of service

This project handles the CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF).

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Went to a friend’s place across town in Melbourne. I had watched a public information documentary sponsored by the Australian government about safe driving during a fuel shortage and cost of living crisis, so it all worked out ok.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hey Elton John - planes don’t have red taillights. Even if they’re heading to Spain. Learn your aviation navigation lights! Suspect Daniel might have actually been going to Belgium or Germany if you could see red lights.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/04/2026

Day Counter xkcd.com/3228/

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

One week till first Elixir Melbourne meetup of 2026 on Thursday 5th Feb at 6pm. Got one talk spot still open if you're interested in speaking about anything Elixir related - either as a regular or lightning talk. Message me if you're keen. www.meetup.com/elixir-melbo... #ElixirLang

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Elixir Melbourne meetup, Thu, Feb 5, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/11/2025

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

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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

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/11/2025

Earthquake Prediction Flowchart xkcd.com/3165/

Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

✨ TOP IN-DEMAND AI ENGINEERING SKILL FOR 2026: ✨ ...being able to efficiently skip past the pages of AI generated slop comments on GitHub issues to find the single line, gold nugget code snippet from the human project author that perfectly solves your whole problem.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Elixir Melbourne meetup is on Thursday this week. 6pm at Super API office. I'm talking on "Optimising Elixir by torturing macros and tail recursion" Speaking spot still open if anyone else wants to do a lightning or regular talk. RSVP at www.meetup.com/elixir-melbo... #ElixirLang

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Elixir Melbourne meetup, Thu, Nov 6, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

New Elixir 1.19 is great, but the release notes are not clear about what is actually included with the new type checker. The prominent example under the heading “Type inference for all constructs”, *isn’t actually handled in this release at all yet* elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10... #ElixirLang

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Zach Daniel @zachdaniel.dev · 28/07/2025

Elixir Misconceptions # 1 | Don't "let it crash". Let it heal. www.zachdaniel.dev/p/elixir-mis... #ElixirLang

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Elixir Misconceptions # 1

Don't "let it crash". Let it heal.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The dystopian future will not be a a rogue AI consuming all matter in the whole universe to make infinite paperclips. It will be a rogue AI consuming all matter in the whole universe to make infinite todo apps. #ElixirConfEU

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

2025 Is The Year Of Elixir In The Browser™️ #ElixirLang #ElixirConfEU

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Made it to Kraków safe. Long way from Melbourne, Australia. Hyped for @elixirconf.bsky.social tomorrow. #ElixirLang

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

To improve results with AI coding assistants, start every session with the prompt “I once again remind you that android hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance.”

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

What the hell Apple? I deliberately turned off “Apple Intelligence” after the last update. Why default it to enabled after macOS 15.3.2?

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Forget vibe coding. Vibe civil engineering is the future. I just get the LLM to keep rerolling that bridge till it stops falling down

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Dude has awful posture and technique. Weight is way too far off centre. No flexibility. Jerky, unpredictable, reactive movements. His skiing skills are pretty lousy too.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 02/03/2025

If your GitHub doesn't look like this don't even bother including it on your resume

GitHub activity in shape of Minecraft creeper

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Pro level title + photo selection. This is why funding journalism matters 😆 gizmodo.com/californias-...

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2025

What could contribute more to government efficiency than by securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk Exploring Blockchain Use in US Government Efficiency Effort

Elon Musk has initiated conversations about using blockchain technology at the new Department of Government Efficiency, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. It’s the latest sign of t...

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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

9:35am. 6 character change deployed. Heaviest database query running ~800x faster. My work here is done. Check your indexes folks.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 25/12/2024

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#AdventOfCode Day 20 in #ElixirLang. Had recursive solution that worked for part 1, and as usual, didn't scale to part 2. Rethought it, then figured just doing a scan of all positions within manhattan distance of each track position works fine. Could be more efficient, but runs fast enough.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

And #AdventOfCode day 19 in #ElixirLang was another relatively straightforward one. Recursive solution worked fine for part 1. Part 2 did the usual trick of combinatorial explosion making naive solution infeasible - which dynamic programming with memoisation makes quick work of

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 18 in #ElixirLang was an easier change of pace from day 17. Simple shortest path algorithm. Part 2 was able to use part 1 solution, but to run multiple times to figure out how many data elements to take - which a simple binary search did the trick for.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 17 in #ElixirLang was a tough one. Part 1 was a fun VM exercise. Part 2... almost had me rage quitting. Sat on it for a few days, then figured out a way through. One of those annoying ones where you need to do something custom based on the puzzle data specifics, which I don't love

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#AdventOfCode Day 16 in #ElixirLang was the expected backtracking question. Part 1 was fine. Part 2 had expected twist that messed with optimisation. Separating out iteration/accumulator/config params into separate tuples definitely helped keep track of data and logic.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#AdventOfCode Day 15 in #ElixirLang. A fiddly one, with annoying edge cases. These are starting to take a bit longer to implement now.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 14 in #Elixir. Part 1 was fine. Used math solution rather than brute forcing it. Part 2 ended up being an... interesting... puzzle. Ended up faking it to find the secret picture by figuring out which step had everything bunched up based on variance. Did the trick 🤷‍♂️ #ElixirLang

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 13 in #Elixir is easy once you figure out it's actually just a solving the intersection of two linear equations rather than trying to do some combinatorial solution. Part 2 was literally just adding a constant to the equation.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 12 in #Elixir had a lot of logic to pack in. Nothing too complicated, just a bunch of cases to handle. Immutability, and having to cart state around with you definitely hurt conciseness on this one.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 11 in #Elixir was another dynamic programming puzzle. This time with exponential explosion in the amount of data for the naive approach, rather than combinations. Brute force worked for part 1, then as expected part 2 just ramped it up to be infeasible without a smarter approach

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 10 in #Elixir was the obligatory dynamic programming puzzle. Solved it with doubled up logic for part 1 and 2. Refactored to remove duplication, but probably overcomplicated the solution. 🤷‍♂️

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#AdventOfCode day 9 in #Elixir was a slog. Tried to be clever, but ended up brute forcing it expanding out all the data. Worked in the end, but is slow.

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