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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 · 30/09/2026

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 · 02/02/2026

Nice! Had spotted that PR at the end of last year and been keeping an eye on it. Will be great when it gets merged. Especially for local development tooling with LSP integration to give you better real time diagnostics of dialyzer warnings.

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

Yep. What @nezteb.net said. Caching PLT files on GitHub actions is a must. On code base for one project at work (about 100k lines of Elixir), Dialyzer takes about 1 minute to run in CI. Building PLTs takes 9. Would be too painful if not cached.

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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 oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @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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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Time to market AND only needing half the number of developers (or fewer). Smaller, more efficient dev teams is a blessing and a curse. Great for business and individual dev job satisfaction. Less great for growing the community.

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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 · 08/06/2025

Better than someone with a name like “Roderick” or “Roxanne” and the name we’d get in that case.

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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 · 01/03/2025

Esolangs need a mention too Brainf*ck - after Brain from Pinky and The Brain Whitespace - after Barry White Rockstar - after Dwayne The Rock Johnson

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a close up of a bald man 's face while sitting on a machine .

ALT: a close up of a bald man 's face while sitting on a machine .

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Who shot first? Han or Greedo?

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Although converting it is relatively simple. And there is something to be said for starting with the simplest, least powerful abstraction to reduce complexity.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

At any rate, every time I’ve reached for an Agent in production code I’ve ended up needing to convert it to a GenServer before long.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I get where you’re coming from, but the example loses impact as a motivation because www.erlang.org/doc/apps/ert... exists.

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counters — erts v15.2.2

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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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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This. Almost every event sourcing project I’ve been on has rolled their own ES framework, and that was fine. The complexity isn’t in the accidental complexity of the mechanics of ES, but in the essential complexity of ES *itself*, combined with whatever problem you’re solving.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Immutability of events is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because… well, you’re asking #elixirlang, so you already know 😆. It’s a curse because bugs are persisted in your database, and you need an increasing mountain of special case event handler kludges to handle them as time goes on.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Biggest win from event sourcing is explainability. If there is some issue, and you need to figure out “how did the data end up in this state?”, then it’s all right there. In complex systems this can be a super power.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

You can absolutely have CQRS without event sourcing too. CQRS ability is just a nice benefit you naturally get almost for free with ES though, so they often end up lumped together.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Event driven is usually an easier stepping stone than strict event-sourcing, and where most systems end up at.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Have used in a few production projects where it made sense (complex multileg travel bookings; payment/subscription processing), and was harder, but worth it and a net win. Other projects where it wasn’t needed it was horrible (content updates between two internal services), and was a mess.

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Julian Doherty @madlep.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Useful in some specific cases where you need very detailed auditing/logging of events and actions taken, and possibly to handle remediating actions when something goes wrong (payment systems etc make sense) Overkill most of the time and increases complexity by at least and order of magnitude.

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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 · 22/01/2025

Seeing you fine folks not getting talks accepted makes me feel better about not getting accepted either 😆. Planning on attending still. Conference nicely lines up with when I’ll be in Europe on holiday anyway.

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