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Alex Koutmos @akoutmos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

⚗️ Elixir Tip #22 - Erlang math module ⚗️ If you are ever in need of some mathematical related functions don't reach for a 3rd party library until you take a look at the Erlang :math module! #ElixirLang #Erlang #Livebook

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 17/07/2026

Me: Hey agent, here's a directory of plan docs named as ordered steps. Proceed with implementation in order and commit each step.

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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 10/06/2026

LiveView 1.2 is out now! phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix... The highlights for me: - Colocated CSS - Support for formatters for <script> and <style> tags - New JS client docs 🎉 #ElixirLang

phoenixframework.org

Phoenix LiveView 1.2 released! - Phoenix Blog

LiveView 1.2 is a small release that adds support for colocating CSS.

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 16/01/2026

“wars-sorrows-files” is the most apt random password I’ve ever generated.

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 20/12/2025

I would tell you what I learned from this article, but I already forgot. 🤡

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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 18/12/2025

Speaking publicly about Elixir stuff (conference talks + podcasts) has gotten me every job I've had since 2020. (And that first one was a 50% pay bump.) I interview pretty poorly, but having been seen being smart in public got me the foot in the door I needed to prove I could do the work.

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 16/12/2025

I hope you all like long blog articles. It seems I cannot write succinctly in markdown. #elixirlang

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{:ok, Noah} @nezteb.net · 16/12/2025

Via @josevalim.bsky.social: "We extracted Nimble ZTA (Zero Trust Auth) from Livebook as a separate package for Plug/Phoenix [...] to add auth to an internal app when your identity management and deployments are on the same platform (GCP/Cloudflare/etc)" dashbit.co/blog/zero-tr... #ElixirLang

dashbit.co

Zero Trust Auth for Plug/Phoenix apps is here - Dashbit Blog

We have just released `nimble_zta`, a library that allows developers to add Zero Trust Auth (ZTA) to their Plug/Phoenix web apps

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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · 16/12/2025

Celebrating #Erlang’s 27th birthday as #OpenSource, Elixir Hub 2025 survey results, new data_migration LiveDashboard package, critical #React RCE vuln, and Zig leaves #GitHub, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWy...

youtube.com

Thinking Elixir Podcast 283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk

YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 16/12/2025

`mix format —migrate` helped make my recent Phoenix upgrade a minutes-long, joyful experience. A couple deprecation fixes later, the code was ready for review. 🔥🦅🔥🦅🔥🦅 #elixirlang

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Alex Koutmos @akoutmos.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Stay tuned everyone! Some Elixir and Nerves goodness headed your way this coming week 😍 #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang #Erlang

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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · 09/12/2025

News includes cutting-edge type system research from @josevalim.bsky.social, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with view transition support, LiveDebugger’s biggest release, Nx #Python-Elixir integration, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvG...

youtube.com

Thinking Elixir Podcast 282: Type Systems and View Transitions

YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 10/12/2025

ground control to major tom yum

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Socket @socket.dev · 05/12/2025

🚨 New from the Socket Research Team: Malicious Go packages impersonating Google's UUID library quietly exfiltrate encrypted data to dpaste. Full report → socket.dev/blog/malicio... #golang cc: @campuscodi.risky.biz

socket.dev

Malicious Go Packages Impersonate Google’s UUID Library and ...

A pair of typosquatted Go packages posing as Google’s UUID library quietly turn helper functions into encrypted exfiltration channels to a paste site,...

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 05/12/2025

I wanted to write a little blurb on filtering in ETS. Oops, I almost wrote a book. www.owencode.com/articles/its... #elixirlang #erlang

owencode.com

It's a Match! · OwenCode

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 08/11/2025

Shout out to the organizers and crew for @exmexconf.bsky.social! That was fun and refreshing!

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Jason @peregrine.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

My team is hiring a front end focused LiveView dev. If you know of anyone with those skills hit me up.

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 22/08/2025

Let me Task.async(fn -> {:ok, “get back to you on that.”} end)

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Socket @socket.dev · 19/08/2025

1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, Enpass, iCloud Passwords, and LogMeOnce remain vulnerable to zero-day clickjacking vulnerabilities disclosed at DEF CON. Vendors downplayed or ignored the issue. Socket has filed a CVE to ensure these risks are formally tracked. socket.dev/blog/passwor...

socket.dev

Researcher Exposes Zero-Day Clickjacking Vulnerabilities in ...

Hacker Demonstrates How Easy It Is To Steal Data From Popular Password Managers

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 20/08/2025

If you have a ticket, I’m jelly

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 20/08/2025

@savvycal.com wants your Elixir: savvycal.com/jobs/full-st... PS, congrats on hiring! #elixir-lang

savvycal.com

Senior Full-Stack Developer

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 17/08/2025

📣 Are you an Elixir/Phoenix/Javascript engineer with a commitment to security? The community needs you! elixirforum.com/t/webauthnli... #elixir-lang #phoenix-framework #javascript #security #passkeys

elixirforum.com

WebAuthnLiveComponent - Passwordless Auth for LiveView Apps

Hey @conradwt, thank you for the shout out! Much appreciated!

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 16/08/2025

Sometimes a GenServer can just be an Agent.

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 27/07/2025

16 job post in Elixir Slack’s #jobs channel in the past month, some open for over a month. Is the drought over? @elixir-lang.org #elixir elixir-lang.slack.com/archives/C06...

elixir-lang.slack.com

Slack

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Zach Daniel @zachdaniel.dev · 23/04/2025

Leandro is great! Hire him! @leandrocp.bsky.social #ElixirLang

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 20/04/2025

I’m one chapter into Machine Learning in Elixir, feeling enthusiastic about the road ahead! The pacing is just right, and the metaphors are apt. This reminds me how Elixir in Action and a bunch of conf talks put me on a great course for unimaginable growth. pragprog.com/titles/smeli... #elixiang

pragprog.com

Machine Learning in Elixir

Leverage Elixir and the Nx ecosystem to build intelligent applications that solve real-world problems in computer vision, natural language processing, and more.

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 04/04/2025

maybe daisyui is okay 🤔

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Tyler Barker @tylerbarker.com · 18/02/2025

Maybe the most amazing thing about Elixir to me pattern matching on binaries. Parsing a WAV file is almost as simple as writing down the file spec verbatim - look at this! #ElixirLang

Plaintext formatted to read as a table, outlining the WAV file specification. It reads:
```
WAV File Format Structure
------------------------

Position | Sample Value | Description
----------|-------------|-------------
1-4 | "RIFF" | Marks the file as a riff file. Characters are each 1 byte long.
5-8 | File size | Size of the overall file - 8 bytes, in bytes (32-bit integer).
| (integer) | Typically, you'd fill this in after creation.
9-12 | "WAVE" | File Type Header. For our purposes, it always equals "WAVE".
13-16 | "fmt " | Format chunk marker. Includes trailing null
17-20 | 16 | Length of format data as listed above
21-22 | 1 | Type of format (1 is PCM) - 2 byte integer
23-24 | 2 | Number of Channels - 2 byte integer
25-28 | 44100 | Sample Rate - 32 bit integer. Common values are 44100 (CD),
| | 48000 (DAT). Sample Rate = Number of Samples per second, or Hertz.
29-32 | 176400 | (Sample Rate * BitsPerSample * Channels) / 8
33-34 | 4 | (BitsPerSample * Channels) / 8
| | 1 - 8 bit mono
| | 2 - 8 bit stereo/16 bit mono
| | 4 - 16 bit stereo
35-36 | 16 | Bits per sample
37-40 | "data" | "data" chunk header. Marks the beginning of the data section.
41-44 | File size | Size of the data section.
| (data) |

Note: Sample values shown are for a 16-bit stereo source.
```

An Elixir code sample that showcases the power of pattern matching binaries as bitstrings - in this case for a WAV audio file. The code reads:
```
<<"RIFF",
chunk_size::little-size(32),
"WAVE",
"fmt ",
subchunk1_size::little-size(32),
audio_format::little-size(16),
num_channels::little-size(16),
sample_rate::little-size(32),
byte_rate::little-size(32),
block_align::little-size(16),
bits_per_sample::little-size(16),
data_chunk::binary>> = File.read!("./banger.wav")
```

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Hugo Baraúna @hugobarauna.com · 06/02/2025

Going live in a few minutes! Want to chat about Elixir? We're launching our Elixir Patterns book! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZv... #ElixirLang

youtube.com

Elixir Patterns book launch

YouTube video by Hugo Baraúna

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 21/01/2025

Interesting: whenever I read an "I've replaced N SaaS services with AI, in a day, saving $$$ per year, SaaS is dead" post, both are true: 1. The SaaS "replaced" is not named 2. The "AI replacing it" is not shown (no code, no specifics, no nothing) Be careful what you believe

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 21/01/2025

hot take: only use optional syntax (`def my_fn(), do: ...`) when the code fits on one line. hexdocs.pm/elixir/optio... #ElixirLang

hexdocs.pm

Optional syntax sheet — Elixir v1.18.1

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 16/01/2025

Sorentwothousssannnnddd!

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 16/01/2025

If #php devs aspire to drive lambos, what is the aspirational car or mode of transportation for #ElixirLang devs?

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 15/01/2025

Cheers! Get that feather in your cap!

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José Valim @josevalim.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I wrote a new article exploring how set-theoretic types (the foundation of Elixir's type system) could address how many statically typed languages do not allow libraries to evolve their data definitions in a backwards compatible manner: dashbit.co/blog/data-ev... - be warned, it is a long one.

dashbit.co

Data evolution with set-theoretic types - Dashbit Blog

In this article we explore the challenges of data evolution in static typing and explore type safe solutions.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 10/01/2025

Blake Stockman was a recruiter at Google, Meta, Uber, Flexport and Y Combinator. His advice on how to find great startups to work at: YouTube: youtu.be/d7GsnaQYZ68 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6sA6...

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Elixir shirts on pre-order is up til March. Make sure you get in there. It supports my wife's continuous efforts to enable my open source work. But mostly it's fun. I've ordered stickers so expect an Elixir sticker with every Elixir shirt ✨ oswag.org/b/elixir-shirt-preorder #elixirlang

oswag.org

The Elixir Shirt [pre-order]

Images for the pre-order are poorly hand-edited mockups. The shirts are the same, the logo will look real. We have no mockups of the white ones. The text is a tone of gray that is selected to work on…

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 06/01/2025

all your type are belong to us

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 03/01/2025

why am i such a sucker for "new details"?

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Owen Bickford @owencode.com · 01/01/2025

out: mac os music app in: music.apple.com

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Andrew 🇵🇸 @src.rip · 21/12/2024

One of the worst tendencies in the programming discourse is the insistence that it's impossible to successfully rewrite anything. Some code is just bad. Some code does need throwing away and starting over. If you think that will always result in more problems that sounds like a skill issue.

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 28/12/2024

need product differentiation? overhire a #CSS front-end team and ask them to: - polish whatever - add delight wherever and watch as your product becomes smooth and buttery while everyone else's gather dust and crust UI is a huge space offering differentiation via quality

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