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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 16/05/2025

Is this the same idea that Jose prototyped a while back?

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Josh Price @joshprice.com · 16/05/2025

Let’s recap: BBC uses custom Elixir DSLs to serve 📈 600m+ monthly unique views 💻 12 servers (down from 100 🧑‍💻 7 #elixirlang engineers! Mind blowing! 🤯

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Chimney Sweepers Local 420 @bobbby.online · 10/05/2025

“We’re at the stage where we’re watching a child load a 6 shooter with bullets and deciding if we should stop the toddler from shooting us or go ‘this will make a great YouTube video’” Randall Thomas on the @gigcityelixir.bsky.social panel on AI, summarizing the current state of things #ElixirLang

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 22/02/2025

I’m curious if this is something you’d bake into the actual source code or just invoke in an IEx session or something?

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 08/02/2025

In “Cursor Settings” under Features you can add a link to url for docs!

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David Bernheisel @david.bernheisel.com · 07/02/2025

Holy smokes this is awesome, a new debugger for Phoenix LiveView. Think React devtools, but not a chrome extension. github.com/software-man... #ElixirLang

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 07/02/2025

Been using it for a while and it’s pretty solid. Having it index Hexdocs for libraries you use reduces a lot of the hallucinations or pseudo-Ruby code I used to get with Copilot

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 02/02/2025

I think most Elixir devs go through a phase of GenServer-envy. Feels like such a powerful tool and unique to the BEAM. But 90% of it could generally be done better and simpler with Oban or similar.

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 01/02/2025

of course they built it lumon-industries.com

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 17/01/2025

Personally love LiveView and doing stuff with it in side projects. At work the main issue was component library investment. And forms.

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 15/01/2025

I’m sorry to have burdened you with this knowledge.

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 15/01/2025

The grid background is interesting… but does it bug you that the lines don’t align with it?

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 14/01/2025

I’m shocked I didn’t know this existed!

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 13/01/2025

Years ago I added alias phx=“iex -S mix phx.server” And I’ve used it so long I keep forgetting it’s not the actual command

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David Bernheisel @david.bernheisel.com · 12/01/2025

Need some reading material to catch up on Ash and all the things it can do (a ton)? #ElixirLang Ash has an upcoming book with PragProg that covers: - Domain models and forms with LiveView - Auth and authz - dynamic search - Rest and GraphQL APIs - notifications (tbd) pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

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Ash Framework

Explore the power of Ash Framework by modeling and building the domain for a real-world web application.

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 12/01/2025

I’ve been curious about this pattern more after reading Domain Driven Design Made Functional. It feels more verbose to me but helps immediately indicate the dependencies between functions and makes “mocking” less necessary.

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Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻 @tylerayoung.com · 08/01/2025

Citing @david.bernheisel.com's Safe Ecto Migrations is like citing the Bible.

Slack message quoting a paragraph from Safe Ecto Migrations explaining that @disable_migration_lock requires you to run the migration on a single node only, since there is no protection against multiple nodes running the same migration at the same time.

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 11/01/2025

Whoever wrote this is living in the year 2.025e3

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 28/12/2024

One reason to keep in context is standardizing business rules. Eg “list users ignores soft-deleted users”, means we don’t need to remember that conditional everywhere and can build on top of that.

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 27/12/2024

How would it compare to something like Alacritty?

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 26/12/2024

I wasted multiple consecutive days fighting webpack on previous Phoenix projects. Have t had those same issues with esbuild

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 18/12/2024

After reading about BlueSky verification via domain names I discovered I had an old rosscodes.com URL laying around with nothing on it. I've also been interested in finding a way to use Obsidian as a CMS to publish a Blog site and so far.. fairly frictionless!

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 06/12/2024

That should slow down the Ash development at least for a little! Give others a chance to catch up

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 05/12/2024

This is great! Thanks for sharing. Any reason to not sort by some sort of “similarity” operator with a fragment or similar vector function?

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 05/12/2024

Care to share what you’re using for grabbing and searching? Is that just native Postgres search?

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 05/12/2024

I'm honestly surprised its taken this long. Feels like that show was created with you in mind

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 04/12/2024

That syntax was the a main reason I used Surface for years on a small part of our production app. Very excited to see it in LV now!

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 12/11/2024

Isn’t this sort of the thing THE reason that people use nvim?

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Ross van Zyl @rosscodes.com · 31/10/2024

Anything that can mutate data feels like it should be in isolated/local/staging database

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