dimitrios

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Is there an estimate for phoenix 1.8? I was planning to start a new project, and I'm not sure if I should pull the trigger with the RC>

When building a Phoenix app, do you use the marketing name for your modules? For example: `defmodule MyAwesomeSaas.Something.SomethingElse` or do you prefer a generic name? like `MyApp`? I would hate it if I had to carry over an old name, and even more, renaming stuff down the road.

I really like TanStack Start. I feel like I'm getting nerdsnipped into building something new, along with better-auth. I'm not sure what to use for queues/jobs - that was always my pain point. I love how simple Oban is, and I definitely don't want to boot up a Redis instance.

"Please generate a Studio Ghibli image of me dunking over redditors"

Again, there's some good discussion in my post. I spend a good chunk of my non-work time (new father) studying Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, and experimenting with them. I kept reading, "Just use LiveView," so I decided to try it out. I was surprised at how controversial my takes were.

The more I use Dependabot, the less I like it. I would much rather have a bot spam Slack every two days with the output of `npx npm-check-updates -i`. You spend so much time updating pointless patch versions with the illusion that you are fighting tech debt.

Just published my zed theme. Check it out if you want, search for "Lydia" in the extensions

I wrote a bit about some issues I've faced when working with LiveView dnlytras.com/blog/on-live...

I want to be bullish on LLMs for coding, but every time they suggest a non-existent package, my confidence plummets.

Patiently waiting to see which framework will win, React Router 7, or Tanstack Start. Ain't got time to read both docs.

I honestly don't know how indiehackers died so suddenly.

Not sure how everyone's eslint 9 migration went, but for me it's a net negative. I still don't care about the configuration, docs everywhere are a mess, and the codemod broke half the rules.

Starting the year with light mode, just to feel something.

Phoenix auth generator takes the most sensible approach. Fully transparent on what's happening. I can't fathom why would you want a library (Devise for example) take over your whole users table. You get some goodies, sure, but good luck debugging and patching that.

Wrote this rushed Advent of code boilerplate, feel free to suggest improvements! #elixirlang github.com/dimitrisnl/a...

Torn between Gleam and Elixir for this year's advent of code.

Before Claude and other AI tools, I wasted so much time tracking down subtle bugs, like typos. I would get into unproductive rabbit holes. Having them is such a great sanity check. - "Why is this test failing"? - "Well look at line X, ..."

Even though I enjoy TypeScript, removing prop-types from React 19 is sad to see. It leaves perfectly healthy codebases with a choice. Either have 0 hints, or transform your whole codebase. It's pretty unnecessary.

Fresh coat of pain on my website, because it got cold for 2 days in Greece, and we had nothing to do.

Well, Splitbee has been down for a day now, and I might continue like this. Thankfully I built a basic interface for analytics using Supabase and I can fallback to it. I need to move the tracking to middleware (Nextjs 15) if I find out how to filter out prefetch requests.

One of these days I'll find `occurred_at` correctly spelled in a codebase. 🕵️‍♂️

Welp, running out of ideas here. Stole @jhey.bsky.social 's circular snippet and went with it.

Anyway. I'm pretty fired about about RSC. It feels so nice now that I've tried it. My only issue is that I can't shake the feeling that I might mess up and leak something in the FE.

I'm unsure on what to write next. I have scattered thoughts on Next 15, Remix and Phoenix from various projects, but nothing groundbreaking

I guess the best way to test waters is to see if this reaches anyone.