JEG2

JEG2

@jeg2.me

Longtime developer, sometimes manager, author, conference speaker, open source contributor, forever educator and learner, husband, and swim dad. It’s unclear what he loves more: regular expressions or board games.

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SmartLogic
@smartlogic.io

Today, James Gray joins us to talk about what's changed (and what remains unchanged) in Elixir software development, from OTP fundamentals to boundaries, testing, and judgment. 🧙‍♀️ That’s a wrap on Season 15! 🎧️ bit.ly/EWS15E13 📺️ youtu.be/z7t8IjRBe_Y #Elixirlang #MyElixirStatus #ElixirConf

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Fred Hebert
@ferd.ca

buddy, my challenge isn't generating more content, it's figuring out how to produce a lot less.

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minibikini
@mnbkn.com

9 years ago, I released v0.1.0 of Paasaa, my very first open-source Elixir project. Today, I'm incredibly happy to announce the release of v1.0.0! It’s a natural language detection library for Elixir that doesn't use any AI. github.com/minibikini/p... #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

JEG2
@jeg2.me

I'm closing out, for now, my series on questions at the heart of development with an analysis of when we need more abstraction. For example, taking @germsvel.com's advice about architecting more accurate models can reduce future bugs. programmersstone.blog/posts/why-is... #ElixirLang

programmersstone.blogWhy is this hard?This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. In a previous article of this series I talked about how we must remain ever vigilant against what is making it into our code. I talked about the ne...
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In this third article of my questions series, I'm coming for your dependencies! I do my best to add a fifth cost to @martinfowler.com's costs of YAGNI. You can also find out what my favorite programming book is. programmersstone.blog/posts/what-w... #TechDebt #YAGNI #dependencies

programmersstone.blogWhat will it cost to carry and remove this dependency?This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. I've built a lot of applications with a lot of teams. I've seen a lot of the problems with software development. There are two problems that I've s...
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In my second post of key questions for developers, we dig through the insights from multiple @ferd.ca posts to determine how products evolve and the environments that facilitate that process. programmersstone.blog/posts/what-a... #ProductDevelopment #PsychologicalSafety

programmersstone.blogWhat are we afraid of?This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. One of the lessons I learned during my time in management is that it was far more important for me to worry about creating environments where good ...
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I'm publishing a new series of articles on my blog this week. It's my attempt to condense and share what I've learned in over 20 years of #ElixirLang / #Phoenix / #LiveView and #Ruby / #Rails development. I hope you find it helpful. programmersstone.blog/posts/jeg2s-...

programmersstone.blogJEG2's QuestionsMy System by Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the early chess books that had a big impact on me. The first part of the book, called The Elements, is where Nimzowitsch lays out the specific criteria he is m...
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The first article in the series is about all of the great things that can be learned from my favorite @jessitron.bsky.social presentation and how developers work best in a Product Dev team: programmersstone.blog/posts/how-wi...

programmersstone.blogHow will we know it works?This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. As programmers, our primary function is to achieve Product's roadmap. We will into existence the features Product believes will move the product fo...
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I'm reading a classic programming paper tonight. Can you name it from the following quote? "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."

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johanna
@jola.dev

Most engineers hate estimates because they've been weaponized by bad managers. But when teams treat estimates as conversations instead of contracts, they actually ship more consistently. Not because they predict better, but because they communicate better. jola.dev/posts/estima...

jola.devjola.dev - Estimates Are More Valuable Than You ThinkJohanna Larsson is a software engineer, manager, writer, speaker. With over 14 years of experience in software development and management, she has worked with clients from various industries, includin...

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Michal
@arathunku.com

New elixir-ls release! > ElixirLS now bundles a number of experimental LLM oriented tools exposed as custom commands and a builtin MCP server. The tools focus on model friendly text interface instead of typical IDE oriented LSP API methods #ElixirLang github.com/elixir-lsp/e...

github.comRelease ElixirLS 0.29.0 · elixir-lsp/elixir-lsv0.29.0: 4 August 2025 Highlights Added Call hierarchy provider implementing LSP textDocument/prepareCallHierarchy, callHierarchy/incomingCalls and callHierarchy/outgoingCalls ElixirLS now bundles...

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