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LOL, Is this some LLM slop, or is this actually how Easter Sunday is calculated for the year? What did people do in the medieval times?, just guess?

2026 has been emotionally exhausting. When pondering my future as a software developer I am both these guys, switching seats sometimes multiple times per day.

LLM generated Javascript vs LLM generated Elixir in the same file from the same prompt and model. One looks fine, one looks like the slopiest slop south of Sloptown. #ElixirLang

LLM's are the best code commenters in the world, if you take the time to specify clearly what you want and dont want in a comment. If you make the LLM write the code, make sure you make it write good comments as well.

Hi @zachdaniel.dev would you mind sharing what technology you are building your AI stack in? Im guessing elixir and ash, but are there some other key pieces that you would be willing to share? Need to build something similar, would appreciate the info.

@zed.dev hi! Where do I put the agent harness configuration in Zed? e.g. the personal AGENTS.md, the personal skills, personal subagents, slash commands? Is this something I can share with opencode/pi/etc? I am working on a team where people are using different tools and would like to consolidate

18XXc v3.19 is out, adds support for 1822CA, 1822PNW, 1832, 1835, 1880, 1888-N, 18Cuba, 18DO, 18EU, 18Espania, 18FL, 18GA, 18GB, 18IN, 18NY, 18RoyalGorge, 18USA, 21Moon, Harzbahn 1873, Railways of the Lost Atlas. #18xx

When building a GenServer, some handle_call's belong with some handle_info's. I wish the compiler could handle specifying them together, instead of forcing me to group all handle_call's together, all handle_info's together. To me this is sacrificing code structure to benefit the compiler #ElixirLang

Coding agents have solved the 80/20 Pareto Principle in coding. Now we live in a 99/1 Pareto Principle world.

Model your domain, ask for the rest. I think 95% of CRUD busywork might just go poof with the combined powers of #Ash and LLMs. This is unreasonably effective. #ElixirLang

Are Steve Yegge and Geoffrey Huntley the prophets of this new mad age? Or have they gone totally of their rockers? Or both?

A brutalist commit history in a brave new world. Have no fear, throw away the old truths.

What Im thinking now about LLM coding is; sure, it is liberating not being held back by gaps in knowledge; yes I can now easily build 10k LOC in 1 week; but can I bring it over the line? Can I finish the work and create something useful? Or will it crumble under the weight of accumulative complexity

I know its not very important, but I wish I could do descibe "..." do describe "..." do .. end end #ElixirLang

Claude Code generates #ElixirLang and Ash code like a champ, and it uses Tidewave MCP search the docs and to test all validations and changes and whatever else I ask it to build. I feel Ash/Elixir are designed to encourage building bottom up, piece by piece, and Claude is very efficient for that.

TreeSitter and LSP functionality is not very good with Phoenix CoLocated hooks. Is there some way to use src to refer to a js or ts file that is colocated with the LiveView heex file? #ElixirLang

Using a 'zipper' just to traverse a list in both directions is so unnatural to me as someone that is used to random access data structures. My brain is still not wired for this. #ElixirLang

18XXc v3.18 is out. Adds support for 18Korea, and fixes some issues with result sharing. #18xx

Played a game of 18SJ. The incremental phase slows the game down IMO but we could probably push the trains faster. 3 companies got nationalized, 1 by design and 2 by accident. The yellow is helpful but maybe it guides the map to a similar shape every game? #18xx

Yet another in my series on the Ash Framework. I wanted to explore what it’s like to bring Ash into an existing project. www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/11... #elixirlang

18XXc v3.16 is out. It brings support for 1899 DAIHAN, contributed by github.com/j-holub, a first time an user builds support for a game. Horray for that! #18xx

semantically significant whitespace in python is just the worst

Is the Apple Watch automatically deleting podcast episodes (that I have not listened to), or is it an Overcast issue? I cannot believe how bad the process of downloading episodes is on AW, and this "cleanup" is making everything worse. This thing has WiFi and 5G, why is is so bad at downloading

Just finished season 2 of The Leftovers. I am still very confused with where this show is going; I don't understand the point of many plot lines and the motivations of most characters remains a mystery to me. But the show is very good at evoking sadness. Onwards I guess.