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Do you think that if we make our LLMs smart enough, they will create simulated universes with little simulated people in them that create LLMs? Asking for a friend

@postgresqlhero.bsky.social do you sing “Postgres hero” to yourself to the tune of “jukebox hero”. Or is that just me?

As someone who has leaned pretty heavily into trying to productively (and hopefully responsibly) leverage LLM code generation, it was nice to spend some time tracking down and squashing a LiveState bug that the coding robots couldn't possibly understand. Release forthcoming :)

It's not that I am too lazy to choose the correct emoji I am Simpsons yellow IRL

This is Cincinnatus the Roman our city was named after. He is returning the symbol of leadership called a fasces (the root of the word fascism) to return to a life of farming, thus becoming AFAIK history’s first anti-fascist

I'll be speaking on Tuesday at 6PM ET as part of the Global Elixir Meetup (GEM) week. If you're in the Cincinnati area, join us in person at the Launch Scout office. If you can't make it, the event will be streamed. Details at globalelixirmeetups.com/event/cincin... #elixirlang

Is there a word that's in between useful and useless? useish? Asking for a friend

Come join us for our Global Elixir Meetup! The Ohio edition will be on Tuesday, September 23rd at 6pm (EDT) with in person and online options. @brianmeeker.bsky.social will be sharing how to "Refurbish Your Creaky Test Suite"! Visit www.ohioelixir.com to signup. #ElixirLang #GlobalElixirMeetups

In case no one's told you today: "You're absolutely right!"

ElixirConf: We're ready for you! Join @superchris.launchscout.com this week on Thursday, August 28 for his talk "Extending Elixir with WebAssembly Components." We're looking forward to a great week with awesome people. https://elixirconf.com/talks/extending-elixir-with-webassembly-components/

🎟️ Thanks to everyone who grabbed a “Doors Open” ticket—we're extending early bird by one more day! Last chance to get the best deal before “Showtime” pricing kicks in tomorrow at 12pm Central. 🗓️ Nov 6–7 | Austin, TX → exmexconf.com #ExMexConf #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

So there seems to be a lot of cursor unhappiness these days, and that inspired me to check out Roo Code based on a recommendation. Its an OS VSCode extension (BYOM api key). Brief experiments with claude 4 doing work on a phoenix app went well, FWIW. Gonna keep digging in: roocode.com

Thank you to all who weathered the [literal] storm last week for @superchris.launchscout.com talk about helping teams adopt AI. What we liked best was that it felt like a true meetup. It ended with everyone sitting down, chairs turned toward the center, honestly sharing and listening to each other.

Tomorrow evening @superchris.launchscout.com will share his experience helping real software development teams effectively adopt AI on real projects. Listen and chat over some pizza at Alloy Development Co starting at 5:30PM! Register (it's free) here:

@superchris.launchscout.com will be sharing practical insights on how we're collaborating with tech teams in his in-person talk, "Beyond Vibe Coding: Lessons from helping teams effectively adopt AI," at 5:30 PM on June 18 at Alloy. Register at

Really surprised no one thought to name their LLM Mr. MeSeeks. Seems like a missed branding opportunity.

I wrote this a while back for @teamlaunchscout.bsky.social -- "How to Support the Elixir Development Community" launchscout.com/blog/support... It remains pretty useful, though I know some of the details have since shifted. I'm really grateful to and fond of the #elixirlang community

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

Refactoring code (AI generated or human generated) after a good night's sleep is so much better than doing it at after the end of a long day

Due to the AI revolution, we programmers may write less code ourselves, but we still have to read it if we want to be responsible. Choosing a human friendly and readable programming language is still important. That's why I am betting on Elixir and Phoenix #MyElixirStatus

@superchris.launchscout.com is at it again! He will be presenting "WebAssembly Beyond the Browser: A Better Way to Build Extensible Software" at Stir Trek in Columbus, Ohio. on See you May 2 at 1PM. Register here: https://stirtrek.com/

“.. It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/u...

Not to quibble, but this isn't deportation, this is exile. And it's *illegal*.

Trump pleads with his war criminal patron "Vladimir" over social media not to make him look too stupid as Trump gives everything to Russia and justifies past murder and enables future murder. And Putin laughs at him.

David brooks is far and away my favorite republican. He nails it in this latest article. I too wouldn’t call myself a movement guy but I agree it’s what we need www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

I feel ya Jon garfieldminusgarfield.net/post/6113960...

Canada waiting for US economy to implode enough to make America 11th province

Had a blast at WASM/IO in Barcelona spreading the love about Elixir/Erlang/OTP to the wasm folks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Vy... #ElixirLang

@superchris.launchscout.com  is back from Wasm I/O in Barcelona, Spain! It was a fantastic experience, and while it was a conference trip, there was still time to take in the sights. We hope attendees enjoyed "Supervising your WebAssembly Components with Wasmex" while they were there.

Getting ready for my talk at #wasmio tomorrow to show off wasm components support in wasmex and demo some polyglot liveview #elixirlang

Tomorrow @tim_mecklem will present "Building an AI-ready Solution For Your Customers." Gain a working mental model that bridges the fundamental gap between a business problem and AI tooling. 

Nice job dropping some knowledge in an easily digestible way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

I don’t know if I agree with everything in here but I do with most of it. It’s also a lovely read sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge...

We're excited to have @superchris.launchscout.com speak at Wasm I/O next week in Barcelona! 🚀 He’ll cover how Wasmex leverages OTP’s reliability to host WASM components with supervised processes, “let it crash,” and real-world examples. https://2025.wasm.io/speakers/chris-nelson/

I got to eat dimsum with the lovely folks behind screen.garden last week, and one of them just published a really enjoyable blog post on using elixir: kevinbarrett.org/elixir-makes...

So feel free to call me sexist if you'd like but that thing where you talk a really good game and can't back it up: only dudes do that in my experience.

Two months to go til GigCityElixir 20225! Great speakers, great community. Come join us! Do you have your ticket yet? GigCityElixir.com #ElixirLang

Wasmex 0.10.0 is out and features support for Wasm Components! github.com/tessi/wasmex... Thanks a ton @superchris.launchscout.com for his gigantic contribution and ongoing support and improvement for the last months while we let that feature cook in pre-release mode. Thank you Chris! #ElixirLang

I gotta say "Let's have a recession on purpose" seems like a pretty great way to get impeached the day after the mid-terms. I'm all for that!

Nice to see some NodeJS peeps hearing the Good News about Elixir: d-gate.io/blog/everyth...

The Trump/Vance/Musk foreign policy agenda is vile and turncoat; there's no daylight between them and what a Manchurian Candidate under Russia's thumb would try to accomplish: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chris Nelson is exploring why using Web Components can be the perfect way to extend LiveView with custom or existing javascript in a way that still feels like LiveView. 🌐 #CodeBEAM #CodeBEAMAmerica

Damn cursor just one shotted adding support for char type to wasmex. Things is getting freaky y’all #elixirlang

Really fun day hacking with the fine peeps at sequinstream.com #elixirlang

Damn. Not wrong. But damn.