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Tobias Pfeiffer @pragtob.bsky.social · 12h

Elixir 1.19 released! 🎉

This one had a lengthier rc period.

It brings type system improvements and compile time improvements in large projects among other things 🚀

elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10...

Elixir v1.19 released: enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects

Elixir v1.19 released: type checking of protocols and anonymous functions, broader type inference, improved compile times, and more

elixir-lang.org

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 1d

People sit there and wonder why the shit I build works so well and how the fuck I did it for a fraction of the price that they thought possible. It’s not hard, honestly: design for the marginalized

The power law cuts both ways. Use it to your advantage!

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n me zoey 🏳️‍⚧️ @zoedsoupe.zeetech.io · 3d

after being frozen for months, exlings is back. v0.2.0 just shipped with a complete CLI for learning Elixir
through hands-on exercises. Inspired by rustlings and ziglings.

perfect for beginners or devs coming from other languages! would like to ask for feedback+
#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

GitHub - zoedsoupe/exlings: rustlings but for elixir this time

rustlings but for elixir this time. Contribute to zoedsoupe/exlings development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Alembic @teamalembic.bsky.social · 3d

Huge thank you to @lawik.bsky.social & @ash-hq.org for their hard work & dedication supporting the #AshFramework community & the 1st Ash Summit! 🎉

Read more about the event from @sevensea.cat's perspective in our latest blogpost: alembic.com.au/blog/reflect...

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 5d

Ah k

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 5d

I started reading that as something about breaking their heart. Only if they picked up Omarchy thinking it was a swell thing by swell folks.

Though it based on Ubuntu though? I may be out of date.

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 6d

I will cast pods! You cannot stop me! 🪄

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 6d

Customizable UI!

Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 6d

The iPod was never much a thing in my life or around me. Podcasts are a continuous matter in my life. Having a quicker way to refer to them is practical.

I know the pods came from the iPod. But they have achieved escape velocity in my book.

Funky etymology but I am fine with it :)

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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 7d

Congrats Tigris team and thank you very much for your #ElixirLang support 💜

Tigris Data @tigrisdata.com · 7d

Big news! @tigrisdata.com raised $25M Series A led by Natalie Vais of Spark Capital w/ Martin Casado of a16z + Basis Set.

Tigris is a faster, freer, AI-native storage cloud– running on our own hardware.

Already powering fal.ai, krea.ai & Hedra.

Let’s build the open cloud for AI.

Read more on TC

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 7d

Ach, bummer!

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 7d

The recording from the first Nerves Meetup EU is already out. We got Phoenix & Dashbit virtuoso Steffen Deusch to share something quite different from what he usually does.

Containers on Nerves. Pretty interesting, eh?
Superb presentation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6j...
#elixirlang

🚀 Running Containers on Nerves - INAUGURAL Nerves Meetup EU | Steffen Deusch from Dashbit

Witness the VERY FIRST Nerves Meetup EU where 30+ developers gathered to explore something revolutionary—and wait until you see the plot twist halfway through! 🤯 In this groundbreaking inaugural…

www.youtube.com

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 7d

I damn near wept. James Harton is a sweetheart apparently ❤️

Alembic @teamalembic.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you to everyone who made Sweden's 1st #ElixirLang conf #Goatmire unforgettable, and esp to @lawik.bsky.social & team!

You can read all about it in Alembian James Harton's reflection of the event: alembic.com.au/blog/reflect...

Goatmire 2025: The Human Side of Elixir

A reflection of Goatmire, the first Elixir conference in Varberg, Sweden 2025

alembic.com.au

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 8d

Is now! Nerves Meetup for the EU :)

nervesmeetup.eu @nervesmeetup.eu · 9d

Reminder: our inaugural meetup is tomorrow at 7pm CET! @steffend.me will be presenting on the topic of running containers on Nerves.

You can register for the event here:
nervesmeetup.eu/meetup/conta...

#ElixirLang #Nerves #Meetup

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 9d

Did y'all upgrade. I have slept in that room and I was not that beautifully lit at the time :D

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Ellyse @ellyse7777.bsky.social · 12d

@commodoreofficial.bsky.social time to make good ! let’s get ‘em

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 12d

Bad News for Apple and IBM.

Shots fired, literally in the case of this ad, by Commodore as it pitches the Commodore 128 as the business computer of choice.

A rather clever ad with a photo of a C128 computer with a bowler hat (representing IBM) and an apple bitten into with an arrow through it resting on top and the tagline. It also lists of the pros against the competitors such as an 80 column display and up to 512k of memory.

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 12d

I might know the answer but I will throw it out here.

Is Advanced Data Protection and similar actually resistant to the platform owner deciding to change the software and extract your stuff. They have access, since their software can display it.

My assumption is no. Gotta trust Apple/Signal, etc.

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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 14d

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

jakelazaroff.com

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks. It's been rolling along for a minute. Thanks for all the good changelogs. They really help :D

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 14d

Phew. Big Nerves Newsletter for issue 100. Covering Erlang CVE fixes, NervesConf EU, NervesConf US video releases, Nerves Meetup EU launching and much more.

You can sign up for it and get it roughly bi-weekly. Sign up now to get issue 100.
nerves-project.org#newsletter

#elixirlang #embedded

Nerves Project

Nerves is the open-source platform and infrastructure you need to build, deploy, and securely manage your fleet of IoT devices at speed and scale.

nerves-project.org

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 15d

This is a talk I must catch if recorded!

Good job Nate on that choice. Am envious.

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Maggie Tate @maggietate.bsky.social · 15d

Hey! Join me at the newest #ElixirLang conference in Austin TX in November! ExMex!!

I’m giving the opening keynote. 🎉

Use the code WithTheBand for a $50 discount

exmexconf.com

@exmexconf.bsky.social

ExMex Conf

Two days. One track. All Elixir. Join us November 6-7th, 2025 in Austin, TX for an Elixir conference with a little Austin flair.

exmexconf.com

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 15d

In a not so surprising turn of events an improv comedy group gave me a pretty good sense of Diffie-Hellman.

And then I had to very elsewhere. I don't trust improv comedy groups very far.

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 15d

It is. But it is like 2024 or maybe even 2023 amazing :P

Oban is continually exceptional of course.

But we only really talk about the last few months of stuff and I don't care about phoenix dot new unfortunately.. so enjoy it. But it the hype is old :)

Home · Phoenix.new

phoenix.new

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Rebecca Le @sevensea.cat · 17d

Feels pretty surreal to finally be holding the Ash Framework book in my hands. Thank you to everyone (especially @zachdaniel.dev and the team at @pragprog.com) who helped make this happen!

A print copy of the Ash Framework book, sitting on my kitchen bench

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