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Andrew Ek

@ektastrophe.bsky.social

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I write Elixir and Ruby and a lot of nonsense. Senior software engineer at Hummingbird. Co-Host of the BEAM Radio podcast. Former English and Math teacher. Cat dad and human dad. Pretty deaf. Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Kindness is a survival skill.

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 15h

Some Ozy once told me
His works were gonna roll me
And leave me with a sense of despair
He was standing kinda dumb
Two vast legs without a trunk
Half a shattered visage left from his forehead

Sexy Monsters @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 16h

Oz-y-man,
He’s just some legs out on the lifeless sand
There’s a half sunken visage with a sneer
And on the pedestal these words appear,
“Look and despair”

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 20h

i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 13h

Boys becoming men / men becoming wolves!

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Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

/3 Notice also how thankfully Heritage accepts the gift that people like Ezra Klein give them: if you can frame bigotry as a “debate,” if it’s done in a friendly chat or a podcast or some other stylized forum, then it’s just uncouth and intolerant to call it out. Works out swell for bigots.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

The Walton family surely does

Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 20h

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

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Jason @peregrine.bsky.social · 23h

My team is hiring a front end focused LiveView dev. If you know of anyone with those skills hit me up.

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 22h

The best teams (by any metric - enjoyment, productivity, value created, speed of delivery, etc) I’ve ever been on were full of folks who were pretty average software devs but extremely good collaborators who did the things you list.

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Dan Moore @mooreds.com · 4d

Agreed. Don't sleep on being good to work with as a long term career strategy.

That doesn't mean being a pushover or "nice".

It means being competent, doing your homework, asking good questions, following through, and doing what you say you are going to do.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d

That people like working with you is a skill I see many technical people ignore yet it is often the biggest thing holding them back in their careers.

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 1d

The State of Elixir Survey for 2025 is live!

elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition

Fill it out if you have any connection to the Elixir ecosystem. It really helps us understand what happens. Curiosum are awesome to run this for the community.

#elixirlang

Curiosum Elixir Survey 2025

Elixir Survey 2025 by Curiosum - a global community survey collecting insights about how developers and teams use Elixir, their favorite tools, challenges, and expectations for the future of the…

elixir-survey.typeform.com

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Ben Wheat @beardywheat.bsky.social · 1d

Hey so I’ve been looking for my next role and striking out. If you know anyone looking for an Elixir dev with experience managing and advocating for teams, I’m your guy!

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 1d

I know some folks. Let’s talk.

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Jim Remsik @jremsikjr.bsky.social · 1d

Do I know any Stripe developers looking for an opportunity? Might have something in the next couple weeks.

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Shahryar Tavakkoli @shahryar-tbiz.bsky.social · 2d

I think Mishka Chelekom needs a full development phase just for forms 🦷, from calendars to integrated ones. It’s not an easy task, but it’ll help cover everything we need for the dashboard.
I wish a company into LiveView & #Phoenix would sponsor a phase so we could go full-time on it.
#ElixirLang

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 2d

You see this in realtime basically every day with commercial air travel. One plane delayed with mechanical errors can create a nation-wide cascade of delays.

100% capacity utilization is sure cool in theory (“efficiency!”), but in practice it breaks down hard and fast.

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 2d

Like an overtaxed server, a team at 90% utilization completely breaks down when one person stumbles.

There’s a damage cascade you might not be accounting for.

Your non-linear problem of 90% utilization

Is everyone working very hard, all the time, and yet accomplishing 1/10th of what it seems they should? Maybe this is why.

longform.asmartbear.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3d

Over the past 20 years, there is not a single major US newspaper that consistently told the truth about:

* The rise of US fascism
* The relationship between police racism and innocent Black folk

US News frames the world from the view of the violent minority, but expects the majority to subscribe.

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 3d

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3d

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

How would you describe that worldview?
My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 3d

No more than 7, though.

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ak @dumplingmenace.bsky.social · Jun 18

trans people will always exist (laudatory)
trans people will always exist (threatening)
trans people will always exist (factual)

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 3d

Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 4d

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 4d

Basically, after the AWS outage, I'm far more bullish on any and all infra companies building on top of AWS, GCP, Azure or all 3 of these

Aiming to provide more reliability than running out of 1 region (or zone!) would mean on either of these clouds. Plus better DX

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Jake Morrison @reachfh.bsky.social · 6d

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 6d

This is really useful to keep in mind when giving advice, too.

What parts of what I did are relevant? What parts can be replicated and what parts would be difficult or impossible to repeat or translate? Where did I just get lucky? Is what I did even possible to do now like it was when I did it?

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Andrew Ek @ektastrophe.bsky.social · 6d

I've never seen a unicorn in real life. But I have an angry orange cat who lives with me already, and would love to see more angry orange cats.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7d

hey i know things are hard but just remember YOU are charismatic megafauna

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