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Chad
@chadfennell.com
Code (Elixir & TS mostly), UX, Product Development
Some interesting product insights from the founder of Kagi - why they are building a browser (Orion) and email - it's a winner take all market

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474...
October 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"You can’t force a plant to bloom. It has a cycle. You have to tend to it and care for it and wait for the bloom to happen. If you don’t take care of it, it dies. The more experiences you have like this, the more you begin to understand your own cycle." - Ruth Asawa

Pics from the SF exhibition
August 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
TIL

information_schema.columns are queryable. Say you have a db with a ton of columns and you want to find anything with "price" in the name"...
July 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
transact/2 made it into Ecto! hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Re...

I've been including a custom version of this into my Repo module for a while, inspired by: elixirforum.com/t/seeking-th...

Hat tip to @wojtekmach.bsky.social for the PR! github.com/elixir-ecto/...
June 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Apple IIe

Our little farm town grade school got a few and taught some of us Applesoft BASIC.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
February 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Thanks for the inspiration - been meaning to do this for a while :).
February 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM