# elixir (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 168 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover elixir. Page: Feed: --- ## [What a Port Doesn’t Give You](https://www.bounga.org/elixir/2026/08/22/what-a-port-doesnt-give-you/) _2026-08-21 · Nicolas Cavigneaux · Bounga’s Home_ My agent drives a headless browser through a Node process held by a Port. Two guarantees I take for granted in Elixir stop at that boundary, and one of them sent me chasing a leak that turned out not to exist. ## [Your Move, Xbox: Sony Announces PlayStation 6 Controllers Will Electrocute You](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/your-move-xbox-sony-announces-playstation-6-controllers-will-electrocute-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-move-xbox-sony-announces-playstation-6-controllers-will-electrocute-you) _2026-08-21 · Mark Roebuck · Palette Swap_ Sony's new PlayStation 6 controllers are set to electrocute players, leaving Xbox with some serious competition in this race to the bottom. The post Your Move, Xbox: Sony Announces PlayStation 6 Controllers Will Electrocute You appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Wiring LiveView Uploads to Claude Vision](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/liveview-uploads-claude-vision) _2026-08-20 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Boundary-validate uploads in allow\_upload before they cost tokens, then wire consume\_uploaded\_entries into Claude vision and PDF calls from LiveView. ## [Local-only Voice Dictation](https://jaketrent.com/post/local-only-voice-dictation) _2026-08-20 · Jake Trent · jaketrent.com_ Local-only Voice Dictation ## [Self-hosting and Tangled](https://jola.dev/posts/self-hosting-and-tangled) _2026-08-20 · Johanna Larsson · jola.dev_ Tangled is a Github alternative built on atproto that lets you self-host your own repos and workflows, while still participating in a shared community. Here's how you get set up. ## [Doom Successfully Ported to Grandpa’s Pacemaker, Announces Remorseful Grandson at Funeral](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/doom-successfully-ported-to-grandpas-pacemaker-announces-remorseful-grandson-at-funeral/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doom-successfully-ported-to-grandpas-pacemaker-announces-remorseful-grandson-at-funeral) _2026-08-19 · John Danek · Palette Swap_ One coder has created the most impressive port of Doom so far, though it may have come at a steep cost. The post Doom Successfully Ported to Grandpa’s Pacemaker, Announces Remorseful Grandson at Funeral appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Class reminder!](https://archaicjoy.substack.com/p/class-reminder) _2026-08-19 · Emily Grace Willis · Archaic Joy_ This Monday ~ August 24th ## [Embrace Struggle](https://paletteswap.site/true-colors/embrace-struggle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=embrace-struggle) _2026-08-19 · Parker Johnson · Palette Swap_ Get used to losing. It's what makes victory feel so good. The post Embrace Struggle appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Most Security Controls Assume a Team You Don't Have](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/security-controls-assume-a-team) _2026-08-18 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Security checklists only ever grow, because nobody who writes them pays the cost of a control a small team cannot staff. Which to defer, and which never wait. ## [Who Fills the Sprint? My 45/45/10 Split](https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/8/who-fills-the-sprint/) _2026-08-18 · mike@mikezornek.com (Mike Zornek) · Mike Zornek_ Every project has way more things to do than resources allotted. That is a given for pretty much any human endeavor. Figuring out what to work on is the interesting part. When it comes to software development, most companies plan work in time-boxed ranges, often called sprints. 1 Let's generalize and say two teams are contributing to this work: the business/product owners and the engineering team.… ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IQykUM9OidWX) _2026-08-18 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Self-hosting your PDS](https://jola.dev/posts/self-hosting-your-pds) _2026-08-18 · Johanna Larsson · jola.dev_ How to set up your own atproto Personal Data Server using tranquil-pds and docker compose, walking you through it step by step. ## [Nintendo Virtual Game Card Friend Had Borrowed Now All Scratched Up](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/nintendo-virtual-game-card-friend-had-borrowed-now-all-scratched-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nintendo-virtual-game-card-friend-had-borrowed-now-all-scratched-up) _2026-08-18 · Garrison DeSieno · Palette Swap_ A local slob somehow found a way to ruin his friend's digital game. The post Nintendo Virtual Game Card Friend Had Borrowed Now All Scratched Up appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Structured LLM Output in Elixir: Which Library, When](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/structured-llm-output-elixir) _2026-08-17 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Four Elixir options for schema-validated LLM output, scored on maintenance, provider coverage, retry behavior, and escape hatches. ## [My experience at a Deftones concert in Vienna](https://karlosmid.com/2026/08/my-experience-at-deftones-concert-in-vienna/) _2026-08-17 · Karlo Šmid Blog_ A short travel and concert report from seeing Deftones live in Vienna on August 16, 2026. ## [Celebrating New Journaling Habits](https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/8/celebrating-new-journaling-habits/) _2026-08-16 · mike@mikezornek.com (Mike Zornek) · Mike Zornek_ Taking a quick moment to celebrate some positive habits that have landed for me. For the last 6 weeks, I’ve been building out weekly plans to keep me focused on the things I need to do to move important personal and professional projects forward. I’ve been doing quarterly plans on and off for the last few years, but this is the first time I’ve been able to keep up with weekly… ## [Engineering Judgment Matters More Than Ever](https://boredhacking.com/coding-with-ai-agents-2026/) _2026-08-16 · Boredhacking's RSS Feed_ I Don’t Code by Hand Anymore I don’t code by hand anymore, and I don’t personally know anyone else who does at this point. A few years ago… ## [Taking control of your atproto account](https://jola.dev/posts/taking-control-atproto-account) _2026-08-16 · Johanna Larsson · jola.dev_ Setting a rotation key on your atproto (Bluesky, Eurosky, etc) account means you can recover it even if the account provider shuts down. ## [What Elixir Gives a Coding Harness for Free](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/elixir-coding-harness) _2026-08-15 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ José Valim's case for Elixir as a coding-agent harness holds up on the runtime. The tax is the ecosystem around it — sandboxing, plugins, and SDKs. ## [Let It Crash Stops at stdin](https://www.bounga.org/elixir/2026/08/15/let-it-crash-stops-at-stdin/) _2026-08-14 · Nicolas Cavigneaux · Bounga’s Home_ I have been building a personal agent as an MCP server in Elixir, and the transport turned out to be the interesting part. A single malformed request killed the process that owned stdin, and the fix was not the one my OTP reflexes reached for. ## [Set Desktop Color Scheme with Pywal](https://jaketrent.com/post/set-desktop-color-scheme-pywal) _2026-08-14 · Jake Trent · jaketrent.com_ Set Desktop Color Scheme with Pywal ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wvDfAQVX46pB) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [An Agent Skill for Updating Elixir Dependencies](https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/8/elixir-dependency-update-skill/) _2026-08-13 · mike@mikezornek.com (Mike Zornek) · Mike Zornek_ If you have experimented with AI coding tools or are considering it, one feature of the coding harness (the interactive shell you work in) you’ll encounter is skills. What is a skill? As described by Agent Skills : Agent Skills are a lightweight, open format for extending AI agent capabilities with specialized knowledge and workflows. At its core, a skill… ## [Metering LLM Usage Per Customer in Phoenix](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/metering-llm-usage-phoenix) _2026-08-13 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ ReqLLM emits token-usage telemetry; turning it into a per-customer invoice line needs an append-only ledger, integer-cent math, and idempotent writes. ## [Wavedashing Listed on Résumé](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/wavedashing-listed-on-resume/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wavedashing-listed-on-resume) _2026-08-13 · Peter Casciato · Palette Swap_ A man looking to bolster his resume added an eye-catching skill to the document over the weekend. The post Wavedashing Listed on Résumé appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Your Junior Dev Leans on the Agent. Good.](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/junior-dev-leaning-on-the-agent) _2026-08-12 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Telling a junior to use less AI is advice with an expiry date. Move the quality bar off style and onto verification — here's what that looks like. ## [When a Notes App Is Just a Notes App](https://preslav.me/2026/08/12/bear-notes/) _2026-08-12 · My Writings on Preslav Rachev_ My thoughts on why Bear Notes is still worth paying for every year. ## [Adventurer Irishes Up Mana Potion](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/adventurer-irishes-up-mana-potion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adventurer-irishes-up-mana-potion) _2026-08-12 · Peter Casciato · Palette Swap_ A local barbarian adventurer has discovered that adding liquor to his mana potions adds to the array of positive effects it bestows. His party remains skeptical. The post Adventurer Irishes Up Mana Potion appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [✦ Canning Tips + Favorite Recipes ✦](https://archaicjoy.substack.com/p/canning-tips-favorite-recipes) _2026-08-11 · Emily Grace Willis · Archaic Joy_ For Beginners! ## [Systemd & Rootless Docker Setup for Ubuntu Server](https://blog.nytsoi.net/2026/08/11/docker-setup/) _2026-08-11 · Random Notes_ This post is mostly a note for myself, but maybe it can be of use for others. I just need to write this down before I forget and spend time relearning it over and over. This is how I set up new self-hosted applications on my home server. The gist of it is per-app Linux users with user level Systemd services that run containerized apps. This guide presupposes that you have an Ubuntu Server or… ## [The Hard Part Was Never the Code. It Was the Theory.](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/code-was-never-the-hard-part-theory-building) _2026-08-11 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Senko Rašić is right that “code was never the hard part” insults programmers. Peter Naur explained what it actually gets wrong — in 1985. ## [What Casey Newton misunderstands about powerful AI](https://www.jonathanychan.com/blog/what-casey-newton-misunderstands-about-powerful-ai/) _2026-08-11 · Unknown · Jonathan Y. Chan_ Casey Newton, whose fiancé works at Anthropic, writes in response to Mark Zuckerberg: On Sunday night, HBO aired the third-season finale of House of the Dragon, the stuffy and unrelentingly bleak prequel to Game of Thrones. The show takes place in a world where one great house holds a near-monopoly on a superweapon — dragons — and thus rules the world. … In Westeros, no one is confused about what… ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tOH8O7YsdpkC) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [No cost, no value](https://jola.dev/posts/no-cost-no-value) _2026-08-11 · Johanna Larsson · jola.dev_ Why generating code makes it meaningless, why writing code by hand has value, and why toil is a critical part of the human experience. ## [Explanation of Video Game Tattoo Enters Third Minute](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/gaming/explanation-of-video-game-tattoo-enters-third-minute/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=explanation-of-video-game-tattoo-enters-third-minute) _2026-08-11 · Brian Rubinow · Palette Swap_ A partygoer quickly regretted asking a local man about his full sleeve tattoo. The post Explanation of Video Game Tattoo Enters Third Minute appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Phoenix Secrets: runtime.exs, Fly.io, and LLM Keys](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/phoenix-secrets-runtime-fly) _2026-08-10 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ The compile-time trap in config.exs, why System.fetch\_env! should crash your boot, and how to actually wire Fly secrets and LLM keys through a Phoenix release. ## [Alternate History Hub Video Explores Timeline Where She Never Left](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/alternate-history-hub-video-explores-timeline-where-she-never-left/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alternate-history-hub-video-explores-timeline-where-she-never-left) _2026-08-10 · Peter Casciato · Palette Swap_ YouTube channel AlternateHistoryHub imagines how life might have unfolded had he not turned his college romance into ancient history. The post Alternate History Hub Video Explores Timeline Where She Never Left appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Not Every Curve Belongs in Sand](https://www.bounga.org/projects/2026/08/10/not-every-curve-belongs-in-sand/) _2026-08-09 · Nicolas Cavigneaux · Bounga’s Home_ Another CrunchLabs kit took over an evening: a sand table that drags a ball through sand on a polar arm. I added a few parametric math patterns, and the interesting part was the one it couldn't draw. ## [The Office Mandate Is a Measurement Failure](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/office-mandate-measurement-failure) _2026-08-09 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Return-to-office mandates are what companies reach for when they can't measure output. Agents just destroyed the last proxies that were limping along. ## [Anti-Antipatterns in Elixir Library Guidelines](https://rocket-science.ru/hacking/2026/08/09/anti-antipatterns-in-elixir-libraries) _2026-08-09 · ❖ |\> 🌢_ Only a lazy person never blogged about library should not use application configuration. Even the official propaganda says so in the Elixir Library Guidelines . As all the sharp rules, this one is rotten. There are usecases when the library configuration must prevail over local parameters. In fact, the entire “Anti-patterns” section of the official library guidelines reads like a list of… ## [Protecting Myself from Dependencies: Dev Container Setup](https://blog.nytsoi.net/2026/08/08/devcontainers/) _2026-08-08 · Random Notes_ The past year Shai-Hulud et al have wreaked havoc on NPM, PyPI, and other package ecosystems. I have traditionally developed my hobby projects under my own user, managing tooling with asdf or mise , but this has now become untenable. A compromise in a single one of the countless dependency packages would allow access to my full home environment. To help put my mind at least somewhat at ease, I've… ## [The last web framework you'll ever need](https://thraxil.org//users/anders/posts/2026/08/08/the-last-web-framework-you-ll-ever-need) _2026-08-08 · Anders Pearson · Thraxil_ After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpole’s tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell.… ## [Every Insane Codebase Was Once Rational](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/insane-codebases-were-once-rational) _2026-08-08 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Architecture certainty isn't on the menu. Decide for the horizon you can see — three to six months — and know which doors only open one way. ## [Nobody Got Replaced. Agents Got Added.](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/nobody-got-replaced-agents-got-added) _2026-08-07 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ McKinsey didn't swap 25,000 people for AI agents. What its CEO actually said is more useful to founders — and changes the question to ask before hiring. ## [Big Walk Criticized by Anti-Woke Gamers for Not Catering to Players With No Friends](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/big-walk-criticized-by-anti-woke-gamers-for-not-catering-to-players-with-no-friends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-walk-criticized-by-anti-woke-gamers-for-not-catering-to-players-with-no-friends) _2026-08-07 · Brad Waters · Palette Swap_ Big Walk is facing criticism online for excluding members of the gaming community who have no one in their lives that consider them a friend. The post Big Walk Criticized by Anti-Woke Gamers for Not Catering to Players With No Friends appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [What I Check When I Inherit a Vibe-Coded App](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/inheriting-a-vibe-coded-app) _2026-08-07 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ The consultant's playbook for taking over an undocumented AI-built app after the builder walks away — what to audit first, and how to price it. ## [Elixir's GenStage Demand (a Visual Explainer)](https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/genstage-demand-visualized/) _2026-08-07 · Andrea Leopardi_ Concurrency gives us more workers; demand tells us when to stop sending them work. This is what I want to point people to when we talk about "demand". ## [Raphael Switches Preferred Weapon From Sai to Gun](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/raphael-switches-preferred-weapon-from-sai-to-gun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raphael-switches-preferred-weapon-from-sai-to-gun) _2026-08-07 · Mark Roebuck · Palette Swap_ The red-clad hero in a half shell Raphael is saying goodbye to his sais in favor of a Smith & Wesson SW1911 E-Series pistol. The post Raphael Switches Preferred Weapon From Sai to Gun appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [Upcoming Classes!](https://archaicjoy.substack.com/p/upcoming-classes) _2026-08-06 · Emily Grace Willis · Archaic Joy_ Hosted at Farm & Hive in Inkom, ID ## [Multi-Tenant AI SaaS in Phoenix: Isolation That Holds](https://sublimecoding.com/blog/multi-tenant-ai-saas-phoenix) _2026-08-06 · Jared Smith · Jared Smith_ Tenant isolation for AI SaaS in Phoenix: per-tenant API key tradeoffs, Ecto context scoping, and the pgvector bug that leaks one tenant into another. ## [Latch - an Elixir atproto OAuth library](https://jola.dev/posts/latch-elixir-atproto-oauth-library) _2026-08-06 · Johanna Larsson · jola.dev_ Introducing Latch, an idiomatic elixir atproto OAuth library and client, built for flexibility and correctness. ## [Factory Fined After Storing Explosive Materials in Barrels Painted Blue](https://paletteswap.site/different-colors/factory-fined-after-storing-explosive-materials-in-barrels-painted-blue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=factory-fined-after-storing-explosive-materials-in-barrels-painted-blue) _2026-08-06 · Joe Tilleli · Palette Swap_ A labeling mishap at a distribution center led to an explosive error. The post Factory Fined After Storing Explosive Materials in Barrels Painted Blue appeared first on Palette Swap . ## [will.exe](https://blakedietz.me/posts/will-exe) _2026-08-05 · Blog_ What if there was an AI agent that could act as the executor of your will? The agent could be told to do your bidding long after you've passed. I don't think it would offer much value for the usual uses of divvying up what you have left, but it could open up some fun scenarios. Maybe you want to continue donating to a philanthropic endeavor. Give it access to an investment account, inform it to…