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Jason Stiebs

@peregrine

4 years

"What we do in Discord would not be possible without Elixir. It wouldn’t be possible in Node or Python. We would not be able to build this with five engineers if it was a C++ codebase."

The Elixir programming language

@elixirlang

4 years

Learn more about how the Discord team is using Elixir and the Erlang VM to deliver more than 26 million WebSocket events per second to more than 12 million concurrent users:

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@peregrine

2 years

@rebeccajtiffany I read that Japan treats its housing as a flow instead of an asset and its been stuck in my brain since.

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@peregrine

9 months

I am pretty "deep" into the Elixir World these days so I thought it was a good time to step back and enumerate all the incredible stuff Elixir and Phoenix can do for us. (also this is my favorite cover art so far!)

Elixir and Phoenix can do it all!

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

2 years

@mattyglesias All politicians should consider their replacement as the torch holder of their legacy. Something I think boomers and silent gen are clearly bad at.

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@peregrine

2 years

@LolOverruled MrBeast knows the median

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@peregrine

1 year

I wonder how the people and business in Shorewood survive without a major highway + spur connecting them to 43 and 94? Do they just drive the 6minutes to 43 via normal roads? Like animals?

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@peregrine

2 years

Still blows my mind that 95% of the worlds Browser usage is originally based on a KDE Project that basically nobody knows about.

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@peregrine

10 months

Thanks to the BEAM/Elixir we can do actual magic, like say creating a new Fly Machine, executing code on it, getting results and it just working like its happening locally. Learn how with no extra libraries or tools, just using what the BEAM gives us.

DIY Lambda

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

5 months

Elixir is good at IO that you can break every rule of N+1 and web server development and indexes and efficient queries and your app will be fine till you hit 150k requests a second, and even then its Postgres that falls over first.

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@peregrine

4 years

Everyone complaining that Bernie is too far left needs to explain where all of the EU lies relative to Bernie. Because what I see is a bog standard liberal from the early 50s. If you see a marxist your overtone window is broke.

DHH

@dhh

4 years

It fascinates me that free tuition for a higher education is such a controversial idea in the US. Nobody is arguing that K12 should be for pay. Pretty much all of Europe already has a defacto implementation of it. The lack of ambition in the US on the big topics is depressing.

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1 year

Tensor were(still are) kind of a foreign thing to me when I first started working with Elixir NX. So I wrote a tiny gentle getting started. What I learned is you don't have to be doing complex matrix math to benefit from using them!

Tensors and Nx, are not just for machine learning

Gentle introduction to using Tensors and Nx in Elixir.

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@peregrine

4 years

@hankgreen Who would have guessed 4months ago UBI would be proposed seriously by republican congressmen.

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@peregrine

1 year

@hankgreen SciShow: Chemo is not something I had on my bingo card but I'm here for it.

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@peregrine

1 year

Every time I work with someone new to Elixir I need to reiterate that the Elixir Docs are actually good, and often better than a tutorial or StackOverflow. How many of these things did you already know about Elixir docs and Hex?

Elixir Docs are Built Different

These are not your normal docs, Elixir docs are actually useful!

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Jason Stiebs

@peregrine

7 years

If you've been working with Elixir and Phoenix for a bit and are ready to upgrade your skills and get more into OTP. This is THE book I'd suggest you pick up. It's also written by one of the finest people I know @lance_halvorsen

PragmaticProgrammers

@pragprog

7 years

Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix in print and shipping. #pragprog

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@peregrine

4 years

What @josevalim has done with this PR is a hugely valuable resource. You get the chance to see how one of the worlds best programmers approaches an extremely common, yet complex, problem. Even better you get to see all the little mistakes he made.

Auth by josevalim · Pull Request #1 · dashbitco/mix_phx_gen_auth_demo

This is a complete auth system on top of a brand new Phoenix app. It includes: Session-based authentication with remember me cookies User registration with e-mail confirmation Safe changing of e-m...

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@peregrine

2 years

Did you know SQLite3 comes with Full Text Search built in? I wrote a quick tutorial on using it with Ecto, as well as some explanations of why it is so different than others. I plan on continuing by hooking it up to Phoenix LiveView and LiteFS!

SQLite3 Full Text Search with Phoenix

Using SQLite3 built-in Full Text Search(FTS5) capability with Elixir Ecto.

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@peregrine

2 years

With sqlite+litestream+phoenix you can do horizontally scaled, continuously backed up to s3, write-lite, globally distributed services AND full featured front end applications. With just the lightstream, erlang and elixir binaries to bootstrap everything.

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@peregrine

1 year

One of the really incredible bits about the BEAM is having multiple processes communicating on cpus, machines, or data-centers globally. It can be daunting to get started and @chris_mccord released a new library to make DNS Clustering easier!

BEAM Clustering made easy

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

6 months

Not Every Dependency is worth it. Follow along as I review a Hex package and find out I can probably replace it with a function call, a more specific dependency and Req instead! (Link below)

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@peregrine

4 years

@GamerPres2020 Everyone know's Watkins is playing for 2040

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@peregrine

7 months

My next foray into Elixir and Rust, this time using llama.cpp!

Using LLama.cpp with Elixir and Rustler

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

1 year

I got a chance to play around with Rustler for creating Nifs in Elixir and the experience was an absolute joy. Rust is a fantastic language and ecosystem, easily as good as what we have for dev UX in Elixir. I think they are are a good mix.

Elixir and Rust is a good mix

Make your Elixir projects even faster using Rust!

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@peregrine

2 years

@hankgreen Hank I think you need to redefine what "more broadly famous" means. Because I'd wager more people follow/keep up with your work than most famous actors.

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@peregrine

8 months

The fact that the BEAM will transparently send the closure over the wire is wild. It will even stream a File!

Chris McCord

@chris_mccord

8 months

Elixir is fantastically well suited for this. Wrap any existing code in a `(MyRunner, fn -> ... end)` and that's it! We will find or boot a new temporary copy of the app, send functions to the temp node *and any variables those functions close over*.

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@peregrine

1 year

Truly the Rustler team did a frankly amazing job making the Beam Nif interface between Rust and Elixir vanish. And that is super cool.

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@peregrine

2 years

The year is 2022 and Phoenix LiveView is very popular. As a result @chris_mccord is now one of the best JavaScript developers I know of. Please send him all of your JavaScript queries!

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@peregrine

1 year

I really love single file elixir scripts. Especially for isolating tricky bugs. I've been calling them Garyfiles after @TheGazler who's been using them forever. So I did a write up! I think might be surprised at *how much* you can do with just `elixir`.

Single File Elixir Scripts

Experiment and debug with Elixir Scripts!

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@peregrine

1 year

OpenAI uses Server Sent Events for streaming results from their API. I put together a small guide on using @wojtekmach 's fantastic HTTP client library Req, to work with this!

Streaming OpenAI responses

The home for Phoenix-oriented content ranging from Ecto to LiveView and more.

fly.io

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@peregrine

11 months

File uploads are hard. Phoenix LiveView makes them easy, and now even for complex use cases thanks to the new UploadWriter.

Streaming Uploads with LiveView

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

2 years

@powerbottomdad1 I think he is just more honest than most people lol. I know tons of “normal people” who live off essentially the same shit meal every day and most people do 3ish productive hours between meetings, breaks and lunch.

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@peregrine

1 year

One of the great things about using LiveView is that you can be really productive with our knowing anything about how a Process works in Elixir. Lets talk about the implications of every LiveView being a Process!

A LiveView is a Process

A Phoenix LiveView is a Process, let's discuss what that means!

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@peregrine

3 years

LiveBook has gotten *much* better recently and I was playing around with adding Canvas support to it.

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@peregrine

2 years

@0interestrates "the world needs more hard conversations" -> only asks softball questions like he's on npr or something

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@peregrine

2 years

@kylascan if you keep this up bloomberg terminals are going to start tracking a vibes index.

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@peregrine

2 years

In one of my first documentation efforts with I wrote up a quick guide on using SQLite3, Phoenix/Ecto and even a bonus tip of one way you can transfer data to SQLite from other databases. Hat tip to @mcrumm_ as well!

SQLite3

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

10 months

A LiveView is an Elixir Process and that is a big deal! Checkout my talk from @ElixirConf here:

ElixirConf 2023 - Jason Stiebs - A LiveView is a Process

Leave comments at: https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirconf-2023-jason-stiebs-a-liveview-is-a-process/58955Every LiveView is a process, and this has important im...

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@peregrine

2 years

Finally got one of my Phoenix Files posts published. @flydotio Copying to the Clipboard from LiveView aka how to do simple JS stuff when you maybe don't need a hook. Kudos to @josevalim for the inspiration from his now deleted tweet.

Copy to Clipboard with Phoenix LiveView

Copy to a user's clipboard with Phoenix LiveView.

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@peregrine

3 years

You would not believe how many doctors, residents, nurses, nursing students, technicians, and janitors they can fit in one labor and delivery room in the span of an hour. In other news, Flora Stiebs was born last night!

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@peregrine

2 years

@waitbutwhy I am just wondering, you know January 6th happened last year right? And it was historically extremely bad.

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@peregrine

1 year

Thanks to Lake Michigan, Milwaukee will *not* be joining the midwest heatwave, instead we will be living in paradise.

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@peregrine

8 months

Part two of my "Let's search all of Hex " where I use a fancy Fly GPU, Bumblebee and a fancy vector search index to build Semantic Search!

Real World ™ Machine Learning on Fly GPU's

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

fly.io

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@peregrine

2 years

@matt_meeta @Noahpinion Western far leftists and far rightists finally have something they agree on.

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@peregrine

9 months

@hankgreen Hank, you live in Montana.

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@peregrine

2 years

My company, @RokkinCat , is looking to hire another Elixir Developer Contractor/Consultant. If you are interested in working with me (and frankly my way more interesting coworkers) reach out! My DMs are always open. All skill levels are accepted.

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@peregrine

1 year

I will be speaking at @ElixirConf 2023. Expanding on the fact that LiveViews are processes and why that is actually really important.

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@peregrine

2 years

Very nice to meet @yburyug in person

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@peregrine

8 months

I still can't believe @josevalim is on vacation and decided he wanted to spice it up a little bit. Dude has super human patience.

Local accumulators for cleaner comprehensions

Hi everyone, This is a proposal for introducing local accumulators to Elixir. This is another attempt of solving the comprehension problem, which we first discussed two years ago. This proposal is...

elixirforum.com

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@peregrine

2 years

I just want to say that Mix.install is so powerful. I cannot think of another language that lets you make a file, add ‘Mix.install([:nx, :plug_cowboy, :req])’ and run “elixir file.exs” and you automatically can do machine learning, web development and interact with APIs. Wild!

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@peregrine

1 year

@jdcmedlock My grandma and I argue about this because she is a classic republican and the argument that works every time (she kinda forgets) Her argument is "the parents should be responsible for their children!" me: "why make the children suffer for the misfortune of their parents?"

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@peregrine

1 year

I'm starting to get the feeling that @livebookdev has the potential to be bigger than any other elixir project. I've used Jupyter and I love Observable but LiveBook is moving faster and in more creative directions than either.

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@peregrine

1 year

Can you imagine asking the people of Cudahy to drive 8 entire minutes on this road?

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@peregrine

5 months

What if S3 could be a fast, Globally Synced, KV Store? That is as simple a single "put' and you are done? That's essentially what @TigrisData is! Tigris launched on Fly last week and I've been just day dreaming with all that you can do!

What if S3 could be a fast, globally synced, Key Value Database? That's Tigris

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

2 years

Look I don’t make the rules

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@peregrine

7 months

Ok this may be one of my most unhinged ideas but Ecto.S3Repo could exist.

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@peregrine

1 year

`for` in Elixir is different, and it can frankly do way more than you'd think. This continues my series of posts on "this is a thing I explain to newew Elixir devs often."

for Can Do More

Learn about all the neat stuff that the `for` construct can do in Elixir!

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@peregrine

3 years

"The sad, boring fact is that no fundamental advances in math or computer science are needed to solve these problems."

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@peregrine

8 years

@elonmusk @danahull Assuming he puts Country before generating shareholder value for Exxon.

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@peregrine

5 months

Really difficult to overstate how incredible Req is and is becoming. Wojtek is doing things with testing that no other lib does, in any language not just Elixir!

Wojtek Mach

@wojtekmach

5 months

Req v0.4.10 is out! Here are some major changes since v0.4.0:

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@peregrine

7 years

Native Elixir property based testing? 😍 @whatyouhide has done it again!

GitHub - whatyouhide/stream_data: Data generation and property-based testing for Elixir. 🔮

Data generation and property-based testing for Elixir. 🔮 - whatyouhide/stream_data

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@peregrine

5 months

@AlanMCole And every milestone from 0-2 are step changes like a gene turned on and they are talking now.

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@peregrine

10 months

I have become quite partial to the @zeddotdev editor lately for Elixir. It's fast, the team is responsive to bugs and the vim emulation has been improving faster than I thought possible. It also integrates with the nextls language server which is very nice!

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@peregrine

1 year

Elixir has this really cool library called "NimblePublisher" that uses your filesystem as a sort of CMS. But it can be tricky for people to see how to "Finish Drawing the owl" and ship it. So I wrote it up!

Crafting your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix

Building your own Static Site Generator using Phoenix and NimblePublisher, the complete guide.

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@peregrine

6 months

Me when a new @dashbit Nimble* library drops.

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@peregrine

2 years

@IsaacRowlett Please. It hurts.

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@peregrine

2 years

@lastcontrarian @mucha_carlos collectively or manipulated into? Lots of powerful companies/industries/lobbies stood to lose big time if we all went the way of France. Not hard to manipulate the usual suspects on the far right and left away from them.

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@peregrine

9 years

One year of @tenderlove as my background. At this point I am keeping it out of spite for people telling me its weird

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@peregrine

2 years

Please reach out if you are hiring for frontend and or Ionic/react or elixir. Our people are incredibly capable and talented and I can vouch for them. I will be joining @flydotio in the new year as a "Senior Framework Specialist" for Elixir/Phoenix.

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9 months

Oh hey my most recent post is on the HN front page. But skip HN and check it out here ⬇️

Elixir and Phoenix can do it all!

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

1 year

@bikelaneuprise @ClintonBikeLn Now this is the kinda PRO SOCIAL behavior I like to see!

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@peregrine

2 years

@Carnage4Life Probably started as an excel document

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@peregrine

2 years

@DJSnM Its REALLY hard to garner any information from google killing a product when it's this consistent

Jason Scott

@textfiles

5 years

To celebrate the official launce of Google Stadia ( @GoogleStadia ) tomorrow, I have created a single-purpose website: . It is a countdown timer set for the average lifespan of any Google service/product, which is 4 years.

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@MikeBradleyMKE Millennials found a way they can influence politics in a positive way and its refreshing.

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@peregrine

2 years

@MattZeitlin Bunch of fresh Yale grads would work, just grab whomever likes beer the most.

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@peregrine

1 year

Anecdotal evidence here but I can confirm that people *want* to be working with Elixir. If you are using Elixir and are having trouble hiring.... I don't know what to tell you.

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@peregrine

1 year

. @chris_mccord told me this library is too boring to write a post about and I couldn't disagree more! BEAM is incredible and thanks to 's primitives its really quite simple to deploy something globally.

BEAM Clustering made easy

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

8 months

Remote work is incredible and I wouldn't really wanna go back to 9-5/5days a week in an office. But goofing around with coworkers and going out to lunch is undefeated.

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@peregrine

1 year

would anyone be interested if I did a livestream of hacking on the AT protocol in elixir?

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@peregrine

1 year

Following up from my last post, here is a guide on actually using your SQLite Full Text Search database with Phoenix LiveView. I had trouble writing this post cause its literally just "Query the database, Render the results". LiveView ♥️ SQLite

Phoenix LiveView and SQLite Autocomplete

Build a complete Autocomplete Search with Phoenix LiveView and SQLite

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@peregrine

1 year

I return to work on Monday not the same person that left on Friday. For I have a toddler and my weekend was a month long.

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@peregrine

1 year

Turns out the easy part of indexing every HexDoc was getting the data, read more here! If you wanna just search all of hex for a function here ya go!

Let's search all of Elixir's Packages!

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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@peregrine

1 year

@jessfraz code reviews “meetings” where someone would put your code on a projector and the worst people would nitpick it.

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@peregrine

1 year

You do not need a vector database to make a ChatGPT plugin. I even made a "single file" example in elixir And here is a guide I wrote walking through it

Minimum Viable ChatGPT Plugin

Make your first ChatGPT Plugin with Elixir and Phoenix

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@peregrine

1 year

I recently got beta access to make a ChatGPT Plugin and turns out it's pretty simple to get started! Here is a minimal viable plugin.

Minimum Viable ChatGPT Plugin

Make your first ChatGPT Plugin with Elixir and Phoenix

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@peregrine

1 year

Most problems I see from new users of LiveView comes from not understanding that a LiveView is actually process, and each user gets one. So let's talk about it!

A LiveView is a Process

A Phoenix LiveView is a Process, let's discuss what that means!

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@peregrine

2 years

@CleverMonsterCT @cammerman Later Left: that genocide you did was bad. Here is the evidence. By law you should be in jail. Right: who even cares about genocide when gas is 5$/gallon? Center: gas is expensive…

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Really excited for this launch, the @TigrisData team are a really smart crew and they bring really interesting NEW ideas to the "S3" storage space. (more on this tomorrow from me :-))

Tigris, the globally distributed S3-compatible object storage | Tigris Object Storage

Tigris is a globally distributed object storage service that provides low latency anywhere in the world, enabling developers like you to store and access any amount of data using the S3 libraries...

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@peregrine

1 year

If you want to use @supabase 's excellent pgvector on Fly, while still using Fly Postgres tooling, I made a little tutorial on how you might do that with Dockerfiles!

Adding pgvector to Fly Postgres

Working with “vector” databases is extremely popular right now due to various AI and Machine Learning tasks they can help improve. Luckily the Supabase team open sourced their pgvector library to...

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@peregrine

6 months

@generativist nature abhors measuring space beneath a curve

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@peregrine

2 years

@MattZeitlin The best part is that it makes them very mad. We just don’t care that much

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@peregrine

2 years

@mikerugnetta One missing cost here and the most insidious one is how health insurance companies push the work they should be doing on to you and the employer and shamelessly. I have a small business and I hate every single step of this.

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@peregrine

1 year

The author *gets* Elixir I was worried they might have missed the point with the opening, and I'm glad I stuck with it.

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@peregrine

2 years

@mitsuhiko an ultimately once your application solidifies you end up with only a couple hot paths anyways, with manual work to add even trivial features, and the cost of the system with infinite complexity.

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@peregrine

1 year

Also if you use with Phoenix and something sucks let us know! We have a very active forum . If you are a mutual don't be afraid to slide into my DM's and vent. My job is making work well for Elixir/Phoenix!

Fly.io

Community discussion and support for Fly.io application hosting.

community.fly.io

Fly.io

@flydotio

1 year

Use SQLite’s built-in full-text search with Phoenix and Ecto! New Phoenix Files from @peregrine

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@peregrine

5 months

The real benefit of functional programming is that I can jump into any code base, read some functions and their arguments and figure out what is going on. If I need to "jump to definition" I can search `def function_name` or use an LSP if offered. Its all out there.

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1 year

I'm going to take a big swing and see if I can do my entire elixirconf presentation in LiveBook.

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