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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If it's late in the day and I know something isn't working in a cartoon but I can't figure out the fix, the most efficient thing (allowing for deadline ofc) is to put it aside and look at it with fresh eyes in the morning.
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It’s here!!! 📚 Order your very own copy of @sevensea.cat & @zachdaniel.dev’s book with @pragprog.com with promo code AshRelease for 35% off till end of 2025

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Looks like I'll be coming to the end of a contract shortly so will have availability for new projects from later this month

Give me a shout if you're on the lookout for frontend dev or design systems work and particularly if you're looking for animations, interactions or anything a bit experimental
What I do - Robb Owen
From interaction design to scaleable design systems, single-page apps to something more experimental with WebGL. I help awesome people to build ambitious yet accessible web projects
robbowen.digital
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his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

nymag.com/intelligence...
What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?
Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.
nymag.com
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Important content.
how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for
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Really need to go to the bathroom but the cat is in my lap so I want to bid everyone farewell
You’re making the right choice here.
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A common pattern I hear again and again, is "Most people in the USA want [good thing]!"

Sure! That would be great! If we hadn't intentionally designed a system of government to give outsized political power to the subset of US white voters that consistently and repeatedly want "[bad thing]."

Oops!
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Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The lion does not concern himself with that which the lion does not concern himself.
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“Rails is an opinionated framework, and this is an opinionated book.” ~Introduction

One of today's Pragmatic Picks - 40% off with code PragPicks
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Sweet #Ecto datetime helpers? Yes, please! 😄

- ago, from_now, date_add, datetime_add 👨‍🍳🤌

#ElixirLang
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get the impression that the answer to "if 'AI' can never flip burgers, sew a t-shirt, pick strawberries or wipe an old person's ass, does that mean that is the critical work that defines humanity and everyone who has that kind of job deserves to be compensated extremely well?" is "also, somehow: no"
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Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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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...
I saw your post and thought “is this the most cursed thing Greg has ever posted?” And it turns out the quoted post was way more cursed whereas your post (like your trains) is somehow very blessed?
Time is made up. Weeks aren't real, and target weeks are even less real. You had a meetup and that fact is beautiful.
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Alright... it's all up now 🎉

I walked through the Phoenix 1.8 AGENTS md file, and it was both funny and informative!

You can see the full 25 mins of glory or in parts (on the same page) 👇

www.elixirstreams.com/tips/what-ag...

#ElixirLang
Past me also would've really agreed with the craftsmanship thing.

Current me is more likely to ask "What concrete impact can I reasonably expect from continuing to polish this? Is that impact worth the effort?"
That's a really fair distinction.

I think what I'm noticing lately is that I hit "This is good enough and does not need further refinement until we get new information" sooner than before.

Not because I'm faster, but because I'm better at seeing when the effort is unlikely to yield useful impact.