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JEG2 @jeg2.me · 7d

Don’t let the age of this article from @germsvel.com scare you off, vertically slicing features is still a great idea:

www.germanvelasco.com/blog/break-a...

#AgileDevelopment

Break apart your features into full-stack slices

Our communication practices can be very disrupting. Remote work has taught me to be more considerate of how I communicate with others. We should treat other people's time as we like ours to be treated...

www.germanvelasco.com

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Ettore Berardi @ettomatic.bsky.social · 17d

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Elixir) — join my team at the BBC to design, build and scale #Elixir services used by millions

careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-S...

Please share 🙂
#elixirlang #myelixirstatus #hiring

Senior Software Engineer

careers.bbc.co.uk

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minibikini @mnbkn.com · 29d

9 years ago, I released v0.1.0 of Paasaa, my very first open-source Elixir project. Today, I'm incredibly happy to announce the release of v1.0.0! It’s a natural language detection library for Elixir that doesn't use any AI.

github.com/minibikini/p...

#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Sep 5

If you want to work with Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and/or myself, we have some contract availability:

groxio.com

We excel at designing and building Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView systems. We also train teams in how we do it. Get in touch!

Groxio Consulting - Expert Elixir Development

Expert Elixir consulting from the authors of key Elixir books. System architecture, training, and development services.

groxio.com

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Alembic @teamalembic.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congrats to @sevensea.cat & @zachdaniel.dev - their book Ash Framework is finished & heading to print with @pragprog.com !

📚 Packed with insights & best practices for Elixir devs. Order it here & use promo code AshRelease for 35% off till end of 2025.
👉 pragprog.com/titles/ldash...

Ash Framework

Explore the power of Ash Framework by modeling and building the domain for a real-world web application.

pragprog.com

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 2

💜📘 The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book!

Ash Framework: Create Declarative Elixir Web Apps

We meet on Discord for an hour every other week. Our first meeting is Sunday, September 14, 2025, and we will discuss chapters 1 and 2.

#ElixirLang

elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

Elixir Book Club

A biweekly book club covering Elixir and general programming topics. All experience levels are welcome.

elixirbookclub.github.io

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Sep 2

The Groxio team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use #ElixirLang #Consulting help from one or more of us, let’s talk! groxio.com

Groxio Consulting - Expert Elixir Development

Expert Elixir consulting from the authors of key Elixir books. System architecture, training, and development services.

groxio.com

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 31

The ICFP is this coming weekend:
icfpcontest2025.github.io

ICFP contest 2025

icfpcontest2025.github.io

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 29

#OpenSource is (usually) one person: opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-...

Open Source is one person

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is gett...

opensourcesecurity.io

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Maggie Tate @maggietate.bsky.social · Aug 26

Spent the afternoon chatting with folks who care deeply about the #elixirlang and community. It’s going to be a great @elixirconf.bsky.social!

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German Velasco @germsvel.com · Aug 12

For my @elixirconf.bsky.social talk, I'm comparing #ElixirLang's mocking libraries.

It'll be a tournament-style bracket! 🎉

I want to start by introducing the participants! 👇 🧵

What do you think of their characters? 😬

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 14

I'm closing out, for now, my series on questions at the heart of development with an analysis of when we need more abstraction. For example, taking @germsvel.com's advice about architecting more accurate models can reduce future bugs.

programmersstone.blog/posts/why-is...

#ElixirLang

Why is this hard?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. In a previous article of this series I talked about how we must remain ever vigilant against what is making it into our code. I talked about the ne...

programmersstone.blog

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 14

This talk by Giovanni Francischelli on handling #LiveView reconnects is a great blend of fun and educational!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbW...

#ElixirLang

Phoenix LiveView: Mastering Reconnects for a Seamless User Experience -Giovanni Francischelli

YouTube video by Code Sync

www.youtube.com

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 13

In this third article of my questions series, I'm coming for your dependencies! I do my best to add a fifth cost to @martinfowler.com's costs of YAGNI. You can also find out what my favorite programming book is.

programmersstone.blog/posts/what-w...

#TechDebt #YAGNI #dependencies

What will it cost to carry and remove this dependency?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. I've built a lot of applications with a lot of teams. I've seen a lot of the problems with software development. There are two problems that I've s...

programmersstone.blog

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 12

In my second post of key questions for developers, we dig through the insights from multiple @ferd.ca posts to determine how products evolve and the environments that facilitate that process.

programmersstone.blog/posts/what-a...

#ProductDevelopment #PsychologicalSafety

What are we afraid of?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. One of the lessons I learned during my time in management is that it was far more important for me to worry about creating environments where good ...

programmersstone.blog

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 11

The first article in the series is about all of the great things that can be learned from my favorite @jessitron.bsky.social presentation and how developers work best in a Product Dev team:

programmersstone.blog/posts/how-wi...

How will we know it works?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. As programmers, our primary function is to achieve Product's roadmap. We will into existence the features Product believes will move the product fo...

programmersstone.blog

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 11

I'm publishing a new series of articles on my blog this week. It's my attempt to condense and share what I've learned in over 20 years of #ElixirLang / #Phoenix / #LiveView and #Ruby / #Rails development. I hope you find it helpful.

programmersstone.blog/posts/jeg2s-...

JEG2's Questions

My System by Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the early chess books that had a big impact on me. The first part of the book, called The Elements, is where Nimzowitsch lays out the specific criteria he is m...

programmersstone.blog

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 10

I'm reading a classic programming paper tonight. Can you name it from the following quote? "If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."

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Pieter Claerhout @yellowduck.be · Aug 8

🔗 dashbitco/lazy_html: Efficient parsing and querying of HTML documents

#ElixirLang #html #reading-list #tools

dashbitco/lazy_html: Efficient parsing and querying of HTML documents

#ElixirLang #html #reading-list #tools

github.com

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Johanna Larsson 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @jola.dev · Aug 4

Most engineers hate estimates because they've been weaponized by bad managers. But when teams treat estimates as conversations instead of contracts, they actually ship more consistently. Not because they predict better, but because they communicate better.

jola.dev/posts/estima...

jola.dev - Estimates Are More Valuable Than You Think

Johanna Larsson is a software engineer, manager, writer, speaker. With over 14 years of experience in software development and management, she has worked with clients from various industries, includin...

jola.dev

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 5

Back to back.

Two cats lying on a bench with their backs pressed into each other. One is an orange tabby that’s about half the size of the silver Maine Coon next to it.

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Michal @arathunku.com · Aug 4

New elixir-ls release!

> ElixirLS now bundles a number of experimental LLM oriented tools exposed as custom commands and a builtin MCP server. The tools focus on model friendly text interface instead of typical IDE oriented LSP API methods

#ElixirLang github.com/elixir-lsp/e...

Release ElixirLS 0.29.0 · elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

v0.29.0: 4 August 2025 Highlights Added Call hierarchy provider implementing LSP textDocument/prepareCallHierarchy, callHierarchy/incomingCalls and callHierarchy/outgoingCalls ElixirLS now bundles...

github.com

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JEG2 @jeg2.me · Aug 3

The true weight of knowledge.

A set of World Book encyclopedias sitting on a sagging wooden shelf.

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · Aug 3

Tests tell us our software can work.
Observability tells us our software IS working.

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