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Mike Zornek is looking for work.

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Developer and Teacher. Working day-to-day programming in Elixir and LiveView. Learning CRDTs, Rust, Svelte, and DevOps automation in my free time. Looking for part-time Elixir contracts. Video gamer and Phillies fan. https://mikezornek.com

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

Insanity.

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · 7d

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Phillies Tailgate @philstailgate.bsky.social · 10d

Buddy Kennedy could get a ring this year if the Phillies, Blue Jays or Dodgers win the World Series.

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Saša Jurić @sasajuric.bsky.social · 28d

Good morning #goatmire! Get 45% off Elixir in Action with the code goatelix25

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Elixir in Action, Third Edition - Saša Jurić

Fully updated to Elixir 1.15, this authoritative bestseller reveals how Elixir tackles problems of scalability, fault tolerance, and high availability. Thousands of developers have learned to build a...

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 8

✅ Today's Goals:

- Hit snooze aggressively past when I should get up.
- Morning routine, and then to the diner for some breakfast.
- Book reading time.
- Work on new client project onboarding tasks.
- Tinker with some Grafana and Prometheus things inside my side project.
- Evening: Mets at Phillies

Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 6

a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

ALT: a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 5

I don't know. I am not using this currently, but it came upon my radar, and I thought it looked interesting.

Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 3

I wish his generative project demos included a publication of the token cost. I feel like those will skyrocket when the bubble pops.

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 3

🍿 Started catching up on ElixirConf videos after owning a virtual ticket, but not doing much with the live streams.

Still very torn on Chris McCord's perspective and pitch of AI. Can't say I'm excited about the idea where most of my day is spent doing code review of the robot output. #ElixirLang

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 3

🔗 User eXperience focused IDentifiers (UXIDs) for Ecto #ElixirLang

hexdocs.pm/uxid/readme....

UXID — UXID v2.0.1

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Sep 3

🔗 A solid resource to check out if you are interested in observability in #ElixirLang. Comes out of an Elixir Conf talk, and includes a list of relevant readings.

github.com/Nezteb/telem...

GitHub - Nezteb/telemetry-driven-development: My ElixirConf US 2025 talk

My ElixirConf US 2025 talk. Contribute to Nezteb/telemetry-driven-development development by creating an account on GitHub.

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

Big playoff vibes for sure. Back and forth. Great game.

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · Aug 28

Is it October 2022 or is it just a

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 28

a close up of a man 's face with the words " don 't give me hope "

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 27

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Franzke & LA @franzkela.bsky.social · Aug 26

This umpiring crew is like when all the Batman villains get together

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 25

👨‍💻 Merged a quick `sobelow` configuration change to make sure failures are reported properly in CI. #ElixirLang

Thanks to @tylerayoung.com for the suggestion.

github.com/zorn/flick/p...

ci: update sobelow config to better report failures in ci by zorn · Pull Request #148 · zorn/flick

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 23

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The Way We Were

YouTube video by Perry Como - Topic

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 14

A button seen at the Computer History Museum. "SOFTWARE IS A SOCIAL DISEASE"

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Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 14

We got a discount code and shared it within our Discord already.

I'll do a raffle during our next call. Thanks for offering.

Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 13

All those moments will be lost, like tears in rain.

A scene from Blade Runner, where Roy Batty is wearing a Phillies cap in the rain.

Mike Zornek is looking for work. @mikezornek.com · Aug 11

📕 We still have a few meetings to finish our current book, but if you are interested in the Ash Framework book, you might want to join the Elixir Book Club.

We will do more formal promotion soon™, but the next book votes have been tallied.

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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Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com · Aug 5

Oh hey, today is the 5 year anniversary of when I originally launched my book tiny.mba.

If you don't have a copy, or want to grab a copy as a gift, I set up the discount code 5YEARS to take 25% off the purchase price of both the print bundle and ebook options.

The Tiny MBA Book - Alex Hillman

You don't need an MBA or fancy investors to be successful in business. Use the 100 ideas in this tiny book to evaluate and execute on your built

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