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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 17h

I love that there's always a TUI (terminal ui) app for things that I want to do, and that they never have customizable keymaps...

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Jon Rowe @jonrowe.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey bksy, I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years commercially, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 6d

You know what I want? Something that removes the friction, internalization, and art from the things I do so that I have no effective feedback mechanisms that matter or joy. Dehumanize me please.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 6d

Using it to generate bespoke code implementations is also unfortunately just bad for your brain and well being. It's clear to me from heavy experimentation but it's going to take a while for people to figure it out.. like kids with cell phones and kids with laptops in class.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 16d

This game is unnecessarily thirsty and has a terrible name, but it's the best of all time in its genre so there's that ...

Plus it's on sale today for 2 bucks..

store.steampowered.com/app/674520/F...

Save 90% on Fight'N Rage on Steam

Fight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pa...

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 22d

Between typing and bass guitar I'm forced to chew down my nails to nubs.

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404 Media @404media.co · 23d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 24d

Damn that looks fantastic..

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Saša Jurić @sasajuric.bsky.social · 29d

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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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Sep 10

It's a thought recession.

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LiveView Native @liveviewnative.dev · Sep 10

Introducing Elixir Pack & Swift Erlang Actor System
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9NF...

#ElixirLang

elixir pack demo

YouTube video by Brian Cardarella

www.youtube.com

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Sep 7

Nothing silly about having the Beam in your pocket.

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Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com · Sep 5

Very good article on the AI hype - AI is most useful in tech, there there are the highest number of, and earliest adopters

If AI was the productivity booster we should see its effects in secondary artefacts (apps released, domains registered, public github repos, video games, etc, etc)

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Sep 4

Our world is filled with false triggers for the emotions of accomplishment.

Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Sep 3

I do like Oban as a service / product. But regardless of that, they have my absolutely favorite sales site.

oban.pro

Sophisticated job processing for the Elixir ecosystem

Oban is a background job system built in Elixir and Postgres, and packed with enterprise grade features, real-time monitoring with Oban Web, and complex workflow management with Oban Pro.

oban.pro

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · Aug 28

No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1. It sounds clean and logical, but it’s wrong. Read about it in my latest article: verraes.net/2025/08/doma...

No, Your Domains and Bounded Contexts Don’t Map 1 on 1

Bounded Contexts are a design choice to suit engineering needs

verraes.net

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 29

The older guy is supposed to be "crazy" coded in this sketch.. But this is me with modern technology..

I just want a damn steering wheel that doesn't fly off while I'm driving.. The thing should just do the thing it needs to do.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YDp...

'Focus Group' Sketch | I Think You Should Leave w/ Tim Robinson | Netflix Is A Joke

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 28

The easiest work to do is whatever can convince us that we're justified in avoiding the work we know we SHOULD be doing.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 27

It's crazy how almost identical @dhh's new Arch Linux distribution Omarchy is to my own personal setup that I've been working on for many years.

I would even consider installing Omarchy on new installs.

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

Omarchy 2.0

YouTube video by David Heinemeier Hansson

www.youtube.com

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 27

State is held in small doses everywhere regardless of any runtime considerations.

Better to keep passing data into mostly pure deterministic functions and to strategically determine where state is held than use the micro objects approach.

Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 27

I disagree.

Objects are use to bind/hide mutable state to functions.

This isn't a problem in the Erlang/Elixir context where you have good data structures and use objects for runtime concerns.

It's problem in "class oriented" languages where you use reference types instead of data.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 27

Walking back doublespeak? Hmm.. as stupid as the reasoning is, the name would be more apt.

Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 24

Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir

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Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir

Use advanced functional programming principles, practical domain-driven design techniques, and production-ready Elixir code to build scalable, complex systems from simple, reusable components.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 18

I think that there can be masterful form and function similar to architecture.

The sheer amount of concerns that can be considered by a master outside is basic requirements (brutalism) is staggering to attempt to comprehend.

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · Aug 18

What is the definition of art that you're using here?

Art has a lot of meanings in a lot of contexts. One thing that I don't see is code or coding used in itself to express something about the human condition.

I see much more often people making artifacts as art instead.

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