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Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir just climbed back to #1 on the @PragProg best seller list!
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September 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
Another deleted scene from my book:

There are many ways to solve equality: duck typing, injection, protocol dispatch.

Here's why Funx uses the one it does:

www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09...

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Polymorphism and Behavior Injection
When are two things the same?
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September 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
Follow-up post on polymorphism in Elixir. This one looks at how structs help avoid pitfalls from other languages.
www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08...

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Polymorphism and Structs in Elixir
Polymorphism has always relied on tags. Elixir’s structs make them safer.
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September 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
I wrote this post about polymorphism in Elixir. Details I wish I had known five years ago.
www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08...
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Polymorphism in Elixir
This post walks through the basics of protocols in Elixir. It’s the information I wish I knew five years ago.
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September 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
Some comments on an earlier post had me thinking about polymorphic equality in Elixir, and how == can fall short.
www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/08...

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What’s the point of a polymorphic eq?
Why not keep equality inside the module where it belongs?
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September 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
I just finished putting together interactive Livebook notebooks for every chapter of Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir.

You can now run all the examples in your browser. Or like me, spin them up locally with Docker:

www.joekoski.com/blog/2025/09...

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Livebook Examples from Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
It feels a bit impolite to ask readers to download code and type mix commands just to run the examples. We have better tools now.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
Just got The BEAM Book by Erik Stenman in the mail.
Time to go spelunking in the BEAM!

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September 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jkwa.bsky.social
Just checked in to see if Funx had hit 80 downloads.

Any ideas on what happened?
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What is going on?
“They found me. I don’t know how, but they found me.” — Dr. Emmett Brown
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September 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM