Konstantin Gerry

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Meet Poltergeist: an AI-friendly universal build watcher that auto-detects and rebuilds any project—Swift, Rust, Node.js, CMake, or anything else, the moment you save a file. Zero config, just haunting productivity. steipete.me/posts/2025/p...

Putting aside the details, there is a side to LLMs that I really enjoy - I get to use normal words to tell it to do something and most of the time it does. How cool is that!

I'm learning Kotlin!

Good morning everybody ☕️. Today is building fun things for the Mac day, CLI, blurry glass theme en all.

No doubt about that, it's just that "obscure, difficult to interpret and explain" language features are becoming very visible when even LLMs get sidetracked despite explicit help/instructions.

Gave Claude a small task to add the implementation of a tiny SwiftUI app that reads some HTML from a URL and shows it as markdown. It did it twice with the same prompt, once with structured concurrency (6.2) and once without. Structured concurrency increased its token usage 4.7x 🤯

I'm shutting down my personal GitHub sponsors in favor of an open collective that will be used to transparently fund Ash related expenses and also contribute financially to projects that matter to Ash & Elixir!

opencollective.com/ash-framework

#ElixirLang #AshFramework

hot take - Kotlin inline functions are the sanest version of C macros

- How do you sleep?
Me: In intervals of 5 hours, why?

Good morning ☕️☀️

Haha, I’m very happy to hear that 😋. Ash all the things 🦄🔥

Well, every ecosystem has their way, no kink shaming 😋

It’s common for big libraries like Phoenix/Oban/Ash/… to have features and changes spend significant time in alphas/betas, pre-releases, community feedback loops etc. - it all ties into why it’s really a joy to use them. Once something works well, it keeps working for a long time :)

You mean LiveView probably, Phoenix is at 1.8. Low version numbers are a side effect of a more stability/careful evolution culture in the ecosystem. Very much a contrast to say NextJS. Breaking changes are rare and usually well-signposted, long-beta’d, and have upgrade tooling.

Yes, it was overall very triggering. I also saw it before coffee 😂😋

The toolbox is toolboxing ✅

Less Glue, More Product: Why Elixir Shrinks Architectural Complexity If you’re building a backend mostly alone, Elixir lets you avoid service sprawl and ship features faster.

I was recently confronted with examples of small/solo devs fighting with complexity and tech-debt coming from their frameworks and eating their precious time to build features, so I put down my thoughts. There are no absolutes in tech, there isn't a 'winner' library. iamkonstantin.eu/blog/less-gl...

For TypeScript, it often has challenges with frameworks like Nuxt or React Router e.g. sometimes it does imports incorrectly, or gets confused between es modules and require 😅... or tries to do things too much TypeScript instead of throwing in :any here and there 🙃

What about you?

Elixir and Swift mainly

Oh, another trick is to use subagents, then you can have multiple specialised tasks running in their own context.

Compact often! I find it ideal to do so after every task. It can keep track of progress and what's left to be done in .md files so it can resume right away.

Screenshot from an event date time announcement where the time is incorrectly formatted with 12h time instead of 24h

All major browsers support the Internationalization API, please use it.

LiveView 1.1 is out and I'm very excited about colocated hooks, we have a lot of these snippets and they will be a lot easier to write now. All the changes 👉 www.phoenixframework.org/blog...

#ElixirLang

I wish the EC would interface with our egov stuff - so many docx to download, fill and upload as PDF 🙈😮‍💨

Definitely looking forward to a new Mario! I had a lot of fun with Mario Odyssey 🍄... especially portrait travels 🌪️

Programming, scripting, and markup languages Rust is yet again the most admired programming language (72%), followed by Gleam (70%), Elixir (66%) and Zig (64%). Gleam is a new addition to the list, and for good reason - developers like it! Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year? (If you both worked with the language and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.)

Oh my gosh! Gleam got #2 most admired programming language in the Stack Overflow survey!
We're on the podium with Rust and Elixir!

oh sorry, I forgot the content warning :P