@mikezornek.com.bsky.social
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
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.
Right on time.
05.08.2025 01:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Consider the Lobster and Other Essays.
I listened to a few chapters of Infinite Jest audiobook, but stopped and am going to read it instead next.
A meme featuring a portrait of writer David Foster Wallace, wearing glasses and long hair. The overlaid text reads: "Yo dawg, I heard you like footnotes.ยน ยนSo I put some footnotes in your footnotes.ยฒ ยฒSo you have some context about the context." The meme humorously references Wallace's frequent use of footnotes and nested commentary in his writing.
๐ Well into my first David Foster Wallace #book this week. #books
02.08.2025 20:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I don't know yet.
Part of me is leaning towards a low dependency project, with more handcrafted solutions, but the other says I should try to get more experience with Daisy (and Ash).
๐๏ธ Standard tickets for #ElixirConfUS are still available and the schedule has been announced.
Join us one last time in sunny Orlando - this is your final chance to catch ElixirConf in Florida! ๐ดโ๏ธ
Donโt miss it ๐ elixirconf.com#tickets
#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus
Did my best to mirror what one would get from the project generator. Not too bad, though the static vendor JS stuff makes it feel noisier than it could be.
I feel like I'll be ripping out a lot of the core component stuff for a more handcrafted UI component system in the weeks ahead.
๐จโ๐ป Updated my very fresh side project tonight.
`phoenix` from `v1.8.0-rc.3` to `v1.8.0-rc.4`
`phoenix_live_view` from `1.0.9` to `1.1.0-rc.3"`
and other friends. #ElixirLang
github.com/zorn/wayfind...
๐ The BEAM Book: A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM. #ElixirLang
Available under Creative Commons Attribution license and in print.
github.com/happi/theBea...
Wonderful talk, and a great connection to the topics we are discussing in book club via Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
20.07.2025 17:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ฟ๐จโ๐ป Watched a technical talk, Waterpark: Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors by @bryan-hunter.bsky.social, with lunch after seeing it recommended by @sasajuric.bsky.social.
#ElixirLang
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm...
Finally got to watch @bryan-hunter.bsky.social's Waterpark talk. It's a great demo of how BEAM and Elixir can help build systems with zero downtime, while significantly reducing technical complexity. Curious about what makes Elixir special? This is the talk to see!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm...
As a former host of tech meetups, Fridays (unless connected to a special event) were never prime time. Many people would rather be with their friends and family. Maybe we could draw some, but numbers always would be higher during the week.
20.07.2025 12:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
An elderly couple sits together at a Phillies baseball game at Citizens Bank Park, overlooking the field from the outfield stands. They are wearing matching Phillies jerseys: the womanโs reads โTOGETHER 19โ and the manโs reads โSINCE 67,โ symbolizing they've been together since 1967. The stadium is packed with fans, and the Philadelphia skyline is visible in the background during sunset.
โพ๏ธ How can you not be romantic about baseball? #Phillies
19.07.2025 00:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Logs showing bots calling various files, like info.php or /.git/config
Don't forget: Once you get an @letsencrypt.bsky.social cert for your domain, it's public. This is mere seconds after I deployed an app for the first time on a previously unused domain. #selfhosting #security
18.07.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A four-panel black-and-white comic by Sarah Andersen titled โSuddenly Finding a New Obsession.โ 1.A person with messy hair and striped shirt blankly stares at a computer screen. 2. Their eyes widen in interest. 3. Now fully alert, their eyes bulge in amazement. 4. The character, now dressed in a frog costume, sits in a room filled with frog-themed decorations and toys, with a poster behind them that reads "I โฅ Frogs."
๐ธ Related, this is a comic on my office wall.
18.07.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
๐ฟ I've been obsessively (as I do) consuming a lot of David Foster Wallace content in the past few days.
This commencement speech is worthy of your time if you want to consider the value of your attention and how to think.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCbG...
A scene from the movie Oppenheimer shows Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, sitting in uniform with a pained expression, hand on his face. A red Philadelphia Phillies baseball cap has been digitally added to his head, creating a humorous contrast.
๐๐ฃ I finished chapter 8 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications. I paired my reading with the Oppenheimer soundtrack.
It was a bombastic match with the book reviewing the complex ways distributed systems can fail--from unreliable networks, unreliable clocks, and the complex concept of truth.
GitHub Copilot suggests sorting the entries in the extensions list of .vscode/settings.json alphabetically, changing the order from 'erlef', 'esbuild' to 'esbuild', 'erlef' for improved readability and maintainability. This change would no longer make it alphabetical.
๐ค The robots can not sort alphabetically.
15.07.2025 00:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My idea is a customer success and communication tool. The thing I am uneasy about is analytics. So often, they are used invasively and without respect to the privacy rights of the end user. I question setting up camp in an environment where I see so many bad actors occupying.
14.07.2025 13:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐จโ๐ป Made the tiniest first step tonight for a new side project I've been conflicted and unsettled around.
Still not sure it will be the right long-term choice, but I need something to flex on to keep sharp.
๐ถ If you are not playing the CLUE movie explanation music in the background while doing technical Root Cause Analysis screencast for your peers, you are missing out.
13.07.2025 19:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐๏ธ I'm overdue to clean up my laptop's file storage.
Do you have any tips or suggestions?
๐ค When the vinyl record is skipping but you donโt notice because it is jazz improv.
13.07.2025 19:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ I thought my faith in society could not go lower, but then, while preparing to hide in my bathroom during a tornado warning, the radio broadcast was interrupted with todayโs results from Wall Street.
09.07.2025 00:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In the past, I've used Paw (which was bought by Rapid, which was bought by Nokia).
paw.cloud
In my book, that chain of ownership change is always a huge red flag, a time to look for an alternative.
๐ In the process of experimenting with the JSON/REST API, the book recommended Bruno (which is a new to me) API client.
www.usebruno.com
Seems good.
๐จโ๐ป Finished chapter 4 of the Ash book, which had us add both a JSON API and a GraphQL API.
github.com/zorn/tunez
This book feels like required reading if you are trying to grow a system horizontally.
07.07.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ Yesterday, during book club, we reviewed chapters 5 and 6 of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, covering Replication and Partitioning.
Again, the book does a wonderful job of documenting the various approaches and reviewing the tradeoffs you should consider.
elixirbookclub.github.io/website/
