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This strategy is working for me in spades:

- view transitions
- scroll-driven animations
- popover
- masonry
- web components?
- carousels

Never under-estimate my ability to wait 10 years for something to come to the platform.

Not that I'm aware of. Afaik UTM is "the app" to do vms on M-machines, kinda like virtual box was on intel – at least if you're not paying for it.

A green circuit board with some colorful wires soldered to a breakout module, and a battery taped to the empty area of the board. The board has a processor in the bottom right corner, a flex cable connector (not plugged in) in the middle, and USB + some switches on the left

The guts of the first prototype. Had to solder on a few bodge wires to make it work. The final version has these issues fixed, and the order has been placed!

#Nerves #Hardware #Electronics

I mean when the VM is shut down it comes down to management of disk images, that's true. But that's exactly what UTM does when the machine is not running :D It maintains references to the disk images and how to start them.

I'm mostly after the "management" of vms. If vms run just "one off" starting them with scripts can be fine. But if I keep them around I'd like to have an overview. Thinking farther I could also see display/mouse/keyboard integration for e.g. scenic as nice to have.

Maybe I can nerd snipe anyone into making this work with UTM on mac os. Having a UI to run a cluster of nerves devices would be awesome ✨ There have been attempts, but none successful.

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I recently watched this and while it's a really interesting dive into some of the history in programming languages it also feels like a great sell for how elixir works with pattern matching as well as behaviours and protocols. It's a long video, but there's an intermission and long QA.

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There's github.com/beam-community, which houses a bunch of libraries

I still have some time till furnishing the new office / hobby room, but really considering leaving windows for an VM and using linux for gaming. Maybe even with steam os if it's opened up by then, otherwise some other distro integrating with all the compatibility layers.

This works distinctly different to how most programming languages handle null values and therefore deserves reasonable guardrails. People will just switch around a conditional and expect it to work like in their favorite programming language, when it very much doesn't do so.

```sql
SELECT
('abc' != NULL)::boolean, -- NULL
(NULL != NULL)::boolean, -- NULL
'abc' IS NOT NULL, -- TRUE
NULL IS NOT NULL; -- FALSE
```

It might work for your example, but not the inverse "find all the users with an email". For that `u.email != NULL` is not correct and the condition needs to be `u.email IS NOT NULL`

This changes how you’ll demo, teach, and explore Elixir.

New Popcorn release coming tomorrow – here's a sneak peek of what's to come 🍿

#ElixirLang

This is a great take on agentic workflows. My personal addition: Making it easier for a human to succeed makes it easier for AI to succeed – a wild concept.

View Transitions let web apps go back to this model:

User
-> URL
-> Web server
-> Database
-> HTML with forms
-> User

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I can only support that. I also subscribe to elixir merge, which from the start used AI for it's tool and lately got quite prone to promoting long outdated release posts and generally worse in quality suggestions.

From an "outsiders" perspective AI feels like it's at the early adopters phase of "productive use" adoption. Steep learning curve, things shifting, workflows being worked on. On the other hand it's marketed as if it would already be in early majority of the adoption curve - easy to be picked up.

I'll be taking my first stab at a talk, where I won't be showing much or any code. I hope I can deliver on moving some state living in my head to the attendees :)

On the topic of LSP crashes: I've seen none of these in recent months and rarely ones since switching to zed last year. Contrasting this to vscode, where I had to deal with the LSP on the weekly. Not sure where this difference comes from, but hard to see this as an issue we can fix.

Fortunately/unfortunately Goatmire is not sold out yet. I just goofed a bit on the backend.

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Fresh from the plant is the best 🫛

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I use timingapp.com. It doesn't solve the problem of "tracking while doing the work", but significantly improves the experience of what can be done automatically or after the fact.

hexdocs.pm/phoenix/dire... this already has a lot. It could certainly be improved to be a bit more explicit though.

While I'd like to say CSS it rarely matches a11y requirements around the action taken.

I'm not sure what people expect here. Phoenix is a framework to deal with http. It's opinion of business logic should imo only extend to "not in controllers". More opinion imo belongs to other levels – e.g. ash has lots of those opinions about application structure.

The phoenix generators use conventional places for all those files if you want to stick to conventions. Fallback controllers are mostly useful for json apis, where errors are returned in very generic shapes, so defining that rendering once can be useful over coding that up all over the place.

Best part about it: It doesn't consider access. I've been a guest on a slack with access to a single channel and still received such messages after no activity on the channel I'm on.