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My bi-weekly newsletter on all things Elixir and Erlang

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Just a quick heads up, in a thread the other day I was told by dang that newsletters aren't applicable for Show HN as per this page I'd never noticed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html So take my upvote but at the same time, I imagine this post might be removed in some form later(?)

You may find it useful to submit it to these various directories as well: https://newslettercrew.com/list-of-newsletter-directories/ .. plus places like /r/erlang, perhaps. It would probably work out better for HN if you have some blog posts or articles and promote the newsletter off the back of them :-)

Thanks! Point taken.

Out of curiosity how come you never did one for Elixir as part of cooperpress? Half expected/hoped you’d start one at some point.

As the 'publisher', I used to abide by a philosophy of not publishing a newsletter in a space I didn't understand. While this has helped with quality control, this was probably not a great business idea as it's meant we've missed out on a lot of growth areas I'm personally not technically au fait with (Elixir and Rust come to mind).

Right you are. I've taken "Show HN" out of the title accordingly.

Actually, newsletters per se aren't great as HN submissions either. It's a bit like submitting a blog's home page. It would be better to submit the most interesting issue/article so there's specific information for people to discuss.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Bit of a tangent, but I can highly recommend the "Thinking Elixir" podcast.

The other ones are nice too, but this one starts with general Elixir community updates and has been great for me to catch up on what's new, similar to the newsletters.

And usually the interview guests are pretty great too.

Plus, I've grown fond of the very short bassoon(?) two-tone intro followed by a friendly "Hellooo", rather than the obnoxious intro music that so many podcasts go for :).

"Thinking Elixir" is one of my favourite podcasts for all the reasons you mentioned.

That's cool. There are a few of them already, what makes this one different?

Gonna share a link to my Elixir related project (formatter for .html.l?eex files) that readers will probably find useful. https://github.com/adamzapasnik/prettier-plugin-eex

Nice! does it work with .leex files for LiveView, or templates inside a LiveView .ex module? That's the biggest small issue I'm running into day to day.

It should work with .leex files. About the .ex files, I would be surprised if it worked. I do have it in mind, though. Actually, gonna add Issue to repo, so I wouldn't forget :)

Subscribe for the first issue, or check out previous ones one my site: https://preslav.me/tag/this-week-in-elixir-and-erlang/

How often do you send it? Every two weeks, or twice a week?

Edit: it's fortnightly (every two weeks)

It's every other week, yeah.

Funny, the same word can actually mean both: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly

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