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jamauro··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Elixir. Phoenix or Hologram. I prefer the latter.
jamauro··on Hologram: Building Local-First Apps in Pure Elixir
Bart Blast shows how to build local-first applications in pure Elixir using Hologram.

I think he’s created something truly special here. I’ve been playing around with it and the DX is unmatched imo. Looking forward to the official release.

jamauro··on Ending my elixir exploratory writing
It was a nice place pre-LLMs. One of the better communities imo.
jamauro··on Delta
What makes it better than Conductor?
jamauro··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
> You're absolutely right

Claude, is that you? :)

jamauro··on Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next
> directly to S3 with a presigned URL

yep, this is what I'm doing except with cloudflare's R2 :)

jamauro··on Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next
I don't think CRDTs are needed and they come with some significant downsides. Bart's plan has the right idea using server reconciliation.
jamauro··on Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next
It can handle file uploads. What issue are you running into?
jamauro··on Hologram Works. Sponsor What Comes Next
Hologram is a joy to work with. Local first support will take it to the next level. Bart is cooking.
jamauro··on Programming Still Sucks
Haha I genuinely couldn't tell. I liked it which made me think that it was actually created by a human but had me a bit concerned that my detector is losing calibration.
jamauro··on Programming Still Sucks
Is this Gen AI or did you write it?
jamauro··on Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
If we're not speculating, what are we even doing here?
jamauro··on Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
this might be of interest to you https://popcorn.swmansion.com
jamauro··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
I like this framing. Nice typography btw, a pleasure to read.
jamauro··on Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)
> The Apple Weather app has gotten better over time

Interesting, I think it's gotten worse over time. Even basics like what the temperature will be in a few days. It's consistently ~5+ degrees off on the low side.

jamauro··on AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
Gell-Mann amnesia
jamauro··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
Feels ironic now that Warren is himself an oil prospector with his Occidental stake.
jamauro··on Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL
For elixir, check out https://hologram.page/
jamauro··on Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory
You can take a look at JS commands and hooks. Ultimately I came to the determination that while LiveView is cool, I think I want the opposite. I’m hoping Hologram will be the answer.
jamauro··on Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory
You can add:

ElectricSQL Supabase Felt

There’s another list here: https://elixir-companies.com

jamauro··on Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code
Looks interesting. How do you make sure that agents that need to collaborate on the solution actually collaborate if they’re working in parallel?
jamauro··on Hologram v0.5.0
Hologram looks really good. Excited to build offline-capable fullstack Elixir apps with it.
jamauro··on Why Elixir? Common misconceptions
Generally I find static typing to be overrated, even more so with elixir due to pattern matching and immutability. I think elixir’s set-theoretic types will be a nice addition and will provide some compile-time safety checks without needing to explicitly define types for everything. It remains to be seen how far they’ll take this approach.
jamauro··on Why Elixir? Common misconceptions
Yeah it’d be nice if they had a mix task to include your js frontend of choice and it “just worked”. Many have used inertia with success. I’m taking a different approach and pairing svelte with Phoenix channels.
jamauro··on The One-Person Framework in Practice
Phoenix or Meteor.js
jamauro··on Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style
Curious, what’s the tech stack?
jamauro··on Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style
This looks really cool. Keep going
jamauro··on AI will change the world but not in the way you think
> I dunno about you but I find it pretty discouraging

same :)

jamauro··on AI will change the world but not in the way you think
I agree with you but as a thought exercise: does it matter if there is a lot of boilerplate if ultimately the code works and is performant enough?

Fwiw, most of the time I like writing code and I don't enjoy wading through LLM-generated code to see if it got it right. So the idea of using LLMs as reviewers resonates. I don't like writing tests though so I would happily have it write all of those.

But I do wonder if eventually it won't make sense to ever write code and it will turn into a pastime.

jamauro··on Learn how modern JavaScript frameworks work by building one
I think this will no longer be necessary in Svelte 5. We’ll see.
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