Marko Honkanen

A Finn now living in London. Building stuff using Elixir:

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

Good thing I did code reviews and fixes for a few projects while Fable was availabl

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

I’ve been running an NHL fan site for Finnish hockey fans for years (NHL Finns). I wanted to expand on the project, registered a domain around 5 years ago and finally got the project off the ground (you know how). Same backend, different customizable UI: https://t.co/pvfDb8uzcE

[minne.london @LondonMinne]

An image we took a while ago showing how different the architectural styles can be in the City of London.

#london #architecture #cityoflondon

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

@Adidotdev Zed

[minne.london @LondonMinne]

We've added a new article about London live music events covering many of the popular venues, how to get tickets etc. You can find it there:

https://t.co/rJzFGX2gAd

#london #livemusic

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

The BBC has a terrible habit of switching to Curling whenever a 3rd period of a hockey match is supposed to start.

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

ChatGPT knows me too well already:

“Anytime 😄 — this is me gently standing between you and “accidentally building Ahrefs at home”.”

[Antti Saarnio @AnttiSaarnio]

Just Incredible!
European Phone by Jolla
Sold 3000 phones in 3 days
No VC money
No big marketing budgets

Just die-hard team, community and angel investors.

https://t.co/Av6mSXkAPo

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

I've been using Tidewave heavily for the past few weeks with Claude Code, and it's been great. Sometimes, when I ask Claude Code / Codex directly, they produce decent results, but usually, there is something to fix. Often, it's easier just to redo the work using Tidewave. #elixir

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

@leandrocesquini Amazing, this is exactly what I needed 🙇‍♂️

[Anthony Accomazzo @accomazzo]

What makes @elixirlang great for startups?

The biggest problem most startups face is trying to find product/market fit. The key to discovering product/market fit is rapid iteration. You need to build, measure, and adapt quickly based on customer feedback.

Ruby on Rails understood this well, and bootstrapped tons of really big companies. The top four YC companies by value are Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, and DoorDash – all originally Rails shops. [1]

Rails was and is really good. It's surprising that other languages and frameworks still haven't caught up. I feel for younger startup teams that don't know how good we had it.

There's one ecosystem that doesn't have a Rails-shaped hole, though: Elixir.

Elixir is a great choice for a team that wants to move fast. Here's why:

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

@andrielfn I just tried the date picker and the variants, and they are awesome, great job!

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

I fell right into the trap of trying to update some JS framework stuff in a Phoenix application. Reverted, and sanity is slowly restoring...

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

I wrote a quick blog post about adding LiveSvelte to a LiveView project:

https://t.co/KCXvxappzt

#ElixirLang

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

@andrielfn Looks great, these will save a lot of time in the future.

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

Also on the sky app now at hokram @ https://t.co/Nw1pWaONXG

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

I created a site for estimating stories in an agile project using Phoenix LiveView (what else?). It's in beta for now.

https://t.co/KPMTyo3tpu

#elixir #MyElixirStatus

[Daniil @mrpopov_com]

Wish this post could find me a job

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

@NHL not sure if this is the right place to contact you, but the William M. Jennings Trophy runner-up for 2013-2014 links to a wrong Chad Johnson (8456727, should be 8473434) on the awards page.

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

And I say easy, but it must have taken at least tens of person years to build, probably more.

[Marko Honkanen @hokram]

The new EE website and app make a really good case study of how easy it is to build an SPA that doesn’t work.