Alex Slade

I like wires, bits, flashing lights, daiquiris and equal rights. Consulting CTO for zero-to-one product teams. #elixir

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

My team is hiring a UX designer. Fully remote, UTC to UTC-6, 60k USD. Freelance or perm, flexible working available.

Post is here - https://t.co/eG3nBUkZRk

I'd reposts or intros if you know anyone.

The team here is great, I'm perm CTO if that means anything ;)

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@ScottHickle @mwfowlie @WHOOP @ouraring @ThroneScience Love the wall, but heads up that pixellated obfuscation like that can be undone. Best to just redact with solid colour - you may not want to expose emails of people on that wall.

[Jakub Skałecki 🚀 #buildinpublic @jskalc]

TIL: #Elixir productivity tip of the year

You can enable hot-reload preserving LiveView state 🤯

Just update your dev.exs config to look like this and done! My development iteration cycle will be so much faster now 😍

Thanks @chris_mccord for showing how to do it!

#myelixirstatus

https://t.co/RQvkyJaF5X

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@superwhisper @DeepgramAI @OpenAI Do you plan to support streaming text at any point?

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@davepl1968 I'd give up, it's too hard. Take a break, watch a film to unwind. What's this? Die Hard With A Vengeance? Huh, sounds fun. Oh man I love Samuel L Jackson, what a great character. Haha what a pickle they're in. Huh?? I passed the interview? Awesome when do I start?

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@ThatArrowsmith @elixirlang E.g. I made up a fictional assembly language for a game prototype, and had an LLM using that with no problems.

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@ThatArrowsmith @elixirlang I reckon this take is short sighted.

If the tech is good enough to be useful in React Native, then it's going to be smart enough to work in other systems too. Maybe the largest corpus gets a few months advantage.

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

Pro tip: save space in your configs by using diacritics for your session keys.

#myelixirstatus

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@lu_sichu I mean, I could make balls out of clay and put them on a table and it would look the same.

There’s no inherent evidence in this picture that the objects pictures are atoms.

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

Instead, consider putting your name first. It feels weird, but it's more helpful to the recipient.

Here's the same invite but with the senders name put first. Much better.

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

I see people send meeting invites, and they put the recipient name first. Google does this by default.

Perhaps it seems more polite; "Who am I to put my name first?"

But this makes things harder for the recipient, is that polite?

Here's why (very short thread):

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

Example: I was invited to an interview.

(not really, but this shows the concept)

I can't see who my interview is with, because the sender was being polite 🙃

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@dave_alive @hot_girl_spring @ThugNeilson556 But then how do the other enemies get a chance of being picked?

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@inthecompanyof @sdw So close to buying...

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@JohnElmLabs Hey, are you aware your web font renders poorly in Chromium (Arc V1.53.0).

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

I should add: this is for control of business logic when converting small records between different schemas.

E.g. various external APIs that store roughly the same data but in different ways

(This isn't for large-scale data tidying or ML pipelines or anything like that)

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

Data pals: Do you know of any formal language or framework for describing data transforms as a tree of rules/steps?

Our team needs one and I can't find any prior art with Google. I'd really love to avoid building something if this already exists.

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@h_carver @lemoneyeo But what if the email was written with cut up magazine words?

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

. @lemoneyeo This is super creepy.

Your team kept a screenshot of a call from 6 months ago, just to catch my attention in an nudge email.

I liked your service, but this sucks.

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

@hugobarauna @livebookdev That's really helpful, thanks.

I haven't yet found a good way to discover Kino libs though, what am I missing?

[Alex Slade @ifthenalex]

#myelixirstatus I'm hunting for a tool to visually explore elixir datastructures, ideally in a liveview.

E.g. render(my_complex_struct) and get a nicely formatted view with code folding and things like that

Any recs?