Justin

Co-founder @castmagic_io, building with Elixir / Phoenix LiveView

[Justin @j_tormey]

A friend told me that I'm the reverse cramer of crypto and honestly he's right

[Justin @j_tormey]

Just got fired from GitHub. I was the one in charge of making sure the number in the "Pull requests" tab updates whenever you close/merge a PR

[Justin @j_tormey]

Insanely cool. I expect more and more tools that we would normally look to a SaaS for will instead be admin features built right into our apps

JS is pay-to-play, Elixir is plug-and-play

[Danila Poyarkov @dan_note]

New package! PhoenixReplay — session recording and replay for Phoenix LiveView.

→ Records assigns server-side, replays by re-rendering the actual view — pixel-perfect, not a DOM approximation → Zero client-side JS — no bundle size impact, invisible to users → See actual server state during replay: changesets, Ecto structs, form data → Navigation, page transitions, live_patch — all captured in one session automatically → 30s session = 8 KB
rrweb and friends record DOM mutations client-side: they fight CORS, break on shadow DOM, drift when assets change, and produce approximate replays with visual glitches. None of that applies here — LiveView templates are pure functions, so same assigns = same HTML. The BEAM just keeps the state.

More coming soon.

https://t.co/vlsnrbpiMn

[Sean Moriarity @sean_moriarity]

OpenAI CONFIRMED an Elixir company

[Justin @j_tormey]

Block had 10,000 employees..?

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Chris McCord @chris_mccord]

Throwback to 11 years ago
https://t.co/ya4sKwLCAT

[José Valim @josevalim]

Very suspicious that OpenAI and Anthropic both dropped major announcements within hours of me publishing this: https://t.co/UI4qZiTsxH

They want to silence it. Don't let them. Read it twice. Share it with your colleagues and friends.

[José Valim @josevalim]

ExDoc v0.40 adds a "Copy Markdown" button that copies the current page to the clipboard. It also generates a "llms.txt" document that will be found at the root of every Elixir package with links to Markdown docs.

Thanks to @mayel2b and @yordisprieto for getting this started!

[Justin @j_tormey]

@cyb3rnaut_ One Dark Pro! It's the best

[Justin @j_tormey]

This runs in ~3ms in Elixir using Nx + EXLA btw

[Justin @j_tormey]

@philzona This benchmark doesn't include BEAM startup time, hardware is an M3 MacBook 36GB

[Justin @j_tormey]

@KevConti I think your comment on GPU acceleration sounds right as well, Nx will compile to run on a GPU whenever possible and minimizes communication overhead. Really cool stuff!

[Justin @j_tormey]

@KevConti Elixir is a fast language and Nx/EXLA are highly optimized, but it's not enough to fully explain the performance gain. Could very well be that I'm benchmarking on better hardware, I don't know anything about the OP's setup

[Justin @j_tormey]

@DNAutics I wish I could've put this on my final slide

[Justin @j_tormey]

@plondon514 @elevenlabs 👀

[Justin @j_tormey]

@louispilfold Add the inaccuracies to the language, making all of the books retroactively correct

[Justin @j_tormey]

@thmsmlr Can't wait, the yak shaves never disappoint 👏🏻

[Justin @j_tormey]

@thekitze Real ones know this is better than css

[Justin @j_tormey]

Elixir... if you really want to

[Ovi Stoica @ovstoica]

Dude in what other language could you write this function name? #clojure