Nathan Hessler

follow and find out what I'm about. that easy.

[Nathan Hessler @spune]

I suck at life... but totally rocked it tonight in monopoly.

[ExMex Conf @ExMexConf]

The ExMex Conf 2026 Call for Speakers is now open.

Whether it's your first conference talk or your fiftieth, we'd love to hear what you've been building, learning, and exploring w/ Elixir.

CFP closes July 15th.

Sponsor opportunities are also available.

https://t.co/9lbMC4caTr

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ExMex Conf returns to Austin, TX on November 12th & 13th, 2026.

A few updates as we kick things off:
• CFP opens in 1 week
• Sponsor opportunities are now available

Get ready. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on.

https://t.co/9lbMC4caTr

[Jacob Luetzow @jacob_luetzow]

Most products that say "we encrypt your data" are telling the truth in a way that doesn't matter.

The keys live on their servers.

Zero-knowledge means a stronger thing: the server cannot read your data, ever, even if it wanted to. Not policy. Math.

How Killswitch works:

https://t.co/wky8nhW6Ba

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Final ExMex 2025 video drop:

Elixir DIY - making Elixir your own.

Own Your Infra
— Thomas Athanas
The Case for Custom Task Oversight in Elixir
— Curtis Ault
Automating my office with Nerves
— Jason Axelson

https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

That’s a wrap!

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Penultimate ExMex 2025 release!

Category: Phoenix

From LiveView to PubSub systems

Animated LiveView: Pushing TailwindCSS v4 to the limit
— Justin Tormey

Make PubSub great again!
— Alvaro Callero

https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

Final drop next week.

#ExMexConf #ElixirLang

[ExMex Conf @ExMexConf]

This week’s category: Elixir & AI

From practical tools to new ideas, these talks explore how Elixir & AI work together.

Getting Elixir on the AI Flywheel
— Isaac Yonemoto

Turning AI into an Engineering discipline
— Thomas Millar

https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

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[ExMex Conf @ExMexConf]

Quick update on ExMex videos:

We’re taking this week off from releases while we wrapped up RBQConf.

Back next week with more talks.

Appreciate the patience 🙏

#ExMexConf #ElixirLang

[RBQ Conf @rbqconf]

Closing out RBQ with a great story from Nick. (Coming Soonish to a video on youtube)

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The villains of scaling Rails have no chance. Batman, I mean Cristian, gives a wonderful talk on how to use your scaling toolbelt to “Kapow” those villains.

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JRuby is the “alt” ruby that has stood the test of time. Thanks Charles for a wonderful talk and the care you’ve taken over these many years maintaining JRuby

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4 small morsel talks to get the afternoon kicked off for the last day of RBQ.

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Chris built an AI feature into his companies app. He shares the steps he took to implement, orchestrate, track, and protect outcomes.

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Learning about Rails Magic through Enums. Awesome talk from Meg this morning!

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Bart shows us how to think through building resilient background jobs. Great talk with solid examples.

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PJ reminds takes down memory lane, reminding us what life was like before git and why git is more important than ever.

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Metaverse? no thanks! Fediverse is pretty cool. Thanks Tom for a wonderful talk to start the second day!

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Yarik walks us through production race conditions that can happen even with Transactions in place.

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Making the case for Open Telemetry and Observabilty in Ruby and Rails. Excellent talk from Austin’s own, Ariel Valentin.

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[dnsimple @dnsimple]

Day 1 of @rbqconf is underway, have a blast everyone!
Proud to sponsor this year's event alongside @Typesense, @GitButler, @AppSignal, and @Judoscale.
We couldn't be there in person, but we made sure to send a little something along, keep an eye out for our stickers.

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David gives us something to think about w.r.t. AI and measuring its performance/outcomes like anything else in software development.

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