imagining the future

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Friends of mine hear a bit of snark from me when it comes to the recent explosion of hype regarding AI, how it will solve all of the world's problems (while definitely not causing any new ones), and how it's revolutionizing software development.

For the past year I've been running several Postgres databases in FreeBSD VPS's hosted in Vultr.

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at Code BEAM America 2025 in San Francisco.

When building products with Phoenix and Ecto, a common practice is to include development seeds in a file named priv/repo/seeds.exs.

tldr; Test Reflector.

For a long time I've wanted there to be a single-track conference in the Bay Area focused on Elixir and Erlang, in the vein of gogaruco.

On a new project I'm working to migrate data between Azure SQL (aka MSSQL) and PostgreSQL, and to migrate a business's software from Visual Basic and C# to Elixir.

In recent months I have been working on a number of projects with my primary collaborator of recent years, Erik Hanson.

Back in March I gave a talk at CodeBEAM V America about some of the work that I did at Geometer in 2020.

It being 2021, I have decided to air out the website and tune it up.

On Tuesday I spoke at the SF.rb meetup at InstaCart HQ in San Francisco.

One day you wake up, you grab your laptop, you open your email, you see a strange alert, and you open up your exception tracking service.

Note that this is a repost of an article written for the Wanelo blog.

Note that this is a repost of an article written for the Wanelo blog.

Over the past few years I've become a big fan of SmartOS, a distribution of Illumos built specifically with cloud IaaS in mind.

MRI Ruby has a global interpreter lock (GIL), meaning that even when writing multi-threaded Ruby only a single thread can be on-CPU at any given point in time.

You know the Bad Place.

I have made the move.

Well, it's time.