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Anthropic has unveiled that its AI assistant, Claude, now includes a built-in browser feature.

Using a CDN can significantly enhance the performance of Phoenix LiveView web applications, especially those with dynamic content and user sessions.

DuckLabs has announced its upcoming partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), set to take effect in early September.

In the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents inhabit homes perched on slim islands within a lake.

Can a SQLite database replace the traditional ELF executable format?

OnRotation is streamlining feature deployment without traditional SaaS solutions.

How necessary are build tools for frontend development in 2026?

Contrary to popular belief, the answer to everything is not 42—it’s PostgreSQL.

Bun, initially a promising project, has faced turmoil during its transition to a Rust-based architecture.

A watermark in plain text may seem impossible, as text lacks pixels and metadata.

Is your database design stunted by traditional approaches?

GenStage is a powerful Elixir abstraction that manages data processing through a simple yet effective concept: demand.

Three common hiring mistakes plague companies looking for Elixir engineers.

There's an alternate history of computing where Windows wasn't the dominant OS.

Elixir's structs are more than just advanced maps; they enforce rules that prevent typographical errors.

What does being a CTO really entail?

Full-text search in Contentful just got faster — we improved the median response time by 35%.

On July 14, 2026, Linus Torvalds expressed strong opinions about the role of AI in the Linux kernel development process.

Go 1.27 has arrived with significant toolchain, runtime, and library updates.

In a previous blog post “Improving search at Instacart using hybrid recall”, we shared our progress on adaptively combining traditional full text search with embedding-based retrieval.

In the latest installment of his series, the article breaks down how to create a supervisor from scratch in Elixir, emphasizing the concepts of process links and exit signals.

In this article, Krishnadaspc dives into the concept of process linking in Elixir, exploring how failure relationships affect processes.

What happens when a process dies in a distributed Elixir application?

What if a counter could be a process instead of just a variable?

Today marks the release of tempest/mcp, a new package designed for integrating AI clients with Tempest applications via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Your CI should only schedule builds, not install dependencies.

What foundational texts have fundamentally influenced an engineer's mindset?

Adding a dark mode toggle often leads many developers to implement a simple binary switch.

A legacy PHP application faced daily failures, causing delays in marketing campaigns.

A support agent may need a customer's email address to perform a lookup, but importantly, the model does not require that information.

Using third-party component libraries can speed up development but often limits styling flexibility.

The rise of AI agents in software development raises a critical question: can technology replace human engineering judgment?

APIs might be boring topics for casual conversation, but their significance has skyrocketed.

How does fuzzy search transform how we match terms in data?

One of the best ways to learn how to use AI effectively is by observing a power user and experimenting with different technologies to discern genuine functionality from hype.

How fast is "fast" when it comes to cURL?

A proof of concept implementation showcases a generic REST interface to interact with Elixir's GenServer call and cast functions.

Using Burrito, you can create a self-extracting archive for an Elixir project, compatible across Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

What if managing your Elixir dependencies could be automated?

GitHub is facing a critical situation, but the mainstream narrative about infrastructure scaling misses the core issue: the impact of agentic AI.

Did Flare’s AI solutions outlive their usefulness?

SQLite is the most deployed database globally, often unnoticed by its users, residing in your phone and countless applications.

Apple's logo orientation on laptops has sparked inquiries, particularly its upside-down position when opened.

When exposing related collections through Laravel API Resources, the default order is whatever the database returns — usually insertion order.

Formatting SQL often raises common questions, like how to capitalize keywords or where to place commas.

On most projects, a status column often suffices until stakeholders begin asking for historical data, like "Who was denied last Tuesday?"

Redacting request parameters alone can’t ensure privacy when logging them.

What happens when multiple requests are sent from the same Elixir process?

The inaccurate weekly P&L digest led to the discovery that a genuine trade was missing from the records, while a non-existent one had been erroneously logged.

Module attributes in Elixir can be likened to sticky notes in a toolbox, providing essential metadata about modules and functions without being tools themselves.