This quote from Joe Amstrong nails it:

“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast.”

I don't know why people keep insisting that AI is good at writing
@elixir-lang.org

The importance of tests goes beyond your own code. Last week I upgraded all mix deps and when I ran my tests, I found that some auth UIs broke. I later found that AshAuthentication introduced a bug to the magic link flow. Fortunately my tests caught that and I didn’t push the bug live. #ElixirLang

Commenting here so I get notified. I’m super interested in seeing how you did that.

That’s actually a nice way to look at it!

Exactly! LOL

Another day, another time I had to search hexdocs for how to use Enum.reduce/3. For some reason I can’t memorize the params order for this function 😅

#ElixirLang

I’m an infra noob as well, lol. I’m just looking for an easy-to-use hosting service during the development phase of my app. But for prod I’ll likely use AWS.

I’ll look into it as well.

Nice! I’ll check it out. Thanks!

OK, I’ve tried both Fly.io and Gigalixir. Between the two, I think Fly.io is a bit better because it’s easier to use. But man… they made it really hard to use what they call “unmanaged” Postgres. It’s really annoying! They’re trying to force everyone into paying for managed Postgres. #ElixirLang

lol

@gigalixir.com Just wanted to let you know that I tried to sign up and got this error. I’m _not_ using VPN. It looks like your system thinks that Starlink is a VPN.

Hrmmm… this is not starting well. I’m _not_ using a VPN but Gigalixir insists I am.

Thanks @bobbby.online! I’ll look into gigalixir then. I think AWS or GCP would be too much for me to handle by myself in the short term. My friend is not a developer; he’s on the biz side.

If the business grows in a way that gigalixir becomes too expensive, I think that’s a nice problem to have :)

It’s work. It’s a new idea I’m building with a friend. No real users yet. We’re hoping to launch our MVP in ~3 months.

The user base will likely be small, but the system will handle a large amount of data and be quite heavy on Oban workers.

Hey #ElixirLang friends! Can I get some recommendations on good hosting providers for Elixir / @ash-hq.org applications?

I’m currently using Fly.io during the dev phase, but I’d like to explore other options for production.

Note: I’m not experienced in DevOps, so I’d prefer managed hosting.

Oh, fuck! That’s right! This is dangerous!

Maybe I’m missing something, but I still don’t get how this is not flagged as a syntax error. There’s a closing bracket without a matching opening bracket.

That’s what I’m thinking.

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S1ngularity/nx attackers strike again The attackers behind the nx attack have struck again, targeting a large amount of packages, with a first-of-its-kind worm payload.

🚨Another supply chain attack on npm. This one affects 40+ packages. Beware!!!
www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngula...
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No prob! Thanks for staying on top of your side of things, and being proactive and open about what happened. This allows us to take action sooner. Appreciate it!

@brianfox.bsky.social Do you know what is this other compromised account? Or what are the packages? Or where we can find this information? Thanks in advance!

npm debug and chalk packages compromised The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code

Maybe most of #ElixirLang folks won’t care, but for those of you using npm in your projects, please pay attention to this 0-day attack!

www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb...

Tons of npm packages compromised. Make sure to check your apps and local envs too, especially if you do anything crypto-related.

Made a small contribution to the OS community. This time to Expert, the official lang server for #ElixirLang.

As I was following the installation guide, I noticed a dependency that was not mentioned in the prerequisites. I opened an issue and after some discussion, opened a PR that was just merged.

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Lol