10 years(-ish) of Elixir José Valim January 11th, 2021 Edit Sep/2021: The list of companies using Elixir in production has been updated to add recent successes and new cases. This past weekend, on January 9th, we celebrated 10 years since the first commit to the Elixir repository. While I personally…

Introduction This is an attempt to wrap my head around using the Phoenix web framework for a small project. However, it got too long so I broke it into two parts. This is part 1 and just talks about the Elixir language, part 2 is PhoenixForCynicalCurmudgeons but that is still WIP. However, I…

FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE CONTACT RSS DONATE May 1, 2025 Building my childhood dream PC In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers[1]. That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking…

In my old age I’ve mostly given up trying to convince anyone of anything. Most people do not care to find the truth, they care about what pumps their bags. Some people go as far as to believe that perception is reality and that truth is a construction. I hope there’s a special place in hell for…

Stop Outsourcing Your Thinking to Abstractions Your next production outage won’t be caused by what you know. It will be caused by what your abstractions hid from you. Three days. Five engineers. One memory leak. Zero understanding of the actual system. This is not a front-end or back-end problem.…

2025-08-28 ¦ css So much of the web these days is ruined by the bloat that is modern JavaScript frameworks. React apps that take several seconds to load. NextJS sites that throw random hydration errors. The node_modules folder that takes up gigabytes on your hard drive. It’s awful. And you don’t…

Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. April 12, 2023 This article was contributed by Lars Wirzenius My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there…

Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about…