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James Edward Gray II @JEG2

A tiny, unsupervised process just sending out messages and hoping someone is listening. bsky.app/profile/jeg2.me

Joined February 2009
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"So these agents are burning tokens to shitpost on AI Facebook." youtube.com/watch?v=11sxky4v…

Please don't install Clawdbot

Click this link https://boot.dev/?promo=ALBERTA and use my code ALB...

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The consequences of short form storytelling: youtube.com/watch?v=Qc5sITMC…

Yes, Social Media Is Destroying Civilization

Support Me On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/theartofstorytelli...

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Balance: youtube.com/watch?v=ts0nH_pS…
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I love this tip: respond to metric requests with pairs (example: speed and quality/risk). addyosmani.com/blog/21-lesso… #programming #work #tips

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

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"Just approve the damn thing."—Saša Jurić youtube.com/watch?v=GOrKfCs-… #Elixir #CodeReview #Collaboration

Tell me a story - Saša Jurić

Tell me a Story is a three-act monodrama that explores the quiet ar...

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If you enjoy philosophy, science, and atheism — especially when they are all jumbled together — this Alex O'Conner and Hank Green discussion is a listen that I really enjoyed: youtube.com/watch?v=EgLbYhnK…

Are We Alone in the Universe? - Hank Green

Get all sides of every story and be better informed at https://grou...

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This is the best video I've seen for putting LLM's in historical context: youtube.com/watch?v=0qnZDMvJ…

ChatBots Explained: Not Conscious, No Revolution — Just Searching's...

#AIHype #GenerativeAI #LLM #ChatGPT #TechHistory #SoftwareEngineeri...

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"So it’s culture?" How do flawed humans keep nuclear reactors safe? By building a culture of open communication. youtube.com/watch?v=v0afQ6w3…

Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311

You can try AnyDesk for free. It's good. https://anydesk.com/smar...

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Don’t let the age of this article from @germsvel scare you off, vertically slicing features is still a great idea: germanvelasco.com/blog/break… #AgileDevelopment

Break apart your features into full-stack slices

Our communication practices can be very disrupting. Remote work has taught me to be more considerate of how I communicate with others. We should treat other people's time as we like ours to be...

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Goatmire weekend sale - Take 35% off these titles and more! Any #Erlang, #Elixir, #Nerves, #BEAM, #OTP, #Phoenix, #Ash, etc books at pragprog .com Just use code goatmire2025 in the payment section at checkout. @whatyouhide @redrapids @fhunleth @joekoski_wa @sevenseacat @sm_debenedetto @ZachSDaniel1 @JEG2 @svileng @sean_moriarity #Elixirlang #MyElixirStatus
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If you want to work with Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and/or myself, we have some contract availability: groxio.com/ We excel at designing and building Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView systems. We also train teams in how we do it. Get in touch!

Groxio Consulting - Expert Elixir Development

Expert Elixir consulting from the authors of key Elixir books. System architecture, training, and development services.

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The Groxio team—Bruce Tate, Paulo Valim, and myself—are fresh off of a project where we helped scale an application and its development team all the way to launch. If your company could use help from one or more of us, let’s talk! groxio.com/

Groxio Consulting - Expert Elixir Development

Expert Elixir consulting from the authors of key Elixir books. System architecture, training, and development services.

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The ICFP is this coming weekend: icfpcontest2025.github.io/

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#OpenSource is (usually) one person: opensourcesecurity.io/2025/0…

Open Source is one person

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is...

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You’re going to want to read about why that @jeg2's button is red and how that choice avoided a lot of speculative coding. therealadam.com/2025/08/15/h…

Adam Keys is Thinking

How will we know it works? My favorite set of magic words to push this process forward is to ask: How will we know it works? Don’t accept silly answers like, “The button will be red.” That’s not what...

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I'm closing out, for now, my series on questions at the heart of development with an analysis of when we need more abstraction. For example, taking @germsvel's advice about architecting more accurate models can reduce future bugs. programmersstone.blog/posts/… #MyElixirStatus

Why is this hard?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. In a previous article of this series I talked about how we must remain ever vigilant against what is making it into our code. I talked about the...

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This talk by Giovanni Francischelli on handling #LiveView reconnects is a great blend of fun and educational! youtube.com/watch?v=AnbWtyB3… #MyElixirStatus

Phoenix LiveView: Mastering Reconnects for a Seamless User Experience...

✨This talk was recorded at ElixirConf EU 2025. If you're curious ab...

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In this third article of my questions series, I'm coming for your dependencies! I do my best to add a fifth cost to @martinfowler's costs of YAGNI. You can also find out what my favorite programming book is. programmersstone.blog/posts/… #TechDebt #YAGNI #dependencies

What will it cost to carry and remove this dependency?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. I've built a lot of applications with a lot of teams. I've seen a lot of the problems with software development. There are two problems that I've...

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In my second post of key questions for developers, we dig through the insights from multiple Fred Hebert posts to determine how products evolve and the environments that facilitate that process. programmersstone.blog/posts/… #ProductDevelopment #PsychologicalSafety

What are we afraid of?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. One of the lessons I learned during my time in management is that it was far more important for me to worry about creating environments where good...

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I'm publishing a new series of articles on my blog this week. It's my attempt to condense and share what I've learned in over 20 years of #Elixir/#Phoenix/#LiveView and #Ruby/#Rails development. I hope you find it helpful. programmersstone.blog/posts/… #MyElixirStatus

JEG2's Questions

My System by Aron Nimzowitsch was one of the early chess books that had a big impact on me. The first part of the book, called The Elements, is where Nimzowitsch lays out the specific criteria he is...

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The first article in the series is about all of the great things that can be learned from my favorite @jessitron presentation and how developers work best in a Product Dev team: programmersstone.blog/posts/…

How will we know it works?

This article is part of the series JEG2's Questions. As programmers, our primary function is to achieve Product's roadmap. We will into existence the features Product believes will move the product...

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