Software engineer. Elixir at home, JS at work.
Joined June 2011
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Christian Alexander retweeted
Jun 3
Elixir v1.20 released! Now officially a gradually typed language: Elixir type checks every single line of code, finding bugs and dead code, without developer overhead (no typing signatures) and extremely low false positives rate. Plus a faster compiler! Links and reports below.
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Christian Alexander retweeted
May 3
New package for #AshFramework: AshScim! #ElixiLang going enterprise y'all.😂
SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management: RFCs 7643 & 7644) is the standard way for an identity provider like #Okta or Azure AD to push users and groups into your application: who joined, who got deactivated, who got added to which group. It's how enterprises expect to manage access at scale, and it's almost always a hard requirement for selling into them.
Many indie-hackers won't get the value of push-button SCIM integration, but if you've ever built for enterprise, this kind of thing being easy is drool-inducing.
Just `mix igniter.install ash_scim` (once the installer is done and it is published on hex) and you're SCIM enabled 💣.
It works with Ash's multitenancy out of the box, so if you want to let your customers in a multi-tenant application configure their own IdP, nothing stops you.
Still need to battle-test for a while and get it security-reviewed before publishing on Hex, but you're welcome to poke around/experiment until then.
RFCs:
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/htm…
datatracker.ietf.org/doc/htm…
GitHub:
github.com/ash-project/ash_s…
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Mar 30
Okay, Sagents is pretty neat.
BEAM-native, solid middleware system, persisted state, pluggable filesystem, and observability.
One small feature also caught my eye: the agent is aware of how many viewers it has and can stay alive until they leave.
hexdocs.pm/sagents/pubsub_pr…
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Christian Alexander retweeted
Mar 24
#ElixirLang 🤝 #Typescript like never before 😎 AshTypescript just launched `TypedChannel`, completing the circle on end-to-end type safety between your TS frontend and Elixir backend, fully generated from your #AshFramework resources. This is *huge* 🤯. I cannot overstate it.
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Christian Alexander retweeted
Mar 11
We just shipped Distributed Python on top of the Erlang distribution, with full Elixir and Livebook integration: dashbit.co/blog/distributed-…
And much more: intellisense, zero-copy Apache Arrow, and more. Read the article for all the details.
A huge thank you to NLnet Foundation for sponsoring our work. They are always looking for new ideas and you have until April 1st to join the next batch: nlnet.nl
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Mar 7
Coming soon on Code and Stuff:
There's no place like the BEAM.
Sneak preview of some of the graphics:
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Mar 7
Vendors are trying to emulate the BEAM, but there's truly nothing like it.
Here's a walkthrough of what makes it special: processes, messaging, registries, ETS, distribution, and its ecosystem.
Elixir was made for the current moment, and for what's to come.
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Christian Alexander retweeted
Feb 22
📢The latest AshTypescript release brings you t typed controllers🎉 Using Typescript with Phoenix has never been easier, with or without #AshFramework. Thanks to Torkild for his awesome package! I might be working on a PR for something pretty cool there myself 😎 #ElixirLang
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Feb 8
usage_rules makes agents better at Elixir, and the 1.0 RC steps it up even more!
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youtu.be/W_qO7ouLQz4
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Feb 7
Something I love about Ash: it's got escape hatches for complex requirements.
While I was prototyping the Phoenix Sync video, I found a way to use an Ash Change to emit the Postgres transaction ID as a custom header with ash_json_api.
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Feb 7
The video followed a different project, but I pulled some of the Ash concepts into a gist for those who might be interested:
gist.github.com/ChristianAle…
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I'm excited to see how well a team of three Claude Code agents can work together on a new Ash project 🤞
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Feb 7
One big takeaway so far: usage_rules makes the results WAY better. Honestly that might be the focus of a new video.
Documentation as a first class citizen in Elixir and usage_rules as a CLI (rather than a bloated MCP) is a huge win.
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Feb 6
What if we asked AI to make an ad about making a C compiler from scratch, from scratch…
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Christian Alexander retweeted
Feb 5
The article is out! Why Elixir is the best language for AI: dashbit.co/blog/why-elixir-b…
Now don't you dare @AnthropicAI!!!
Feb 4
Now I am assuming @AnthropicAI is just waiting to do the funny thing and they will announce Sonnet 5 as soon as I publish my post.
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Christian Alexander retweeted
News includes @ElixirLang v1.20.0-rc.1, 2 new Elixir-native Bash interpreters, zero-boilerplate component storybooks, #DurableObject library for persistent actors, @Postgres search extension, a new #RAG approach skips vector DBs, and more! #ElixirLang youtube.com/watch?v=BzOk2CJ_…
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