I wrote a blog post

A couple of close friends of mine have launched their LED cube kit for the Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 on kickstarter today: https://t.co/3TLieQI600 Have a look and please back it if interested!

New version of logger_streaming_backend updated for recent versions of Elixir (switching the html templater from Eml to Temple)

Thank you for sharing your story @NickyWoolf. It's always so great to see patients, especially older ones, winning the battle against #COVID19. We can beat this virus, together! And using the chance to say once again: #ThanksHealthHeroes!

at work we are upgrading to Cassandra 3.11, and I felt compelled to make this

Apparently I haven't tweeted anything in over a year. I should start tweeting more! Here's a start: I wrote a post for the Ably blog about optimizing my MQTT-Ably protocol translator

If your workplace isn’t safe, you don’t have to work there. Section 44 of the 1996 Employment Rights Act is clear on this. Stay home, save lives.

I, too, condemn the use of Sci Hub (you can find the shameful current link on it's wikipedia page), which unfairly enhances the public's interest in science and provides the public with tax $-funded resources for making scientifically informed lifestyle and business choices.

London programmers: there's a bumper Papers We Love event tomorrow, as a prologue to CurryOn https://t.co/3Z3WIAxUDm . Should be good! DM me if you're going and want to go for a drink afterwards

Powerful talk on the economics of open source and common resources (in the context of npm).

Happy kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole redefinition day!

Prediction. One day computers might become useful

Playing around with @elmlang over xmas, made some art: https://t.co/6smoUlVNVU (source at https://t.co/km7GDJdnXv )

Spent the evening playing @BeatSaber with @MisterJWolf. Played vr games before but nothing that wouldn't be basically just as fun without the vr. But with this I'm finally convinced. You could not do beat saber properly without vr, and it's absolutely bloody brilliant

So turns out this is being fixed in OTP 21! https://t.co/4FWl4XR7aY ,

Also: if running the BEAM together with other services on the same box, set "+sbwt none" to make it play nicer with others (stop it idling with a busy-wait spin to reduce latency). By default it does seem to assume that it's the only important thing being run on your instance

Only reason I can find for it to not be the default is on OS X and Win, that flag causes issues. But surely, default should be whatever IO works best on each platform. Sticking linux users with inefficient IO just for consistency with other platforms' inefficient IO seems crazy

Tip: if running an Erlang server which holds lots of often-idle tcp conns, set `+K true` for a hefty free performance boost. Means it uses epoll rather than poll on linux (see @b0rk's https://t.co/CCnX7FHhpd about those). Beyond me why this isn't the default.

Turns out using a real strong type system is a lot of fun! Only a couple minor complaints: coming from Elixir, patternmatching is weaker (though ofc still a lot better than js); elm-format gets a bit overenthusiastic with whitespace (fixed with https://t.co/ZCzCzLDT7F)

Made Snake over the weekend to teach myself @elmlang 💎. https://t.co/13fe8zF9m1 , source at