Adrien Anselme

I've been running a software side business since 2011. Springbeats sells MIDI tools to musicians. Small sales, but every month. Less a gold mine than a well-behaved tap (it drips, and has never stopped). Here I share my failures and what actually pays, from Elixir SaaS to MIDI plugins.

My side-project week, honestly: Writing code: 0 hours Deciding what NOT to build: 1 hour Patching and hardening my servers after the latest open-source CVEs: 2 hours The server used to be a bit smug about its uptime… Shipping is optional. Updates aren't.

You can tell AI has truly arrived because even the village council's event flyer features a six-fingered hand holding what might be a tomato.

LLMs reward expertise www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward...

Spent years getting the family elders comfortable with WhatsApp. Now we're migrating to Signal. Pretty sure this is what Sisyphus felt like, except the boulder sends encrypted messages.

Youtube shorts drive you crazy? There's a browser extension to disable them: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/khnc...

A browser extension to remove the crappy knockoff brands from the product listings on Amazon: github.com/Shpigford/k...

Software engineering feels like being a pilot now. The autopilot does all the flying and you're mainly there to look responsible when things go sideways. Which they will. At 3am.

Got a telescope for my birthday. It's been raining every night since except once or twice. Is this a sign from the universe?

I haven't tried it yet, but ziggit looks interesting: a drop-in git replacement written in Zig that claims 4-10x faster performance on apple silicon and includes a succinct mode to cut LLM token usage by 70-95%. github.com/hdresearch/...

Fast on-device speech-to-text for the browser that runs locally. No cloud services, no privacy concerns. Streaming mode works great for real-time transcription: github.com/moonshine-a...

A set of apps designed to be accessed from your Kindle browser: rekindle.ink

Le fait que les conseillers municipaux soient ordonnés par âge, ça sent vraiment le régime de merde.

Whether you're an aging developer or a youngster, this podcast is worth a listen. Our profession doesn't really consider the elder as it should. corecursive.com/the-aging-p...

Any e-commerce site in 2026 that makes you pay for returns and hands you store credit instead of a real refund deserves to disappear. I thought we settled this.

Software Mansion @swmansion.com releases LiveStash, a library solving LiveView state loss during WebSocket reconnects. github.com/software-ma...

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like a promising in-browser 3D editor for architectural projects: editor.pascal.app/

Here is a nice free and open-source native macos client for databases (mysql, postgres, etc): tablepro.app/

For my French-speaking friends: Xiaomi's new electric car is called SU7. That's it. That's the joke.

Super intéressant 👍

Worried about frontend consistency in your app? If it makes you feel better, eBay still has a different layout on every account menu item in 2026.

Open-source screen recorder (a strong Screen Studio alternative). No webcam overlay yet, but it runs smooth and delivers great results: recordly.dev/

A vendor neutral exception tracking library for Elixir that lets you pick several reporting channels (Sentry, email, Slack, etc) github.com/mimiquate/t...

Software jobs are increasing not decreasing. Jevons law strikes again! Useful idiots will need to adjust their narratives.

Now I get where our reputation comes from. I watched an old Claude Sautet film and all I saw was cigarettes, drinks, cigars, wine, more smokes, beer, wine.

Excited to try out this standardized approach to running data migrations in Elixir projects: medium.com/@ivymarkwel... It always feels like a gray area, no matter which teams I work with. This approach adds some much-needed structure to the process.

Migrating from 1Password to Proton Pass is really easy. The only problem I found so far is that the Proton Pass ssh-agent doesn't find the imported ssh keys in my Vault 😐

📢 The recurring dream of replacing developers #veille

The speed of iteration that AI procures is just the best feeling for front-end work. For backend... I still want to know everything by heart for when shit hits the fan...

JC Skarbowsky dans un podcast avec Yacine et Dedo, ce n'était pas sur mon bingo, mais ça me ravit ! podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/...

Just got an email that the Neato robot vacuum app is shutting down. No more no-go zones or coverage checks. This is exactly why we need more free and open-source tech in our lives.

If I had a penny for every time a WhatsApp user mistakenly shared a private document as a public status update instead of in a conversation, I’d be rich AF.

Another outstanding open-source project, this time to audit how you spend your time during the day: Dayflow takes a screenshot every second and uses a local LLM to analyze your activities, creating a detailed timeline of your day. github.com/JerryZLiu/D...

An open source voice-to-text app that just works: github.com/cydanix/whi... Models are downloaded and inferred locally so no data is sent to third parties.

Did you know Albania has an AI as a member of its government? It seems like this hasn't been widely discussed. www.politico.eu/article/alb...

So excited for Bradley Cooper’s new movie featuring Will Arnett. Great actors, great story. Can’t wait! [Watch the trailer here](m.imdb.com/fr/video/vi...)

Aging is feeling the urge to return to Japan solely for the food and stationery shopping.

If Teams uses the same emojis as Slack and Apple but with a different design, does that mean an intern at Microsoft had to review all of them and suggest a cartoony style? Did they hold meetings to approve the design for each emoji? I'm curious about the process.

I asked Nano Banana to make a piece of furniture larger, but it keeps serving up the same old image. Guess it's back to ChatGPT!

Shoutout to Polar.sh! Reached out to their support for a whitelist of IPs for webhooks, and boom—docs updated the next day.

My Apple Pencil 2 gradually stopped working. Changing the tip and trying all other suggested fixes didn't help. So, I sprayed contact cleaner under the tip, and it instantly came back to life. It's like voodoo magic!

Purchased overpriced, dropshipped lighting from a well-designed website. I feel so cheated, like I just sent all my savings to a Nigerian prince via Western Union.

Why hasn't anyone invented a full-body blow dryer yet? It would be much more hygienic than towels and open up a new market for the wealthy.

Really good presentation from Tyler there www.youtube.com/watch?v=24q...

Turns out using a Dockerfile isn’t much more involved given there’s a generator for that! adrienanselme.com/blog/2025-06...

I'm not sure this qualifies as vibe coding since precise prompts are used. However, I agree with the author's experience with using LLMs as a Senior Developer: blog.alexmaccaw.com/how-to-vibe...

I don't hear anyone celebrating the return of a usable Apple Photos app on iOS and iPadOS 26. Thanks for listening, Tim Apple.

Spent far too long on an issue where I couldn't open a remote BEAM shell on my server without the container restarting. It turned out to be just an out-of-memory issue. LLMs were completely unhelpful. What a waste of time and tokens! #myelixirstatus

Who doesn't love a good project name? github.com/mufasaYC/Dr...

Stitch experimental mode (powered by Gemini) isn't much better at designing than what Claude 4 gave me... Maybe it's my prompt engineering skills, but any noob should be able to get a proper design.