Zorn of the Dead 🎃

💜 A favor: If you know of a team using #ElixirLang, #Phoenix, or #LiveView that might benefit from a seasoned dev for tech debt cleanup, stabilization, testing, docs, or mentoring (part or full-time) - an intro would mean a lot. Past projects and testimonials: mikezornek.com/elixir-consu...

🎮 Anyone I know going to play WoW Forever? Starting to think about what server I want to roll on.

🫖 As if my brain knew a new kettle had arrived I woke up with a bit of a sore throat.

🥨 Overslept, but all cleaned up and ready to go pick up the Saturday pretzels.

An #ElixirLang package to check your `@spec` annotations against the types the compiler infers. Definitely the sort of thing with a limited shelf life (assuming we eventually get the ability to write our own compiler-checked types), but in the meantime, seems super valuable. hex.pm/packages/spe...

⚾ Game 1 of the World Series this Friday night! I'm rooting for the Brew Crew, but I'll be happy with good baseball regardless. www.mlb.com/postseason

👨‍💻 GitHub: "Queued — Waiting to run this check..." ((Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.))

🤔 Thoughts on Zulip? Thinking about making a space for my open source projects, with the idea that it could be a hub for webhooks, autonomous agents, and human chatter (should I ever get any others helping me). Slack seems too corporate. Discord annoys me with its identity requirements.

👨‍💻 Doing Erlang version bumps to address the latest advisories. If you don't increase your update frequency to match the faster reporting, you could be at risk. I think bad actors are probably just cataloging known tech stacks and watching these announcements day by day at this point. #ElixirLang

🎃 Majora's Mask is a top-tier fall/spooky game. I've been watching a Let's Play before bedtime, and now I have Clock Town playing while I journal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGq...

📕 The Elixir Book Club is currently soliciting book suggestions. I'm looking for non-code, non-AI books that encourage critical thinking about how we apply AI to our work. Thinking In Systems comes to mind as something that might spark interesting conversations. Any others? #ElixirLang

A new addition to Sobelow katafrakt.me/2026/10/12/g... #ElixirLang

🤖 I'm blaming AI for my canceled grocery store order.

👨‍💻 Looking forward to a relatively quiet week ahead. I have some client hours to kill, but otherwise I'm continuing my deployment and exploration of Prometheus and Grafana for my side project Flick. Got the basics working last week; next up: alerts, tracing, and SQL-sourced dashboards.

🏈 Pain.

⚾️🥶 Just saw a video of The Rays blasting “New York, New York”, in their clubhouse after sweeping the Yankees. That is fucking ice cold brah. LOL. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SR1UnNQQioI

👨‍💻 Render has some upcoming maintenance on October 13. "For up to 60 minutes, you will be unable to view, edit, create or deploy services and databases. The REST API and one-off jobs will also be unavailable." You can subscribe to the status page. status.render.com

🔗 Neat hand-drawn annotations for your page: arrows and handwritten labels.Pure CSS, no JavaScript, one small file. neat-annotations.syabro.com

🤪 All due respect, Wawa needs to stay in their lane. www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

🤖 Props to Claude for blacking out a customer name in a screenshot before uploading it to an internal GitHub issue.

👨‍💻 I learned a lot about #Ecto `validate_length/3` and `:codepoints` today. #ElixirLang github.com/zorn/flick/b...

🎧🚶‍♂️ I've been rebooting my walking routine this past week. Only got 1 day of happy Phillies podcasts, so now I'm sampling new stuff. Macro Mayhem: a bi-weekly podcast by Peter Ullrich and Gus Workman about #ElixirLang and tech. https://macromayhem.fm/ Anything else you're enjoying?

⚾️ The White Sox are God’s team.

🤔 Finished my dinner...

🧑‍🍳 Do you trust a chef who does not taste their food? Do you trust a programmer who does not read their code?

🙄 "Waiting for a runner to pick up this job..." #GitHub

👨‍💻 Some nice improvements to `raw` detection in the latest sobelow. #ElixirLang "Sobelow is a security-focused static analysis tool for Elixir & the Phoenix framework." If you are not using it already, you should consider adding it. sobelow.hexdocs.pm/0.16.0/chang...

🔗 re: previous keychain chatter Without first hand verification, I have high confidence in SuperDuper! as a backup tool and happy to read this. https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/controlled_craziness

🔗 Reading this while also replaying Warcraft 3 hits. Zug zug. https://seangoedecke.com/shipping-is-the-foundation/

🔗👀 I’ve been vibing some UI ideas for a revamp of my rankedvote.app site. These could be helpful checks. https://frontendchecklist.io/

🔗 As much as I like passkey tech, knowing a large portion of my users would store them in the frail Apple system really worries me. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/09/24/locked-down-passkey-and-keychain-backups/

👍 Spotted on the morning walk.

It has come to my attention that many people at #goatmire have not seen Erlang: The Movie. I think that is unacceptable. Please spread the word of our Lords and saviors, Mike, Robert, and Joe. youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE?...

👨‍💻 GitHub is not closing referenced issues when PRs merge for me. So be on the lookout for that today if you expect it to do things.

🗳️ Don't keep snoozing that todo item to update/verify your voter registration. Do it today. vote.gov

🕵️‍♂️ Updating / migrating some repo CI to use Betterleaks github.com/betterleaks/...

🤔 I'm researching how small businesses (1–8 people) do accounting. Hearing real stories from business owners (or their accountants) would save me from a lot of bad guesses. 20 minutes? No pitch/demos, just questions about your setup. savvycal.com/zorn/accounting-research #SmallBusiness #Freelance

✏️ My pull request for a refund feature grew past 3,000 lines. At that size, a code review can't do its job: reviewers miss things or rubber-stamp it. So I stopped adding to it and started extracting the unrelated fixes and tests into their own PRs. mikezornek.com/posts/2026/9...

🎃🍞 Yummo.

🎧 I recorded a podcast with my friends from PhillyCocoa. We talked about my transition from iOS to #ElixirLang and, more so, my recent interest in #local-first software. podcast.phillycocoa.org/episodes/120...

@martin.kleppmann.com I think there is a small typo in an old 2011 post I was recently reading. martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/a...

🔗 Always on the lookout for S3-compatible storage options. Something to bookmark. Llicensed under Apache 2.0, RustFS is a powerful, production-ready, S3-compatible object storage foundation for AI workloads. rustfs.com/blog/announc...

🔗 Whether you're reconciling accounts, tracking balances, or building a ledger from scratch, this series is for engineers working on financial systems. https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/accounting-for-developers-part-i

🔗 Stacked a list of accounting reading. Saw this classic by Martin Kleppmann: “basic accounting is just graph theory. […] once I had figured out that it was just a graph, it suddenly all made sense.” https://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-computer-scientists.html

✏️ I updated my now page. I like to think of a Now page as the things I’d share if you were an old friend, we saw each other, and you asked, “What’s going on?” What are you working on? What are you excited about? mikezornek.com/now/