borromakot
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Haven't looked at the actual product, but my personal advice to this team is not to use terms like `Next-Gen` and `Modern` as their taglines. It turns of real significant buyers from consideration IMHO.
When I hear "next-gen" and "modern" I hear "we don't have a real value proposition except 'its not the incumbent thing'".
It is sad that such a song and dance is required when anyone with half a brain can read the racism in DHH's post.
Imagine a scenario that a black family moved into your neighborhood and started causing a bunch of problems. There are no other black people in the neighborhood.
It should take you a picosecond to figure out which one of these is obviously racist and which isn't:
"We need to remove the black people from our neighborhood"
"We need to remove the new family from our neighborhood"
People like "well he has a good point they are causing problems" so technically the set of "black people" and "people who are currently causing problems in our neighborhood" are the same set. This is irrelevant.
...thats his point. He doesn't want to shout and shame. So he wrote a blog post.
"Hence" means, "therefore", as in "I didn't want to shout and shame, therefore I wrote this blog post"
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borromakot on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:17PM
from the github.com dept.
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borromakot on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:22PM
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borromakot on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:12AM
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holy shit this is awesome.
pretty cool, any plans on making it OSS some day or sharing more about your process? The Ash community would love that I'm sure.
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borromakot on Saturday September 27, 2025 @04:40PM
from the youtube.com dept.
A new Ash Framework extension called Ash TypeScript makes it easy to expose actions to a frontend by generating a typed client library and RPC controllers.
This video walks through a project, with source code that can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/ChristianAlexander/ash_typescript_demo
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borromakot on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:45AM
from the underjord.io dept.
Make sure to tell the team about it, and ask questions about it. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between magic and a misunderstanding
If I sounded snarky that wasn't my intention. At the end of the day though it doesn't feel like you read the article which was clearly in a different context than the one in which you responded. FWIW I didn't expect this small article speaking to a small audience (Elixir devs) to make the rounds on hacker news.
I agree on the importance of defining terms, and I think the important thing here is that "process" in Joe's parlance is not an OS level process, it is one of a fleet of processes running inside the BEAM VM. And the "system" in this case is the supervisory system around it, which itself consists of individual processes.
I'm critiquing a common misunderstanding of the phrase "Let it crash", whereby effectively no local error handling is performed. This leads to worse user experiences and worse outcomes in general. I understand that you're offering critique, but it again sounds like you're critiquing a reductive element (the headline itself).
Then I don't think you understand how the phrase is used in Elixir/Erlang. The phrase is about letting processes crash.
Blog guy here: I do, in fact, know it better than a lot of other Elixir devs.
Author: I'm literally explaining not to interpret the tag line at face value.
Errors during initialization of a BEAM language application will crash the entire program, and you can decide to exit/crash a program if you get into some unrecoverable state. The important thing is the design of individual crashable/recoverable units.
Have you used `usage_rules` yet?
Really awesome release, stoked with the direction things are going.
That is like 0.5% of what Ash helps with :)
In what way were the not "secure"? Showing you their schema is literally what they are supposed to do.
I mean, MCP servers have tons of sec vulnerabilities but "showing you their schema" and "having bugs" aren't vulns.
There are two terms.
* call - to send and await a reply
* cast - to send and not await a reply
Simultaneously bullish on LLMs and insanely confused as to why anyone would literally ever use something like a Supabase MCP unless there is some kind of "dev sandbox" credentials that only get access to dev/staging data.
And I'm so confused at why anyone seems to phrase prompt engineering as any kind of mitigation at all.
Like flabbergasted.
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borromakot on Friday June 20, 2025 @01:20PM
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I've been using Elixir for over 10 years, if it was ever a "small fraction of the Rails community" it was during its formative years only. Elixir is fully its own thing. We don't even really talk about Ruby? I really do think you've got a mixed up perception on that front
Factor in that building essentially any server-side tooling without Elixir (BEAM) is a bad idea in my view, you end up with "lets just make this the way we build apps, and do it in Elixir". It's been very powerful and we're continuing to progress on it.
The concept is you model the core of your application and build it at the same time, using declarative tools, and project additions layers from this definition. The underlying data model is extendable via, well, extensions. These extend the DSL schema.
It's not conceptually a knowledge graph in the same way, but you can introspect essentially everything about your application. However, resources can be given data layers which define how they map to underlying storage, and you could use all of this information only as static information to derive additional things from, or you could just...well, use it. i.e `Ash.read(Resource)` yielding the table data. Our query engine has the same semantics they describe where you don't explicitly join etc.
```elixir
MyApp.Post
|> Ash.Query.filter(author.type == :admin)
|> Ash.read!()
```
You can generate charts and graphs, including things like policy flow charts.
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Ultimately I've found that modeling tools like UML that can't simultaneously actually execute that model (i.e act as the application itself) are always insufficient and/or have massive impedance mismatches once rubber meets the road. The point is to effectively reimagine this as "what if we use these modeling principles, declaratively, from the ground up".
This has been a wildly useful tool for me and my team.