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#1
A NixOS/Windows 11 Dev Env
This post covers setting up a NixOS development environment on Windows 11 LTSC using WSL2.
Get reproducible, declarative configuration with Windows for gaming and NixOS for development.
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Distributed Erlang
Erlang’s actor model, OTP, and distribution work together beautifully to build fault-tolerant systems—but there are gotchas.
From process mailboxes and supervision trees to clustering challenges, network partitions, and the single mailbox bottleneck.
This post explores the many strengths, and subtle pitfalls, of building distributed systems with Erlang.
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#3
You have built an Erlang
You wanted a simple service notification system, so you added HTTP callbacks, then queues, then retries, then supervision…
Congratulations! You’ve built an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.
A satirical journey through accidentally reimplementing the actor model as seen on Hacker News.
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Ecto Queryable Pattern
Ecto queries are just data! This post goes over how we can abuse that fact to build ergonomic, composable query patterns.
Using behaviors, callbacks, and metaprogramming, we can create a single source of truth for query logic that works everywhere.
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#5
NixOS, BTW
I fell deep into the Nix ecosystem after years of distro hopping, and it completely changed how I manage my machines.
NixOS lets me reproduce my entire environment across laptops, workstations, and servers with a single configuration repo.