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Ben Wheat
@beardywheat.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. Software Engineer. Boston sports. Bad takes are all my own.
So Sox are like REALLY going for it eh? Ideally it pays off with a deep playoff run but I am more curious who sticks around this offseason.
The Red Sox are playing small ball here, in that the ball looks very small as it goes hundreds of feet of away
becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together
it's gotta be embarrassing to be a shortstop and explain to people what you do. yeah i'm an infielder. no i'm not the guy who throws it. no i don't have my own base. huh? no no, it's totally cool with ballpark security, they told me i can stand out there. hm? no, not "sportstop." shortstop. mhm
God gave us microwave burritos knowing we would burn ourselves (free will) but also a quick healing roof of the mouth (Christ's salvation)
Aaron Rodgers when the Steelers hit the Eagles-Broncos-Texans stretch of their schedule:
Part of the distributed Elixir series, here's the classic distributed rate limiter in Elixir, but using github.com/joladev/hrw jola.dev/posts/distri...
Distributed rate limiter with HRW in Elixir
Building the classic distributed rate limiter, using the HRW library instead of the traditional ExHashRing.
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drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
"Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. "For your hands are stained with blood, your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsely, and your tongue mutters wicked things. No one calls for justice..." Isaiah 59
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · last wk.House Speaker Mike Johnson says he grows more confident "with each passing day" that the GOP will retain control of Congress. Why? "This is a God thing. We have intercessory prayers who are on the ground at the Capitol praying."
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Guys I’ve been saying it since April, this Sox team has the juice. Never a doubt. Also please do not check my timeline to contradict this statement.
[typing on my phone as I’m getting flung thru the air by a violent tornado] tornado got me lmao
lol imagine being a spanish fan tonight staying up all night to party, flying back home tomorrow, and then having to go back into the office 2-3 weeks from now
*strums guitar* Some of you guys are thinking too much about The Odyssey and not thinking about how they Odyssey see the inside of a church this Sunday
oh hey, I wrote an NES emulator in Elixir 60fps (on my machine) with sound. This is Castlevania 3 which might be the toughest one to emulate. github.com/dbernheisel/... #ElixirLang
Alembic are some of my favorite co-conspirators. Beyond their deep expertise in Ash they are just invested and knowledgeable in the ecosystem. Look out for James Harton's robots and Rebecca Le unfurling the Elder Scrolls during this Goatmire. goatmire.com/sponsor/alem... #elixirlang #goatmire
Alembic - Goatmire Elixir
The incubation chamber where Ash framework went from promising to an obvious contender for your Elixir projects. Alembic funds a lot of open source in Elixir and are particularly strong in Ash with…
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I think we have a plan for May 2027! Enterprise Center's new space is lovely. Close to the old location. Stay tuned for details. If you want to be notified about it, register here! www.gigcityelixir.com #ElixirLang
I've been bumping into some rough edges recently with Elixir dependencies that use app config and start their own supervision trees and I want to petition the community to move towards better library design #ElixirLang jola.dev/posts/let-li...
Let libraries be libraries
A gentle rant on the topic of libraries that run as Elixir applications and why that's an anti-pattern for library design.
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