I just published hex.pm/packages/pi_ex, an #ElixirLang library for interacting with pi.dev agents (the thing that powers #OpenClaw). I included some example apps to demonstrate how it can be used. Try it out!
pi_ex
Elixir client for the Pi coding agent RPC protocol.
hex.pm
Another one of my favourite things about AI: the barrier to diving in and understanding problems one level deeper, is lower than ever. blog.chay.dev/no-more-excu...
No more excuses to not go one level deeper
My favourite thing about LLMs
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First blog post of the year: a fun trick to check if Claude is paying attention blog.chay.dev/the-brown-mm...
The brown M&Ms trick
One simple trick to figure out if your LLM is on the verge of misbehaving
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The recent news reminded me of this amazing interactive article from 2022: multimedia.scmp.com/infographics...
Why Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding: visual explainer
An ancient practice, suitable only for people with nerves of steel, remains alive and well in a modern city full of skyscrapers.
multimedia.scmp.com
Apparently ThePrimeagen will be writing an app in Elixir (live on Twitch), then inviting @josevalim.bsky.social to the broadcast to rewrite it together. That seems like a pretty dope approach for learning a language. And sharing the gospel of #elixir of course.
Workaccount2 on Hacker News just coined the term "context rot" to describe the thing where the quality of an LLM conversation drops as the context fills up with accumulated distractions and dead ends news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4430...
Philip Munksgaard created an Elixir wrapper for libtailscale, so it's now possible to run a Phoenix application that is automatically connected to your tailnet. Amazing work. gist.github.com/Munksgaard/9... #elixir #tailscale
Your Phoenix application, directly on your Tailnet
Your Phoenix application, directly on your Tailnet - 2025_06_08_libtailscale_elixir.md
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This TIL gave me the motivation to create a TIL blog finally
TIL: Bash caches the paths of commands
.. to speed things up. Obviously.
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Introducing Tidewave: tidewave.ai While working on our web apps, we run code, query the database, read logs, search docs… but our AI tools are limited to reading code. Tidewave closes this gap by introducing Runtime Intelligence, for Phoenix and Rails. More coming soon, check out the website!
Tidewave
tidewave.ai
Excerpt from the rules: Canadian residents must correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question to win. Hmm
Tailscale@tailscale.com · last yr.🎉We're celebrating 5 years of Tailscale! Read on for key lessons learned from half a decade of simplifying secure networking + enter to win one of five lifetime Personal Plus plans! Repost to win 👉 Read more tailscale.com/blog/5-thing... 🗒️ Full rules here - tailscale.com/blog/5-thing...
🎉We're celebrating 5 years of Tailscale! Read on for key lessons learned from half a decade of simplifying secure networking + enter to win one of five lifetime Personal Plus plans! Repost to win 👉 Read more tailscale.com/blog/5-thing... 🗒️ Full rules here - tailscale.com/blog/5-thing...
I finally found the 2025 way of interacting with cookies from a LiveView. Much thanks to @steffend.me! Pretty elegant, hope it gets merged into LiveView soon. gist.github.com/SteffenDE/38... #Elixir
lv_session_example.exs
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
I'm excited to share that I created a font! It is monospaced, and designed to be used in code editors and terminals. Fellow programmers, do try it out and give me some feedback! More details here: blog.chay.dev/i-made-a-font #programming #typography
I made a font
A quick look into the process of creating a font.
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First post (skeet?) here! I was looking through the ingress-nginx documentation when this magic URL localdev(dot)me caught my eye. Wrote a short blog post about it here: blog.chay.dev/localdevme/ #dev #webdev
localdev.me
Hosts files love this one simple trick!
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