Trans children are being denied gender affirming healthcare, so we’re stepping in to support them. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/37c8ea

Help fund healthcare for trans kids | Good Law Project

This week, the families of trans kids receiving gender-affirming care at a Brighton medical practice were notified that their children’s treatment would be withdrawn in a matter of weeks.

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The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities. There is no Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years. This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ

The rainbow is here all year long, so we don't need to change the profile for June. But it is a good time to remind everyone that LGBTQIA+ rights are under attack all year long as well. And to steal @haskell.org's message: there would be no Gleam without trans people 🩵🩷🤍

There should be official posts soon. I had the brainwave and some spare effort to build this. The Erlang Ecosystem Registry. Register your company. Show how many we actually are. Keep up to date on major ecosystem initiatives. All free. marketing.erlef.org/news/registr... #elixirlang #erlang #gleam

Announcing registry.erlef.org

Today you'll find something new at registry.erlef.org. As the the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation works to serve its members, sponsors and ecosystem we believe in the value of a canonical, central and trusted...

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Can someone please ELI5 why we have 'newsletters' now instead of just RSS feeds? It seems worse in every possible way, and that it's just more defensible for monetisation. Is that it? We traded all that so 'thought leaders' can enter the gig economy?

Everyone's favorites Numerical Elixirist, one Paulo Valente, is presenting on how he is bringing Nx to embedded devices in today's (fully remote) Nerves Meetup EU. Join us. Lovely crew of Elixir enthusiasts with a bit of a hardware focus. nervesmeetup.eu/meetup/paulo... #elixirlang #nerves

Numerical Elixir on Embedded Devices

Join us for this presentation by Paulo Valente on 2026-04-08 at 19h CET!

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Alright! Introducing Dux: distributed #DuckDB backed dataframes for #elixirlang. cigrainger.com/blog/introdu... v0.3 dropped today and with it, distribution is fully supported and Dux is officially outperforming Explorer. I'm excited to hear what you all think.

The v0.1 release of Expert (the new, official #ElixirLang LSP) is now final! 🎉 The best Elixir LSP experience keeps getting better. 😎 Tremendous thanks to all the contributors, and to Jump for sponsoring @katafrakt.bsky.social to work on this full-time. 🙏 github.com/elixir-lang/...

New blog post as my HNSW #duckdb plugin hits v0.2 with support for quantisation (rabitq) and join+where pushdown and groupby+aggregations. cigrainger.com/blog/duckdb-...

A fast, correct XPath 1.0 conformant XML parser for Elixir with a simple, combinator-based API: hexdocs.pm/simdxml/0.1.0 #elixirlang

Here's the payoff -- simdxml yields speedups on basically every workflow as a fully drop-in read-only replacement for etree in #python. And 42x on important workloads for large XML document handling. cigrainger.com/blog/simdxml... #foss

More about that XML thing. cigrainger.com/blog/simdxml/

So at Amplified we do a lot of XML parsing. I wrote an XML parser. It's quite fast. github.com/cigrainger/s...

I did something kind of funky that should work well. My library Entrace makes Erlang tracing nicer. But you don't have it installed and suddenly you need it. Hot code updates to the rescue. One-line install via precompiled BEAM files. github.com/underjord/en... #elixirlang

We are still looking for more sponsors for Goatmire Elixir. If your company wants to be on the banners and be part of making the event happen that'd be awesome. Please contact me :) #elixirlang #goatmire

Hmmmm #NewbieGains

Some patent content. But also MCP content. www.amplified.ai/en/blog/2403...

A Patent Practitioner's Guide to MCP

MCPs are going to be critical for powering AI in patent work. One of the biggest challenges in IP is that work is fragmented across too many tools and people. MCPs are a way to glue together that frag...

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That DuckDB extension I was working on landed in community extensions today! I'm pretty excited about it -- prefiltered ACORN-1 HNSW approx nearest neighbours in #DuckDB. Even pgvector does postfiltering, for example. INSTALL hnsw_acorn FROM community; LOAD hnsw_acorn; github.com/duckdb/commu...

Add hnsw_acorn: filtered HNSW vector search with ACORN-1 by cigrainger · Pull Request #1573 · duckdb/community-extensions

Summary Adds the hnsw_acorn extension — a fork of duckdb-vss that adds filtered HNSW vector search using the ACORN-1 algorithm. The upstream vss extension applies WHERE clauses after the HNSW index...

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Hey #ElixirLang folks! Here's a little something I've been working on. I'd love some early stage feedback. dux.now

Ever wanted to use HNSW with pre-filtering on #duckdb? I'm trying to make that possible. Approximate nearest neighbours with WHERE clauses, using ACORN. github.com/duckdb/commu...

Add hnsw_acorn: filtered HNSW vector search with ACORN-1 by cigrainger · Pull Request #1573 · duckdb/community-extensions

Summary Adds the hnsw_acorn extension — a fork of duckdb-vss that adds filtered HNSW vector search using the ACORN-1 algorithm. The upstream vss extension applies WHERE clauses after the HNSW index...

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It feels good to be working on some OSS #ElixirLang stuff again. Details forthcoming, but I'm very excited about this one.

#ElixirLang folks using Explorer -- is this of interest? github.com/cigrainger/e... Polars has become a bit of an albatross. It's a very complex project with a ton of churn and it's putting the whole Explorer project at risk. So exploring alternative backends.

GitHub - cigrainger/explorer_duckdb_backend

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This is up on Hex today. One of my colleagues put it together and it's been a real QoL improvement for us. github.com/amplifiedai/... #ElixirLang #Elixir

There it is folks, the Goatmire tickets are on sale 🥳 Make sure to get them before they sell out.

Lars Wikman@lawik.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For Goatmire Elixir & NervesConf EU. Early bird tickets are on sale: www.goatmire.com?r=3 Workshop registration is up: goatbiz.fly.dev/workshops/br... #elixirlang #goatmire

Thanks to one of the discussions at the #GleamGathering, we decided to add more options to support Gleam development financially: now you can do it via direct bank transfer ⭐ All the details: gleam.run/sponsor

#AshFramework just hit 1 million downloads on hex 🎉 #ElixirLang

Long H Dang, David Rawlinson: HRM-Agent: Training a recurrent reasoning model in dynamic environments using reinforcement learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.22832 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.22832

Had lots of fun chatting with Charles about dataframes! Dataframes are not just for data scientists :). #elixirlang #myelixirstatus

SmartLogic@smartlogic.io · last yr.

Today on Elixir Wizards, we talk data frames in Elixir with @cigrainger.bsky.social, creator of Explorer. Learn how Explorer brings R/Python-style data tools to Elixir and what’s next for the ecosystem. ▶️ smr.tl/4kY5FDj 🎧 smr.tl/3TWkM51 #elixirlang #myelixirstatus

This is going to be a fun one!

Alembic@teamalembic.com · last yr.

We're super excited our Technical Director @joshcprice.bsky.social is heading to @codebeam.bsky.social EU 2025 to address one of the most pressing topics facing our industry today in his talk - A Survival Guide for the AI Age!

Oban is probably the greatest library I have ever used, especially with Oban.Pro on top. The value you get for free - or for a very reasonable amount - is mind-blowing.