Mike Zornek, looking for work.
@mikezornek.com
Developer and Teacher. Working day-to-day programming in Elixir and LiveView. Learning CRDTs, Rust, Svelte, and DevOps automation in my free time. Looking for part-time Elixir contracts. Video gamer and Phillies fan. https://mikezornek.com
Just published Phoenix 0.12.0! 🎉 Excited for this one because it now supports `aria-label` and `aria-labelledby` Thanks to contributors for making it happen! 🥳 phoenix-test.hexdocs.pm/PhoenixTest....
PhoenixTest — PhoenixTest v0.12.0
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✅ Today's Goals: - Capture some journal notes upon reflection. - Review some PRs. - Do some discovery planning for new LocalCents epic - Afternoon doctor visit - Work related call. - Evening: Not sure. See where my energy is. Ideally would work on some blog content but might grab some gaming time.
👨💻 I find it crazy that in 2026 there is still no public GitHub API to upload an image to be embedded in an issue or PR. I am using POST https://uploads.github.com/user-attachments/assets -- but that is a private endpoint, best I can tell.
👨💻 Looking into making some `async: false` test modules more concurrent. Seeing `groups` (added in 1.18). Ideally, I'll work out a true async solution, but this might be a reasonable fallback. #ElixirLang
This is merged into `sobelow/sobelow` main now, *plus* a huge performance improvement I had proposed a couple months back. 😄 Many thanks to Jump for giving me work time to put toward improving the ecosystem like this. 🙏
Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻💻@tylerayoung.com · last wk.Today in obscure sorrows: it's driven me nuts for a long time that Sobelow doesn't have a way to add inline skip comments in your Phoenix router (forcing you to instead maintain a `.sobelow-skips` file). Anyway, there's a PR for that now. github.com/sobelow/sobe... #ElixirLang
✅ Today's Goals: - Weekly grocery pickup. - Wash bed sheets and clean up bedroom. - Work out weekly plan in journal. - Continue skill fork work. - Do some content safari for blog content ideas. - Take prospect call. - Remember to take trash out.
👨💻 Watched this during breakfast and am in firm agreement. In a world where geopolitical tensions are increasing and long-standing certainties are upended, decentralization and resilience become increasingly important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...
Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
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👨💻 Watched this conference talk with lunch. Some really neat #UX ideas and demos were shared. Have more from this conference I still want to watch. Maybe later this week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOL...
Scott Jenson — How the Desktop UX needs to evolve to keep up with Local-first
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
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✅ Today's Goals: - Pick up some morning pretzels. - Email cleanup. - LocalCents work. Want to do some maintenance on some of my AI skills and metadata. Would like to trim, reverify what needs to be there, and cut the noise.
👨💻 When I am titling docs that I know will be presented in the ex_doc sidebar, I try hard to limit the length to make sure they fit the presentation. Saw this UI pattern on a separate website that is a nice fallback when you cannot guarantee length. #UI
📆 Just booked my ticket to ExMex. Two days. One track. All Elixir. Spend two days deep in Elixir, then let Austin take the weekend shift — live music, BBQ, cold drinks, and just the right amount of weird. #ElixirLang exmexconf.com
ExMex 2026
Two days. One track. All Elixir. Join us November 12-13th, 2026 in Austin, TX for an Elixir conference with a little Austin flair.
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✅ Today's Goals: - Catch up on email. - Schedule some calls for next week. - Continue work on personal site search index. - LocalCents cleanup ahead of new wayfinder map for Automerge conflict resolution UI. - Heat up some homemade macaroni and cheese for Phillies game watchin'.
🤔 🥞 Do the pancakes increase or decrease confidence in the hub?
✅ Today's Goals: - Unwrap some new shirts and do laundry. - Do some client work. (Kind of maxed out on monthly hours but want to see some PRs progress.) - Coffee chat with a friend.
⚾ Banging on the SELL SELL and HOUSE OF PAIN buttons during every #Phillies game. www.cnbc.com/mad-money-so...
Mad Money Soundboard
Admit it: You’ve always wanted to hit the “Hallelujah!” button. We have recreated Jim Cramer's Mad Money soundboard so it now works on mobile devices.
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✅ Today's Goals: - More blog infrastructure work. Trying to improve metadata, share card visuals, and search engine indexing. - Run the Claude `/doctor` skill and otherwise update some of my AI metadata.
✅ Today's Goals: - Morning grocery pickup. - Work on website consulting page content. - Code review of LocalCents process shutdown PR. - Make a buffalo chicken wrap with leftovers. - Evening: More LocalCents work? Pokemon? Phillies?
🚨 Announcing our new Podcast 🚨 Gus (@gworkman.bsky.social) and I have started a new #ElixirLang Podcast Macro Mayhem - @macromayhem.fm We cover Elixir news and general industry topics every 2 weeks. Our first episode is out now, available on all podcast players or on our website: macromayhem.fm
Macro Mayhem
The latest Elixir news and general software industry topics
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✏️ Shimming Your Way Off a Dead Elixir Dependency A stuck dependency was blocking an upgrade I needed. When it's only used in a few spots, you just delete it. When it's woven everywhere, a shim lets you retire it in two calm PRs instead of one scary one. #elixirlang mikezornek.com/posts/2026/7...
Shimming Your Way Off a Dead Elixir Dependency
An abandoned dependency was blocking a major upgrade I needed. Here are the two ways I retire one, and when a shim beats a big-bang rewrite.
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✏️ Working on my personal quarterly plan, and one of the best questions to answer is what I am **not** going to do.
🔗 I have a todo item to rethink my test fixture design patterns on my current side project and this post has some good arguments for avoiding DRY to improve readability and portability. #ElixirLang https://ryanzidago.com/posts/self-contained-tests-in-elixir/
Each test should own its setup
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✅ Today's Goals: - Morning checkin call with client. - Blog post promotion. - Work on quarterly plan journal (Aug-Sept-Oct) - Do PR review of last LocalCents MVP issue. Start to plan out next epic and do some other cleanup. - Dinner with my sister and brother in law.
✅ Today's Goals: - Morning book reading while the laundry is running. - House cleaning and prep for bedroom move. - Maybe play some more of my Pokemon ROM hack. (Almost at the first gym.) - Planning to make some chicken quesadillas ahead of Sunday Night Baseball, Yankees at Phillies.
👨💻 To those who tell me they don't read the AI code... I've worked really hard to maintain code guardrails, and multiple times I've caught the AI turning off sobelow (security checks) and credo (code design pattern checks). #ElixirLang
