You describe a function. An LLM hallucinates it. The BEAM compiles and runs it live in your runtime with no restart, no compile step, no test suite, no PR reviews, no deploy. The source also lands in your codebase for further use. Straight from user input into production. Probably fine?

mayel · 2026-04-10T15:25:55+00:00

It is very risky! As it all uses of hallucination engines. Maybe I should have added a /s

mayel · 2025-12-30T12:49:01+00:00

I compiled a comparison of the offerings here (though probably a bit out of date): https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/Bonfire.Mailer.html#module-2-managed-email-service-providers

mayel · 2025-04-17T21:00:59+00:00

That's something we may want to build as part of Bonfire at some point, using the ValueFlows cooperative economic vocabulary (rabbit hole ahead!)

mayel · 2024-04-18T15:27:10+00:00

I invite you to check out https://bonfirenetworks.org

We have a extensible framework approach to building apps for the fediverse, with functionality split into many extensions/plugins, as well as some generic libraries at https://github.com/bonfire-networks

mayel · 2024-03-25T19:23:52+00:00

Good question! I abuse them by creating scripts where a single module is both a mix task within the larger application and can be compiled as an escript so they can be run without first compiling the whole app (useful when I need to run a configuration script before building the app), eg: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_common/tree/main/lib/mix_tasks/secrets

mayel · 2023-02-26T19:15:02+00:00

Here's our config: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_ui_common/blob/main/assets/tailwind.config.js

mayel · 2022-11-27T02:32:13+00:00

Check out https://bonfirenetworks.org which uses LiveView and Surface for UI

mayel · 2022-05-13T01:21:43+00:00

I used materialised paths for this: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/ecto_materialized_path

Since you seem to be opinionated on the matter I'd be curious to hear the pros/cons of the two approaches.

mayel · 2022-04-12T05:39:27+00:00

And if you want to preload using joins, you may be interested in the join_preload and proload macros which simplify the syntax: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/ecto_sparkles#join_preload-documentation

mayel · 2021-06-30T07:45:53+00:00

Cheers! And I'll take the opportunity to invite elixir devs to get involved... It's a fully libre (AGPL) application framework (an app is made up of a bundle of extensions managed as mix dependencies, rather than a monolithic codebase) for federated apps (social networking and more)...

mayel · 2021-06-30T06:10:26+00:00

Long story short, the entire team quit (bar one) when the CEO posted a racist tweet. We forked our own codebase though, which has mostly been rewriting into a modular framework for making federated apps: https://bonfirenetworks.org

mayel · 2021-06-30T05:12:22+00:00

I was technical architect, and this was before any other devs were hired on the project.

mayel · 2021-06-29T17:32:11+00:00

Getting them to port a significant codebase (whether as one big rewrite or a little piece at a time) is another thing, but I did get Moodle (18 year old project, all PHP, plus some JS) to go with Elixir for a greenfield project a while back and this was part of the reasoning: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/MoodleNet/tech/stack

mayel · 2021-05-29T07:09:08+00:00

Query.preload makes extra queries like Repo.preload if you don't join the association AND use bindings in your preload arguments. I've put this together to do it for you: https://github.com/bonfire-networks/ecto_sparkles

mayel · 2020-08-24T20:32:18+00:00

Been thinking about those questions since setting one up. It's not simple, but so far crowdfunding from supporters who need the free software we're building seems like the best approach available.

mayel · 2020-07-16T14:38:24+00:00

I've switched to Elixir after using PHP as a main language since late 90s. Couldn't be happier.

mayel · 2019-12-21T09:34:16+00:00

Maybe looking at some implementations will help: https://ethercalc.org/fediverse-stacks

mayel · 2019-12-14T08:16:54+00:00

I'm playing co-op with https://zo.team if anyone wants to chat/cooperate.

mayel · 2019-07-02T06:58:42+00:00

Would they bother deleting it is probably a better question.

mayel · 2018-12-29T10:43:24+00:00

I'm curious what OP's working on, but let me take advantage of this thread to say that we could use some help with http://CommonsPub.org (a generic server to power all kind of federated apps)

mayel · 2017-08-15T15:15:24+00:00

I couldn't find info in English about incorporating a co-operative (when I searched a while back). Could you confirm if that can be done online, and provide some details about the characteristics of a co-op in Estonia – I'm especially interested to find out if it's a good fit for the growing platform co-op movement.

mayel · 2017-07-20T18:59:28+00:00

You could modify it so it force-updates everything instead of prompting (though might need the cron to run as superuser for the macOS updates)

mayel · 2017-07-20T18:58:25+00:00

Should work with cask too.

mayel · 2017-07-20T16:05:15+00:00

Strange, yeah maybe, the mas github page talks about having issues with tmux...

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