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🔥 Hologram hits 96%, OTP 29 RC1 drops, AI agents land

Feb 26, 2026

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🔥 Hologram hits 96%, OTP 29 RC1 drops, AI agents land

Full-stack Elixir in the browser is almost here, plus OTP 29 and building AI agents on the BEAM

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🚀 Elixir v1.20 Drops: 2x Faster Compiles + AI's Secret Weapon

Feb 19, 2026

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🚀 Elixir v1.20 Drops: 2x Faster Compiles + AI's Secret Weapon

Compilation speed doubles, and the case for Elixir as the best language for AI workloads is getting loud.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
⚡ BEAM at 10K: Vector DBs, Real Production Wins & Losses

Feb 12, 2026

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⚡ BEAM at 10K: Vector DBs, Real Production Wins & Losses

Scaling Phoenix beyond theory, pgvector in production, and why your monitoring probably lies to you

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔥 NIFs that don't crash your VM

Feb 5, 2026

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🔥 NIFs that don't crash your VM

Native code without the crashes, scientific computing gets real, Phoenix's sync magic

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔄 Drain Your Queue, Save Your Week

Jan 29, 2026

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5 min read

🔄 Drain Your Queue, Save Your Week

GenServer migration reality check

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔬 Elixir Caught Bugs Silently

Jan 22, 2026

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🔬 Elixir Caught Bugs Silently

The memory model that makes Elixir fault-tolerant, Ash's first non-trivial architecture example, and type inference that graduated from research to bug-catcher.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
 🎮 Your GenServers Got Too Big Because You Mixed Everything Together

Jan 15, 2026

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🎮 Your GenServers Got Too Big Because You Mixed Everything Together

One developer's World of Warcraft server refactor reveals why separating data from orchestration changes everything

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
 💰 Stop Trusting the Balance Column

Jan 9, 2026

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💰 Stop Trusting the Balance Column

Event-based ledgers beat drifting account totals when refunds and retroactive changes hit.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
💥 When Success Triggers a Rollback

Jan 2, 2026

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💥 When Success Triggers a Rollback

The API call worked. The transaction didn’t. One line of Ash code created state divergence and production chaos.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
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