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Michael Frew

Owner and operator of multiple Software/SaaS companies acquired over the past decade.

🔁 You Don't Need a WebSocket to Build Reactive Phoenix Pages

Jun 25, 2026

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3 min read

🔁 You Don't Need a WebSocket to Build Reactive Phoenix Pages

Dstar makes Phoenix reactive over SSE, durable_stash persists assigns, CDPEx drops ChromeDriver, v1.20 types your code

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
⚡ Your 12-Minute Test Suite Is 75% Database You Didn't Need

Jun 18, 2026

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3 min read

⚡ Your 12-Minute Test Suite Is 75% Database You Didn't Need

LiveView 1.2 colocates CSS, OTP 29.0.2 patches 7 CVEs, and the Thinking Elixir Podcast calls it a wrap after 307 episodes

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔥 Elixir v1.20 Ships Gradual Typing Without the Annotation Tax

Jun 11, 2026

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3 min read

🔥 Elixir v1.20 Ships Gradual Typing Without the Annotation Tax

Elixir adds type inference, Claude exposes Hex CVEs, and Bond locks in contracts

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🛠️ Your SSL Hostname Check Never Worked the Way You Thought

Jun 4, 2026

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3 min read

🛠️ Your SSL Hostname Check Never Worked the Way You Thought

Two OTP CVEs patched across all active branches, Elixir 1.20.0 RC6 lands, and GPT-2 built from scratch in Nx

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
💡 Stop Validating LLM Output. Control the Logits Instead.

May 28, 2026

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3 min read

💡 Stop Validating LLM Output. Control the Logits Instead.

Elixir 1.20 type inference merged, LiveView beats Hotwire 14x on WebSockets, Nx 0.12 with C/CUDA extensions

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
⚡ LiveView Gets Hooks, Decimal Gets a CVE

May 21, 2026

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3 min read

⚡ LiveView Gets Hooks, Decimal Gets a CVE

Filament adds Observable GenServers to LiveView - plus CVE-2026-32686 in decimal and Lockstep's race detector

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🤖 Your AI Writes Elixir Like a Ruby Dev in Denial

May 14, 2026

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3 min read

🤖 Your AI Writes Elixir Like a Ruby Dev in Denial

13 rules for idiomatic OTP code - plus BEAM lands on iOS, NervesConf 2024 talks are online, and GraphBLAS hits Hex

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔐 Your HTTP/2 Server Will Crash Without This Patch

May 7, 2026

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3 min read

🔐 Your HTTP/2 Server Will Crash Without This Patch

CVE-2026-32688 crashes BEAM nodes via atom table exhaustion. Upgrade plug_cowboy to 2.8.1 or disable HTTP/2 now

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
💡 Your M-Series Mac Was an Idle ML Cluster All Along

Apr 30, 2026

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3 min read

💡 Your M-Series Mac Was an Idle ML Cluster All Along

Emily puts Nx on Apple Metal GPU - plus SAFE catches what pattern matching misses

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔧 Your Uptime Monitor Lied to You at 3am

Apr 23, 2026

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3 min read

🔧 Your Uptime Monitor Lied to You at 3am

Multi-region consensus on pure BEAM - zero external deps, zero false alerts

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔒 Your Dependencies Are Running Code Before Your App Starts

Apr 16, 2026

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6 min read

🔒 Your Dependencies Are Running Code Before Your App Starts

Vet scans Elixir deps for supply chain attacks at the AST level - plus a framework that puts the BEAM directly on your phone

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔧 Your Redis Bill Is Paying for Durability You Never Got

Apr 9, 2026

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7 min read

🔧 Your Redis Bill Is Paying for Durability You Never Got

Raft consensus meets Bitcask storage - an Elixir library that makes Redis persistence actually work

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔥 Your JSON Encoder Burns 60x More Memory Than Necessary

Apr 2, 2026

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6 min read

🔥 Your JSON Encoder Burns 60x More Memory Than Necessary

Torque ships SIMD-powered parsing, Oban Pro 1.7 overhauls workflows, and hot-loaded tracing goes to production

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🎯 Elixir Is Escaping the Web App Box

Mar 26, 2026

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8 min read

🎯 Elixir Is Escaping the Web App Box

Remote profiling, browser-side Elixir, and AI agents that actually fit OTP

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
⚡ EtherCAT in Pure Elixir: Industrial Control Meets BEAM

Mar 19, 2026

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7 min read

⚡ EtherCAT in Pure Elixir: Industrial Control Meets BEAM

Real-time fieldbus protocol implementation proves Elixir's ready for the factory floor

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🚀 Elixir 1.20 RC2: Type inference goes beast mode

Mar 12, 2026

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8 min read

🚀 Elixir 1.20 RC2: Type inference goes beast mode

Plus: Jido 2.0 drops, SSH-based deployment that'll make your DevOps team nervous, and AI pipelines in pure Elixir

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔥 Visual workflows hit Elixir: LiveFlow & FusionFlow drop

Mar 5, 2026

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6 min read

🔥 Visual workflows hit Elixir: LiveFlow & FusionFlow drop

Two new flow builders debut, OTP patches land, plus screenshot/PDF generation without headless Chrome

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

Feb 26, 2026

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8 min read

🔥 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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7 min read

🚀 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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6 min read

⚡ 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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7 min read

🔥 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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6 min read

🔬 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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6 min read

🎮 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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6 min read

💰 Stop Trusting the Balance Column

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

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
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