The Interactive Elixir (IEX) console is a powerful tool for Elixir developers, serving as a read-eval-print loop (REPL) to test code snippets, debug, and experiment with Elixir’s features in real time. While launching IEX is straightforward (via the iex command in your terminal), exiting it can be less intuitive—especially if you’re accustomed to using Ctrl-C to terminate processes in other shells.Many users assume Ctrl-C works to exit IEX, but this often leads to confusion: pressing Ctrl-C in IEX triggers a “break” menu rather than a direct exit. In this blog, we’ll demystify exiting IEX by exploring command-based alternatives to Ctrl-C, including the recommended exit() function, alternative commands, and best practices for cleanly closing the shell.

LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck

The post highlights the various tips and tricks to learning machine learning with elixir. It goes through the difference between python and elixir for various steps in machine learning.

Neat tricks to write concise and maintainable tests in Elixir.

Neat tricks to write concise and maintainable tests in Elixir.

Tutorial on how to use Dokku to deploy and manage a Phoenix application.

Opinionated list of changes to Phoenix’s default project boilerplate generated by mix phx.new

Ractor provides a fully-supervised, tokio-friendly actor framework for Rust frameworks. It is modelled closely off of Erlang’s gen_server along with extensions such as factories and distributed clusters.

Not sure if an Akkoma MRF could help moderate posts bridged from Bluesky.

Two seconds of making an Emacs lisp thing. Three hours of reading Elixir docs and grepping Akkoma’s source code to make the Emacs lisp thing render properly in the atom feed.

Owl is a toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir.

Author shares his perspective on common Elixir coding patterns.