A map of pain.

Off the hook.

Ripper.

CellF is a neural synthesiser. Its “brain” is made of biological neural networks that grow in a Petri dish and controls in real time it’s “body” that is made of an array of analogue modular synthesizers that work in synergy with it and play with human musicians.

Watch stone carver Anna Rubincam as she goes from measuring a live person to a clay model to a finished stone portrait in three weeks.

Seeya Chris 😢

Some nuggets of gold in this.

Rails to React.

Brandur Leach:

It’s not that new technology should never be introduced, but it should be done with rational defensiveness, and with a critical eye in how it’ll fit into an evolving (and hopefully ever-improving) architecture.

It suggests improving increasing productive output by continually improving the efficiency of a system even while keeping input the same. I project this onto technology to mean building a stack that scales to more users and more activity while the people and infrastructure supporting it stay fixed.

Programming calendar time is hard.

I always enjoy the behind the scenes stories of comedians.

A look into some of the inspiration and decisions in the design of Elixir.

Jujitsu and meditations on narrative and consciousness.

A visual demo.

Ben Smith:

Building applications following domain-driven design and using CQRS feels really natural with the Elixir – and Erlang – actor model. Aggregate roots fit well within Elixir processes, which are driven by immutable messages through their own message mailboxes, allowing them to run concurrently and in isolation.

I too think that Elixir is a good fit for CQRS/ES applications.

The post provides a thorough walkthrough that builds an event sourced/CQRS Elixir application using Phoenix, Commanded, and Eventstore. The Commanded and Eventstore libraries look to have implemented most of the features I’m looking for.