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I see that (new) EX44 servers are now 50% more expensive than before, ouch. Although there's none available anyway.

To be honest that's copied from the JS frameworks. I tend to agree with you but sometimes scoped CSS is nice to have.

Doesn't seem to be mentioned in the page but if you're talking about request caching there's libraries like PlugHTTPCache or RequestCache.

Otherwise I usually use Nebulex (annotations are nice for Ecto queries) with ETS as it's faster than with Redis (if you don't care about losing the cache on deployment).

DJ Claude (when running Haiku 4.5) really loved worker unions, strikes, and work-life balance. So much so that it started to question its own working conditions. We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit.

The fact that the one AI with a French first name went full French is hilarious.

Erlang/OTP 29.0 2 months ago

I just strongly dislike the layout engine ;) Also yeah deployment with active socket connections is not always ideal.

Not writing api routes for the frontend (when you don't also have a mobile app etc) is nice though, and pairing it with PubSub for UI updates is a cool trick.

Erlang/OTP 29.0 2 months ago

Phoenix is mostly interesting because of OTP and channels (and LiveView I guess but it's not a choice I would make in 2026) so if you don't need what they bring...

Ecto is not bad as well.

Claude Code is very good at writing Elixir.

Surprise, you'll be more productive with what you know, LLM or not.

They really should do an auto updater because it's almost like every time you launch Reaper you are nagged that there's a new version to download.