Best behind-the-scenes captures of Goatmire's orchestra and vocal training so far. Ellyse was a phenomenal contributor and collaborator throughout. So glad she wrote this up.
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Not only did they sponsor the conference. Not only do they help you fix your cloud platforms. They also write conference reports!
Thanks Ellie 💖
https://beamops.co.uk/blog/goatmire-2026-review
#goatmire #elixir
Goatmire had 3 distinct original pieces of music composed for it. This was Tom Petterson, Ellyse Cedeno and I believe involved Sam Aaron for some collaboration. And it was all initially caused by Flora Petterson.
These were all performed at various points on the electromechanical orchestra Flora had prototyped and we'd built out together.
Goatmire day 2 wrapped. One more to go.
I don't have much more to say. I am very happy with what this is.
I think it is doing well.
Our conference report has been written. It is insufficient. Please tell us your favorite parts of whatever this was.
https://underjord.io/goatmire-2-odins-folly.html
We struggle to find enough words.
The first conference report is in this podcast. Recorded during the event apparently. I don't know what they say yet because they are still on the news in my ears.
Watching ticket sales for your event is nerve-wracking. But just had a nice 9-ticket bump from a company that seem to be bringing a whole-ass team. On that note, if you want to do Goatmire, there won't be one next year and we don't know when the final ticket-buying rush starts. We'll be packing the place to the limit so when full, it is completely full.
@viticci@mastodon.macstories.net I wonder if you'd prefer KDE to whatever the Ubuntu default is these days.
It is a relatively cohesive experience. It doesn't try to be MacOS. It definitely isn't Windows.
And it has a lot to offer for power users without sending you into the terminal constantly. Quite easy to try via Kubuntu. I'd be curious to hear how you like it. Not affiliated, just prefer it personally.
Plot twist! ElixirConf EU published the keynotes and lightning talks immediately.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4ZsIgecSexrk26--PBWiEyUy&si=GGr2SupYkb0VkeGz
Hope the talks aren't far behind :)
Some databases are built different. Teresa Lopes joins us from the Postgres community to share her experiences scaling, running and maintaining a big ol' Postgres database. 100TB is non-trivial it turns out.
https://www.goatmire.com/talk/operational-hazards-of-managing-postgresql-dbs-over-100tb
#elixir #goatmire
I don't know what I could possibly say about this one that is not answered in the description or communicated through the title.
Having seen the conversation about the actual thesis work on ElixirForum I'm also technically curious.
https://www.goatmire.com/talk/we-got-communist-nerves-before-gta-6-lol
Rather than using "AI" you can actually _do_ AI/ML. The math, the code, the whole thing. Way fancier than writing text prompts.
Alvise is coming to Goatmire to show you how with a proper ML workshop.
https://www.goatmire.com/talk/demystifying-ml-and-ai
#goatmire #elixir
Damn. Safari is the dumbest most frustrating browser.
I've tried to use it because something about Chrome on MacOS just ended up grinding CPU for no reason repeatedly. And I was travelling so a quick switch was necessary.
Neither sparks joy.
The NervesConf US 2024 videos are available thanks to good hustle by Alex McLain and John Cotton.
This includes Powell Kinney's autonomous boat.
Goatmire Elixir speaker announcements begin with Evadne Wu.
"our design takes death seriously .. managed with dignity"
Evadne Wu consistently gives fascinating talks. We were very selective with what agent-oriented talks we accepted for Goatmire. She hit some really interesting points.
https://goatmire.com/talk/the-rebirth-of-an-elixir-based-personal-agent
#goatmire #elixir
Stockholm BEAM folk assemble! Day after Code BEAM Stockholm we will be hosting a little community Unconference. Bring your rejected talk ideas, your curiosity, your interests and lets make up a day of learning and sharing. The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation invites you to come hang.
Days working on the Sentry SDK and the rest of the time spent thinking about and working on agents. Peter Solnica is an OG in the Ruby community, has been doing Elixir for a long time now and will be bringing his perspectives on coding agents and Elixir.
https://goatmire.com/talk/i-see-dead-agents
We were very selective about AI and agent talks for Goatmire, we think you'll find the ones we picked interesting whether you appreciate the bots or not.
Not sure I even shared this blog post. How you get nice Erlang tracing when you didn't prepare by adding tracing tools.
https://underjord.io/injecting-tracing-the-hot-way.html
#elixir #erlang
@marcoarment@mastodon.social and @siracusa@mastodon.social
This seems relevant to your interests. Some company benchmarking Apple's new speech transcription vs old one and Whisper.
https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html
Since I don't know how this library will evolve I rebranded from circuits (established, trusted, serious) to bodge (pragmatic, non-beautiful, inelegant).
And I put them on Hex.
So introducing:
https://hex.pm/packages/bodge_usb Talks to USB devices on Linux.
https://hex.pm/packages/bodge_usb_gadget Implements USB devices on Linux.
Alembic are some of my favorite co-conspirators. Beyond their deep expertise in Ash they are just invested and knowledgeable in the ecosystem. They care deeply and provide a lot of maintainer hours.
Look out for James Harton's robots and Rebecca Le unfurling the Elder Scrolls during this Goatmire.
@victor@typo.social oh, that is something that can totally make my life worse any day now.
Ivory is pretty flat, dense and a bit custom it seems to me. I could see how making it Liquid would be tricky without doing all the wasted space it usually involves.
Don't miss the Unconference after Code BEAM Stockholm. Bring your topics and curiosity.
https://luma.com/n71am1d6
#elixir #erlang #gleam
Getty Orawo is slated to be joining us at Goatmire. We are very happy that we'll be able to hear her story of lazines and Elixir.
https://www.goatmire.com/talk/elixir-made-me-lazy-and-thats-a-good-thing
#elixir #goatmire
Get your Nerves device onto Home Assistant. Kevin Schweikert has been brewing a special batch of Elixir nerd catnip. People will get silly on this stuff. I already have several devices up and running with Homex. Get your dashboards ready!
Avoiding the "It was DNS" while still figuring out what's going on in a massive scale DNS system.
Nelson Vides brings us a phenomenal topic and some good crunchy BEAM observability.
https://goatmire.com/talk/millions-of-packets-zero-panic-observability-without-killing-the-patient
#goatmire #elixir
Oh, I almost missed that the ElixirConf EU photo gallery is out. Now you can play the "who is wearing a shirt Lars made while presenting" game that I invented.
Was 3 for 3 for the first bit at the very least. Some lovely photos in there. Get at it.
Vague hope that LLMs will lead to better integration surface area for services and way more hackable hardware. Currently turning my glinet xe300 into an offloading/publishing flow for my dumbass Sony camera. Because FTP is way better than their app..
BeamOps return and they bring fundamentals. This talk will get you all good and settled in your work with using containers, such as Docker. This is one of the talks that will really benefit any dev, I hope a lot of local Varberg devs make use of it.
Sam Aaron's presentations on Tau5 and Sonic Pi at Goatmire last year were incredibly popular. So when we set up the workshops that was top of the list. And we have space for a whole bunch of people.
https://www.goatmire.com/talk/make-some-noise?2
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It seems like maybe probably new members only get to vote next year :/ But hey, that'll be soon enough.
There is something about maps.. The entire program committee was weird levels of unanimously interested in this hands on map talk.
@siracusa@mastodon.social MKBHD bringing the camera recommendation..
https://youtube.com/shorts/kUnR9dO4EnA?is=W49VIRyb0ikmZL5h
This ZOOM is Insane!
"Another late-night emergency call. Same client as last week. .. This can’t be an unbounded query or a caching blunder, it’s bigger than that."
They return. Another mystery, another investigation for the Oban detectives.
https://goatmire.com/speaker/parker-selbert
https://goatmire.com/speaker/shannon-selbert
#goatmire #elixir
Need to get some control of the cloud that you run your Elixir on? This is the crew.
BEAMOps are showing up for Goatmire with two workshops that would normally be paid corporate training.
@hotdogsladies@mastodon.social random viral music recommendations I think you'd enjoy.
Did you have a Sleep Token moment when they were the thing? Otherwise, recommend.
I had a week recently when my entire YouTube was just people listening to Maphra and Angine de Poitrine.
I assume these have reached you and that you enjoyed them in some manner but doesn't hurt to make sure :)
This one is about radios.
Peter sent this one in and I'm glad he did though he has been needled about it ever since by his peers in the program committee. As it should be.
https://goatmire.com/talk/texting-lora
Love bad texting over annoying mediums. Let's do it.
#goatmire #elixir
A USB library for Nerves and another one for the SONY MiniDisc.
What in the slop-goblins is going on here?
https://github.com/lawik/circuits_usb
I was restless coming out of work, into vacation and just twitching over to my phone constantly so I started a little effort. Claude Code instance to exercise Fable on my computer and then /remote-control to use it on my phone.
@imyke@myke.social the stuff Claude is useful for sometimes..
I never remember the name Bellroy when thinking about bags. But I remember who talked about it.
Claude was also very clear that you did not switch entirely away from Peak Design for all items.
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@ellyxir@humanwords.party could you remind me about that in a month or so, maybe on discord?
Currently looking for companies willing to chip in to support the next EEF stipend for Bart's awesome work on Hologram.
Either contact me to have the EEF manage the stipend, milestones and follow-through or contact Bart directly to support him more hands-on.