Hacker News: s3cur3

Elixir for a Bluesky DataPlane: the choice we didn't expect

s3cur3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:21:40 +0000

Article URL: https://bitcrowd.dev/why-elixir-bluesky-dataplane/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479567

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by s3cur3 in "Surprise, pay $1000"

s3cur3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:05:07 +0000

Having been a happy customer of Blacksmith, Depot, and Ubicloud at various points (all three of which offer GitHub Actions runners at cheaper prices than GitHub themselves), I agree the billing here is weird. It's worth pointing out, though, that you have to use a lot of CI minutes to incur a $1000 bill. You're well outside of hobbyist levels, and that same level of usage would have previously cost double from GitHub themselves. This a business with serious compute needs, being asked to pay real money.

New comment by s3cur3 in "Erlang/OTP 29.0"

s3cur3 — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:16:28 +0000

I dunno… it’d break a looooot of code if structs were suddenly not also maps. My bet is this becomes a new option you have to manually migrate to.

New comment by s3cur3 in "Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024"

s3cur3 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:07:09 +0000

No sweat, I get it! :D

New comment by s3cur3 in "Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024"

s3cur3 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:54:06 +0000

Author here! I've not been compensated by the Petal Pro devs at all. I've interacted with them exactly twice—once in support and once to submit the world's tiniest PR. I'm just a happy customer.

(If that's not enough, you can dig in to the Petal Components repo and see I'm not a contributor.)

Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024

s3cur3 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:12:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sleepeasy.app/2024/01/21/elixir-best-language-for-bootstrapped-b2b-saas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39309093

Points: 143

# Comments: 138

New comment by s3cur3 in "Financial Breakdown of $16k in Video Course Sales"

s3cur3 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:39:19 +0000

I had no idea Gumroad et al. took their percentage on top of taxes. Seems shady.

A Scary Story

s3cur3 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:17:29 +0000

Article URL: https://tylerayoung.com/2023/10/31/scary-story/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38083600

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Writing Predictable Elixir Code with Reducers

s3cur3 — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:53:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/07/19/writing-predictable-elixir-code-with-reducers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32165819

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

We discovered a 7-year old performance issue in Elixir (2020)

s3cur3 — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 23:04:58 +0000

Article URL: https://code.tubitv.com/how-we-discovered-a-7-year-old-performance-issue-in-elixir-99080bdce9a1?gi=60329427cb38

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102430

Points: 85

# Comments: 13

New comment by s3cur3 in "X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass"

s3cur3 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:28:12 +0000

It's... kind of his¹ thing. :) For instance: https://austinmeyer.com/why-does-god-hate-lancairs/

¹ Austin Meyer, creator of X-Plane

Translating User Interfaces Is Way Harder Than You Think

s3cur3 — Mon, 02 May 2022 15:02:09 +0000

Article URL: https://tylerayoung.com/2022/05/02/translating-user-interfaces-is-hard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235977

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

At the boundaries, applications aren't functional

s3cur3 — Mon, 02 May 2022 11:00:05 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ploeh.dk/2022/05/02/at-the-boundaries-applications-arent-functional/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31233566

Points: 30

# Comments: 31

Refactoring Toward Algorithms in Elixir

s3cur3 — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 14:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://tylerayoung.com/2022/04/14/refactoring-toward-algorithms-in-elixir/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027393

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Taking Hashrocket's “Ultimate Elixir CI” to the Next Level

s3cur3 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:58:14 +0000

Article URL: https://felt.com/blog/hashrocket-ultimate-elixir-to-the-next-level

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31001377

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Write More Pure Functions

s3cur3 — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 12:00:48 +0000

Article URL: https://tylerayoung.com/2022/03/16/write-more-pure-functions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30976291

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by s3cur3 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)"

s3cur3 — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:34:29 +0000

Enbala | Denver, CO / Vancouver, BC / Remote for strong candidates | Full-time | https://www.enbala.com

We're working to make the future of energy production more sustainable by helping energy utility companies balance the grid. This includes everything from helping lower peak energy usage (removing the need to, say, build an expensive new coal power plant that would only be run a few days a year) to balancing decentralized production from household solar.

Our back-end is written primarily in Elixir, and our front-end is Elm. We also have microservices running Python on AWS Lambda. We have a strong cultural focus on things that make devs' lives better day-to-day—things like testing, being kind & helpful to one another, code reviews that are valuable for both parties, continual improvement in our processes, etc.

Selected open roles at the time of this writing:

- Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

- Senior DevOps Engineer

- Senior Security DevOps Engineer

- Senior software engineer (Elixir)

- Senior software engineer (Python)

- UI/UX product designer

More info here: https://www.enbala.com/about/careers/

New comment by s3cur3 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)"

s3cur3 — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 15:46:50 +0000

Enbala | Denver, CO / Vancouver, BC / Remote for strong candidates | Full-time | https://www.enbala.com

Our back-end is written primarily in Elixir, and our front-end is Elm. We have a strong cultural focus on things that make devs' lives better day-to-day—things like testing, being kind & helpful to one another, code reviews that are valuable for both parties, continual improvement in our processes, etc.

Selected open roles at the time of this writing:

- Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)*

- Senior DevOps Engineer

- Senior software engineer (Elixir)

- Senior software engineer (Python)

- Product owner

- UI/UX product designer

More info here: https://www.enbala.com/about/careers/

* On a personal note, we really value our QA folks and treat them well. (I think the posted salary range hints at that.) We want QA deeply involved with the whole software development lifecycle, rather than something that gets tacked on at the "end" (ha!) of development.

Is It Ever Okay to Future Proof?

s3cur3 — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 10:54:14 +0000

Article URL: http://hacksoflife.blogspot.com/2018/10/is-it-ever-okay-to-future-proof.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28895501

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by s3cur3 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)"

s3cur3 — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:39:36 +0000

Enbala | Denver, CO / Vancouver, BC / Remote for strong candidates | Full-time | https://www.enbala.com

Our back-end is written in Elixir, and our front-end is Elm. We have a strong cultural focus on things that make devs' lives better day-to-day—things like testing, being kind & helpful to one another, code reviews that are valuable for both parties, continual improvement in our processes, etc.

Selected open roles at the time of this writing:

- Senior devops engineer

- Senior software engineer

- Software engineer

- Product manager

- UI/UX product designer

More info here: https://www.enbala.com/about/careers/