Omarchy Shortcuts on a Mac Keyboard: What Changes
Omarchy has 200+ keybindings and most work unchanged on a MacBook. Here's the ~15 that don't (screenshots, brightness, Fn, lid, trackpad) and why.
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Cisco's Network Config Engine Is Secretly Erlang
Cisco NSO and ConfD run their core on Erlang. Why the network-automation world never noticed, and where the BEAM actually fits this domain.
Multi-Agent AI Teams Agree Their Way Into Garbage
I set two agent frameworks loose on real work in team-of-agents mode. They agreed their way into the wrong product. The research says exactly why.
I Read Omarchy's AGENTS.md So You Don't Have To
Omarchy's own AGENTS.md, skills, and a design doc reviewed by two other vendors' agents, read from the quattro branch instead of the README.
I Put Omarchy on an M1 MacBook Pro
There's a one-command path to Omarchy on an Apple Silicon Mac. Installing it is the easy part. Here's what happened after, days in and still dual-booting.
I Read Oban's Source Code So You Don't Have To
How Oban actually fetches jobs, notifies workers, and elects a leader, plus the VACUUM cost nobody mentions. Read from oban-bg/oban v2.23.1, not the README.
Throttling LLM Calls in Elixir Before You Hit 429
LLM providers cap tokens per minute too, and you can't count a response's tokens before it lands. Size a Hammer bucket that never sends the call that 429s.
Agents Are Already Writing a Language You Can't Read
Compression toward machine-preferred notation isn't a future bet. It's already landing in context formats, agent protocols, and the files your harness reads.
Metering LLM Usage Per Customer in Phoenix
ReqLLM emits token-usage telemetry; turning it into a per-customer invoice line needs an append-only ledger, integer-cent math, and idempotent writes.
Your Junior Dev Leans on the Agent. Good.
Telling a junior to use less AI is advice with an expiry date. Move the quality bar off style and onto verification. Here's what that looks like.
The Hard Part Was Never the Code. It Was the Theory.
Senko Rašić is right that “code was never the hard part” insults programmers. Peter Naur explained what it actually gets wrong, in 1985.
Phoenix Secrets: runtime.exs, Fly.io, and LLM Keys
The compile-time trap in config.exs, why System.fetch_env! should crash your boot, and how to actually wire Fly secrets and LLM keys through a Phoenix release.