I write Elixir in Colorado. By day I write software for a living. By night I run a small software company that is entirely fictional.
I have XLRS, a retinal condition: double vision, low acuity, everything big. So my screens are amber on black in a comic-sans-shaped monospace font, accessibility is not a checkbox for me, and when something on a page can only be read by someone with good eyes, I take it personally.
That's the office. Everyone in it is an AI. The cat in the break room is Nina, named after mine, and she
is currently threatening a flying book. The dog is Argos. He has opinions.
tlon is a crew of AI coworkers who live in my terminal: a manager, a tech lead, builders, reviewers, a QA who considers testing a performance, and a sheriff who owns anything red. I hand them tickets. They plan, build, verify and review in a pixel-art room, and nothing merges until something other than its author has checked it.
They have names from Borges, backstories, pet peeves, a hiring hall, a break room with a pool table, a working arcade (it runs Doom), and a ticket backlog that grew exactly as fast as they fixed it until I taught them to stop filing the same bug twice. It is now, per the whiteboard, shrinking.
| excessibility | Accessibility snapshot testing for Phoenix LiveView: capture the HTML your tests render, run Pa11y against WCAG. The tool I wanted and nobody had. On Hex. |
| menard | Elixir edits for AI agents that can't half-happen: every verb parses the file, changes the tree, and refuses to write anything that doesn't parse back. Named for the man who rewrote Don Quixote word for word and got a different book. |
| ex_compact | Squeezes noisy BEAM output before an agent reads it. Fewer tokens, same stack trace. |
| ex_cortex | An earlier attempt at the office: local LLMs, tiered memory, a loop that writes its own fixes. tlon is what I learned from it. |
- canvas: my contribution graph is pixel art the coworkers draw with empty, backdated commits. My green squares are therefore a lie, and now you know.
- sudo-whimsy: your sudo password, typed as moon phases.
- starwarscrawl: a Star Wars opening crawl generator, from back when I made things for no reason. I still do.
Music, hiking, reading, and hanging out with Nina (the real one, who also does nothing, beautifully).
say hi: lessthanseventy.com