Programming

I Stopped Curating Games. I Built an AI Agent to Run My Portal Instead.

Picture this: You want to build a gaming portal. You need to find the games, playtest them, categorize them, write descriptions, extract thumbnails, a…

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

Building a persistent cognitive architecture for LLM agents using Elixir and OTP

Three Questions Every Zero-Knowledge Builder Gets Asked (And How I Answer Them)

Last week, a fellow builder working on a zero-knowledge financial tracker left a thoughtful comment on the Metamorphic Product Hunt page. He hit his f…

Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language

Testing a LiveView App with Playwright: Fixing Navigation Timeouts

I was building a Playwright suite against a Phoenix LiveView app for the first time. Tests ran fine in isolation. Overnight, the full suite timed out …

Atom Exhaustion Is Not a Footgun. It's One Third of Our CVEs

An Ash-Inspired DDD Framework for Python: Derive Everything from the Domain Model

I've been building PingerAgents — a multitenant AI agent orchestration platform. Along the way I ended up writing something that felt worth writing up…

Highest Random Weight in Elixir

How do I write Elixir tests?

Bird Meadow: a multi-agent Active Inference world I'd like the community to poke holes in

TL;DR. I'm Michael Polzin. I just shipped, as open source, a multi-agent Active Inference world — birds that hear and sing — running on top of audit-c…