After I finally got the beam out of the garden, I hooked up the other end and turned it 90 degrees so it can go thick end first towards the gate behind which I want it to be.
But before I can pull it the rest of the way, I had to tidy up the other beams spread out in the yard. Luckily our tractor fits between fruit trees, sheds and old bee hives and I could pull them all into a pile, one at a time. One shattered!
This took the rest of the day 
Got Mr. Beam moved. Schlepped a long wire rope from the grain store, massive 20mm ø. An hour undoing a stupid knot in the middle of it with steel spikes and hammer. Long enough to reach a distant spruce with the 3 ton hand winch.
It moved but this pace got boring fast, so I used the tractor to pull sideways at the midpoint of the tensioned rope. That moved it much faster!
The soil there was much more solid, so I could pull it by tractor the rest of the way.
Giving @davepolaschek's suggestion a try. The T-40 wheel I found in the garage is getting some use as uh, round lever? What do you even call this.
It kinda worked. Well, it didn't budge as I was pulling, but when it fell over while under tension it levered the beam out of the ground sideways and a little forward.
Still refuses to go further, but I'm having a strong coffee and sweets and shall stubbornly continue.
Gleam 1.8.0 is out with some _fantastic_ looking code actions: https://gleam.run/news/gleam-gets-rename-variable/
Gleam developer survey results for 2024: https://gleam.run/news/developer-survey-2024-results/
Turns out 4 people in addition to me pointed out they are from Finland! Where are you, my people? :D
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I'm glad to announce AtomVM v0.6.5, the best release so far.
#AtomVM v0.6.5 has greater support to Elixir, a number of improvements and bugixes.
Furthermore we updated our tooling such as exatomvm to enable quick and easy developement on #RaspberryPi Pico in addition to #ESP32.
Do you wish #Erlang had more #typesafety? Give #Gleam a try! A statically typed functional language, using the #Beam virtual machine, and compiles to either Erlang or JavaScript. Just hit version 1.0 at the start of March, so should be production ready. I don't write Erlang myself, but always interested in a JavaScript replacement.
Turns out it's infeasible to go to #FOSDEM from Finland without flying. The cost would be around 300 € in one direction and take nearly two days of travel, first on a ship and then trains and buses. Shame, I would've liked to be at the #BEAM devroom.
I guess I'll look forward to #CodeBEAM Lite Stockholm in May, if it's affordable.
Congrats to the Elixir/BEAM community for making progress on their type system! Elixir was the first language that really gave me the sense I was in a community. In truth, I never built anything meaningful in Elixir, but I submitted my first 1-line open source PR in that community, and it still has a special place in my ♥︎. José leads in a way that brings out talent in everyone around him—it's great to watch.
(PDF): https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.06391.pdf
The #MastoPrompt for Friday 22nd December is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories
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Last day to submit your talk for the #Erlang, #Elixir, #Gleam and friends Devroom at @fosdem 2024, there is still some time left in the schedule!
https://beam-fosdem.dev/call-for-talks/
Hope to see many of you in Bruxelles in February!
#beam #weBEAMTogether @elixir
Lasp-Lang was a project to develop a language for distributed, eventually-consistent computations (by Christopher Meiklejohn). It is an archived project now, but the Partisan sub-project (a membership and distribution layer for the #BEAM) is still active (now mainly supported by Leapsight).
We had looked into Partisan a couple of times for #VerneMQ but are currently not using it.
https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan
#Erlang
One hand on the wall, I crept through the pitch dark study. Bat wings fluttered.
The clock struck twelve. Midday! I hauled on the curtains. Fabric ripped. I prayed for a #beam of sunlight.
"Not a bad attempt." The vampire chuckled. "But haven't you heard of blackout blinds?"
The lone beam spans the gap over a deep gorge. Once it served as a part of a bridge where great wheeled beasts ran across with their precious cargo and passengers.
But these days only a small bird, a tit with a blue head sits there. It lands, tucks its wings and chirps.
This awakens the dormant magic and for a second the bird experiences pulling levers as countryside flies past.
It never understands what it sees, but still finds it enjoyable - so it returns often.
in terms of industry programming languages that any programmer can hit the ground running with little to no ramp up, #elixir does the best job imo. I never used ruby, but its all so obvious you can just get to work. and for distributed systems that need to scale in a flexible way, the #beam eliminates nearly everything that makes webapp development horrible. it's hard to make a good argument for any other industrial virtual machine. #commonlisp implementations being the exception.
