While trying to improve the performance of JSON encoding in an Erlang application last year, I came to wonder about the different representations one can use when writing data to disk or sending it over a socket, and how they map to the OS's underlying f... (more…)

Not so long ago, John Hughes showed a module called Aaargh!! to the erlang-questions mailing list. How parse transforms and macros and the Erlang compiler all worked together to mess up with us. (more…)

There are different ways to structure data within a file. In the age of web, the most prominent one is JSON, followed by middle-aged XML and configuration-oriented YAML. Human-readable ways to structure data, however, are just one side of the spectrum. Th... (more…)

Time has past since our last interview for This is not a Monad Tutorial. OpenBSD released its 6.0 version after 20 years of continues…

The Erlang and Elixir San Francisco Bay Area 2017 Conference will be on 23 - 24 March...