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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.

I find it interesting how the Erlang BEAM engine represents data in memory. Quick look: An Erlang list This is the in-memory layout of the Erlang …

theBeamBook – A description of the Erlang Runtime System ERTS and the virtual Machine BEAM.

This is an article about something I showed live at the Erlang & Elixir Factory San Francisco 2017. It’s about what you can and can not do if you are fancy with your module attributes in Erlang.

We love Rails, but we believe that Ruby is the wrong choice of platform on which to build a simple, fast, reliable website. The alternatives aren’t much better: the JVM, V8, Python, and Perl all eventually run into the problem of dog-slow server-side temp…

alpaca – Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM…

tamale – TAble MAtching Lua Extension – An Erlang-style pattern-matching library for Lua…

Since OTP is such a powerful tool for creating servers, not surprising, I’m constantly installing Erlang on new hardware & virtualware.