Full-stack engineer in Moncton, Canada. Focused primarily on Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView nowadays. Also JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Svelte, Go, Postgres, MySQL, and PHP. Dabble in Rust and Zig sometimes (but never for anything serious, of course).
Contact: chris <at> crystala <dot> io
- Mexican Navy Ship Crashes into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge
by clessg on 5/18/25, 2:45 AM, with comments
- Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM
by clessg on 5/15/25, 5:14 PM, with comments
- Trinitite
by clessg on 4/27/25, 7:31 PM, with comments
- Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9k Years (2010)
by clessg on 4/13/25, 11:45 PM, with comments
- AI GPU Clusters, from Your Laptop, with Livebook
by clessg on 9/24/24, 6:00 PM, with comments
- 9/11 in Realtime
by clessg on 9/11/24, 6:34 AM, with comments
- LiveView Native Is Here
by clessg on 9/10/24, 2:21 AM, with comments
- Boeing Starliner, leaving its crew behind, lands in New Mexico
by clessg on 9/7/24, 4:14 AM, with comments
- Scaling Your Phoenix App in Elixir with Flame
by clessg on 9/7/24, 2:50 AM, with comments
- In lawsuit, Logan Paul argues Coffeezilla defamed him with CryptoZoo criticism
by clessg on 7/20/24, 5:22 PM, with comments
- LiveView Is Not a Zero-JS Framework, It's a Zero-Boring-JS Framework
by clessg on 6/17/24, 1:42 PM, with comments
- Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
by clessg on 6/12/24, 11:13 AM, with comments
- Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels
by clessg on 6/8/24, 11:42 AM, with comments
- Web apps have client and server state
by clessg on 6/7/24, 3:27 PM, with comments
- Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc.
by clessg on 5/29/24, 12:38 PM, with comments
- Improve your Dev Stack with process-compose
by clessg on 5/10/24, 8:30 PM, with comments
- Experimental gradual set-theoretic types in Elixir
by clessg on 5/6/24, 10:46 PM, with comments
- Elixir 1.17 type inference of struct and map fields
by clessg on 4/30/24, 9:26 PM, with comments
- Match Operator Guards in Elixir
by clessg on 4/18/24, 5:01 PM, with comments
- Pokemon Red/Blue Map
by clessg on 12/25/23, 1:13 PM, with comments
- Elixir v1.16 Released
by clessg on 12/22/23, 5:15 PM, with comments
- What's New in Elixir 1.16
by clessg on 12/20/23, 5:09 PM, with comments
- Burrito: Cross-platform, single-binary Elixir deployments
by clessg on 12/14/23, 6:28 PM, with comments
- The Oldest Voices We Can Still Hear [video]
by clessg on 12/9/23, 1:31 AM, with comments
- Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections (2020)
by clessg on 11/29/23, 5:32 PM, with comments
- Parsing Pokémon Red and Blue Maps (2020)
by clessg on 11/26/23, 9:02 PM, with comments
- Explosion at Rainbow Bridge closes all WNY border crossings between U.S., Canada
by clessg on 11/22/23, 6:29 PM, with comments
- Ergonomic Remote Development
by clessg on 11/7/23, 1:50 PM, with comments