Michael Foley

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Projects:
- MahjongWind.com (play Mahjong online)
- Fit Commit (git hook to validate commit messages)

Titles:
- Director of Yak Shaving at Salesforce Trailhead
- Dad

Interests: history, Ruby, Elixir, mahjong, cello, chess, outer space, and martial arts.

San Francisco 🇺🇸
Taipei 🇹🇼

Twitterhttps://www.twitter.com/m1foley
GitHubhttps://github.com/m1foley
Michael FoleyJan 18
Mike ZornekJan 16

💜📘 The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book! #ElixirLang

Think Distributed Systems

Our first meeting for the new book is Sunday, January 25, 2026, and we will discuss chapters 1 and 2.

Join our Discord to participate!

https://elixirbookclub.github.io/website/

Elixir Book Club

A biweekly book club covering Elixir and general programming topics. All experience levels are welcome.

Show threadMichael FoleyJan 15
@cczona I just had an experience that changed the way I think about this: I thought I had a normal cold with a strange minor symptom that I'd never see a doc about. Asked an LLM on a lark, and its diagnosis led me to a doc who confirmed it was a medical emergency. If another day passed it would have been disaster.
Michael FoleyAug 16, 2025
Pretty representative set of footnotes in Moby-Dick
Show threadMichael FoleyMay 28, 2025
@henrik @maxim I can't get multiline to work, at least with :Gqfopen
Michael FoleyMay 28, 2025
Sarah MeiMay 28, 2025

I’ve started writing again! I wrote the first essay for my newsletter last week about how I view AI coding assistants. Would love to get your feedback!

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahmei/p/the-next-abstraction

Please consider subscribing if you’d like to see me write more. There’s a free option!

The Next Abstraction

Or, Why AI Is Not Replacing Us

Show threadMichael FoleyMay 28, 2025
@henrik @maxim Here's a quick demo of how I like to use :Gqfopen to do global search/replace
Show threadMichael FoleyMay 27, 2025
@henrik @maxim FWIW :Gqfopen in yegappan/greplace solves global search/replace for me in Vim. You can check out the grepprg-related stuff in my vimrc too https://github.com/m1foley/dotfiles/blob/main/_vimrc
dotfiles/_vimrc at main · m1foley/dotfiles

My system dotfiles. You might find something useful. - m1foley/dotfiles

GitHub
Michael FoleyMay 26, 2025
@zmanguy Life hack: becoming well versed in literature solely through metal. Who wants to spend a month with their nose in Moby-Dick when Mastodon's "Leviathan" is so awesome?
Michael FoleyMay 26, 2025
Chris PlummerMay 24, 2025
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
Michael FoleyMay 23, 2025
This is old man stuff here, but I had a fun time reading the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The experience of reading was worth looking up the archaic words, and there are some big cultural influences in it, like "an albatross around one's neck." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)

The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' He holds him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,' quoth he. He holds him with his glittering eye— The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years'…

The Poetry Foundation