Stephen Ball

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Hello! Elixir is my favorite programming language! I'll write code in whatever language is necessary but if it isn't Elixir it isn't a great time. I've been interested since I saw José introduce it at Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012 and worked fulltime in Elixir from 2015-2017. Since joining Tanium in 2017 it's been a lot of NodeJS; some OS level scripting on Windows, *nix, macOS, Solaris, and AIX; and Go.

Since May 2022 I've been able to bring Elixir to my work via Livebook and custom smart cells to communicate with our APIs.

Love of Elixir aside, I've also written more BASH than any one human probably should and find it enjoyable as well.

I live in the USA and my wife and I are parents to three amazing kids.

I love videogames and you can find me playing Rocket League on my PS5 as the organizer of the "Functional Programming is Good" club.

I'm a periodic conference speaker and most recently remotely presented "Livebook smart cells are amazing" at ElixirConf 2022.
Bloghttps://www.strangeleaflet.com
Stephen BallJul 22, 2023
Machine Learning in Elixir is super fun! I’m only in chapter 1 so I keep running into arcane magical concepts that the book promises to explain later. I am happily and dutifully following along in Livebook and things are happening! In this screenshot I’ve just run a model training loop on a small set of data.
Show threadStephen BallDec 28, 2022

I can calculate comparisons from the console in any fly.io region and my liveview homepage updates all connected sessions.

iex(further-from@fdaa:0:69f0:a7b:8a:3:b0a4:2)1> System.get_env("FLY_REGION") "fra" iex(further-from@fdaa:0:69f0:a7b:8a:3:b0a4:2)2> FurtherFrom.Engine.compare(FurtherFrom.Timeline.get_random_event(), FurtherFrom.Timeline.get_random_event())
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