Tyler A. Young ⚗️🧑🏻‍💻

@tylerayoung.com

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#ElixirLang developer working at Jump. Former software dev at Felt and X-Plane. He/him.

mix deps.get output, showing Earmark 1.4.48 marked as "RETIRED!" and "VULNERABLE!" due to CVE-2026-48591, "Stored XSS via unescaped HTML attribute values in earmark"
Salt Bae meme format: sprinkling the BEAM on your problems
Google AI answer that begins by saying there are 2 "p"s in "Google," but then concludes by spelling it out ("G-o-o-g-l-e") and saying there are exactly zero "p"s.
AI result from Google declaring there is exactly 1 "p" in the word "Google," and that there's been a lot of chatter online about Google AI wrongly saying there were 2.
A screenshot of a GitHub Actions run showing repeated HTTP 500 responses trying to fetch the repository.
A diff of a dependabot.yml file showing the addition of the following two lines to a package-ecosystem definition: cooldown: default-days: 5
A still from the 1948 Oliver Twist film, captioned "Please sir, may I have more tokens?"
LLM-generated "test" code which doesn't call into actual production code at all, instead making assertions about the test setup itself.
A print copy of the book Advanced Functional Programming with Elixir
Chappelle: Modern problems require modern solutions
GitHub diff showing 0 lines added, 25,878 lines removed.
Elixir unit test output showing 537 test failures
Avenglow's "As Is" EP pre-ordered in iTunes
Screenshot of GitHub UI showing 318 entries in the Conversation tab, 228 commit, 36 files changed, and 5,808 lines.
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A map of the US highlighting Kansas City in the dead center of the continent
Expert LS is publicly available
A two-panel meme format. First panel: Geordi of Star Trek: The Next Generation holding a hand up in a “slow down” gesture, captioned “finishing my mountain of work in progress.” Second panel: Geordi pointing in a “there we go” gesture, captioned “knocking out just one more thing, real quick, I promise.”
An ElixirConf promotional banner for a talk by Tyler Young, titled “Cat and Mouse: Challenges in Adversarial Web Scraping”
A Slack message that reads: Shoutout to Tyler Young for writing code in a way that makes it super clear for new devs to understand and follow what is happening. Clarity is easily overlooked, especially when building fast, but his code is always really clear.
A pull request whose title begins "horrifying hack"
Poll results showing 81% of respondents saying they would read the long moduledoc, while 19% say they would speed past it
Salt Bae sprinkling a copious amount of salt, with the salt labeled "as const"
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A React component with an anchor element. The attributes data-phx-link="redirect" and data-phx-link-state="push" have been added to the anchor, mirroring the attributes LiveView's link component applies.
Stephen Cooper whispering in President George W. Bush's ear that another plane hit the World Trade Towers
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Slack message quoting a paragraph from Safe Ecto Migrations explaining that @disable_migration_lock requires you to run the migration on a single node only, since there is no protection against multiple nodes running the same migration at the same time.
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A failing parameterized test, where the stacktrace includes the line number in the file for the parameters that failed.
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I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for you though. Or sorry that happened.
A GitHub PR diff count, showing 10,572 lines added and 10,479 lines removed.
Graph with an unlabeled y-axis peaking at 20,000.
@doc """ Given an argument which is either an ID or a struct with an ID field, extracts the ID. """ @spec id(Ecto.UUID.t() | %{__struct__: atom, id: Ecto.UUID.t()}, atom) :: Ecto.UUID.t() def id(id_or_struct, struct_module) def id(id, _) when is_binary(id), do: id def id(%module{id: id}, module), do: id
Old way: > window.userId [Manually highlight] Cmd+C New way: > copy(window.userId)