Long-time Goatmire supporter, prior to the first conference ever happening. Josh Price who runs the consultancy became a friend and co-conspirator as we kept running into each other at community conference. He runs Alembic with a deep engagement with the community.

They had Zach Daniel doing Ash on staff for years. They still employ a large portion of the Ash core team. If you need Elixir systems built they are some of the first people I'd talk to.

Much like Ash itself they seem to manage to hold a balance of audacious levels of ambition and the pragmatism required to deliver. Working with Alembic you might be dealing with the person who wrote the book on Ash or the absolutely glorious beast that builds BEAM Bots.

Whether building UIs to show what's happening in actual space or migrating legacy healthcare systems you'll benefit from their experience and opinions.

They'll be attending Goatmire in force beyond the sponsorship which we deeply appreciate. This is what Alembic community engagement looks like:

Ash Demystified, workshop by Barnabas & Conor
Achieving Balance in the Workshop, workshop by James Harton
Video Game Archaeology with Elixir, talk by Rebecca Le
BEAM Bots: Robotics on the BEAM, by James Harton
AshConf

If you need consulting work done in Elixir and especially in Ash. Alembic should be one of the first you talk to.

AshConf at Goatmire

Did I mention Alembic supports the ecosystem..?

A collaboration between The Ash Project, Alembic and Goatmire International. Taking last year's Ash Summit and pushing it further.

Ash is a part of the ecosystem that is absolutely thrumming with activity, opportunities and possibilities. I also happen to like the framework itself. This is going to be awesome.

The registration is open and the first 15 to sign up get an Ash gift bag :)

Elixir Hackathon at Goatmire

Now also featured in the Goatmire menu. Registration is coming soon so monitor your socials.

Real world things

I've ordered my first 3D printer. And because I have a use for it in my work I aimed relatively high. I just got confirmed that it is in fact being packed to ship out which has taken more than a week and I've been struggling staring at the shipping status. A Pruse Core One L. I got a variety of good input from my gang in the Nerves Discord. In the end I landed on paying roughly twice the price for the relatively open and certainly upgradeable Prusa instead of the probably better value for money of a Bambu. Eyeing that INDX filament switching upgrade in a far-flung future if I end up using this a lot.

I've never done 3D printing. The current state of the 3D printing world seems a lot more reasonable now than it used to be and I also have genuine uses for it.

We have a fair bit of stuff planned to improve monitoring of the green house and we have an infinite need for clips, mounting and enclosures. Research tells me I'll be exercising the ASA material for anything that needs to stay alive in a green house. And TPU should work to make slightly flexible gaskets to keep moisture out. The green house is a testing ground for my IoT experiments so this all gels.

For client work I constantly end up with bare boards on my desk. I don't have enough PCBite magnetic holders to just suspend all of them. Being able to print out enclosures, supports and jigs will be phenomenal. I especially look forward to having a better solution next time I need to make a jig to unbrick something where I need to hit a ton of pads on the board.

Of course I want to make a ton of Nerves devices and give them some proper enclosures. The amount of stuff I do that just has a bare board is incredibly lame. I have a for funsies project in flight I want to do that will need some enclosure and mounting stuff. Let's just say it involves a JVC Kaboom...

I also recently acquired an old Ericsson phone handset. And I mean proper old. A nice clicky rotary dial. Want to do something with that :)

There are also some things planned for Goatmire where this will be relevant. Overall I'm just excited to try to create some things for the real world, tidy up my desk in various ways and learn a new capability.

Thanks for reading. I appreciate you spending some of your hard-earned attention here.