elixir — Ian Johannesen

April 11, 2026

Hrafnsyn: Unified Air and Sea Tracking with Phoenix LiveView, PostGIS, and Nix

A tour of Hrafnsyn, a Phoenix LiveView app that merges ADS-B aircraft and AIS vessel data into one operational map, packages cleanly with Nix, and now runs as a real deployed service.

March 17, 2026

Deploying Elixir/Phoenix on NixOS — What Actually Works

Hard-won patterns for packaging Elixir releases with Nix, running multiple instances on the same host, and avoiding the pitfalls that NixOS makes easy to fall into.