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Search complete. 4 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Macro".
Oct 10, 2026
Metaprogramming Elixir: Write Less Code, Get More Done (and Have Fun!)
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18:53speaker_5HOST
Those four core functions handle the formatting logic.
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18:57speaker_5HOST
Macro.postwalk just maps the hundred and seventeen names to those four structural rules.
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19:02speaker_4HOST
So what does this all mean? We just bypassed writing a hundred and thirteen macros.
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19:05speaker_4HOST
How does that actually change a developer's day-to-day workflow?
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19:31speaker_4HOST
You just update the text file.
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19:32speaker_5HOST
You literally just add twenty words to your flat text file, recompile, and your entire DSL instantly supports the new specification.
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19:41speaker_5HOST
The cleanliness of how Macro.postwalk manipulates the tree is unparalleled.
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19:45speaker_4HOST
Okay, but with all this invisible code injection, AST manipulation, and domain language creation, we have to talk about the dark side.
The Shaggy Defense
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21:00Duane LaFlotteHOST
So, you could give them access to, let's say, Obsidian locally and you guys could communicate notes back and forth and whatever.
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21:05Duane LaFlotteHOST
The problem being markdown files have a fair bit of functionality in them that it sounds like was not Macro-y.
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21:14Duane LaFlotteHOST
Yeah.
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21:15Duane LaFlotteHOST
And the other thing is like there's this concept of a vault with Obsidian, but you also can open files outside the vault.
Zero risk tolerance in payroll with George Luca
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26:31George LucaGUEST
You should be able to drill down in the change to see exactly what impact.
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26:36George LucaGUEST
And I'm happy because in the past, we used to do it with Excel, sometimes with Macro.
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26:42George LucaGUEST
So it was more time consuming.
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26:44George LucaGUEST
And