Lars Wikman, Elixir developer and founder of Underjord, joins Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak to work through a specific hardware constraint: running four DIMMs in a home server and what that forces you to decide about your Linux distro. The conversation is grounded in real infrastructure choices, not theory.
The technical range here is wide but connected. Wikman covers Nerves for embedded Elixir on hardware, Home Assistant running on a ZimaBoard, n8n for workflow automation, and how karate discipline maps onto engineering habits. Each topic links back to the same theme: owning your stack end to end.
The distro-hopping discussion alone is worth the runtime. Wikman has opinions, he has receipts, and he names names. Read the show notes for the Nerves project and BEAM Radio links before you listen.
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