hey, i'm zoey(rinha)

/zoeyrinha

senior software engineer. oss maintainer. elixir em foco co-host.

def zoey do
  %{
    name: "zoey de souza pessanha",
    pronouns: ~w(she they),
    location: "campos dos goytacazes, rj, br",
    identity: ~w(travesty transfem gothic),
    passions: ~w(functional_programming open_source
                 abstract_algebra community_building),
    music: ~w(numetal industrial_metal goth_metal emo),
    tools: ~w(elixir haskell clojure nixos helix),
    believes_in: "the functional way is the right way"
  }
end

// this place

my corner of the internet. no feed, no algorithm, no metrics. just a little elixir app serving words i wanted to write.

travesty programmer from campos dos goytacazes, brazil. i fell in love with functional programming years ago and never looked back. these days i build knowledge systems by day, maintain open source by night, and co-host Elixir em Foco, brazil's first elixir podcast.

when i'm not in front of a screen, i'm probably in the kitchen. cooking for the people i love is how i say what words can't.

// writing

the main dish of this place. long-form notes on elixir and the BEAM, plus the occasional rant about software, society and everything in between. no schedule, no content strategy.

// latest

read the blog ->

// on stages

things i've said with a microphone. slides and notes.

all talks ->

// rules

if it can be simple, make it simple
if it can help someone, make it open source
software is political. pretending it isn't is also political
feed the people you love!
typos stay. polish is a lie

// things i maintain

open source is how i trade knowledge and grow community. a few of my kids:

anubis-mcp Model Context Protocol SDK in Elixir. transports, sessions, OTP all the way down.
supabase-ex the Supabase ecosystem in Elixir: auth, storage, postgrest, realtime.
peri schema validation by pattern matching, not macros.
exlings learn Elixir by fixing broken code, in the spirit of rustlings.
proto_rune AT Protocol and Bluesky SDK, with a session that refreshes itself.

// elsewhere

i'm not really into social networks anymore. i think we are heading the wrong way as a society under this economic system. but you can find me around:

elixir em foco the podcast
bluesky @zoedsoupe.zeetech.io
zoey.spessanha@zeetech.io for the good conversations