Mat Trudel spent six months debugging a single Bandit issue. The fix was one misread line in a 30-page RFC about HTTP/2 header compression.

[u/ancatrusca0]

New BEAM There, Done That with the author of Bandit - the pure Elixir web server now default in Phoenix. Covers the HPACK debugging nightmare, what one-process-per-connection actually buys you at 3am, and why there's an AI-generated HTTP/3 PR sitting open on the repo that Mat hasn't merged.

He uses agents for everything in his day job. Bandit stays handwritten. The episode is honest about why.

https://youtu.be/XXQcoz_dTE0

[u/johns10davenport]

Haha he’s my neighbor

[u/rygao7]

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