OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps

News includes the major OTP 28 release with priority messages functionality, ElixirConf EU 2025 videos starting to appear including Chris McCord's keynote on his new phoenix.new service and James Arthur's introduction of Phoenix Sync for real-time database synchronization, the EEF board election results and their new role as a CVE Numbering Authority for the Hex ecosystem, upcoming co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView, updates to the Elixir Lua package and MDEx with its new Markdown sigil, a new convention for AI-friendly usage_rules.md files in hex packages, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/255

Elixir Community News

• https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes.
• https://www.erlang.org/news/180 – OTP 28 release announcement with new priority messages functionality and SBOM support
• https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 – EEP 76 specification for priority messages in OTP 28
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConf EU 2025 YouTube playlist with conference videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=3 – Chris McCord's keynote "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators"
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889 – Chris McCord's announcement about phoenix.new paid service
• https://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's new phoenix.new paid service at Fly.io
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2 – James Arthur's keynote "Introducing Phoenix Sync" from ElixirConf EU
• https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/ – Phoenix Sync GitHub repository for real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix apps
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html – Phoenix Sync documentation on HexDocs
• https://github.com/josevalim/sync – José Valim's sync project that inspired Phoenix Sync
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results – EEF board election results for Cohort C
• https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633 – EEF Twitter announcement of election results
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates – Information about the EEF election candidates
• https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement – EEF becomes CVE Numbering Authority for Hex and BEAM ecosystem
• https://github.com/erlef-cna – EEF CNA GitHub organization
• https://cna.erlef.org/ – EEF CNA website
• https://github.com/surface-ui/surface – Surface UI project for server-side rendering components
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3810 – Draft PR for co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView
• https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir Lua package v0.2.x release by TvLabs
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034 – Dave's tweet about ElixirConf EU Luerl talk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98 – "Lua on the BEAM" talk by Dave Lucia & Robert Virding
• https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj – Discord link for Lua community
• https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093 – German Velasco's video highlighting LiveDebugger tool
• https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225 – German Velasco's BlueSky post about LiveDebugger
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Thinking Elixir episode 249 featuring LiveDebugger discussion
• https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html – MDEx v0.7 documentation for new ~MD sigil
• https://hexdocs.pm/autumn – Autumn syntax highlighter package that works with MDEx
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid – MDEx Mermaid plugin for adding mermaid support to Markdown
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i – Zach Daniel's BlueSky post about usage_rules.md convention
• https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules – Usage rules package documentation
• https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/ – Usage rules GitHub repository
• https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ – Microsoft announcement about Windows Subsystem for Linux going open source
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/believe-it-or-not-microsoft-just-announced-a-linux-distribution-service-heres-why/ – ZDNet article explaining Microsoft's Linux strategy and Azure statistics

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