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• https://github.com/elixir-localize/localize – The Localize library v0.15.0 was released — a locale-aware formatting, validation, and data access library for Elixir built on the Unicode CLDR repository. Consolidates the ex_cldr_* family into a single package with no compile-time code generation; all CLDR data loads at runtime and caches in :persistent_term.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2044763774146466053 – Announcement tweet for the new "Reach" library — a program dependence graph tool for Elixir and Erlang.
• https://github.com/dannote/reach – Reach builds a graph of data flow, control flow, and side effects in your code so you can trace values to their origin, find tainted paths from user input to dangerous sinks, or check if statements can be safely reordered. Works on Elixir/Erlang source and compiled BEAM bytecode.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2044483950089834990 – José Valim demos new Tidewave updates — voice input now works, and while talking you can click on elements to build context into a message. Also works when referencing lines of code in code reviews.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2044060492704948305 – Tidewave can now be installed as a browser PWA (Progressive Web App).
• https://bsky.app/profile/david.bernheisel.com/post/3mjkl6ck4a22c – David Bernheisel shares a "frustration driven development" Zsh autocompletion script for mix tasks — announcement and discussion post on Bluesky.
• https://github.com/dbernheisel/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/_mix – The Zsh autocompletion script for mix tasks. Runs mix help to find tasks and their descriptions, then mix help {task} for switches, feeding results into the Zsh completion engine with per-project caching.
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2026 – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation has announced its 2026 board elections. Candidacy submissions close May 7th (23:59 UTC), voting runs May 8–15. Must be a paying, contributing, or managing member to participate.

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• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2029221739285057565 – José Valim announced Elixir v1.20.0-rc.2 and rc.3 on X. The compiler finds more bugs, is ~10% faster, has a new interpreted mode (up to 5x faster), and improves incremental compilation for struct changes.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.20.0-rc.2 – Release page for Elixir v1.20.0-rc.2.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.20.0-rc.3 – Release page for Elixir v1.20.0-rc.3, including a number of fixes and IEx autocomplete optimization.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/2029630330630508929 – Chris McCord shared how the BEAM supports booting a :peer node as a VM within the VM, enabling "hot bluegreen" deploys on Fly.io — spinning up a new incoming VM and cutting over seamlessly while both peers stay clustered.
• https://hex.pm/packages/fly_deploy – Hex package page for fly_deploy, Chris McCord's new library for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io without restarts.
• https://github.com/chrismccord/fly_deploy – GitHub repo for fly_deploy, which enables hot code upgrades for Elixir apps on Fly.io by suspending processes, swapping in new code, migrating state via code_change callbacks, and resuming — without downtime.
• https://hexdocs.pm/fly_deploy/FlyDeploy.html#module-limitations-vs-otp-releases – Documentation outlining the limitations of fly_deploy's hot deploy approach, such as inability to change supervision trees or application config.
• https://discord.com/blog/tracing-discords-elixir-systems-without-melting-everything – Discord engineering blog deep dive on how they added distributed tracing to their Elixir systems. They built an internal Transport library that wraps messages in an Envelope struct carrying serialized trace context, enabling gradual zero-downtime rollout.
• https://x.com/gleamlang/status/2033581228834603090 – Gleam announced the release of v1.15.0 on X.
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/releases/tag/v1.15.0 – Release page for Gleam v1.15.0, with changes across the compiler, build tools, language server, and many bug fixes.
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.15.0/CHANGELOG.md – Full changelog for Gleam v1.15.0.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test/PhoenixTest.html – HexDocs page for PhoenixTest, which released v0.10.0 with all additions and fixes contributed by the community.
• https://github.com/germsvel/phoenix_test – GitHub repo for PhoenixTest.
• https://github.com/germsvel/phoenix_test/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for PhoenixTest v0.10.0, including support for dynamic inputs, conditionally rendered form inputs, and a new reload_page/1 helper.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2031794508745028012 – José Valim announced Distributed Python on top of Erlang distribution, with full Elixir and Livebook integration.
• https://dashbit.co/blog/distributed-python-livebook – Dashbit blog post detailing the Distributed Python integration in Livebook, including reproducible Python environments with uv, full Python cell support with autocompletion and docs on hover, zero-copy Apache Arrow, and interoperability with Elixir cells.
• https://x.com/expert_lsp/status/2031873718415204439 – Expert v0.1.0-rc.6 was released with bug fixes.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2032119765267788202 – SW Mansion announced Popcorn v0.2, which adds a proper npm package for running Elixir in the browser.
• https://blog.swmansion.com/the-three-lang-problem-shipping-elixir-runtime-js-and-webassembly-as-one-npm-package-5a7b76ad5b90 – Blog post about the process of shipping Elixir runtime, JavaScript, and WebAssembly as one npm package with Popcorn.
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@swmansion/popcorn – npm package page for Popcorn, the library that lets you run Elixir in the browser.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1rrds3n/announcing_nex_040_the_minimalist_elixir/ – Reddit announcement for Nex 0.4.0, a minimalist Elixir web framework powered by HTMX, inspired by Next.js, targeting rapid prototyping and the AI era.
• https://github.com/gofenix/nex – GitHub repo for Nex, the minimalist Elixir web framework.
• https://github.com/gofenix/nex/tree/main/examples – Examples for the Nex framework.
• https://hono.dev/ – Hono is a TypeScript minimalist web server framework (similar to a newer Express) referenced as a comparison point to Nex.
• https://x.com/zachsdaniel1/status/2030434559582478777 – Zach Daniel recommended RootCert's YouTube video as a great 12-minute elevator pitch for the BEAM.
• https://x.com/RootCert/status/2030428783015329833 – RootCert shared a walkthrough video of what makes the BEAM special — processes, messaging, registries, ETS, distribution, and its ecosystem.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKaZ89SkVYY – 12-minute YouTube video by RootCert covering what makes the BEAM special and why Elixir was made for the current moment.
• https://github.com/openai/symphony – OpenAI published Symphony, an AI agent orchestration repo built primarily in Elixir (96.1%). It uses Elixir for supervising long-running processes, hot code reloading, and its active ecosystem.
• https://x.com/peregrine/status/2029289900428705935 – Jason Stiebs noted that OpenAI's Symphony uses a hand-rolled gen_tcp HTTP server rather than established libraries like Ranch or Mint, suggesting the project may be vibe-coded.
• https://x.com/DNAutics/status/2030361591611302024 – Discussion thread about whether Elixir and Erlang are still needed amid the rise of AI-assisted development and competing tools.
• https://rivet.dev/cloud/ – Rivet Cloud, a platform attempting to bring Actor-model-like benefits to TypeScript without using the BEAM.
• https://x.com/NathanFlurry/status/2030047986575921351 – Nathan Flurry of Rivet announced they are bringing "the benefits of Elixir to TypeScript" — though critics note it lacks true processes, links, monitors, and supervision trees.

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• https://github.com/sagents-ai – Github organization home to the Sagents projects
• https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents – Mark announces Sagents - "Sage Agents" library combining wisdom with LLM-based agents, featuring HITL, SubAgents, GenServer architecture, Phoenix.Presence integration, middleware system, and more
• https://github.com/sagents-ai/sagents_live_debugger – Phoenix LiveView dashboard for debugging and monitoring Sagents agents in real-time with visibility into agent execution, message history, tool calls, and events
• https://github.com/sagents-ai/agents_demo – Demonstration Phoenix LiveView application showcasing Sagents's multi-conversation agent architecture with isolated AI agents and real-time updates
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2019422467446698493 – José Valim announces his new blog post on why Elixir is the best language for AI
• https://dashbit.co/blog/why-elixir-best-language-for-ai – José Valim's blog post explaining why Elixir is best for AI, focusing on immutability, documentation, stability, and tooling for coding agents
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/the-future-of-coding-agents-is-vertical-integration – Study showing Elixir had the highest completion rate across models among 20 different languages
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qwqg1p/livedebugger_v060_custom_events_enhanced/ – Reddit discussion about LiveDebugger v0.6.0 release
• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger v0.6.0 with custom events, enhanced exceptions, and temporary assigns support
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2KP0JdRmdo – Video demonstrating new LiveDebugger v0.6.0 features
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2020895787136201050 – Software Mansion announces LiveDebugger v0.6.0 on social media
• https://hexhire.io/elixir-developer-salaries – Analysis of Elixir job market and salary rates showing US senior remote median at ~$163k, with limited junior positions and wide variation in European rates
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qxeuoe/elixir_salary_data_from_216_remote_job_listings/ – Reddit discussion of Elixir salary data from 216 remote job listings
• https://github.com/PJUllrich/emcp – Peter Ullrich releases emcp, a minimal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Elixir built with Opus 4.6
• https://bsky.app/profile/peterullrich.com/post/3mebgikthgk2u – Peter Ullrich announces emcp on Bluesky
• https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp – David's Elixir MCP project built to handle session difficulties
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/2019778141040832567?s=20 – Dave Lucia announces Lua for Elixir revamp with top-notch error messages, quote/unquote fragments, and formatters
• https://x.com/curiosum_dev/status/2021187697646199214 – Curiosum announces new events section on Elixir Hub website
• https://elixir-hub.com/events – Elixir Hub events section for finding conferences, meetups, and workshops with free event listing
• Discussion on whether AI advancements like Opus 4.6 change the game for Elixir adoption, potentially eliminating the advantage of languages with official SDKs
• https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler – Anthropic post on building with AI capabilities

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• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2017671777187438683 – José Valim shared another compilation time improvement coming to Elixir v1.20 RC. Livebook compilation time went from 6.4s to 3.2s over 3 years, achieving 2x improvement while adding the type checker. Much of this came from removing single core bottlenecks for better CPU utilization.
• https://telelang.org/ – Telelang - an alternative syntax for Erlang that compiles to Erlang code without changing semantics or standard library.
• https://github.com/fancycade/tele – GitHub repository for Tele. Marked as experimental and unstable, but demonstrates an interesting approach to creating a different syntax and parser without deeper changes.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2018345705614549274 – Announcement of Membrane YOLO Plugin for AI-powered object detection in Elixir multimedia pipelines.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1quo8ym/membrane_yolo_plugin_aipowered_object_detection/ – Reddit discussion about the Membrane YOLO Plugin.
• https://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_yolo_plugin – Membrane YOLO Plugin repository showing real-time object detection in video streams using Nx models directly within Membrane pipelines.
• https://github.com/intility/erlang-oci-builder – Build containers directly from Erlang/Elixir codebase - essentially a code-driven Dockerfile declaration with registry push support.
• https://hexdocs.pm/oci – Massdriver's OCI library providing a Plug for accepting Docker Registry's HTTP API.
• https://gist.github.com/ChristianAlexander/838100a7a34d26c43bd829fad17c4e5d – Christian Alexander's Claude Skill for updating Elixir dependencies, describing a workflow for handling updates and breaking changes through AI conversation.
• https://x.com/rootcert/status/2016889334939734033 – Christian Alexander's tweet about the dependency update skill, describing how it changed the update cycle from painful to conversational.
• https://diff.hex.pm/ – Hex package diff tool, suggested as addition for security review of dependency upgrades.
• https://x.com/zachsdaniel1/status/2018350155905347807 – Announcement of AshPartition, a new Ash-related package for managing partitions.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ash_postgres_partition/dsl-ashpostgrespartition.html – Documentation for AshPartition DSL.
• https://github.com/m0rt3nlund/ash_postgres_partition – AshPartition GitHub repository - a community contributed helper library for adding partitions in Ash using AshPostgres with tenant support.
• https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-scraps-burdensome-software-security-rules/ – White House rescinds Biden-era software security guidance including SBOM requirements, shifting responsibility to individual agencies. However, SBOMs expected to continue due to European initiatives.
• https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/30/2041200/white-house-scraps-burdensome-software-security-rules – Slashdot coverage of the software security rules change.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2018350969545736254 – José Valim shares a vibe-coded MCP App built over the weekend that turns pull request reviews into interactive learning experiences inside Claude Desktop.
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/pr-quiz – PR Quiz open source project - turns pull request reviews into interactive learning experiences with a 7:25 minute demo video.
• https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills – Anthropic research on "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills" showing junior developers who fully relied on AI learned less. Emphasizes that cognitive effort and getting stuck is important for mastery.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/#keynotes – ElixirConf EU speaker list is complete with 39 speakers plus keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord. Conference in Málaga, Spain (and virtual) on April 23-24. In-person tickets €539 (early bird), virtual €129.

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• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.20.0-rc.1 – Elixir v1.20.0-rc.1 released with bug fixes including improved type system performance and bitstring type handling
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-20-0-rc-0-and-rc-1-released-type-inference-of-all-constructs/73927/31 – Discussion of Credo warning issue with missing @moduledoc when using Elixir 1.20 RCs - fix is to upgrade Credo
• http://github.com/tv-labs/bash – New Elixir-native Bash interpreter with complete implementation of Bash built-ins and quirks
• https://github.com/elixir-ai-tools/just_bash – Second Elixir-native Bash interpreter implementation
• https://github.com/achempion/live_capture – LiveCapture - zero-boilerplate storybook for LiveView components requiring only single line capture_all()
• https://elixirforum.com/t/livecapture-zero-boilerplate-storybook-for-liveview-components-by-waffle-creator/74028 – ElixirForum post with more details about LiveCapture by Boris Kuznetsov
• https://captures.captureui.com/phoenix_live_dashboard/components/Elixir.Phoenix.LiveDashboard.HomePage/render – Example LiveCapture storybook showing all components from LiveDashboard
• https://github.com/leandrocp/autumn/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Autumn has been renamed to Lumis - v0.1.0 has same API as autumn v0.6.0
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex – MDEx project that uses Lumis for syntax highlighting
• https://x.com/swmansionElixir/status/2014378959962567078 – SoftwareMansion announcement of updated Elixir Language Tour
• https://elixir-language-tour.swmansion.com/introduction – Updated Elixir Language Tour using Popcorn to run Elixir in browser via AtomVM
• https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn – Popcorn project that executes Elixir code in WebAssembly using AtomVM
• https://github.com/ChristianAlexander/durable_object – DurableObject library for Elixir - persistent, single-instance objects accessed by ID
• https://hexdocs.pm/durable_object/readme.html – DurableObject documentation explaining stateful, persistent actors using GenServer, Ecto, and Spark DSL
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/concepts/what-are-durable-objects/ – Cloudflare documentation describing Durable Objects and the Actor programming model
• https://x.com/akshay_pachaar/status/2014314783391298019 – Announcement about Postgres getting advanced text searching extension with BM25 ranking
• https://github.com/timescale/pg_textsearch – pg_textsearch extension bringing BM25 relevance ranking to Postgres (v0.5.0-dev, GA expected Feb 2026)
• https://hexdocs.pm/torus – Torus library for making search easier in Postgres for Elixir projects
• https://x.com/_avichawla/status/2014586815714664698 – New RAG approach that doesn't need vector DB, embedding, chunking, or similarity search - hits 98.7% accuracy
• https://huggingface.co/blog/daya-shankar/sota-ai-models – Explanation of SOTA (State of the Art) in AI models
• https://github.com/VectifyAI/PageIndex – PageIndex - vectorless, reasoning-based RAG system using hierarchical tree index for long professional documents

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• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3mcd4nkapps2r – BlueSky announcement of new EEF blog post about porting Erlang to QNX
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/otp-qnx-port – EEF blog post: 'Porting Erlang to QNX: a small nerd-snipe that actually worked'
• https://www.blackberry.com/en – BlackBerry QNX, a real-time operating system widely used in automotive and embedded applications
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d7e0b82835312a0458e276f4663bb432574a26d6.patch – The patch that successfully enabled Erlang to run on QNX after three days of focused work
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2013649733579870534 – José Valim announces ExDoc 0.40.0 with LLM-friendly features
• https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/changelog.html#v0-40-0-2026-01-20 – ExDoc 0.40.0 changelog including markdown section copying and llms.txt support
• https://x.com/curiosum_dev/status/2013141946030522792 – Curiosum announces Permit.Phoenix v0.4.0 release
• https://permit.curiosum.com/ – Permit website with cheatsheet and articles about using the authorization library
• https://github.com/curiosum-dev/permit_phoenix/releases/tag/v0.4.0 – Permit.Phoenix v0.4.0 changelog with Phoenix Scopes support and LiveView improvements
• https://github.com/curiosum-dev/permit_phoenix – Permit.Phoenix GitHub project for Phoenix, Plug and LiveView authorization integrations
• https://oban.pro/articles/introducing-oban-python – Announcement of Oban Pro for Python with full Elixir/Python compatibility and interop
• https://x.com/georgeguimaraes/status/2011768435504791677 – George Guimarães announces Tribunal, an LLM evaluation framework for Elixir
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/tribunal – Tribunal GitHub project for testing RAG pipelines with assertions like assert_faithful and refute_hallucination
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/tribunal-juror – Tribunal Juror, a Phoenix LiveView UI for the Tribunal evaluation library
• https://github.com/beamlens/beamlens – Beamlens GitHub project providing adaptive runtime intelligence for the BEAM
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qd3oya/i_built_a_tool_that_lets_your_supervision_tree/ – Reddit discussion about Beamlens enabling supervision trees to self-diagnose incidents using LLMs
• https://screen.studio/share/w1qXNbUc – Beamlens demo video introducing the library
• https://github.com/ocean/ecto_libsql – ecto_libsql GitHub project, an Ecto adapter for libSQL/Turso databases
• https://github.com/ocean/ecto_libsql/releases – ecto_libsql releases page showing v0.8.7
• https://turso.tech/ – Turso, a lightweight SQLite-compatible database that scales to millions of instances
• https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso – Turso Database GitHub project, an in-process SQL database written in Rust
• https://github.com/Mati365/ckeditor5-phoenix – CKEditor 5 Phoenix integration library providing WYSIWYG editing with real-time backend sync
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2011165398172078309 – José announces Tidewave's full integration with Supabase
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2011485752484360442 – José announces Tidewave integration with TanStack Start
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2012171326899843286 – Tidewave crosses 100k ARR milestone after 5 months since launch
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2013327035439911031 – José shares update about Guillaume Duboc's PhD thesis defense
• https://x.com/duboc_guillaume/status/2013206550005870689 – Guillaume Duboc announces thesis defense on "Typing Dynamic Languages with Set-Theoretic Types - The Case of Elixir"
• https://gldubc.github.io/ – Guillaume Duboc's website with information on his PhD research on typing Elixir

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/12/02/lazier-bdds-for-set-theoretic-types/ – Blog post by Guillaume Duboc and José Valim about "Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types" - documenting the data structures powering Elixir's type system and optimizations in v1.19
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1995862601113501791 – José Valim's tweet about the BDD blog post
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.4 – Elixir v1.19.4 release with bug fixes and new mix xref feature
• https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Xref.html – Documentation for mix xref task including new --min-cycle-label option
• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE Index - programming language popularity rankings
• https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ – Article critiquing TIOBE's methodology as fundamentally flawed
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234633 – Hacker News discussion where José shares how Elixir disappeared from TIOBE top 100 due to having too many books on Amazon
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/changelog.html#v1-1-18-2025-11-25 – Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 release with new conveniences including function passing in assign, onDocumentPatch callback, and phx-viewport-overrun-target attribute
• https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/cf7cdb91ba037b08cdc583763e4ffc69 – Example gist for using the new onDocumentPatch callback with view transition APIs
• https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/613125993362e30443e58558aa3c8ba0 – Example gist for phx-viewport-overrun-target for infinite table scrolling
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/1995511897651806624 – Software Mansion announcement of LiveDebugger 0.5.0 release
• https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveDebugger documentation - their biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection, async loading, dead LiveViews tracking, and resource monitoring
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/1994960093511905305 – Dave Lucia's tweet about new Nx feature by Paulo Valente
• New Nx feature allows models written in Python to talk to Elixir and vice versa, breaking down integration barriers
• https://bsky.app/profile/brainlid.bsky.social/post/3m6z4xoglls24 – Bluesky announcement of Elixir LangChain v0.4.1 release
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – LangChain library for Elixir - GitHub repository
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – LangChain changelog with enhancements for DeepSeek, OpenAI and Anthropic
• https://x.com/bart_blast/status/1994150917420056651 – Bart Blast's tweet requesting sponsorship for Hologram development
• https://hologram.page/blog/seeking-sustainable-sponsorship – Blog post explaining the need for sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time Hologram development
• https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram GitHub repository - transpiles pure Elixir to JS for the browser
• https://web.dev/blog/webgpu-supported-major-browsers – Article announcing WebGPU is now supported in major browsers
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGPU_API – MDN documentation for WebGPU API - successor to WebGL providing better GPU compatibility and advanced features

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://github.com/chrismccord/fly_deploy – Chris McCord releases FlyDeploy - enables hot code upgrades for Elixir applications on Fly.io without restarts or downtime
• https://x.com/sleipni_r/status/1986791040607481930 – Elixir GRPC library updated to v0.11.4 with beautiful interactive Livebook documentation and new stream features including effects and map_error
• https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.7.0 – ErrorTracker v0.7.0 released with Igniter installer, LiveView 1.0 support, better MariaDB support, and security updates
• https://github.com/metehan/exterm_ai – exterm_ai - an advanced web-based terminal emulator with built-in AI assistance powered by OpenRouter, like a web-based warp.dev
• https://github.com/elixir-horde/horde – Horde - distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt
• https://github.com/elixir-horde – New @elixir_horde GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, fault-tolerant supervision, and global process registration
• https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3m52kusb7ek2x – PSA for Zed editor users about Expert LSP not having versioned releases yet
• https://gist.github.com/dbernheisel/b533b289fd5ed13f8333ae92a71c9606 – David's guide for configuring Zed to manually update Expert LSP
• https://bsky.app/profile/smartlogic.io/post/3m5ecck4h3j2q – SmartLogic announcement about ICRT case study
• https://smartlogic.io/case-studies/icrt – SmartLogic case study on using Elixir to help researchers with real-time air quality monitoring and alerts for residents
• https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/top-3-liveview-form-mistakes – Article covering the top 3 LiveView form mistakes - slow laggy forms, brittle UI/database coupling, and valid data that can't submit
• https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang – Article about falling in love with Erlang
• https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/why-i-chose-phoenix-liveview-over-rails-laravel-and-next-js – Article explaining why the author chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
• https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/ – GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript overtaking Python and JavaScript, 36M new developers joined, and AI adoption accelerating

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Discussion Resources

• Mark shares his AI development workflow using Claude Code and Cursor, going from PRD to implementation plan to working code with tests in 2 days instead of 2 weeks
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULfEcPR0Gc – Y Combinator podcast about why enterprise is bad at AI, discussing the MIT report on AI initiative failures
• https://github.com/maxim-ist/elixir-architect – New Elixir Architect Claude Code skill for AI-assisted development

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition – Curiosum Elixir survey open until November 14th, 2025 (about 2 days remaining when episode releases)
• https://elixir-hub.com/surveys – Where survey results will be published after the survey closes
• https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1985134169899360709 – Announcement tweet about ReqLLM 1.0 release
• https://agentjido.xyz/blog/announcing-req_llm-1_0 – Blog post announcing ReqLLM 1.0, a Req-based package to standardize LLM API calls and responses across providers
• https://github.com/agentjido/req_llm – ReqLLM GitHub repository - went through 8 RCs to reach 1.0, includes Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock support, and more
• https://x.com/DNAutics/status/1983278808271663452 – Isaac Yonemoto's tweet about using an LLM to build an MCP to analyze and service Elixir codebases
• https://github.com/E-xyza/codicil/ – Codicil - Elixir library providing AI coding assistants with deep semantic understanding of your codebase through the Model Context Protocol
• Isaac will be speaking about Codicil at ExMex conference (which will have concluded by episode release)
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1985408862690685315 – José Valim teases upcoming Tidewave Web expansion to support multiple frameworks including Django, FastAPI, Flask, Next.js, Phoenix, Rails, and React + Vite
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright – phoenix_test_playwright library - executes PhoenixTest cases in actual browsers via Playwright
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 with expanded click support, drag and drop, and browser pooling for reduced memory and higher speed
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright/pull/86 – Pull request implementing browser pooling feature
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test – PhoenixTest documentation
• https://bsky.app/profile/peterullrich.com/post/3m4qms5kp322y – Peter Ullrich's Bluesky post about listening to database changes through Postgres WAL
• https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal – In-depth blog post about using Postgres Write Ahead Log (WAL) for database change notifications at scale, avoiding pg_notify performance issues
• https://github.com/superfly/fly_rpc_elixir – fly_rpc Elixir library that uses WAL monitoring to track Postgres replication for distributed RPC calls across regions

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://netter.net/josevalim/status/1975605515313979674 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 release
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-19-0-rc-2-released/72805 – Elixir Forum discussion of v1.19.0-rc.2, the last stop before official v1.19 release
• Remote.com confirmed their codebase compiles 55% faster on v1.19 with type checking still ~1ms/module on average
• José and Guillaume Duboc went beyond current state-of-the-art to optimize key operations for set-theoretic type checking, articles to be published later
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1975588421201715334 – New "mix help app:phoenix" command in Elixir v1.19 lists all modules with first paragraph of docs
• Great shortcut tool for building AI Agent context with brief module descriptions
• https://x.com/z_4seven/status/1975795139739357404 – José Valim provides update on Elixir's typesystem status and timeline
• Plan shifted from typed structs by end of year to providing type inference of all constructs; typed structs might arrive by end of next year
• https://x.com/sleipni_r/status/1977901944329875893 – Elixir gRPC library v0.11.0 release announcement
• https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc – Full-featured Elixir implementation of gRPC protocol with new Client Load Balancing following official specs
• https://hexdocs.pm/req_cassette – ReqCassette documentation - new Req library for recording and serializing real requests in tests
• https://github.com/lostbean/req_cassette/ – ReqCassette GitHub repository, similar to ExVCR but works with Req and supports async tests
• https://github.com/parroty/exvcr – ExVCR library for comparison
• https://x.com/karlclement/status/1976677105980072238 – Karl Clement's Twitter thread asking who's using Elixir in production with numerous company replies
• https://x.com/germsvel/status/1976264583682625776 – German Velasco's new ElixirStream video walking through Phoenix 1.8 AGENTS.md file
• Full video is ~25 minutes or split into 12 shorter videos showing what AI typically gets wrong in new Phoenix apps
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpDaUVxiII – Episode
• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fpbWpunfLVg – German Velasco's short video illustrating Ecto's datetime helpers
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1976217163754070372 – Brian Cardarella shares insight about clients needing help finishing AI-generated apps
• DockYard seeing many AI slop generated apps that are nightmares to build on top of
• https://elixir-observer.com/packages/req – Elixir Observer website updates by Mimiquate with better design and new features
• https://elixir-observer.com/categories – New categories feature for package discovery (Actors, AI, Audio, Authentication, etc.)
• Categories include semantic search and show unreleased changes per package
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1976813860742217754 – Chris McCord demonstrates creating isolated Claude Code sandbox instances on Fly Machines in 15 seconds
• Interesting approach for running AI agents fully isolated from local machine
• https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-29-strengthening-npm-security-important-changes-to-authentication-and-token-management/ – NPM announces new security changes including more frequent token rotation and Trusted Publishers (OIDC) support
• Response to recent supply chain attacks showing compromised long-lived tokens are critical vulnerability

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1972721288029548924 – Chris McCord announces the web shell command for LLM web browsing
• https://github.com/chrismccord/web – Web - shell command for simple LLM web browsing that converts web pages to markdown, executes js, and interacts with pages
• https://hexdocs.pm/zoi/Zoi.html – Zoi - a new schema validation library for Elixir inspired by the popular JavaScript library Zod
• https://github.com/phcurado/zoi – Zoi GitHub repository
• https://zod.dev/ – Zod - the JavaScript library that inspired Zoi
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lzwvkdlsw22c – Announcement of AshDiagram by Jonatan Männchen
• https://hexdocs.pm/ash_diagram/AshDiagram.html – AshDiagram - library for generating beautiful diagrams to visualize AshFramework applications including Entity Relationship, Class, C4 Architecture, and Policy diagrams
• https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_diagram – AshDiagram GitHub repository with examples of generated diagrams
• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lzypq74brc25 – EEF Security Update announcement
• https://security.erlef.org/assets/aegis/updates/2025-q3.pdf – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's Ægis Initiative Q3 2025 security update document
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/beam-worm – EEF blog post about BEAM security initiatives
• https://cyber-resilience-act.com/ – Information about the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
• https://cyber-resilience-act.com/cra/chapter-2/article-24/ – CRA Article 24 covering requirements for open-source software stewards
• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5 – Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5
• https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#200 – Claude Code 2.0 update with new native VS Code extension
• https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142/ – PostgreSQL 18.0 release announcement
• https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-excited-about-postgres-18 – Crunchy Data blog post about PostgreSQL 18 features
• https://x.com/vlad_mihalcea/status/1972198023200440720 – PostgreSQL 18 now supports Index Skip Scans and async I/O when scanning pages from disk
• https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lzq2hq7uec2r – Oban team shares what PostgreSQL 18 means for the Oban project
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlAf9jRMIR0 – Southern California Linux Expo talk diving into PostgreSQL 18 details
• https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025 – IEEE's Top Programming Languages 2025 list
• https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/28/1823244/will-ai-mean-bring-an-end-to-top-programming-language-rankings – Discussion about whether AI means the end for top programming language rankings

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert – Expert, the new official Elixir LSP was released
• https://expert-lsp.org/ – Expert LSP official website
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/blob/main/pages/installation.md#editor-specific-setup – Installation instructions for different editors
• https://zed.dev/docs/languages/elixir#expert – Zed editor already supports Expert
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960402157922082981 – José Valim announces Tidewave Web first update
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/editor-integration-notifications – Tidewave Web blog post and full changelog
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960692138112352355 – José mentions plans to open public roadmap soon
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962491846795391333 – José Valim interviewed about Tidewave Web with Ruby focus
• https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-introducing-tidewave-interview-with-jos-valim#interview-with-jose-valim – Full Ruby AI interview with José Valim
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960683093225865463 – José discusses Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
• https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs – Zed working on Claude Code support
• https://github.com/orgs/tidewave-ai/projects/1 – Tidewave's public roadmap
• https://github.com/polvalente/handoff – Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution
• https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1961071773438574897 – LiveDebugger v0.4.0 release announcement
• https://forms.gle/V6tUHpJt94vi1v1TA – LiveDebugger feedback form
• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger GitHub repository
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962649394139877479 – José Valim shares Elixir's exceptional LLM performance results
• https://x.com/tomthesilva/status/1962628935730241712 – Thomas Silva's research on language performance in code generation
• https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark – Tencent's AutoCodeBenchmark multilingual coding evaluation
• https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/blob/main/figures/exp_acb.png – Benchmark results showing Elixir's top performance
• https://x.com/hugobarauna/status/1961914102764261688 – Next ElixirConf US announced for Chicago
• Errata correction from José about OIDC implementation attribution to Jonatan Männchen
• https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1960771720727683507 – New developer dependency attack vector using AI CLI tools
• https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-popular-nx-build-system-package-compromised-with-data-stealing-malware – Supply chain security alert about compromised Nx package
• https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/ – Semgrep security analysis of the NPM project's Nx compromise
• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome – Anthropic's post about securing browser interactions

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-web-phoenix-rails – Tidewave Web service announcement - an AI chat in the sidebar that can directly interact with and modify your app during development
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1957763507211927557 – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave implementing autoplay features and using contextual browser testing
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1957545436824166605 – José Valim's tweet announcing the new ElixirLang blog post on interoperability
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/08/18/interop-and-portability/ – ElixirLang blog post "Interoperability in 2025 beyond the Erlang VM" covering NIFs, Ports, AtomVM, Popcorn, Hologram, and various language integrations
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1956342836430881102 – José Valim's announcement that Livebook Teams is out of beta
• https://livebook.dev/teams/ – Livebook Teams landing page - deploy Elixir notebooks as internal apps with SSO and Google Workspace support, $30/editor pricing
• https://github.com/erlef/oidcc – OpenId Connect client library in Erlang & Elixir
• https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lwekwml7zc2k – Oban v2.20.0 release announcement with update job, unique state groups, and nested plugin supervision features
• https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html – Oban v2.20.0 changelog with detailed improvements
• https://hexdocs.pm/oban/v2-20.html – Oban v2.20.0 optional upgrade steps for pruning performance improvements
• https://x.com/mrpopov_com/status/1956006788819472594 – PhoenixAnalytics v0.4.0 release announcement
• https://github.com/lalabuy948/PhoenixAnalytics – PhoenixAnalytics repository - now supports 12 themes, Postgres/MySQL/SQLite, and no longer requires DuckDB
• https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lwod4ia6522e – LiveView v1.1.7 release announcement
• https://github.com/utopos/live_stream_async – Reference to live_stream_async library that inspired the new stream_async function
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.1.7/changelog.html#v1-1-7-2025-08-18 – Phoenix LiveView 1.1.7 changelog with new stream_async function and portal hooks bugfix
• https://elixircasts.io/multiple-layouts-in-phoenix-1.8 – ElixirCasts video tutorial on new Phoenix v1.8 layouts functionality

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Discussion Resources

• https://tidewave.ai
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-web-phoenix-rails
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1957763507211927557
• https://agents.md/

Guest Information

• https://genserver.social/josevalim – José Valim on Mastadon
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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1948826989357367698 – José Valim announces Phoenix v1.8 will ship with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps, ensuring teams using coding agents have an outstanding experience out of the box
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/50ffaa5aa1c60503f01cd2107edd43f22435f9e7 – Phoenix commit adding the AGENTS.md file by Chris McCord
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/installer/templates/phx_single/AGENTS.md – The actual AGENTS.md template file in Phoenix
• https://hex.pm/packages/usage_rules – Related package for usage rules
• https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3luptf3p76s24 – Announcement post about Popcorn - Elixir in your browser via WebAssembly
• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/ – Popcorn - run Elixir locally in your browser with no install required
• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/eval – Interactive IEx shell demo running in the browser
• https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/ – GitHub project for Popcorn
• https://blog.swmansion.com/popcorn-bringing-elixir-to-the-browser-8993a58a00be – Blog post explaining how Popcorn works and its limitations
• https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM - Tiny Erlang VM that powers Popcorn
• https://atomvm.org/ – AtomVM website with details about the lightweight BEAM implementation
• https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/ – Podcast appearance by AtomVM team
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1947674420459254203 – LiveVue v0.6.0 release announcement
• https://github.com/Valian/live_vue – LiveVue project - end-to-end reactivity for Phoenix LiveView and Vue
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1950110941137285567 – Jakob explains new End to End testing setup for LiveVue
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1949882608424538420 – Awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading while keeping state
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1788308446007132509 – Original tip post about LiveView hot reloading
• https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/2c26c876bb4430c1bdcd313b64e4c2c5 – Chris McCord's Gist showing how to implement LiveView hot reload with state preservation
• https://x.com/leandrocesquini/status/1949827775541502037 – MDEx v0.8 release announcement
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex – MDEx project - Markdown processor for Elixir
• https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/0.8.0/MDEx.html#module-code-block-decorators – Documentation for MDEx decorators feature
• https://bsky.app/profile/bartblast.com/post/3lutbbibma22a – Hologram v0.5.0 announcement
• https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-5-0-released – Hologram v0.5.0 release blog post
• https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram project - components defined in Elixir that become JS in the browser
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 website
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf ticket discount link with ThinkingElixir code for 10% off
• https://x.com/ThatArrowsmith/status/1948490317277143438 – George Arrowsmith's tweet about QA becoming a bottleneck with AI-generated code
• https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1948491086130819331 – Mike Hostetler's response about teams struggling with code review and QA of AI-generated code
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1948634632716488809 – José Valim's insight on the need for new software verification practices with AI code generation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2IZLR0LXc – Mark's first AI demo video: I Built an AI Tool That Saves Me Hours Every Week (Demo)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piS1J4ru1fE – Mark's second AI demo video: How to Build AI Systems That Actually Run Your Business (Not Just Chat)

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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://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3lsgrudmtgk2u – LiveDebugger v0.3.0 release announcement on BlueSky
• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger GitHub repository - browser-based tool for debugging Phoenix LiveView applications
• https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lstnmlzd7226 – Oban 1.6 release announcement on BlueSky
• https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6.0/changelog.html – Oban 1.6 changelog with sub-workflows, cascading workflows, grafting, and more features
• https://github.com/poeticoding/yolo_elixir – YOLO v0.2.0 GitHub repository - image detection library for Elixir
• https://www.poeticoding.com/elixir-yolo-v0-2-0-yolox-support-custom-models-and-performance-boost/ – Blog post about YOLO v0.2.0 major release with YOLOX support
• https://github.com/poeticoding/yolo_elixir/releases/tag/0.2.0 – YOLO v0.2.0 release notes
• https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lslzsazcys2r – German Velasco's BlueSky post about the importance of testing
• https://www.germanvelasco.com/blog/why-we-test – Blog post by German Velasco on why we test and the benefits of automated testing
• https://x.com/philipbrown/status/1939630205875663017 – Philip Brown's Twitter tip about generating unique URLs from LiveView that open in new tabs
• https://expert-lsp.org/ – Expert LSP project website placeholder for the new Elixir Language Server
• https://bsky.app/profile/expert-lsp.org/post/3lsqragb4ns23 – Expert LSP BlueSky account first teaser post about the new Elixir Language Server project

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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://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's phoenix.new project is open to the public
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1936068482065666083 – Phoenix.new was opened to the public - a service for building Phoenix apps with AI runtime, full browser IDE, and remote development capabilities
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto – Ecto v3.13 was released with new features including transact/1, schema redaction, and built-in JSON support
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/blob/v3.13.2/CHANGELOG.md#v3132-2025-06-24 – Ecto v3.13 changelog with detailed list of new features and improvements
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Nx v0.10 was released with documentation improvements and floating-point precision enhancements
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/blob/main/nx/CHANGELOG.md – Nx v0.10 changelog including new advanced guides and NumPy comparison cheatsheets
• https://paraxial.io/blog/phoenix-security-docs – Phoenix 1.8 gets official security documentation covering OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/6295 – Pull request adding comprehensive security guide to Phoenix documentation
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lscszxpakc2o – Zach Daniel announces new "evals" package for testing and comparing AI language models
• https://github.com/ash-project/evals – Evals project for evaluating AI model performance on coding tasks with structured testing
• https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3lsbt7anbda2o – ElixirConf US speakers beginning to be announced including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord
• https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes – ElixirConf website showing keynote speakers and initial speaker lineup
• https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1937149387299316144 – Saša Jurić shares collection of writings on Elixir project organization and structure recommendations
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-core-and-the-interface-c267f0da43 – Saša Jurić's article on organizing Elixir projects with core and interface separation
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-boundaries-ba013c731c0a – Article on using boundaries in Elixir applications for better structure
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-anatomy-of-a-core-module-b7372009ca6d – Deep dive into structuring core modules in Elixir applications
• https://github.com/sasa1977/mix_phx_alt – Demo project showing alternative Phoenix project structure with core/interface organization
• https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1100 – Sentry updates Elixir SDK to v11.x with tracing support using OpenTelemetry

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Discussion Resources

• https://phoenix.new/ – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix. Describe your app, and watch it take shape. Prototype quickly, experiment freely, and share instantly.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1936074795843551667 – You can vibe code on your phone
• https://x.com/sukinoverse/status/1936163792720949601 – Another success example - Stripe integrations
• https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/ – OpenAI Codex, Open AI's AI system that translates natural language to code
• https://devin.ai/ – Devin is an AI coding agent and software engineer that helps developers build better software faster. Parallel cloud agents for serious engineering teams.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk – Chris McCord's ElixirConf EU Keynote talk titled "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators"

Guest Information

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• https://github.com/chrismccord – on Github
• http://chrismccord.com/ – Blog

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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://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.0-rc.0 – Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 release with mix format --migrate, type checking improvements, faster compile times, and parallel dependency compilation
• https://x.com/gleamlang/status/1929535582423650789 – Gleam v1.11.0 announcement
• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-javascript-gets-30-percent-faster/ – Gleam compiled JavaScript runs 30% faster performance improvement
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/changelog/v1.11.md – Gleam v1.11.0 changelog with testing tools and performance improvements
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/06/02/elixir-outreach-stipend-for-speakers/ – Elixir Outreach stipend program by Dashbit, Oban and the EEF providing up to $700 USD for speakers presenting Elixir to other ecosystems
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknKAFzEsBg – ElixirConf US 2024 video release featuring multiple talks
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbW2Zli4LurDGc6lL5ij-9Y – ElixirConf US 2024 playlist with 16 new videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSrzruaby1M – Ash AI Launch talk by Zach Daniel from ElixirConf EU
• https://tuist.dev/blog/2025/06/10/open-sourcing-noora-for-the-web – Noora design system for Phoenix LiveView open-sourced announcement
• https://noora.tuist.dev/ – Noora - complete, accessible design system for Phoenix LiveView with Figma files and ready-to-use components
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3827 – Phoenix LiveView PR adding support for for comprehensions in HEEX templates with keyed change tracking
• https://hexdocs.pm/lua/changelog.html#v0-3-0-2025-06-09 – Lua for Elixir v0.3.0 changelog with new guard functions
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lr6g7g3nqs26 – Bluesky post about Lua for Elixir update with guard support
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1929976577749664052 – Brian Cardarella announcing web_socket_dist library release
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1930262610705846640 – Brian explaining the use-case behind web_socket_dist library
• https://github.com/otp-interop/web_socket_dist – web_socket_dist library for Erlang distribution over WebSockets
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/distributed.html – Erlang distributed systems documentation
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1930670782788653284 – José Valim announcing Tidewave on X/Twitter
• https://dashbit.co/blog/announcing-tidewave – Dashbit blog post announcing Tidewave - Elixir MCP server for AI runtime intelligence
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/mcp_proxy_rust#installation – Tidewave MCP proxy installation and setup instructions

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a limited time offer.
• https://x.com/ba_wolf/status/1918008345862049820 – Bryant shared on X that Tidewave pairs well with Oban jobs, allowing cursors to run jobs and check status with errors stored in the record.
• https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lo7fc7jy262n – A user found Tidewave for Elixir promising, noting it solved a bug that Claude couldn't by using the package_docs_search tool.
• https://bsky.app/profile/petros.software/post/3lohcby7frv22 – Despite the AI revolution, programmers still need to read code, making human-friendly languages like Elixir and Phoenix important choices.
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3loamzmazlk2s – Tidewave.ai can now be installed through the Ash HQ installer, with Zach Daniel teasing more information in coming weeks.
• https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/tips_and_tricks.html#configure-your-prompts – Tips and tricks documentation for improving your Tidewave experience, including prompt configuration.
• https://geekmonkey.org/detecting-deprecated-regex-module-attributes-in-elixir-with-credo/ – Fabian Becker's blog post showing how to create a Credo rule to detect regex module attributes that will be deprecated in Elixir 1.19.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14381 – PR explaining the issue with regex module attributes and introducing the workaround for the upcoming Elixir 1.19 deprecation.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo2rsc3th22h – Brian Cardarella shared that LiveViewNative started a new "OTP Interop" GitHub organization to extract work that enables offline mode.
• https://github.com/otp-interop – The new OTP Interop GitHub organization housing projects to improve Elixir's interoperability with other platforms.
• https://github.com/otp-interop/swift-erlang-actor-system – Project providing Erlang/Elixir integration for Swift Distributed Actors.
• https://github.com/otp-interop/elixir_pack – Tool to build Elixir applications for iOS, part of the OTP Interop initiative.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo4shx2cpk2g – LiveViewNative now supports Apple App Store's new allowances for outside transaction services like Stripe.
• https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-judge-rules-apple-violated-order-reform-app-store-2025-04-30/ – Reuters report on US judge ruling that Apple violated the order to reform its App Store policies.
• https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2025/apple-appeals-after-judge-finds-company-disobeyed-ruling/ – Coverage of Apple appealing after judge found the company disobeyed the previous ruling about App Store competition.
• https://www.techspot.com/news/107752-court-orders-apple-stop-blocking-competition-app-store.html – Court orders Apple to stop blocking competition in the App Store, forcing changes to payment systems.
• https://docs.stripe.com/sdks/ios – Stripe's iOS SDK documentation for building payments into iOS apps, relevant after the App Store ruling.
• https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones – Related post about Apple's history of restrictive practices, in this case with Pebble smartwatches.

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a limited time offer.
• https://youtu.be/vGue4LtqeWg – Introduction video for Tidewave, a Phoenix/Rails MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access your application's runtime.
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/issues/49 – Hexdocs PR enabling documentation context for Tidewave, allowing AI assistants to access app documentation without manual copying.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1915017804937375896 – Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app that writes code.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1917002231322116298 – Chris McCord demonstrating an interactive LiveView hosted IDE with realtime terminal support synced across browsers/devices.
• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lngay5chys22 – EEF announcement about the "mix-dependency-submission" GitHub Action for submitting Elixir/Mix dependencies.
• https://github.com/erlef/mix-dependency-submission – GitHub repo for the mix-dependency-submission tool that calculates dependencies for Mix and submits them to GitHub's API.
• https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api – GitHub documentation about the Dependency Submission API used by the mix-dependency-submission tool.
• https://exmeralda.chat/chat/start – ExMeralda.chat, a chatbot for hex.pm packages from bitcrowd.dev, using their Elixir RAG library.
• https://bitcrowd.dev/exmeralda-a-community-chatbot-for-hex-packages/ – Blog post explaining ExMeralda, a community chatbot for Hex packages that demonstrates RAG systems with LLMs.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k600mu/livedebugger_v020_upcoming_features_part_1/ – Reddit post from Software Mansion about upcoming features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0, expected in early May.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl-y49Ou7E – Full interview discussing LiveDebugger in more depth.
• https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive – mix test.interactive - an interactive test runner for ExUnit tests that enhances testing workflows.
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1916824204156035300 – Twitter post highlighting mix test.interactive's features including running tests by names, rerunning on file save, and more.
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025 – Information about upcoming Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board elections with important dates.
• https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/async-tests-in-elixir/ – Andrea Leopardi's blog post about reworking singleton architecture to leverage async tests in ExUnit.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrAqMyjbkJQ – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by Jason Stiebs on FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution).
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OK9B4yRfg – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by James Isenhart on 'OpenTelemetry: From Desire to Dashboard'
• https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/slopsquatting-malware/ – Article about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers by exploiting AI hallucinations of package names.

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Elixir Community News

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/01/21/remote-elixir-case/ – New case study about Remote, a unicorn company using Elixir as their primary technology with nearly 300 engineers.
• https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary – Remote uses Saša Jurić's Boundary library to help enforce boundaries in their monolithic codebase.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1i77ia9/comment/m8il2ho/ – Discussion about the type spec future in Elixir, with plans to replace Dialyzer typespecs in versions 1.19 and 1.20.
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lgqdugp7zs2b – Ash installer now supports Oban integration via a flag option.
• https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4 – Tailwind CSS 4.0 released with major changes including moving theme configuration to CSS variables.
• https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide – Comprehensive upgrade guide for Tailwind CSS v4.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/5990 – WIP PR to support Tailwind v4 in Phoenix.
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lggmuk4dis2x – Zach Daniel shares how Tailwind v4 changes will improve igniter's utility configuration capabilities.
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – Elixir LangChain v0.3.0 released with expanded support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, and more.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1880377175200669770 – Chris McCord teases new Fly.io AI code generator project with IDE/terminal integration.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1880392153924530376 – Demo video of Chris McCord's AI-integrated editor creating a multiplayer Phoenix LiveView app.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConfEU 2025 tickets on sale, happening May 15-16 in Kraków Poland & Virtual.

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/gilacost/engineering_elixir_applications – Source code for the book "Engineering Elixir Applications" is now publicly available on GitHub.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/206 – Previous episode with José Giralt D'Lacoste and Ellie Fairholm about their BEAM-focused DevOps book.
• https://x.com/mjrusso/status/1868881707262439582 – Michael Russo created a proof-of-concept package "hex2txt" that converts hex package docs into llms.txt files.
• https://llmstxt.org/ – Website describing the llms.txt file standard for providing information for coders and AI.
• https://hex2txt.fly.dev/ – Michael's website for browsing examples of generated text files using hex2txt.
• Sum up that a proposal aims for such standardization to help AI coding assistants.
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain/discussions/218 – New release v0.3.0-rc.1 of the Elixir LangChain library.
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – Repository for the Elixir LangChain library.
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – CHANGELOG for the Elixir LangChain library detailing breaking changes and updates.
• New features in LangChain like SummarizeConversationChain and LLMChain.run with fallbacks enhance production resilience and usability.
• https://bsky.app/profile/liveviewnative.dev/post/3lcgrxqm5lk2g – Brian Cardarella showed LiveView Native's support for LiveUploads, unlocking photo and video features.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3ldhg433mxc2y – Shows direct usage of LiveUploads in LiveView Native.
• LiveView Native simplifies mobile app development by reducing project and team requirements.
• https://bsky.app/profile/liveviewnative.dev/post/3ldhosnmjjc2v – Building an AI-powered iOS app with LiveView Native by Headway.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_7gLfk7vA – 40-minute video tutorial on getting started with LiveView Native, Nx, and Axon by Headway.

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Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j2SaHAWTDM – Theo, known for his TypeScript and JS content, released his ElixirConf presentation video to his own channel.
• https://x.com/theo/status/1852521365880156323 – Theo announced the release of his ElixirConf presentation video on his social media.
• https://developer-survey.gleam.run/ – The Gleam developer survey is available for participation.
• https://curiosum.com/sl/b87vc3qn – Participate in Curiosum's Elixir survey to contribute your feedback.
• https://curiosum.com/surveys/elixir-2023 – View the results from Curiosum's 2023 Elixir survey with ~400 respondents.
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/1852408187816947982 – The value of the potentially little known phx- cheatsheet in the Phoenix docs.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/html-attrs.html – Detailed documentation on special HTML attributes used in Phoenix LiveView templates.
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/1853762123647582697 – Watch the recording of Dave Lucia's live-coding session on building an Igniter installer for OpenTelemetry.
• https://www.youtube.com/live/SOO4RcolYSI – Part 1 of Dave Lucia's live-coding session on YouTube; part 2 is upcoming.
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – Introduction to the Elixir LangChain project for integrating Elixir projects with LLMs.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1ggfcbt/i_switched_from_the_python_version_of_langchain/ – A Reddit user shares their positive experience with the Elixir LangChain library compared to the Python version.
• Mark Ericksen shares his availability and interest in helping companies leveraging Elixir and LLMs.
• https://codebeamnyc.com/ – CodeBeam Lite conference in NY on Nov 15th, featuring a single-track agenda and notable speakers.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/106 – Previous podcast episode discussing Sam Aaron's work with Elixir and the BEAM.
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – AlchemyConf website is live, with details for the event from March 31 - April 3 in Braga, Portugal.
• https://dontasktoask.com/ – A communication tip for teams: don't ask to ask, just ask.

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Elixir Community News

• https://fly.io/blog/ai-gpu-clusters-from-your-laptop-livebook/ – José Valim and Chris McCord's blog post on AI GPU clusters.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1838632848955150811 – José Valim shares a post about using Fly.io GPUs with Livebook.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1838633779851833391 – José Valim discusses bringing Nx, Livebook, and FLAME to HPC.
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/09/24/nx-selected-for-mozilla-inaugural-builders-accelerator-cohort-promoting-open-source-ai-solutions – Nx project selected for Mozilla's Builders Accelerator, receiving $100,000.
• https://x.com/germsvel/status/1841054951801569778 – German Velasco's ElixirStream video on the new Date shift function in Elixir.
• https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/date-shift – Demo of Date shift function constrained by calendar rules in Elixir.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test/changelog.html#0-4-0 – PhoenixTest update with changes including PhoenixTest.upload/3.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/1840786285755035839 – Parker Selbert's post about PostgreSQL 17 and its benefits for Oban.
• https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/ – PostgreSQL 17 release announcement.
• https://learnsql.com/blog/cte-with-examples/ – Explanation of CTEs.
• https://whitfin.io/blog/cachex-v4-0-optimization-consolidation-and-routing/ – Blog post about Cachex v4.0 updates and changes.
• https://github.com/whitfin/cachex – The GitHub repository for Cachex, a powerful caching library for Elixir.
• https://x.com/TylerAYoung/status/1838631217857474979 – Update on Elixir's Geo library version 4.0.
• https://github.com/felt/geo – GitHub repository for the Geo library.
• https://felt.com/ – Company maintaining the Geo library and providing GIS data tools.
• https://x.com/Alchemy_Conf/status/1841069715743002728 – Alchemy Conf 2025 extends call for talks deadline to Oct 31st.
• https://www.papercall.io/alchemy-conf-2025 – Submission page for the Alchemy Conf 2025 call for talks.
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – Official website for the Alchemy Conf 2025.
• https://blog.psantos.dev/deploying-phoenix-application-with-kamal-2/ – Blog post on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamal.
• https://kamal-deploy.org/ – Official site for Kamal, a deployment pipeline tool.
• https://x.com/bernheisel/status/1840183497463320733 – Insight into SUSE's Elixir projects, including Trento.
• https://github.com/trento-project – Trento project on GitHub, related to SUSE Linux's system monitoring.
• Mark shared how Passion Place is a new service and podcast supporting married couples, designed with a Phoenix LiveView application.
• http://podcast.passion.place/ – Podcast link for Passion Place.
• https://passion.place/ – Website for the Passion Place service.
• https://www.youtube.com/@PassionPlace – YouTube channel for Passion Place.
• https://www.instagram.com/Passion.Place.Show/ – Passion Place on Instagram
• https://www.facebook.com/people/Passion-Place/61566411255014/ – The Passion Place Facebook Page

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/josevalim/sync – Phoenix Sync - A proof of concept of an Elixir/Phoenix node that runs PostgreSQL Replication to synchronize data with clients, as showcased at ElixirConf US 2024 keynote by José Valim.
• https://x.com/TylerAYoung/status/1829248168908968220 – Tyler Young's Twitter thread discussing the big idea behind Phoenix Sync which involves frontend applications syncing with backend using Phoenix channels and logical replication.
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/28/typing-lists-and-tuples/ – New ElixirLang blog post exploring how various Elixir idioms interact with the upcoming type system, especially focusing on lists and tuples.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1829537976378159139 – José Valim's Twitter post about the mathematical soundness of set-theoretic types as discussed in the latest ElixirLang blog post.
• https://github.com/algora-io/tv – Algora.tv is trending as an open-source Twitch for developers using Membrane for real-time video processing.
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2024/08/20/where-are-nx-axon-bumblebee-headed – Sean Moriarity's blog post on DockYard discussing the current state of the AI space and future directions for Nx, Axon, and Bumblebee.
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/commit/ab8261180cd54ca95c0c34035a5380ade2805afb – José Valim's commit in Nx demonstrating how few lines of code are required to support compiling a machine learning model in one node and sending it to another for execution using Erlang erpc module.
• https://x.com/cigrainger/status/1829822647489728679 – New Livebook feature shared online integrates with Fly.io platform to run local notebooks on arbitrary hardware with a few clicks, allowing scalability and elasticity.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1828781593387004065 – Image from Chris McCord's talk showing a Livebook connecting to a production node and getting intellisense for remote node code.
• https://elixirstatus.com/p/wmpxg-code-beam-america-2025-call-for-talks-is-open- – Call for Talks for CodeBEAM America 2025 is open. Deadline for proposals is October 20, 2024. Conference dates are March 6-7, 2025, in San Francisco and Online.
• https://codebeamamerica.com/#cft – Official site for CodeBEAM America 2025 Call for Talks.
• https://codebeamnyc.com/ – CodeBEAM NYC conference on November 15th, a one-day event.
• Reflections on ElixirConf discussion.

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Elixir Community News

• https://x.com/flo_arens/status/1805255159460532602 – TIL setup-beam GitHub action can read asdf's .tool-versions file and parse the OTP and Elixir version out of it.
• https://github.com/erlef/setup-beam – The setup-beam GitHub action project.
• https://github.com/erlef/setup-beam?tab=readme-ov-file#version-file – Link to README section about the version file support in setup-beam.
• https://dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with-req-stripe – Blog post by Wojtek on reducing the surface of SDK APIs by focusing on data, not functions.
• https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1805002425738334372 – Ash now supports UUIDv7, a Time-Sortable Identifier for modern databases.
• https://github.com/ash-project/ash/pull/1253 – GitHub pull request for Ash's support of UUIDv7.
• https://uuid7.com/ – Information about UUID7 as a Time-Sortable Identifier.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/backpex-a-highly-customizable-admin-panel-for-phoenix-liveview-applications/64314 – Introduction to Backpex, a new admin backend library for Phoenix LiveView applications.
• https://github.com/naymspace/backpex – GitHub repository for Backpex, a customizable administration panel for Phoenix LiveView applications.
• https://github.com/bluzky/salad_ui – SaladUI, a Tailwind LiveView UI toolkit that includes a unique feature to convert ReactJS components.
• https://salad-storybook.fly.dev/welcome – Storybook for SaladUI to explore components.
• https://ui.shadcn.com/ – React Shad/cn UI component framework storybook page.
• https://salad-storybook.fly.dev/examples/convert_shadui – Example of converting a ReactJS component to SaladUI.
• https://github.com/codedge-llc/accessible – Accessible, a package to add Access behavior support to Elixir structs.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/owasp-top-ten – Blog post on how the OWASP Top 10 applies to Elixir and Phoenix applications.
• https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ – The OWASP Top 10, a standard awareness document for developers and web application security.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1804117870764339546 – José Valim's technique of using AI to help review or determine function names in APIs.
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/using-ai-to-boost-accessibility-and-seo/ – Article on using AI to boost image accessibility and SEO, demonstrating working with OpenAI and Anthropic using Elixir.
• https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2024 details, taking place from August 28-30 with various speakers and talks focused on Elixir.

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v1170-dev – Elixir 1.17.0-dev changelog update introducing a new Duration type and calendar-specific shifts support.
• https://hexdocs.pm/db_connection/DBConnection.Ownership.html#module-callers-lookup – ExUnit start_supervised now populates $callers, affecting libraries like Mox and Ecto.
• https://hexdocs.pm/mox/Mox.html#module-explicit-allowances – ExUnit changes with regards to $callers provide better support for global mocks like Mox.
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/pull/601 – Elixir Ecto experiment for adding support to unlogged tables that could speed up test suites.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1777990973454262476 – Announcement of ExDoc v0.32 release.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/changelog.html – Official changelogs for ExDoc v0.32 highlighting new features like OS default font for content and search bar improvements.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1776370373946175706 – Cloudflare Workers support for WebSockets and its impact on real-time web experiences.
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-websockets-in-workers/ – Introduction and explanation of websockets in Cloudflare Workers.
• https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections – Chris McCord's blog post on achieving 2 million WebSocket connections.
• https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1779253657097117890 – Announcement of a new Elixir focused book in beta from PragProg.
• https://twitter.com/sm_debenedetto/status/1779558393373409481 – Additional information about the new PragProg Elixir book.
• https://pragprog.com/titles/beamops/engineering-elixir-applications/ – Direct link to the forthcoming Elixir book on PragProg focused on DevOps for the BEAM ecosystem.
• https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/intro – Introduction to Terraform, as covered in PragProg's new Elixir book.
• https://x.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1777702586944036899 – Discussion on a constraint solver implementation in Elixir.
• https://github.com/bokner/fixpoint – Boris Okner's Fixpoint, a constraint solver library for Elixir.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness – Explanation of NP Completeness related to constraint solving.
• https://twitter.com/hugobarauna/status/1779930969593512159 – Tip on building custom visualizations for Elixir data structures in Livebook using the Kino.Render protocol.

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• https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain
• https://github.com/dashbitco/mox
• https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1780240662341849256 – Tyler's Tweet about Mox
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/

Guest Host Information

• Tyler Young joined as a guest host.
• https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung – on Twitter
• https://github.com/s3cur3 – on Github
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• https://tylerayoung.com/ – Blog

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Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/brainlid/status/1775148526621827548 – Tweet about an easy at-home AI project using Bumblebee and Fly GPUs.
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/easy-at-home-ai-with-bumblebee-and-fly-gpus/ – Blog post detailing the easy deployment of LLM models on Fly.io machines with GPUs.
• https://github.com/fly-apps/bumblebee-model-harness – GitHub repository for deploying Llama 2 7B, Mistral 7B, and Zephyr 7B LLMs with Bumblebee.
• https://twitter.com/fr0gger_/status/1774342248437813525 – Tweet about the mostly avoided disaster of the Xz backdoor.
• https://xkcd.com/2347/ – Related XKCD comic regarding the pressure on open-source developers.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor – Wikipedia article on the XZ Utils backdoor incident.
• https://www.wired.com/story/xz-backdoor-everything-you-need-to-know/ – Wired article providing an overview of the Xz backdoor event.
• https://diff.hex.pm/ – A resource for Elixir developers to inspect changes between published versions of Hex packages.
• https://gist.github.com/brainlid/5cc4944509de87289fb1a1680da22911 – Gist showing an example of an .iex.exs file for customizing IEx behavior.
• https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.html#module-the-iex-exs-file – HexDocs documentation on the .iex.exs file.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – Website for ElixirConf EU, Europe's largest Elixir Conference.
• https://twitter.com/mlainez/status/1773679346328195334 – Tweet teasing a talk about retrofitting a Nissan leaf engine into VWGroup body and using Elixir.
• https://twitter.com/NervesConfUS/status/1774473097426370744 – Tweet announcing NervesConf US, a one-day single-track conference.
• https://nervesconf.us/ – The official site for NervesConf US with the date and venue information.
• https://www.gigcityelixir.com/ – The official site for GigCityElixir with dates and speaker announcements.
• https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – The official site for ElixirConf US including dates and location.

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.16.1 – Elixir 1.16.1 release with bug fixes for Elixir, IEx, and Mix.
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1752296600024543386 – German Velasco's tip on using temporary directories in ExUnit for parallel testing.
• https://twitter.com/thmsmlr/status/1749628412073857340 – Thomas Millar's experience on upgrading to Bandit which improved CPU and latency performance.
• https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit – Bandit, an Elixir HTTP server toolkit, mentioned for its performance benefits.
• https://twitter.com/philipbrown/status/1753009553904701753 – Philip Brown's insight on using Elixir Protocols to select different params for verified routes.
• https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1754020191976001729 – Announcement of a Kino for embedding YouTube videos in Livebook by Andrés Alejos.
• https://github.com/acalejos/kino_youtube – GitHub repository for kino_youtube for embedding YouTube content in Livebook.
• https://twitter.com/rrrene/status/1751920017870860422 – Celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Inch by René Föhring.
• https://rrrene.org/2024/01/28/inch-turns-ten/ – More on the 10 year anniversary of Inch, a documentation analysis tool.
• https://youtu.be/RABXu7zqnT0?si=1sQUtAyRmlYbVMae&t=50 – Thomas Millar's talk on InstructorEx, a bridge between Elixir and AI.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/185 – Episode 185 of the Thinking Elixir podcast discussing InstructorEx.
• https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html – CNN article about a deepfake scam that tricked a finance worker into paying $25 million.
• Explanation of the deepfake video call scam and a reminder of the potential misuse of AI and ML.

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Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1724861258548052109 – Chris McCord teased a new visual on Twitter resembling a colorful flame logo with the text "Soon™", with more details to come.
• https://hauleth.dev/post/who-watches-watchmen-ii/ – Hauleth's blog post explores creating an Elixir service supervised by SystemD, building on his series about managing BEAM applications.
• https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/how-page-title-is-updated – German Valesco explains the updating of the page_title in Phoenix LiveView with a tip and video demonstration.
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/11/08/three-years-of-nx-growing-the-machine-learning-ecosystem – Sean Moriarity discusses the past three years and the future of the Elixir Machine Learning Ecosystem and Nx in a blog post on Dockyard.
• https://twitter.com/TheErlef/status/1726654135750066390 – Announcement of the 3rd edition of a BEAM-focused devroom at the 2024 FOSDEM conference, set to take place in Brussels.
• https://beam-fosdem.dev/ – FOSDEM's BEAM devroom, an event for the Elixir community and enthusiasts, provides details about the upcoming sidetrack.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY – The official playlist of ElixirConf US videos, with several more sessions expected to be added.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-030FD0Qc&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=46 – ElixirConf US video of Rafal Studnicki discussing keeping real-time auctions running during rollouts.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44hFAhKPao&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=47 – Tyler Young's ElixirConf US presentation on migrating data without downtime.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaB4XWg-Qg&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=48 – Michał Śledź's session at ElixirConf US on rewriting Pion in Elixir.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9pZP5jUYZg&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=49 – Andrew Berrien introduces ECSx and discusses a new approach to game development in Elixir at ElixirConf US.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F42B6AZ879Q&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=50 – Geoffrey Lessel's introduction to Vox, a static site generator for Elixir enthusiasts, at ElixirConf US.
• https://adventofcode.com/ – Advent of Code is approaching, presenting new coding challenges starting December 1st with a new rule against using AI for leaderboard rankings.
• https://twitter.com/ljgago/status/1724917401462997413 – Leonardo Gago tweets about his kino_aoc smart cell to assist with Advent of Code puzzles in Livebook.
• https://github.com/ljgago/kino_aoc – GitHub repository for KinoAoc, a Livebook smart cell created by Leonardo Gago for solving Advent of Code puzzles.

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Discussion Resources

• The discussion explores the AI ecosystem's influence on Elixir developers, addressing risks and dependencies unrelated to Elixir itself.
• Concerns are raised about the dangers of building on top of OpenAI and the risk of service outages, as experienced with an AI fitness trainer.
• Open-source AI models are discussed as viable alternatives that offer the possibility of self-hosting and independence from proprietary systems.
• Mention of the Elixir LangChain library signifies an interest in being able to seamlessly switch AI models without altering application code.
• The discussion covers the risks of government regulation, policy changes, financial and governance uncertainties, and how they could affect dependencies on single AI providers.
• An industry desire for regulatory measures is expressed, aiming to build a legal buffer that could protect from competition.
• The conversation questions the broader implications of reliance on AI, including why the topic is intriguing and why self-hosted, open-source models are crucial.
• Arguably, Elixir is considered to have a strong position for running self-managed AI models, highlighting the alignment with open-source philosophies.
• Looking to the future, Elixir is positioned well to do this.
• A final note touches on the holiday season's effect on the podcast's show schedule with potential changes or pauses in the regular programming.

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Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY – Playlist of 44+ ElixirConf US talks now available on YouTube.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnfdHtgAN4&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=39 – Owen Bickford's talk on Elixir's Secret Ingredient at ElixirConf.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtCJ56GxKf0&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=43 – Jeffery Utter's ElixirConf presentation on Scaling Teams with Kafka on the BEAM.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLO0ma-1uD4&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=44 – Andrew Bennett discusses Erlang Dist Filtering and the WhatsApp Runtime System at ElixirConf.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBaZDAynM08 – Michael Lubas's insights into Elixir Security from a Business and Technical Perspective.
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/11/01/the-road-toward-live-view-native-v-0-2-part-2 – Update on the progress of LiveView Native, including multi-character sigils and Phoenix layouts.
• https://sessionize.com/lambda-days-2024 – Call for talks for the Lambda Days 2024 conference focused on functional programming in Kraków, Poland.
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1722221427112456533 – Elixir 1.16 introduces the ability to run multiple tests with line numbers as shown by German Velasco.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrzGXM-Z88 – Theo's livestream with José Valim, discussing various topics for 2.5 hours.
• https://peterullrich.com/test-an-external-read-only-repository-in-phoenix – Peter Ullrich's method for testing an external, read-only repository in Phoenix.

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Discussion Resources

• 7:43 - David introduces and explains Safe Ecto migrations.
• Updates on Safe Ecto for additional safety features and latest improvements.
• Review of the performance of using text columns in databases showing that they have the same performance as VARCHAR types.
• Examples provided of non-immutable expressions within database contexts.
• Highlighting an error that can occur when backfilling data without a sort order.
• Suggestion that Common Table Expressions (CTE) offers a more reliable method for certain database operations.
• David's call for a library to assist with running database operations through a UI, indicating the desire for tooling improvements.
• Consider the use-cases in the development and implementation of safety tools for databases.
• 18:47 - Mark discusses new Fly.io GPU hardware, model improvements, and the Bumblebee tool.
• Mistral LLM and its capabilities in the AI space.
• Insights into running Bumblebee on GPUs and performance considerations.
• Importance of Mistral being self-hosted.
• Explanation of why self-hosting AI models like Mistral is significant for developers and users.
• OpenAI's outage interrupted Mark's AI-powered workout trainer.
• Outlining the Elixir LangChain goals, its roadmap, and potential impact on AI and data processing.
• Discussion on how Large Language Models (LLMs) are effectively used for data extraction tasks.
• Discussion on what an AI router is and what problem it solves.

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Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1674817111863054337 – Elixir v1.15.2 and Erlang/OTP 26.0.2 are both out. All of the known bugs have been ironed out. This release also contains fixes needed by ElixirLS. ElixirLS release 0.15.1 leverages these.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.1
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.2
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1675900744954785796 – Elixir's type system has moved out of the “research” phase into the “development” phase.
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/
• https://twitter.com/ElixirConf/status/1675995012453093376 – José will be talking more about the Elixir work around types in his ElixirConf US 2023 keynote talk.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1674893183640125442 – José shared where he wants to turn more of his focus in Elixir 1.16. It's all around “docs”.
• https://github.com/woodward/integrator – A new Nx focused Hex package by Greg Woodward called “Integrator”.
• https://github.com/woodward/integrator/tree/main/guides – Includes Livebook guides with samples
• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1675887336339406850 – Andrea Leopardi released v2.0.0 of Corsica, an Elixir library for handling CORS requests.
• https://hex.pm/packages/corsica
• https://twitter.com/voltonez/status/1676125858581422080 – Bram Verburg pointed out AWS RDS database connection failure issue after upgrading to Erlang/OTP 26 is probably due to certificate validation.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/aws-rds-castore-certificate-validation-for-aws-rds-dbs/55111
• https://github.com/voltone/aws_rds_castore – The Hex package aws_rds_castore to help manage AWS CA certificates
• https://hex.pm/packages/image – Image 0.35.0 was released. Updates primarily focused on image contrast.
• https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1676059564188286976 – ZigDocs was released
• https://hexdocs.pm/zig_doc/Zig.Doc.html – Integrates Zig documentation into Elixir docs.
• https://getoban.pro/releases#1.0.0 – Oban Pro v1.0 is out without any new features or bugfixes, purely a renamed engine and deprecation cleanup.

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Discussion Resources

• https://blog.langchain.dev/announcing-our-10m-seed-round-led-by-benchmark/ – Langchain announced $10m seed round
• https://js.langchain.com/docs/ – Langchain JS docs and introduction to the project
• https://python.langchain.com/docs/get_started/introduction.html – Python version of the docs
• Be agentic - allow a language model to interact with its environment
• https://github.com/orthagonal/langchainex – Existing Elixir library called langchainex.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1668726716947222528 – José talked about OpenAI's new function support
• https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates – OpenAI blog announcing official function calling support
• https://dscout.com/
• David is thinking about Oban and data migrations
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – David wrote a guide on how to run Safe Ecto Migrations for production systems
• https://github.com/fly-apps/safe-ecto-migrations – Guide to Safe Ecto Migrations on Github

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.0-rc.1 – Elixir 1.15.0-rc.1
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.5 – Elixir 1.14.5 - small bug fix release
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirls-not-working-runtime-terminating-during-boot/56017/6 – Elixir-LS crashes with OTP 26. Using OTP 25.x works great.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/886 – Issue that tracks Elixir LS OTP 26 issues
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.19.0/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView 0.19 changelog
• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1663275883845566473 – Chris McCord announced LiveView 0.19 and TodoTrek demo application.
• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-0.19-released – Blog post for the LiveView 0.19 release
• https://github.com/chrismccord/todo_trek – OpenSourced Todo Trek project. “A trello-like todo board which shows off different dynamic form strategies with Phoenix LiveView.”
• https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim – José Valim Twitch account
• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1827518510 – Prompts for AI agents in Elixir - Day 1 (NO LONGER AVAILABLE)
• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1828360654 – Prompts for AI agents in Elixir - Day 2 (NO LONGER AVAILABLE)
• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1832616594 – Contributing to Open Source with Elixir!
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1663316201584443394 – José on Twitter sharing the
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/1936 – Livebook doctest feature ended in a PR that was merged.
• https://twitter.com/christhekeele/status/1661178730037886978 – Chris Keele shared a tip about customizing your IEx prompt to make copying output easier.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr6VAfCm_QE – On the shoulder of giants there's room for larger giants- F. Cesarini, A. Leopardi | CBL Mexico 23
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yU9mvwZKoY – Distributed Elixir made easy by Johanna Larsson | Code BEAM Lite Mexico 2023
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phRXs8SKzP0 – How to sell Elixir (Again) by Evadne Wu | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2023
• https://2023.elixirconf.com – ElixirConf tickets are now on sale

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Discussion Resources

• https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in-elixir/
• https://teller.io/
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino_bumblebee
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee/pull/199 – You recently added LLaMa support to Bumblebee
• https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither – Google AI researcher leaked memo
• https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute – In December 2014, the United States Copyright Office stated that works created by a non-human, such as a photograph taken by a monkey, are not copyrightable.
• https://github.com/microsoft/LoRA

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• https://github.com/seanmor5/ – on Github
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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.17.10/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView gets a minor release v0.17.10 with formatting improvements
• https://www.rakeroutes.com/2022/05/18/let-s-write-an-elixir-livebook-smart-cell – Creating custom Livebook Smart Cells
• https://twitter.com/evadne/status/1527651328188723209 – Etso was updated to work with the latest Ecto
• https://github.com/evadne/etso – Etso library

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Discussion Resources

• https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in-elixir/ – Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Numerical Elixir (Nx)
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon – Nx-powered Neural Networks for Elixir.
• https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in-elixir/ – Book - Genetic Algorithms in Elixir
• https://scala-lang.org/
• https://www.quora.com/
• https://pragprog.com/titles/elixir16/programming-elixir-1-6/
• https://pragprog.com/titles/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/briancardarella/
• https://dockyard.com/
• https://dockyard.com/blog/authors/sean-moriarity – Sean's blog posts on Dockyard blog
• https://numpy.org/
• https://llvm.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
• https://xkcd.com/1897/ – XKCD comic
• https://www.image-net.org/
• https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
• https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/04/pathways-language-model-palm-scaling-to.html
• https://erlef.org/wg/machine-learning – Erlang Eco-system foundation machine working group

Guest Information

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• https://github.com/seanmor5/ – on Github
• https://seanmoriarity.com – Blog

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