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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/swmansionElixir/status/2047324614519652484 – Phoenix LiveDebugger hits v1.0 — Software Mansion announces the milestone release, signaling a shift from active development to maintenance. They consider it feature-complete.
• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-debugger-tour – LiveDebugger Tour — an interactive, hands-on tutorial launched alongside v1.0 to walk users through everything LiveDebugger has to offer.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2046960595455369469 – LiveStash v0.2.0 released by Software Mansion — a new version shaped by API feedback, with v0.3.0 teasing Redis & Mnesia adapters.
• https://hex.pm/packages/live_stash – LiveStash on Hex.pm — the package that solves Phoenix LiveView's state loss during WebSocket reconnects.
• https://live-stash-demo.swmansion.com/ – Interactive demo site for LiveStash.
• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-stash – LiveStash GitHub repository.
• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-stash/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – LiveStash changelog detailing v0.2.0 changes.
• https://x.com/germsvel/status/2046896967330955336 – German Velasco announces that his TestingLiveView.com course is now free for the community.
• https://www.testingliveview.com/ – TestingLiveView.com — a deep-dive course on testing Phoenix LiveView, now free.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-Eoi6aZFyCngEFKHNL2f92gpI – YouTube playlist for the TestingLiveView course, with videos, explanations, and code samples for each lesson.
• https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/index.html – ThinkingElixir.com courses — also made free when Mark's focus shifted, similarly giving back to the Elixir community.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2046539535287287862 – Volt reaches v0.8.0 — the Elixir-native frontend build tool adds a mix igniter command to migrate projects from esbuild + Tailwind with no Node.js required.
• https://github.com/elixir-volt/volt – Volt GitHub repository — an Elixir-native frontend build tool supporting JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue SFCs, and CSS with a dev server, HMR, and production builds.
• https://x.com/FrancescoC/status/2047325522330312880 – Francesco Cesarini announces he is leaving Erlang Solutions, where he served as Founder & Technical Director.
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francescocesarini_this-is-my-last-week-at-erlang-solutions-share-7453064615325900800-Gfcv/ – Francesco Cesarini's LinkedIn post about his departure from Erlang Solutions, noting he will remain involved in the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF) and the community.

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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://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-8-released – Phoenix 1.8.0-rc released with DaisyUI styled Tailwind components, magic link authentication, revised layouts, and new scopes pattern for data access and authorization.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-1-8-0-rc-0-released/70256 – Discussion forum post about the Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.0 release.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/b1c459943b3279f97725787b9150ff4950958d12/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog detailing the few deprecations in Phoenix 1.8.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/1.8.0-rc.0/scopes.html – New scopes guide in Phoenix 1.8, designed to make secure data access the default.
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/4599 – Privacy/security focused PR merged into Ecto adding a @schema_redact module attribute to make redacting fields easier.
• https://bsky.app/profile/nezteb.net/post/3lm6nbpgelk2b – Bluesky post about the new Ecto schema redaction feature.
• https://github.com/erlef/elixir-secure-coding – Elixir Secure Coding Training (ESCT) project, an interactive cybersecurity curriculum for Elixir teams, has found a new maintainer in TvLabs.
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3llwjpgsrgs2u – Announcement about the ESCT project maintainership transition, with plans to eventually move it to the EEF.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bobbby.online/post/3llwpqtwwf22r – Tip for Elixir users - setting export VISUAL=your_editor_of_choice allows entering multiline commands in iex shell by pressing ESCAPE+o.
• https://dep-mcp.9elements.com/ – Daniel Hoelzgen created a new MCP Server that brings package repository awareness for Hex.pm and other package managers to code editors supporting Model Context Protocol.
• https://x.com/brainlid/status/1909600607935381553 – Configuration instructions for using the dep-mcp server in Cursor.
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando is open for submitting talks (deadline Apr 29) and workshops (deadline Apr 15).
• https://x.com/elixirconf/status/1907843035544826137 – Announcement about ElixirConf US 2025 with information about joining the waitlist for pre-sale tickets.

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Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger
• https://elixirforum.com/t/livedebugger-tool-for-debugging-liveview-apps/69668
• https://blog.swmansion.com/introduction-to-livedebugger-a-tool-for-debugging-phoenix-liveview-apps-bf7e56ab00fb
• https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM
• https://swmansion.com/
• https://membrane.stream/
• https://react.dev/learn/react-developer-tools
• https://github.com/JohnnyCurran/TimeTravel
• https://github.com/ash-project/igniter/

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• https://x.com/swmansion – Software Mansion on Twitter/X
• https://bsky.app/profile/swmansion.com – Software Mansion on Bluesky
• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger on Github
• https://blog.swmansion.com/ – Software Mansion Site
• https://x.com/kraleppa – Krzysztof on Twitter/X
• https://bsky.app/profile/kraleppa.bsky.social – Krzysztof on Bluesky
• https://github.com/kraleppa – Krzysztof on Github

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Elixir Community News

• https://gigalixir.com/thinking – Visit to sign up and get 20% off your first year. Or use the promo code "Thinking" during signup.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/6081 – Phoenix gen_auth is adding support for magic links (passwordless login) and sudo mode for sensitive operations.
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – Additional resource for Phoenix gen_auth updates.
• https://github.com/9elements/hex-mcp – New Model Context Protocol server providing real-time Hex package version information for AI tools like Cursor.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/elixir-best – Michael Lubas shares 11 best practices for security in Elixir and Phoenix applications.
• https://elixirstatus.com/p/7bQOj-daisyuicomponents---a-phoenix-liveview--daisyui-library – DaisyUI Components library for Phoenix LiveView updated to version 0.7.0.
• https://github.com/phcurado/daisy_ui_components – GitHub repository for DaisyUI Components, featuring over 30 pre-styled components.
• https://daisy-ui-components-site.fly.dev/storybook/welcome – Interactive Storybook for exploring DaisyUI Components.
• https://github.com/phcurado/daisy_ui_components/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog showing recent updates to DaisyUI Components.
• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-debugger – LiveDebugger tool for Phoenix LiveView applications, providing insights into LiveViews, components, and state transitions.
• https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-Self-Join-Eliminate – Postgres adds optimization for self-joins, improving query performance.
• https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2025 – Lambda Days conference tickets on sale, happening June 12-13 in Kraków, Poland, focusing on functional programming.
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – Alchemy Conf happening April 2-3 in Braga, Portugal with 10% discount code "THINKINGELIXIR".
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