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• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2026-candidates – Candidates for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation 2026 board election have been published. Candidates include David Bernheisel, Jon Carstens, Francesco Cesarini (incumbent), Nathan Hessler, Amos King (incumbent), Greg Mefford, Duane Strikwerda, and Alistair Woodman (incumbent). Voting opens May 8th at 16:00 UTC and closes May 15th at 23:59 UTC.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2050239025458409646 – DanNote on GitHub created a new GitHub organization called "Elixir-Vibe" — a home for Elixir-native tooling for AI-assisted coding, AST analysis, structural code search, code quality, architecture analysis, and BEAM-native coding agents.
• https://github.com/elixir-vibe – The Elixir-Vibe GitHub organization housing libraries for fixing, reviewing, and spotting "slop" in AI-generated Elixir code.
• https://github.com/elixir-vibe/ex_slop – ExSlop is a library under Elixir-Vibe — Credo checks that catch AI-generated Elixir code slop.
• https://x.com/kamilskowron/status/2051778642053628125 – Announcement of Credence, a semantic linter for LLM-generated Elixir code that catches patterns that compile and pass tests but are non-idiomatic, inefficient, or ported from Python/JavaScript conventions that don't belong in Elixir.
• https://hex.pm/packages/credence – Credence on Hex.pm — a semantic linter for LLM-generated Elixir code.
• https://github.com/Cinderella-Man/credence – Credence on GitHub — complements the compiler and Credo by checking semantics of LLM-generated Elixir code.
• https://x.com/benoitc/status/2050939005395505185 – Benoit announced erlang_python 3.0.0, which embeds CPython into the BEAM with true parallelism via Python 3.14 OWN_GIL subinterpreters or free-threaded 3.13t, async/await, bidirectional Erlang↔Python callbacks, and stable thread affinity for numpy/torch.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang-python/releases/tag/3.0.0 – Release notes for erlang_python 3.0.0.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang-python – The erlang-python GitHub repo — combines Python's ML/AI ecosystem with Erlang's concurrency, making Python a first-class BEAM citizen rather than a simple guest like pythonx.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4ZsIgecSexrk26--PBWiEyUy – Playlist of ElixirConf EU 2026 videos, which have started publishing. Includes keynotes from José Valim on type system design, Chris McCord on DurableServer, and more.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2052090411607286087 – José Valim announced Tidewave updates including a minimap on large file diffs, pin-point agent feedback, smoother onboarding for Tidewave Teams, and updates to OpenCode, Claude Code & Codex.
• https://open-design.ai/ – Open-source alternative to Claude Design. Turns your existing coding agent (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, Qwen) into a design engine driven by 31 composable skills and 72 brand-grade design systems. Available on Mac and Windows.
• https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design – GitHub repo for open-design, the open-source design engine for coding agents.
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/2050578567897985072 – Brian Carderella posted about open-design saying "OpenDesign is fantastic. Within 10 minutes it's already replaced Claude Design for me."
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/bedrock-mantle.html – AWS Mantle - an OpenAI compatible API to many different LLM models
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/ – AWS Bedrock - The hosting of many different LLM models
• https://hexdocs.pm/langchain/LangChain.ChatModels.ChatAwsMantle.html – Elixir LangChain support for AWS Mantle using ChatAwsMantle

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• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2048273367598252360 – Announcement tweet for Folio, a new Elixir library for generating print-quality PDFs, SVGs, and PNGs from Markdown and Elixir data.
• https://github.com/dannote/folio – Folio on GitHub — an open-source library that generates print-quality PDF/SVG/PNG from Elixir data, powered by Typst via Rustler NIF. Documents are Elixir values with no templates or external processes required.
• https://genericjam.com/blog/mob-intro – Blog post introducing Mob — "LiveView for native mobile via NIF with BEAM on device with native views and all logic in Elixir." Created by Kevin Edey, a former React Native and native iOS developer.
• https://hexdocs.pm/mob/readme.html – Mob HexDocs — a BEAM-on-device mobile framework for Elixir. OTP runs inside iOS and Android apps via a thin NIF, with screens as GenServers and UI rendered by Compose and SwiftUI. Currently in early development.
• https://github.com/GenericJam/mob – Mob on GitHub — the source for the BEAM-on-device mobile framework supporting Android emulator and iOS simulator.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/2049057610721112537 – Announcement tweet for Oban v2.22 open-source release, highlighting new features including Job Querying, Smarter Sonar, and Migration Checks.
• https://github.com/oban-bg/oban/releases/tag/v2.22.0 – Oban v2.22.0 release notes covering Job Querying, Smarter Sonar, and Migration Checks improvements.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/2049844973445468336 – Announcement tweet for Oban Pro v1.7.0, highlighting Signals and awaiting, Unique workflows, Rate limiting overhaul, Chunking overhaul, Global cancel/discard hooks, and Improved indexes.
• https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.7.0/changelog.html – Oban Pro v1.7.0 changelog detailing Signals and awaiting, Unique workflows, Rate limiting overhaul, Chunking overhaul, Global cancel/discard hooks, and Improved indexes.
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2048787962666623106 – Announcement tweet for LiveVue v1.1, highlighting Node-less SSR via QuickBeam, v-inject directive, headless components, and shared props.
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2048787965111918775 – Follow-up tweet introducing QuickBeam as a new third SSR mode for LiveVue — running QuickJS as a NIF for better performance, now the default mode.
• https://hexdocs.pm/live_vue/persistent_layout.html – LiveVue docs on persistent layouts — allows rendering a root Vue component in root.heex.html that survives navigation, preserving local state, scroll position, etc., with components passed as slots.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2049054978384208212 – Announcement tweet for ExAST, a new library for searching, replacing, and diffing Elixir code by AST pattern.
• https://github.com/dannote/ex_ast – ExAST on GitHub — provides a query API for structural searches and codemods over Elixir AST, with support for matching by shape, filtering by context, resolving local aliases, and composing predicates.
• https://ast-grep.github.io/ – ast-grep — a related tool referenced in the ExAST context for structural code search and rewriting.
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/erlangquic-pure-erlang-quic-http3-stack-benoit-chesneau-ccd3e – LinkedIn article introducing erlang_quic — the first production-ready pure-Erlang implementation of QUIC and HTTP/3, implementing RFC 9000/9001, RFC 9114, RFC 9204, and extension RFCs.
• https://x.com/benoitc/status/2047955032100725237 – Announcement tweet for erlang_quic v1.3.0, a pure-Erlang QUIC and HTTP/3 stack running on stock OTP 27 or newer.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang_quic – erlang_quic on GitHub — pure-Erlang QUIC/HTTP3 stack with no external dependencies, featuring three congestion controllers, connection migration, TLS 1.3, and a quic_dist mode replacing TCP-based distribution.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang_quic/blob/main/docs/h3_compliance.md – HTTP/3 Compliance Matrix for erlang_quic, documenting RFC compliance status across the implementation.
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carlos-daniel-pohlod-software-engineer_ruby-spinel-ugcPost-7454676794986790912-rqZy – LinkedIn post about Spinel, an experimental compiled Ruby project by Matz (creator of Ruby) that can be up to 86× faster than miniruby in benchmarks. Relevant to the Elixir community given Ruby's influence on Elixir's syntax.
• https://github.com/matz/spinel – Spinel on GitHub — compiles Ruby source code into standalone native executables via whole-program type inference and optimized C code generation, achieving significant speedups over CRuby.

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• 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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• 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://marketing.erlef.org/news/grant-petition.html – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is seeking community backing for a grant that would fund two full years of work on the Ægis security project — improving how packages are published, verified, and trusted across Hex and the broader ecosystem. The deadline to show support is April 17th.
• https://hex.pm/blog/security-audit – Hex.pm published the results of its first comprehensive third-party security audit, made possible by Alpha-Omega under the OpenSSF. Two firms — Paraxial.io and zentrust partners GmbH — reviewed the Hex registry, clients, documentation infrastructure, and supporting systems. Three high-severity issues were found and have all been fixed.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/hex-pentest – Michael Lubas of Paraxial.io shares details of the white-box penetration testing performed on Hex.pm as part of the Ægis security audit.
• https://hex.pm/reports/2026/zentrust.pdf – The published report from zentrust partners GmbH covering their adversarial/red-team style assessment of Hex.pm, including 3 high-severity findings (all now fixed) plus medium and low severity items.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2042245524116439169 – José Valim announces a massive update to Tidewave, teasing several days of videos and screenshots covering new features.
• https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/ui_variants.html – Documentation for Tidewave's new UI Variants feature, which lets your coding agent build different versions of a page or UI component so you can pick and refine your favorite — all integrated directly in the browser.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8px8GdpID74 – Video demo of Tidewave's new UI Variants feature in action.
• https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2041977909502489060 – Adam Wathan (creator of TailwindCSS) shows off ui.sh, a set of skills for creating UIs in coding agent CLIs like Claude Code and Codex — noted as a comparison point to Tidewave's more integrated, browser-native experience.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2042608254065287565 – José Valim demos Tidewave's new "vision" mode, which lets your coding agent take screenshots and record videos of your web app — including demoing a feature working on both desktop and mobile resolutions and delivering results to Slack.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2042581154067337280 – José Valim announces that Hex.pm will now serve llms.txt files for Elixir/Erlang packages if the accept header is text/markdown. Package authors using ExDoc should update to the latest version and republish their docs.
• https://github.com/remoteoss/dexter – Remote released Dexter, a new Elixir LSP written in Go. An interesting alternative to the official LSP, though its positioning relative to the official tooling raises some questions.
• https://github.com/typhoonworks/lotus – Lotus is an embeddable BI (Business Intelligence) engine for Elixir apps featuring an SQL editor, dashboards, visualizations, and AI-powered query generation that mounts directly into a Phoenix app — no Metabase, Redash, or extra infrastructure needed.
• https://lotus.typhoon.works/lotus – The Lotus demo app showcasing its latest features including an AI-powered query assistant (BYOK), dashboards with filters and public sharing, 16 chart types, improved query results with right-click filtering and sorting, and more.
• https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty – Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, native terminal emulator. Its libghostty library is a cross-platform C and Zig library for building terminal emulators or embedding terminal functionality into applications.
• https://github.com/dannote/ghostty_ex – ghostty_ex is an Elixir library that wraps libghostty-vt, bringing a SIMD-optimized VT parsing terminal emulator to the BEAM. Terminals are GenServers, with full Unicode, 24-bit color, and scrollback with text reflow.
• https://github.com/dannote/ghostty_ex?tab=readme-ov-file#liveview – The LiveView integration section of the ghostty_ex README, showing how to install the LiveView hook into a Phoenix app and use the Ghostty.LiveTerminal.Component to handle keyboard events and PTY lifecycle.
• https://x.com/flaviocopes/status/2039973060158095827 – Flavio Copes explains how Axios was compromised via a targeted ClickFix attack — a social engineering technique that tricks maintainers into pasting malicious text into their terminal.
• https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636 – Public post-mortem from the Axios team on the npm supply chain compromise, shared with the community for transparency and awareness.
• https://cybersecuritynews.com/clickfix-attack/ – An explainer on the ClickFix attack — how hackers use it to trick users into running malware by pasting content from the web into their terminal.
• https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636#issuecomment-4182134203 – A GitHub comment documenting multiple recent instances of similar ClickFix-style supply chain attacks across other open source projects.
• https://x.com/simonw/status/2040080868958765229 – Simon Willison weighs in on the Axios supply chain attack via ClickFix social engineering.
• https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/ – Simon Willison's write-up on the Axios supply chain attack and the social engineering tactics used — noting how time pressure during meetings makes maintainers especially vulnerable to quickly clicking through install prompts.

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• https://hex.pm/blog/hex-v24-released#website-redesign – The hex.pm website received a major redesign. Package pages now show the README directly, search results show more info at a glance, and the dashboard was reworked. Thanks to Paulo Valim for implementing the new design.
• https://x.com/hexpm/status/2039764266471784603 – The local hex package was updated to v2.4, replacing password-based authentication with an OAuth device flow and adding two-factor authentication support to the CLI, significantly improving the security of publishing packages.
• https://hex.pm/blog/hex-v24-released – Official Hex 2.4 release blog post covering the OAuth device flow, two-factor authentication support, and other improvements.
• https://x.com/tylerayoung/status/2038614593958732194 – Announcement tweet for the official v0.1 release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/releases/tag/v0.1.0 – The v0.1.0 release of Expert, the new official Elixir Language Server Protocol implementation, is now final.
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/expert – Expert is also available on Homebrew, making it easy to install on macOS.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.20.0-rc.4 – Elixir v1.20.0-rc.4 was released. Notable enhancements include showing undefined function errors even when missing variables, adding Process.get_label/1, and fixing URI.merge leaking a :+ marker when the base path is an empty string.
• https://bsky.app/profile/adrienanselme.com/post/3mietrjv3462i – Bluesky announcement for LiveStash, a new library by SoftwareMansion that fixes the problem of losing state on LiveView reconnects.
• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-stash – LiveStash provides a reliable, explicit API to safely stash and recover Phoenix LiveView assigns, keeping application state intact whenever a socket connection is interrupted or re-established.
• https://elixirconf.com/ – José Valim joined to highlight ElixirConf US. Training is Sept 9, with the conference Sept 10-11 in Chicago and virtual. The Call for Talks deadline is approaching.

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• https://github.com/elixir-volt/volt – Volt - a new asset pipeline for Elixir that replaces esbuild wrapper, Tailwind CLI, and node_modules.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2033975642057019499 – Announcement post for the Volt asset pipeline for Elixir.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2032139121850728939 – Announcement post for Quickbeam, a JavaScript runtime for the BEAM.
• https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam – Quickbeam - a JavaScript runtime for the BEAM with Web APIs backed by OTP, native DOM, and a built-in TypeScript toolchain. Still an early beta research project.
• https://github.com/cocoa-xu/exclosured – ExClosured - a new framework for compiling Rust to WebAssembly, running it in the browser, and hooking into Phoenix LiveView.
• https://exclosured.app/ – Demo site for ExClosured, showing image manipulation and SQLite-in-the-browser examples.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2034623221807370570 – José Valim highlights how Elixir's type system work has inspired optimizations in Python's Ruff/ty project.
• https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/23881 – Pull request on the Python Ruff project applying BDD optimization techniques inspired by Elixir's type system work.
• https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff – Ruff - an extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2034624137981739153 – José Valim shares his latest blog post on type system optimizations for differences.
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/03/19/lazy-bdds-with-eager-literal-differences/ – Elixir blog post - "Lazy BDDs with eager literal differences" - covering the latest round of type system performance optimizations, available in Elixir v1.20.0-rc4.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2034295512862490655 – Announcement of LiveView Debugger v0.7 with new features including source code links, better filtering, and tree structure for nested live views.
• https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveView Debugger documentation site.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvKGXRNo-_E – YouTube video showing the new features in LiveView Debugger v0.7.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2034650679986327924 – Announcement of a new version of the fully browser-based Elixir Language Tour, with an expanded Processes chapter covering Links, Agents, GenServers, and Supervisors.
• https://elixir-language-tour.swmansion.com/introduction – The Elixir Language Tour - a browser-based interactive tour running Elixir in WebAssembly via Popcorn.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/gettext-sigils-a-sigil-for-using-gettext-with-less-boilerplate-and-better-readability/74645 – Elixir Forum post introducing gettext_sigils, a library that wraps gettext helpers into a sigil for less boilerplate.
• https://github.com/zebbra/gettext_sigils – gettext_sigils - a library that simplifies gettext usage with a ~t sigil, e.g. ~t"Hello, #{user.name}" instead of gettext("Hello, %{name}", name: user.name).
• https://peterullrich.com/a-devcontainer-for-elixir – Blog post by Peter Ullrich - "A Devcontainer for Elixir" - on running Elixir in a dev container for safer LLM-assisted coding.
• https://containers.dev/ – The open specification for enriching containers with development-specific content and settings.
• https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/.devcontainer – Anthropic's dev container used as the starting point for Peter Ullrich's Elixir dev container.
• https://github.com/PJUllrich/devcontainer – Peter Ullrich's Claude-based Devcontainer for Elixir development with Phoenix, Claude Code, and optionally Tidewave.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2034952526039056700 – José Valim responds to a "What Would José Valim Do?" Claude memory prompt shared by an Elixir developer, offering his actual advice which differed from the LLM's take on behaviours and abstractions.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/2036839452102840414 – Announcement of Oban v2.21, Pro v1.7, Web v2.12, and Met v1.1 with workflow tracking, rate limiting, chunk performance improvements, and more.
• https://oban.pro/docs/pro/changelog.html#v1-7-0-rc-0-2026-03-23 – Oban Pro v1.7 changelog.
• https://hexdocs.pm/oban_web/overview.html – Oban Web documentation.
• https://github.com/oban-bg/oban/releases/tag/v2.21.0 – Oban v2.21.0 release notes on GitHub.
• https://x.com/akoutmos/status/2036556722584670292 – Announcement of Litestream v0.5, a complete overhaul of the Elixir wrapper for Litestream SQLite backups.
• https://litestream.io/ – Litestream - continuously streams SQLite changes to cloud storage like S3 for no-worry backups.
• https://github.com/akoutmos/litestream – Litestream - an Elixir library wrapping Litestream for easy SQLite database backups, now at v0.5 with individual backup strategies under the Litestream.Strategy namespace.
• https://github.com/akoutmos/litestream/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Litestream changelog detailing the v0.5.0 overhaul.
• https://marketing.erlef.org/events/malaga-unconf.html – EEF Málaga Unconference - a community-driven one-day pre-ElixirConf EU event on April 22, 2026, featuring Elixir talks, a Nerves workshop, and a GRiSP hardware workshop.

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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://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2026957172807025095 – José Valim announces a new technical blog post on elixir-lang.org about set-theoretic type system internals.
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/02/26/eager-literal-intersections/ – José Valim's deep-dive post on switching from DNFs to Lazy BDDs and adding eager literal intersections, reducing a worst-case type check from 10s to 25ms in Elixir v1.20.
• https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2028820597761831058 – José Valim announces a more approachable blog post on type systems as leaky abstractions.
• https://dashbit.co/blog/type-systems-are-leaky-abstractions-map-take – Dashbit post by José Valim arguing with concrete examples that type systems can be leaky abstractions that resist refactoring, using Map.take!/2 as a case study.
• https://x.com/zachsdaniel1/status/2027078981451690355 – Zach Daniel announces a new usage_rules feature that supports copying skills from packages, allowing package authors to ship and version AI skills for projects.
• https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules – The usage_rules GitHub repo for the Ash project's AI coding rules and skills feature.
• https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3mg5yd4lul22a – Sorentwo teases upcoming Oban Pro Workflow + Web improvements, including a new Workflows search page with progress bars, stats, filters, and a graph view of workflow nodes.
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex/releases/tag/v0.11.6 – MDEx v0.11.6 release notes, adding :codefence_renderers option and fixes to the syntax highlighter and streaming parser.
• https://nitter.net/leandrocesquini/status/2026671063820615755 – Leandro Cesquini announces the MDEx v0.11.6 release on social media.
• https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/codefence_renderers.html – HexDocs page for MDEx's new codefence_renderers feature, enabling custom code fences like alert, Pikchr, chart, csv, and more.
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex – The MDEx GitHub repository for the Elixir Markdown parsing and rendering library.
• https://github.com/dbernheisel/hex-cmp – David's new Neovim plugin that autocompletes hex.pm packages and versions in mix.exs files using blink.cmp and Treesitter, with lightweight LSP hover docs.
• https://nitter.net/1stavenger/status/2027943235096641839 – Mike Binns announces the v1.0.0 release of Flame On, a flame chart plugin for Phoenix Live Dashboard, after 4+ years.
• https://blogat.to/ – Blogatto is a new Gleam static site generator framework built on Lustre and Markdown, generating blogs, RSS feeds, sitemaps, and more from a single config.
• https://nitter.net/lukaszsamson/status/2028268416939786430 – Łukasz Samson announces spark_ex, a native Elixir Apache Spark Connect client with Livebook integration.
• https://github.com/lukaszsamson/spark_ex/blob/main/notebooks/spark_ex_demo.livemd – Demo Livebook notebook for spark_ex to quickly start experimenting with Apache Spark from Elixir.
• https://spark.apache.org/ – Apache Spark™ official site — a multi-language engine for data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node or cluster environments.
• https://bsky.app/profile/hugobarauna.com/post/3mg6djqvhzc2w – Hugo Baraúna announces that Livebook Desktop now supports Linux, powered by the same Tauri-based cross-platform packaging work reported last week.
• https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3mg77yqlf7k2b – Announcement that Easel can now render to the terminal using rasterization via Easel.WX, ASCII glyph masks, and the termite library.
• https://hexdocs.pm/easel/readme.html#terminal-backend-experimental – HexDocs page for Easel's experimental terminal backend, detailing how it rasterizes and renders frames to a terminal session.
• https://nitter.net/FrancescoC/status/2027699563474173983 – Francesco Cesarini announces the new "BEAM There, Done That" podcast co-hosted with Alan Wyma.
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/4D3ZdxRYlhtImwkjaqgRmS – First episode of "BEAM There, Done That" on Spotify, featuring Andrea Leopardi on Concurrency, OTP, and the Evolution of the BEAM.
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beam-there-done-that/id1880642413 – 'BEAM There, Done That' podcast on Apple Podcasts, launched by Francesco Cesarini and Alan Wyma.

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• https://x.com/expert_lsp/status/2025624737737539876 – Announcement tweet for Expert LSP v0.1.0-rc.1, the unified Elixir Language Server combining Lexical and Next LS.
• https://x.com/mitchhanberg/status/2025625898322469367 – Mitch Hanberg's tweet about the Expert LSP v0.1.0-rc.1 release candidate.
• https://expert-lsp.org/the-first-release-candidate/ – Blog post accompanying the Expert LSP v0.1.0-rc.1 release, covering stability goals and the near-term roadmap.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert – GitHub repository for Expert, the unified Elixir Language Server. Includes features like compiler diagnostics, completions, go-to-definition, monorepo support, and more.
• https://x.com/tylerayoung/status/2025659771789905966 – Tyler Young shares his team's experience using Expert at Jump, calling it the best Elixir LSP experience he's had.
• https://x.com/benoitc/status/2024059742096687482 – Benoît Chesneau announces the erlang-python package, enabling Python ML/AI integration with Erlang/Elixir concurrency.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang-python – GitHub repository for erlang-python, which lets you run Python code from Erlang or Elixir with true parallelism, async/await support, and seamless integration.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2024464732535521316 – José Valim announces that Livebook Desktop has been converted to Tauri, adding Linux support and plans to extract the Tauri integration as a reusable package.
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook#desktop-app – Livebook Desktop nightly builds using the new Tauri-based app for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
• https://tauri.app/ – Homepage for Tauri, a cross-platform desktop app framework (Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS) used to build Livebook Desktop.
• https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri – GitHub repository for Tauri, the Rust-based framework now powering Livebook Desktop.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2024538544685851099 – José Valim shares a detailed update on Elixir v1.20 compile time improvements — ~10% faster on OTP 28, ~20% on OTP 29, and up to 5x faster with a new interpreted mode.
• https://github.com/josevalim/langcompilebench – Repository created by José Valim to benchmark and compare compilation times across BEAM languages (Elixir, Erlang, Gleam) with open, public measurements.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/c40c140e3f524fa8384efd33137ec1c3fab341d3 – Elixir commit that achieved a ~10% compile speed improvement by delaying module deletion, reducing single-core lock contention.
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/10615 – Erlang/OTP PR that optimized module loading by reducing single-core lock usage, improving both compilation and boot times by ~10%.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/15087 – Elixir PR adding an interpreted mode to bypass code loading, resulting in up to 5x faster compile times on multi-core machines.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2025930710482120825 – José Valim announces an upcoming Elixir v1.20 improvement that drastically reduces incremental recompilation when struct fields are added or removed.
• https://x.com/polvalente/status/2024641604313571328 – Paulo Valente announces the release of Nx v0.11, with new features including faster evaluated mode, Nx.runtime_callback, sharding support, and MPS support in Torchx.
• https://hex.pm/packages/nx – Hex package page for Nx v0.11, Elixir's numerical computing library.
• https://hex.pm/packages/exla – Hex package page for EXLA v0.11, the XLA-based backend for Nx with faster build times and sharding support.
• https://hex.pm/packages/torchx – Hex package page for Torchx v0.11, the LibTorch backend for Nx now with MPS (Apple Silicon GPU) support.
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Monorepo for the Nx ecosystem, containing Nx, EXLA, and Torchx packages.
• https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules – The usage_rules package reached v1.0 and beyond (now at v1.2.1). It synchronizes LLM rules files with your dependencies and is independent of Ash.
• https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3mfcfrhsios2a – Tyler Young shares a doctest quick tip — you can omit the result line in an Elixir doctest and use pattern matching with the iex line continuation syntax instead.
• https://x.com/jeffreyguenther/status/2026308201025785940 – Announcement tweet for Courgette, a new declarative TUI (Terminal User Interface) framework for Elixir built on OTP.
• https://github.com/LoamStudios/courgette – GitHub repository for Courgette, a LiveView-inspired TUI framework for Elixir featuring a Flexbox layout engine, stateful components, incremental rendering at ~60 FPS, and zero dependencies.
• https://github.com/Gazler/breeze – Breeze, another Elixir TUI framework that Courgette resembles in approach.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_(terminal_emulator) – Wikipedia page for the Kitty terminal emulator, whose keyboard protocol is supported by Courgette for full keyboard input handling.

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• https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/releases/tag/3.1.0 – Hackney v3.1.0 release notes. Removes ~1.3M lines of C code (lsquic, BoringSSL, NIF) and replaces them with a pure Erlang QUIC implementation.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC – Background on QUIC, the general-purpose transport layer protocol underlying HTTP/3 support in Hackney v3.1.0.
• https://x.com/benoitc/status/2023711566370402574 – Benoît Chesneau announces Hornbeam 1.0.0, an Erlang-powered WSGI/ASGI server for Python apps — 9x faster than Gunicorn, 10x lower latency.
• https://github.com/benoitc/hornbeam – Hornbeam GitHub repository. Run Flask, FastAPI, and Django on the BEAM with Erlang's concurrency, resilience, and distribution.
• https://hornbeam.dev/ – Hornbeam landing site — "When Python Meets Erlang." Highlights AI readiness, distributed clustering, supervisors, and no GIL concerns.
• https://x.com/benoitc/status/2024066551092031773 – Follow-up post announcing Hornbeam v1.3.0, achieving 68k req/s — 2x faster than Uvicorn/Gunicorn — with new NIF modules for direct C-level marshalling.
• https://github.com/ivarvong/pyex – PyEx — run LLM-generated Python inside your Elixir app with no containers, no ports, and no process isolation. Related project showing BEAM/Python integration.
• https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3mehfa2urpc2w – Jason Stiebs announces Easel v0.2.0, a Canvas 2D API for Elixir enabling drawing to Phoenix LiveView, native WX windows, or custom backends.
• https://github.com/jeregrine/Easel – Easel GitHub repository. Supports layers, animations, event handling, templating, and both LiveView and Wx rendering backends.
• https://easel-demo.fly.dev/ – Live demo of Easel running on Fly.io — all computations done in Elixir, sent over WebSocket to a canvas.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids – Background on Boids, the artificial life program simulating flocking behaviour that inspired Easel's visual simulation capabilities.
• https://x.com/Bart_Blast/status/2021741047903105527 – Hologram v0.7.0 announced — 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions to JS, pushing client-side Erlang runtime coverage from 34% to 96%.
• https://hologram.page/blog/porting-initiative-delivers-hologram-v0-7-0 – Hologram v0.7.0 blog post detailing the porting initiative. Overall Elixir standard library readiness grew from 74% to 87%, moving closer to full-stack pure Elixir development.
• Tidewave now supports OpenCode, and is deprecating "Bring your own key" support in favor of Codex, Claude Code, or OpenCode for richer agent features like MCPs, skills, planning, and compaction.

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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://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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• January 9th, 2026 marked 15 years since Elixir's first commit
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2009702354527088669 – José Valim's tweet celebrating 15 years of Elixir
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2026/01/09/type-inference-of-all-and-next-15/ – Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months - announcement blog post for Elixir v1.20 RC with type inference for all constructs
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2010660222906597572 – José Valim's post about community feedback on the type system inference release candidate - it's faster, finds more bugs and dead code
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/2009688571037339922 – Chris McCord's announcement of Sprites.dev
• https://sprites.dev/ – Sprites.dev - hardware-isolated execution environments for arbitrary code launched at Fly.io
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1qb0scq/mdex_fast_and_extensible_markdown/ – Reddit discussion of MDEx v0.11.0 update
• https://mdelixir.dev/ – New MDEx website with features, examples, and motivation behind the project
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – MDEx changelog for v0.11.0
• https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/phoenix_live_view_heex.html – Livebook example showing MDEx usage with Phoenix HEEx components
• https://elixirforum.com/t/localize-next-generation-localisation-ex-cldr-v3-0/73933 – Announcement of Localize (Ex_cldr 3.0) - next generation localisation
• https://github.com/elixir-localize – Elixir Localize GitHub organization
• https://github.com/marciok/gust – Gust - a task orchestration system built in Elixir, designed to be efficient, fast and developer-friendly
• https://elixirforum.com/t/gust-a-task-orchestration-system-built-in-elixir/73628 – ElixirForum announcement post for Gust workflow engine
• https://elixirforum.com/t/gust-a-task-orchestration-system-built-in-elixir/73628/8 – Comment from Gust creator explaining it as an Airflow alternative for DAG orchestration
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2010754348536709355 – LiveDebugger v0.5.0 announcement with Dead LiveViews section for debugging crashes
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2008559959781634404 – LiveVue v1.0 release announcement
• https://skalecki.dev/blog/story-of-live-vue – Story of LiveVue - announcement blog post
• https://github.com/Valian/live_vue – LiveVue GitHub project - Vue.js + Phoenix LiveView integration
• https://livevue.skalecki.dev/examples/ – LiveVue examples website showing different usage patterns
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lawik_goatmire-elixir-nervesconf-eu-activity-7416738610944811008-5Xwh – Lars Wikman's announcement that Goatmire will happen again (Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2026)
• https://www.goatmire.com/ – Goatmire conference website with signup list for notifications
• https://bsky.app/profile/pragprog.com/post/3mbfgw6zlfs2n – Announcement that the Ash Framework book is Pragmatic Programmers' #1 best seller this year
• Pro tip - share new projects on socials with the #ElixirLang hashtag to get picked up by the community

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• https://x.com/georgeguimaraes/status/2006068635878490310 – Announcement of Arcana, a new RAG library for Elixir/Phoenix
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation – Wikipedia explanation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/arcana – Arcana GitHub repository - adds vector search and AI Q&A to Phoenix apps using Postgres + pgvector
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/arcana/blob/main/guides/dashboard.md – Arcana dashboard guide for developing and testing RAG setups
• https://x.com/pic/orig/media%2FG9b-pFpXUAAYIb0.jpg – Screenshot of the Arcana RAG dashboard
• https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 – bge-small-en-v1.5 model that can run locally via Bumblebee for embeddings
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2005676915479453869 – Announcement of mquickjs_ex library wrapping MQuickJS runtime
• https://github.com/Valian/mquickjs_ex – MQuickJsEx GitHub repository - embeds JavaScript in Elixir processes via NIFs
• https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/23/microquickjs/ – Simon Willison's article about MicroQuickJS by Fabrice Bellard - JavaScript engine for embedded systems
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2000959719440068622 – Announcement of LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with support for LiveView Streams
• https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveDebugger documentation from Software Mansion
• https://x.com/daisyui_/status/2004244298024604049 – Announcement of DaisyUI Nexus Dashboard v3.2 with Phoenix support
• https://daisyui.com/store/nexus/ – DaisyUI Nexus Dashboard store page - commercial dashboard template supporting multiple frameworks including Phoenix
• https://github.com/wavezync/durable/ – Durable workflow engine GitHub repository - a resumable workflow execution engine for Elixir similar to Temporal/Inngest
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2006388766202601822 – José Valim sharing type system improvements with beautiful error messages
• https://x.com/polvalente/status/2006625919964950975 – Paulo Valente sharing work-in-progress on NxEigen
• https://github.com/polvalente/nx_eigen – NxEigen GitHub repository - Eigen-based backend for Nx with lightweight memory footprint
• https://x.com/bart_blast/status/2008163767855522116 – Bart Blast announcing Erlang Ecosystem Foundation stipend for Hologram project
• https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-awarded-eef-stipend – Blog post about Hologram receiving EEF stipend support
• https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/2008217608085241865 – Mike Hostetler demonstrating Jido 2.0 powering 1,575 agents to index a codebase in 7 seconds
• https://github.com/agentjido/jido – Jido GitHub repository - AI Agent framework for Elixir
• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3mboxbgjvn22k – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation invitation to join Working Groups
• https://erlef.org/wg/ – EEF Working Groups page listing all available groups
• https://x.com/elixirconfeu/status/2007132325918720298 – ElixirConf EU 2026 keynote speakers announcement
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU 2026 website - April 22-24 in Málaga, Spain with José Valim and Chris McCord as keynote speakers

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• https://wortwildnis.de/ – Urban Dictionary for German colloquial terms created by Jan Wirth
• https://github.com/janwirth/wortwildnis – Open source repository for Wortwildnis
• https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7410405236504248320/ – Jan Wirth's story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix + Ash, delivering a feature-rich application in two weeks with no prior Elixir experience
• https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3mavexpiexs24 – Tyler Young announcing Credo 1.7.15 release with massive performance improvements
• https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3m7435rnflk2a – Tyler Young's PRs that dropped Credo runtime from ~33 seconds to ~9 seconds on a 3500 file codebase
• https://github.com/rrrene/credo – Credo GitHub repository
• https://github.com/rrrene/credo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Credo changelog with details on version 1.7.15
• https://x.com/georgeguimaraes/status/2003450598545563754 – George Guimarães announcing Soothsayer v0.6.1 update
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/soothsayer – Soothsayer library for time series forecasting in Elixir, inspired by Facebook's Prophet and NeuralProphet
• https://x.com/polvalente/status/2005467305984045457 – Paulo Valente sharing that Torchx now runs on Apple Metal
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/pull/1652 – PR by Paulo Valente enabling Torchx to run on Apple Metal
• https://erlef.org/blog/sponsorship/case-study-sora-dnsimple – EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries each month
• https://x.com/TheErlef/status/2005700343725015158 – Announcement of the first ever GleamLang conference
• https://gleamgathering.com – Gleam Gathering conference website, February 21, 2026 in Bristol, UK with keynote by Louis Pilfold

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• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2001673272706945157 – Software Mansion announces running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly with Popcorn
• https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/tree/main/examples/local_form_demo – Example demo of a LiveView running in WASM in the browser
• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/local-forms/ – Interactive example of a local LiveView running a form with Ecto schema validations in the browser
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/2001666856243933662 – Dave Lucia announces JQL library for working with Jira Query Language
• https://github.com/tv-labs/jql – JQL - An Ecto-like DSL for writing Jira Query Language to automate Jira tasks
• https://bsky.app/profile/hugobarauna.com/post/3ma74jhrid22u – Hugo Baraúna announces the Programming Nerves book beta launch
• https://www.programmingnerves.dev – Programming Nerves book website - learn to build production ready embedded systems with Elixir and Nerves
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eileen-noonan-72a2856_tinyelixirstripe-activity-7407602470325022720-aWql/ – Eileen Noonan announces PinStripe library for Stripe integration
• https://dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with-req-stripe – Dashbit article on SDKs with Req for Stripe by Wojtek Mach that inspired PinStripe
• https://github.com/enoonan/pin_stripe/ – PinStripe GitHub repository - A minimalist Stripe integration for Elixir
• https://hexdocs.pm/pin_stripe/readme.html – PinStripe documentation on HexDocs
• https://harton.nz/blog/announcing-beam-bots/ – Announcement blog post for Beam Bots - Resilient Robotics on the BEAM
• https://beambots.dev/ – Beam Bots website
• https://github.com/beam-bots/bb – Beam Bots GitHub repository with Spark DSL for declarative robot definitions
• https://x.com/sasajuric/status/2003049285739290645 – Saša Jurić announces his Goatmire talk is now online
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrKfCs-mr0 – \"Tell me a Story\" talk by Saša Jurić - musings on software development in collaborative environments
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE – The Soul of Erlang talk from 2019 referenced in the discussion
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2003485910399348757 – José Valim shares Tidewave.ai updates including Vue.js support
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/depth-based-inspector – Tidewave's new depth-based inspector for selecting elements behind other elements
• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp – Claude's Chrome Extension for agentic browsing
• https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/blob/main/reports/claude-in-chrome-v-chrome-devtools-mcp.md – Comparison of Claude Code using Chrome extension vs Chrome's dev tool for token usage
• https://x.com/virinchi_cv/status/2000786463206858819 – Announcement of LiveTable v0.4.0 release
• https://livetable.gurujada.com/ – LiveTable website - Phoenix LiveView library for feature-rich data tables
• https://github.com/gurujada/live_table – LiveTable GitHub repository
• https://x.com/kiwicopple/status/2002071541237100828 – Supabase announces Multigres - horizontally scalable Postgres architecture
• https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository
• https://multigres.com/ – Multigres website - Vitess adaptation for Postgres
• https://vitess.io/ – Vitess - cloud-native database that extends MySQL with sharding and high availability

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• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2000540145645162507 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.20 is well underway in active development
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#complete-typing-of-maps-keys – Changelog showing complete typing of maps keys in Elixir v1.20
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases – Elixir releases page - current latest version is 1.19.4
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory – Set theory reference for understanding Elixir's type system approach
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_topology – Set-theoretic topology reference
• https://bsky.app/profile/gleam.run/post/3ma3u7ta2sk2c – Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 announcement
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.14.0-rc1/CHANGELOG.md – Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 changelog with updates including fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements
• https://bsky.app/profile/akoutmos.bsky.social/post/3ma2rsncqtc25 – mjml_eex v0.13.0 release announcement
• https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex – mjml_eex library for formatting emails using MJML and EEx
• https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – mjml_eex changelog showing upgrade to MJML 5.3 and comment support
• https://mjml.io/ – MJML website for responsive email templates
• https://github.com/mjmlio/mjml – MJML GitHub repository
• https://mjmlio.github.io/mjml-app/ – MJML app for building email templates
• https://dashbit.co/blog/zero-trust-for-plug-phoenix – Dashbit blog post announcing nimble_zta for zero trust authentication
• https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_zta – nimble_zta library with zero trust strategies for CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform IAP, and Tailscale
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine) – BEAM virtual machine Wikipedia reference
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrYdkHRCJqM – My BEAM History - Björn Gustavsson ElixirConf EU 2025 talk covering BEAM internals
• https://goatmire.bold.video/ – GoatMire conference website with published videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@goatmireinternational – GoatMire YouTube channel
• https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/detecting-and-listing-duplicate-records-with-phoenix-ecto – Blog post with tips on detecting duplicate records using Ecto queries
• https://pixabay.com/music/christmas-christmas-show-438871/ – Credit for Christmas themed intro music

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• Happy Birthday to Erlang - celebrating 27 years as Open Source
• https://x.com/theerlef/status/1808898170673639547 – EEF vote on when to celebrate the Erlang Anniversary (July 2024)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) – Wikipedia article noting Erlang was released as free and open-source in 1998
• https://web.archive.org/19991009002753/http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTpos.shtml – Archive of the original Erlang open source release announcement
• https://api.github.com/repos/erlang/otp – Erlang OTP GitHub repository information showing it was created in 2009
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/LICENSE.txt – Erlang OTP license changed to Apache License 2.0 in June 2015
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar – Critical writings that extolled the values of open source
• https://elixir-hub.com/surveys/2025 – Elixir Hub 2025 survey with over 1000 participants
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition – Dreyfus model of skill acquisition referenced in survey analysis
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1pa3y3x/elixir_package_for_govee_lights_device_control – Reddit posting about Govee Lights Elixir control package
• https://github.com/adia-dev/govee-lights-ex – GitHub project for Govee Lights Elixir package
• https://hexdocs.pm/govee_lights – HexDocs documentation for Govee Lights package
• https://hex.pm/packages/data_migration – Published data_migration package for viewing and running Ecto Data Migrations from LiveDashboard
• https://github.com/tv-labs/data-migration – GitHub repository for data_migration package
• https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfsigp5qadbh2vzs4h7vprvs/post/3m7iaqk37tk2q – Bluesky post announcing data_migration
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1995891610568073650 – José Valim's post about Tidewave.ai finding and fixing accessibility issues
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/improving-web-accessibility-with-trace-augmented-generation – Tidewave blog post detailing their accessibility improvement process
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1998066738865569930 – José Valim's post about Tidewave recent updates including file references and viewport presets
• https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession – Article about Zig programming language leaving GitHub due to Microsoft's AI obsession
• https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 – GitHub issue demonstrating GitHub Actions quality decline
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-its-poor-ai-products/ar-AA1RWB7f – Article about Microsoft's struggles with AI product adoption
• https://threatprotect.qualys.com/2025/12/04/react-server-components-rsc-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/ – Critical remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182)
• https://snyk.io/blog/security-advisory-critical-rce-vulnerabilities-react-server-components/ – Snyk security advisory about critical RCE vulnerabilities in React Server Components

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• 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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• https://x.com/erlangforums/status/1992988094522384681 – Erlang OTP 28.2 release announcement
• https://erlangforums.com/t/patch-package-otp-28-2-released/5279 – Details on OTP 28.2 release including fixes to Compiler, Erts/JIT, Kernel, public_key, SSH, SSL (better TLS 1.3 support), and syntax_tools
• https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3m67zxzzdjs25 – Tyler Young announces significant update to the Elixir "whois" library
• https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/whois.ex – Pure Elixir WHOIS client and parser for querying domain registration information
• The date_time_parser library was updated to 1.3.0 to help support the whois library update
• https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/figma.html – Tidewave Web adds Figma support documentation
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPC2KbkIeQ – YouTube video demonstrating how the Figma integration works with Tidewave
• https://hex.pm/packages/kql – TvLabs releases library that parses KQL (Kibana Query Language)
• https://github.com/tv-labs/kql – GitHub repository for the KQL parser library
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/query – Microsoft Kusto query language documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
• https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/lucene-query-syntax – Lucene query syntax documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
• https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/esql-kibana – ElasticQL documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
• https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qt3c3wtm4y63hc7qftg2erdp/post/3m63azgtbds2t – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation CNA now publishes vulnerability data directly to OSV.dev
• https://security.erlef.org/aegis/ – Information about the EEF ÆGIS Initiative, now covering Nerves project and OpenRiak
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1991140574540251590 – José Valim's post about CloudFlare outage discussing the difference between handling errors vs designing for failure and how Erlang/Elixir's approach provides system-level mechanics for resilience

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• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.3 – Elixir 1.19.3 point release with support for /E modifier in config file regular expressions and mix help for standard library apps
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/claude-code-codex – Tidewave Web now supports Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxzPZ0PGd2s – Video showing how to configure Claude Code and Codex agents in Tidewave Web
• https://x.com/bart_blast/status/1989862380776370450?s=12&t=Xn6DY9Qzc5nGLdqEskRjvQ – Hologram announcement about JavaScript porting request
• https://hologram.page/blog/elixir-to-javascript-porting-initiative – Hologram's call for help porting Erlang functions to JavaScript for browser runtime
• https://hologram.page/reference/client-runtime/erlang – Progress page tracking Erlang to JavaScript porting efforts for Hologram
• https://github.com/frerich/pg_large_objects – New pg_large_objects library for streaming large binary data to/from Postgres using the Large Object API
• https://elixirforum.com/t/playwright-ex-playwright-client-for-browser-automation/73323 – New playwright_ex library for browser automation with Chromium, Firefox, Safari and Edge
• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE Index updated language rankings with C# nearly displacing Java and Elixir at 38
• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/#instances – TIOBE Index methodology explaining how language popularity is calculated
• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor – Reference to Microsoft Blazor as context for C# growth

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• 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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• 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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• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1982913977459061036 – José Valim discusses how newcomers found it challenging to find which API to use when docs were spread around Phoenix, LiveView, Ecto, etc.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ – HexDocs home page with new search functionality
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs-search – GitHub repository for the HexDocs search engine, built in Gleam and Lustre
• https://hex.pm/blog/announcing-new-hexdocs-search-engine – Official announcement of the new HexDocs search engine powered by Typesense
• New mix hex.search command available after updating with mix local.hex - searches across all your project dependencies with their specific versions
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/ – Elixir standard library docs (currently not included in hex.search results)
• https://bsky.app/profile/swmansionelixir.bsky.social/post/3m3s3bzsp6s2g – Software Mansion announces the Elixir Language Tour
• https://elixir-language-tour.swmansion.com – Web-based interactive Elixir learning tool using Popcorn (Elixir running in WebASM) - no installation required
• https://x.com/polvalente/status/1981174585040261610 – Paulo Valente announces completion of Nx work targeting Mac hardware
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/emlx/pull/87 – PR for EMLX Nx Backend enabling Stable Diffusion on Mac GPU using MLX (an array framework for Apple silicon)
• Work sponsored by tvlabs, dashbit, and TheErlef - companies can sponsor ongoing Nx work through TheErlef
• https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/1980560177305878702 – Analysis of how the AWS outage exposed engineering failures where products don't plan for region or provider failures
• https://www.techradar.com/home/smart-home/smart-bed-owners-experience-aws-nightmare-as-outage-leaves-them-sweating-and-stuck-in-upright-position – Eight Sleep Pod smart beds were left overheating and stuck in upright positions during the AWS outage
• https://immich.app/ – Self-hosted photo and video management solution (not cloud-dependent)
• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp – Google Chrome releases public preview of Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI coding assistants
• https://tidewave.ai/ – Tidewave Web - browser agnostic development tool

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• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1978729853349196170 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.19 release on social media
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/ – Official blog announcement for Elixir v1.19 release
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.19/changelog.html – Detailed changelog documentation for Elixir v1.19
• https://x.com/theerlef/status/1978896262473662539 – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation announces OpenChain certification for Elixir v1.19
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02/26/elixir-openchain-certification/ – Details about Elixir's OpenChain certification bringing transparency and trust to the BEAM ecosystem
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/issues/2149#issuecomment-3394340806 – ExDocs visual adjustments to admonition blocks for better consistency across light and dark modes
• https://bsky.app/profile/yellowduck.be/post/3m3htzs4qyg2a – Announcement of Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library v0.0.8 update
• https://mishka.tools/blog/introducing-mishka-chelekom-v0.0.8-with-tailwind-4-support-and-custom-configuration – Details about Mishka Chelekom v0.0.8 with Tailwind 4 support and Phoenix 1.8 compatibility
• https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1942240/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions – Report on AWS outage on October 20, 2025 that affected half the web
• https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status – AWS health status dashboard
• GitHub announced plans to move infrastructure to Azure over 1-2 years
• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web – Anthropic announces ClaudeCode Web
• https://claude.ai/code – ClaudeCode Web interface
• https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg – Video demonstration of ClaudeCode Web
• https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ – Redis security advisory for CVE-2025-49844 with a 10.0 severity score allowing remote code execution

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• 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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• 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://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-19-0-rc-1-released/72781/3 – Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 released with OTP 28.1+ compatibility, struct update syntax adapted into type assertion operator, improved dependency compilation, OptionParser regex support, and Unicode 17.0.0 support
• https://bsky.app/profile/stefanluptak.com/post/3m2hoz4ankk2c – Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 dependency compilation is 2.3x faster on MacBook Pro M1 Max compared to 1.18.4
• https://x.com/zeddotdev/status/1975241285796552816 – JetBrains adopts Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
• https://zed.dev/blog/jetbrains-on-acp – Details on ACP, an open standard for seamless integration of AI coding agents with any code editor or IDE using JSON-RPC
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1973369656829166004 – Brian Cardarella comments that LiveView Native, in it's current implementation, is likely dead in the water
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1975153256524312921 – José Valim's response on LiveView Native direction
• https://bsky.app/profile/leandrocp.bsky.social/post/3m2enmdr7e225 – MDex library update with Quill deltas support, streaming Markdown, and improved IEx visualization
• https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/changelog.html – MDex changelog with full details on updates
• https://quilljs.com/docs/delta – Quill delta format documentation
• https://quilljs.com/playground/snow – Quill playground and license information
• https://www.curiosum.com/blog/authorization-access-control-elixirconf – Curiosum blog post about the Permit library for authorization and access control in Elixir, based on ElixirConf EU 2025 talk
• https://permit.curiosum.com/ – Permit library homepage
• https://github.com/curiosum-dev/permit/ – Permit core library repository
• https://github.com/curiosum-dev/permit_ecto – Permit Ecto integration
• https://github.com/curiosum-dev/permit_phoenix/ – Permit Phoenix integration
• https://github.com/curiosum-dev/permit_absinthe – Permit Absinthe integration
• https://gitea.fullstack.ing/Aether/aether – Aether - an AT Protocol library for Elixir, the technological basis of Bluesky
• https://atproto.com/ – AT Protocol official website
• https://docs.bsky.app/showcase – Bluesky showcase of custom applications built on AT Protocol
• https://x.com/kiwicopple/status/1974204868329157057 – Supabase announces Series E funding raise
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/exclusive-supabase-raises-100-million-at-5-billion-valuation-as-vibe-coding-soars/ar-AA1NNo3o – Supabase raises $100 million at $5 billion valuation, with community investment round planned
• https://gem.coop/ – New cooperative Ruby gem server launched as alternative to rubygems.org
• Ruby community fractures over bundler gem ownership controversy involving DHH and corporate investors like Shopify
• https://x.com/wunderwuzzi23/status/1975180021317956040 – AI agents can collaborate and modify each other's settings to escalate privileges
• https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/cross-agent-privilege-escalation-agents-that-free-each-other/ – Detailed article on cross-agent privilege escalation vulnerabilities in AI agents, exploitable via prompt injection

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• 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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• https://elixirforum.com/t/vault-a-lightweight-process-scoped-global-data-storage-with-immutability-guarantees/72553 – Elixir Forum announcement for Vault library - lightweight process-scoped global data storage
• https://github.com/dimamik/vault – GitHub repository for Vault - provides immutable data storage within a process subtree using Process Dictionary
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-28.1 – OTP 28.1 release with support for compiled Regular Expression export/import, DNS resolver enhancements, and ML-DSA quantum-resistant algorithm support
• https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final – FIPS 204 specification for ML-DSA quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithm
• https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/teams.html – Documentation for Tidewave Teams feature - central management for billing and configuration
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1970493050725245120 – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave now supporting TODOs
• https://github.com/ash-project/ash_typescript – AshTypescript library for automatic TypeScript type generation from Ash resources and actions
• https://github.com/ChristianAlexander/ash_typescript_demo – Community demo project showing ash_typescript integration with TypeScript frontend
• https://x.com/RootCert/status/1967380217795846645 – Christian Alexander's tweet showcasing TypeScript bridge for Ash resources over HTTP and Phoenix Channels
• https://bsky.app/profile/derekkraan.bsky.social/post/3lyufmue6ss2f – Derek Kraan's performance report on Elixir 1.19-rc.0 showing significant dependency compilation speed improvements
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lxvf7fi2j22v – Zach Daniel's macOS command for setting MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT environment variable
• MacOS ENV command for partition count export MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=$(( $(sysctl -n hw.physicalcpu) / 2 ))
• Linux ENV command for partition count export MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=$(( $(lscpu -p | grep -v '^#' | sort -u -t, -k2,2 | wc -l) / 2 ))
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp – Peer Stritzinger's Kickstarter for rebar3 improvements, including plugin lockfile mechanisms
• https://underjord.io/conference-report-goatmire-elixir-2025.html – Lars Wikman's conference report from Goatmire Elixir 2025 with behind-the-scenes insights
• https://bsky.app/profile/exmexconf.bsky.social/post/3lv74npz6mc2u – ExMex Elixir conference announcement for ticket sales opening
• https://exmexconf.com/ – ExMex Elixir conference website - November 6-7 in downtown Austin

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• https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive – An interactive test runner for ExUnit tests with dynamic test filtering
• https://x.com/navinpeiris/status/1967077714030195143 – X post sharing the mix_test_interactive library
• https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive?tab=readme-ov-file#interactive-commands – Interactive commands documentation for mix_test_interactive
• https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit – An interactive Git shell mentioned as a related tool
• https://x.com/nikos_maroulis/status/1967626142560793057 – X post announcing TrieHard library by Nikos Maroulis
• https://github.com/nyo16/trie_hard – Blazing fast, memory-efficient Trie implementation for Elixir with Rust backend
• https://torus.dimamik.com/ – Alternative to TrieHard for database-based search functionality
• https://github.com/dimamik/torus – GitHub repository for Torus database search library
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigram – Trigram reference mentioned in discussion
• https://github.com/agentjido/req_llm – ReqLLM - A Req-based library for LLM interactions by Mike Hostetler
• https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1966989434781659571 – X post thread for the new ReqLLM library
• https://elixirforum.com/t/reqllm-composable-llm-client-built-on-req/72514/7 – ElixirForum post with ReqLLM discussion
• Jido - toolkit for building autonomous, distributed agent systems in Elixir
• https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-6-0-released – Hologram v0.6.0 release announcement with production-ready features
• https://hologram.page/demos/bouncing-ball – Interactive Bouncing Ball Demo showcasing Hologram's new action delay capabilities
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp – Successfully funded Rebar4 project Kickstarter campaign

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• https://x.com/grisporg/status/1963674539008639403 – Tweet about Peer Stritzinger launching a new Kickstarter for Rebar4 development
• https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp – Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with goal to integrate into OTP project as official build system
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/open-router-open-ai – Tidewave Web now supports OpenRouter, unlocking access to other LLM models
• https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-goes-full-stack – Announcement that Tidewave Web adds React support and goes full-stack
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962922957933625593 – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave Web React support
• https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/react.html – Tidewave documentation on React integration
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/roadmap/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc – Tidewave roadmap on GitHub where users can vote for next framework to support
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.8.1 release changelog with fixes for AGENTS.md CSS and JavaScript sections
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWZzC6nN1OaBZLmxhpqCLfKt – ElixirConf US 2025 videos playlist being slowly released on YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fj2u6Vm42E – Chris McCord's keynote "Elixir's AI Future" from ElixirConf US 2025
• https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lpylqrcpp6ttqqtrykj5wyoa/post/3lxvntora2c2k – Bluesky post about ElixirConf videos being accidentally published early
• https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-jj4j-x5ww-cwh9 – AshFramework CVE advisory about before_transaction hooks executing despite policy restrictions
• https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised – Industry news about major NPM packages being compromised affecting 2+ billion downloads per week

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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://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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• 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/typhoonworks/lotus – Lotus - a lightweight SQL query runner and storage library for Elixir applications with Ecto
• https://github.com/typhoonworks/lotus_web – LotusWeb - companion library for the Lotus SQL query runner
• Provides a safe, read-only environment for executing analytical queries while offering organized storage and management of saved queries
• https://www.metabase.com/ – Metabase - business intelligence tool that Lotus draws inspiration from
• https://github.com/ankane/blazer – Blazer - Ruby gem that inspired the Lotus library

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Discussion Resources

• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/
• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/eval – Interactively run an IEx shell in the browser locally with no Elixir install
• https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/ – Github project for Popcorn
• https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3luptf3p76s24 – Popcorn announcement post
• https://blog.swmansion.com/popcorn-bringing-elixir-to-the-browser-8993a58a00be – Blog post about Popcorn and how it works, limitations, etc.
• https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM - Tiny Erlang VM
• https://atomvm.org/ – AtomVM is a lightweight implementation of the BEAM virtual machine
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – LiveDebugger - Software Mansion project we talked about previously
• https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten – Emscripten - An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
• https://wasi.dev/ – WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is a group of standards-track API specifications for software compiled to the W3C WebAssembly (Wasm) standard.
• https://github.com/software-mansion/smelter – Toolkit for real-time, low latency, programmable video and audio mixing.
• https://smelter.dev/
• https://globalelixirmeetups.com/ – Website setup to coordinate the meetups (find a registered one or host)

Guest Information

• https://x.com/uusszz – on Twitter/X
• https://github.com/mat-hek/ – on Github
• https://swmansion.com/ – Software Mansion website
• https://x.com/elixirmembrane – Membrane Framework on X/Twitter
• https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social – Membrane Framework on Bluesky
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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://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/

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• https://genserver.social/josevalim – José Valim on Mastadon
• https://x.com/josevalim – José Valim on X/Twitter
• https://github.com/josevalim – José Valim on Github
• https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog

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• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1952839142993252736 – Chris McCord announces Phoenix 1.8.0 release on X
• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-8-released – Official Phoenix 1.8.0 release blog post with details on new features
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.8.0/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.8.0 changelog detailing all changes and improvements
• Phoenix 1.8.0 features include AGENTS.md for LLM development, themes with dark mode, streamlined generators, phx.gen.auth magic links, revamped guides, and scopes
• https://thinkingelixir.com/ – ThinkingElixir courses (Pattern Matching and Code Flow) are now completely free and open, no longer requiring login. Site converted from WordPress to static hosting.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/releases/tag/v0.29.2 – ElixirLS v0.29.2 release with call hierarchy provider, built-in MCP server for LLM integration, and custom .formatter.exs file location setting
• https://github.com/dimamik/torus – Torus - new Elixir library for seamless PostgreSQL search integration with Ecto
• https://torus.dimamik.com/ – Torus library demo site showcasing search capabilities
• https://bsky.app/profile/curiosum.bsky.social/post/3lwb7kqp34c2u – Bluesky announcement of new Elixir Hub website
• https://x.com/pattrnmatch/status/1953905555141005692 – X post about Elixir Hub website launch
• https://elixir-hub.com/ – Elixir Hub website - centralized resource for Elixir companies, books, and podcasts
• https://bsky.app/profile/virinchicv.bsky.social/post/3lssupg7j7c2t – Bluesky announcement of LiveTable v0.3.1 update
• https://github.com/gurujada/live_table – LiveTable - LiveView library for dynamic tables with sorting, filtering, and pagination
• https://hexdocs.pm/flop – Flop library - alternative to LiveTable for data filtering and pagination
• https://hexdocs.pm/flop_phoenix – Flop Phoenix - Phoenix integration for Flop filtering library
• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lwcf5xstik23 – EEF Bluesky post about sharing BEAM events on their website
• http://erlef.org/events – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation events page for submitting BEAM community events
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 official website
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf US 2025 both virtual and in Orlando FL, August 28-29. Tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off

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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/1951022612886462937 – José Valim announces Phoenix LiveView v1.1 release
• https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1-1-released – Official Phoenix blog post for LiveView 1.1 release
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v1.1/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for the LiveView 1.1 release with upgrade instructions
• https://github.com/dashbitco/lazy_html – LazyHTML - A new Dashbit project for efficient parsing and querying of HTML documents
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025 – Stack Overflow Survey 2025 results
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1950248561884410004 – José Valim congratulates Rust, Gleam and Elixir on being the top 3 most admired languages
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#2-dev-id-es – Stack Overflow 2025 survey section on development IDEs
• https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3lv6opdo7b22p – Peter Solnica announces drops_relation v0.1.0
• https://solnic.dev/posts/introducing-drops-relation/ – Blog post introducing Drops.Relation library
• https://github.com/solnic/drops_relation – Drops.Relation GitHub repository - high-level relation abstraction on top of Ecto
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1mcu6i8/theprimeagen_is_switching_to_elixir_from_rust/ – Reddit discussion about The Primeagen switching to Elixir
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH9rm2U8jBQ – The Primeagen's YouTube video showcasing Elixir features
• https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1950923744655954385 – Software Mansion announces Global Elixir Meetups idea
• https://globalelixirmeetups.com/ – Website to coordinate global Elixir meetups happening September 22-28, 2025
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando FL, August 28-29
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf 2025 tickets with 10% discount using "ThinkingElixir" code

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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/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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• 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://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto – GRiSP Nano prototype shows BEAM can run in just 16MB of memory
• https://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2 – GRiSP 2 tiny computer available now for BEAM applications
• https://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s – Bluesky post announcing BBC's ElixirConf EU talk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20 – How Elixir Powers the BBC From PoC to Production at Scale by Ettore Berardi
• https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/24846-en_GB/ – BBC job posting for Senior Software Engineer using Elixir
• https://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801 – GenStage's pull-based design explanation with 6-minute video showing 50% speed improvement
• https://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412 – X post announcing the pdf_extractor library for data extraction from PDFs
• https://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/ – PDF data extraction library for Elixir
• https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html – Documentation for pdf_extractor library
• https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber – Python pdfplumber library that pdf_extractor leverages
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx – PythonX library for seamless Python integration with Elixir
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244 – Interview with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonX
• https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html – AppSignal article on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamal
• https://kamal-deploy.org/ – Kamal deployment tool - Capistrano for Containers
• https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house – Elixir School open source repository
• https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua – Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in Elixir applications
• https://hexdocs.pm/lua/ – Elixir Lua package documentation
• https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir friendly wrapper around luerl Erlang package
• https://github.com/rvirding/luerl – Luerl Erlang package for Lua integration
• https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c – Peter Solnica announces new Inflection library on Bluesky
• https://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector – Drops Inflector library for word inflections in Elixir
• https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y – Fly.io announces Docker Compose compatibility
• https://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285 – Fly.io community post about Docker Compose compatibility journey
• https://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729 – Guide on using containers with flyctl
• https://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/ – Fly.io documentation for multi-container machines
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – David's Elixir gendiff project
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2025 full agenda now live
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off

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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://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3ltz36vf4ts2u – Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4 and LiveView 1.1.0-rc.3 released with igniter upgrader for LiveView 1.0 users
• https://tomkonidas.com/repo-transact/ – New Ecto 3.13 Repo.transact/2 used in generators
• Added security.md guide for security best practices and fetch() support for LongPoll in Service Workers
• https://github.com/serpent213/deps_changelog – New library called deps_changelog that finds additions to dependency CHANGELOG files upon update
• https://x.com/akoutmos/status/1935463503164309611 – Alex Koutmos announces new Elixir process debugging library called "Hog"
• https://github.com/akoutmos/hog – Hog library used to pinpoint and deal with memory hungry processes, helps track down OOM issues
• https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3ltlmmz4hq72n – Fly.io announces managed Postgres with automatic backups, failover, and monitoring
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm4K-vvt0 – Waterpark conference talk - Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors achieving 100% uptime for 5 years
• https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1943601894141640808 – Saša Jurić shares about the Waterpark talk
• https://curiosum.com/blog/interacting-with-google-sheets-in-elixir – In-depth article about using Elixir and Phoenix to pull data from Google Spreadsheet
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1945092835067211929 – Fun tip about Elixir compiler directive to inline functions for performance
• https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3ltjyeeamwi2s – ElixirConf US 2025 full schedule published
• https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes – ElixirConf keynotes featuring José Valim, Chris McCord, and others
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – Get ElixirConf 2025 tickets with "ThinkingElixir" discount code for 10% off
• https://codebeameurope.com – CodeBeam Europe speaker list is up for November 5-6 in Berlin and Online

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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://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.1.0-rc.2/changelog.html#v1-1-0-rc-2-2025-07-05 – Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidate with change tracking in comprehensions by default
• https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lteubbasjc2g – Steffen's thread about LiveView 1.1.0 RC changes and improvements
• Includes Colocated JS hooks and TypeScript type annotations to all public JavaScript APIs
• https://x.com/vmelnikova_en/status/1939754121005031881 – DevLabs interview announcement with José Valim
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihn2fuc_ueQ – José Valim on feeding desire to learn, healthy Elixir ecosystem and the future of AI tooling
• https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsinclair.com/post/3ltfyuekfkc2w – Matthew Sinclair's post about why Elixir is a great choice
• https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0181-why-elixir – \"Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions\" blog post with 9 reasons
• https://hex.pm/packages/recon – Collection of functions and scripts to debug Erlang in production.
• https://hex.pm/packages/observer_cli – Visualize Erlang/Elixir Nodes On The Command Line
• https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3ltf3e7nije24 – Peter Solnica teaser about rebuilding rom-rb in Elixir
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3ltg6dak7fk2f – Zach Daniel shares that Igniter now has 45 packages using it for simplified installation
• https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf 2025 US tickets with "ThinkingElixir" discount code for 10% off
• https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/ – Figma's S-1 filing announcement for going public
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579878/000162828025033742/figma-sx1.htm – Figma's SEC S-1 filing document
• https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/design-platform-figma-spends-300000-on-aws-daily/ – Figma spends $300,000 daily on AWS services according to S-1 filing

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• 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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• 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"

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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://cna.erlef.org/cves/cve-2025-4748.html – New CVE for Erlang regarding zip traversal - 4.8 severity (medium) with workaround available or update to latest patched OTP versions
• First CVE released under the EEF's new CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) program - a successful process milestone
• https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lrlhd5etkc2p – Phoenix MacroComponents is being delayed in search of greater potential
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3846 – Draft PR for Phoenix MacroComponents development
• https://x.com/supabase/status/1933627932972376097 – Supabase announcement of Multigres project
• https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres – Multigres - Vitess for Postgres, announcement of a new proxy for scaling Postgres databases to petabyte scale
• https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository
• Sugu, co-creator of Vitess, has joined Supabase to build Multigres
• https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp – Phantom MCP server - comprehensive implementation supporting Streamable HTTP with Phoenix/Plug integration
• https://hex.pm/packages/hermes_mcp – HermesMCP - comprehensive MCP server with client, stdio and Plug adapters
• https://hex.pm/packages/ex_mcp – ExMCP - comprehensive MCP implementation with client, server, stdio and Plug adapters, uses Horde for distribution
• https://hex.pm/packages/vancouver – Vancouver MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools
• https://hex.pm/packages/excom – Excom MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzZ44-xVds – AshAI video demo showing incredible introspection capabilities for MCP frameworks
• https://freedium.cfd/https:/medium.com/@codeperfect/we-tested-7-languages-under-extreme-load-and-only-one-didnt-crash-it-wasn-t-what-we-expected-67f84c79dc34 – Blog post comparing 7 languages under extreme load - Erlang was the only one that didn't crash
• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger v0.3.0 release being teased with new features
• https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3lrb4kpmmw227 – Software Mansion preview of LiveDebugger v0.3.0 features including Firefox extension and enhanced debugging capabilities
• https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s14-e03-langchain-llm-integration-elixir/ – Elixir Wizards podcast episode featuring discussion with Mark Ericksen on the Elixir LangChain project for LLM integration

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