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Elixir Community News

• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1825954736094457943 – The next versions of Livebook and Elixir will have signed installers on Windows, thanks to the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation and Wojtek Mach.
• https://x.com/wojtekmach/status/1826521109476344035 – Wojtek Mach discusses the challenges of packaging Livebook into a .msix for the Windows Store and asks for contributions from those familiar with the process.
• https://hexdocs.pm/telemetry/1.3.0/readme.html – Telemetry v1.3 is out with improved documentation, rewritten to ExDoc from Erlang edoc, thanks to contributions from Wojtek Mach and Andrea Leopardi. OTP 27 is required.
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1826266402631889091 – LiveView Native 0.3.0 is now released with the official announcement at ElixirConf. Blog posts, tutorials to follow.
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1826279303623082421 – Additional details about the LiveView Native 0.3.0 release.
• https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1827482890680332386 – Google Research released a paper on an alternative SQL syntax with a pipe, similar to Ecto querying syntax.
• https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/24/pipe-syntax-in-sql/ – More details on the new SQL syntax introduced by Google for ZetaSQL.
• https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1794105872680972458 – A Livebook that uses LLMs and FFMPEG to simplify the process of converting videos or audio by suggesting the right flags and switches.
• https://github.com/acalejos/CinEx – Detailed information on using LLMs within Livebook for conversion tasks.
• https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-strikes-down-biden-administration-ban-worker-noncompete-agreements-2024-08-20/ – A US Judge struck down the FTC's ban on non-compete agreements, stating the FTC lacks legal authority and the ban is too wide-reaching.
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/google-monopoly-antitrust-justice-department.html – The US government is considering ordering Google to be broken up following antitrust allegations.
• https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/22/apple-eu-default-app-update/ – Apple might allow EU residents to delete apps currently blocked from removal, addressing app store issues in the EU.
• Living in a time when industry rules are being challenged creates opportunities for new businesses and markets, as highlighted by ongoing legal issues with major tech companies like Google and Apple.

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Elixir Community News

• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/213 – Announcing the release of ElixirLS 0.21.0 with improvements and features like incremental dialyzer and experimental support for code actions.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/pull/1057 – A pull request related to the experimental support for code actions in ElixirLS 0.21.0.
• https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/10-elixir-gotchas/ – A blog post by Tobias Pfeiffer discussing "10 Elixir gotchas" to help new Elixir developers.
• https://twitter.com/PragTob/status/1785681200322924666 – Tobias Pfeiffer's tweet about his blog post on "10 Elixir gotchas."
• https://twitter.com/PragTob/status/1785681200322924666 – José Valim's response to Tobias Pfeiffer's post, providing insights on Elixir's upcoming type system.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1785989792141890015 – José Valim details how the Elixir v1.17 will perform type-checking with the comparison operators to catch potential bugs.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/13527 – A merged Elixir PR for "Perform type checking across comparison operators."
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1785990361418006768?t=ZvCKMAXrZFtDX8pfjW14Lw – A tweet by José Valim discussing the power of set-theoretic types in Elixir.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1787543767341486181 – José Valim sharing updates about Elixir's type system checking exceptions fields and warning on undefined exceptions.
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/gradual-set-theoretic-types.html – The Elixir documentation for the gradual set-theoretic types.
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/changelog.html#warnings-from-gradual-set-theoretic-types – The Elixir 1.17.0 changelog on "Warnings from gradual set-theoretic types."
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/13534 – A Github pull request for a new is_non_struct_map guard in Elixir 1.17.
• https://twitter.com/codestirring/status/1785769316304228590 – Chris Gregori announces "Bloom," a new LiveView component library project.
• https://bloom-ui.fly.dev/ – The "Bloom" UI component library site showcasing its features and usage.
• https://github.com/chrisgreg/bloom – The Github repository for the "Bloom" LiveView component library.
• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1785678249424461897 – A teaser from Chris McCord about hot deploys on Fly.io to a planet-wide cluster in seconds.
• https://hexdocs.pm/mix/1.16.2/Mix.Tasks.Release.html#module-hot-code-upgrades – Mix documentation discussing how to perform hot code upgrades.
• https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1785419505134456895 – A tweet from Brian Cardarella showing a LiveView Native tvOS simulator demo.
• https://www.youtube.com/@CodeSync/videos – Videos uploaded by CodeSync from ElixirConf EU 2024, including keynotes.
• https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1 – An article highlighting how unauthorized requests to S3 buckets can inflate AWS bills and AWS's billing policy update to address this.
• https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1787844682216792163 – AWS's Jeff Barr's tweet about the adjustment of billing policy for S3.
• https://www.employmentlawworldview.com/ftc-bans-non-competes-throughout-the-united-states-us/ – A follow-up on the FTC's recent ruling on non-compete clauses and the resulting legal challenges.

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical/releases/tag/v0.6.0 – Lexical 0.6.0 release includes document and workspace symbols, improved Phoenix controller completions, and enhanced indexing performance.
• https://benreinhart.com/blog/verifying-slack-requests-elixir-phoenix/ – Ben Reinhart's blog post details the process for cryptographically verifying event notifications from Slack in Phoenix apps for Slack bots.
• https://twitter.com/PJUllrich/status/1784707877157970387 – Peter Ulrich has launched a LiveView-oriented course on building forms as announced on his Twitter account.
• https://indiecourses.com/catalog/building-forms-with-phoenix-liveview-2OPYIqaekkZwrpgLUZOyZV – The course covers building forms with Phoenix LiveView including various types of schema and dynamic fields.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/live-view-support – Michael Lubas outlines security-focused support for LiveView on Paraxial.io, including protection against initial connection and websocket spam.
• https://github.com/nccgroup/sobelow/pull/123 – There was work on adding support for HEEx to Sobelow.XSS.Raw, as a part of Sobelow's security-focused static analysis for the Phoenix Framework.
• https://twitter.com/sasajuric/status/1784958371998601526 – It's the 5 Year Anniversary of Saša Jurić's “Soul of Erlang and Elixir” talk, recommended for its lasting relevance in the development community.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE – Saša Jurić's influential “Soul of Erlang and Elixir” talk is still very relevant and worth watching, even five years later.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU 2025 dates and location have been announced, with a waitlist available for those interested in attending.
• https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes – The FTC ruling banning non-compete clauses aims to increase wages, entrepreneurship, and overall economic dynamism in the US technology sector.
• While bans on non-compete clauses for technology workers are in effect, trade secret laws and NDAs continue to provide employers with protection against information leaks.

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