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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.
• 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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Elixir Community News

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

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Discussion Resources

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

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Elixir Community News

• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2023-results – New Erlang Ecosystem Foundation members
• https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-livebook-0.9-2tiuLC – Livebook 0.9 was released and has a short accompanying blog post.
• https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/ – Docker is no longer sunsetting the Free Team Plan
• https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/ – GitHub SSH key leaked and reset
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – ElixirStream diff generator updated with awareness for Credo.
• https://github.com/zestcreative/elixirstream/commit/3c4278469201c45f7d794aaa6343f0fe18df4cda – What's involved in getting a new project diff added
• https://culttt.com/2023/03/22/building-a-full-text-search-engine-in-elixir – New full-text search library called Haystack from Philip Brown
• https://github.com/elixir-haystack/haystack – Haystack project on Github
• https://github.com/heywhy/ex_elasticlunr – Comparable search library ElasticLunr
• https://twitter.com/paraxialio/status/1638161831373029377 – Paraxial released an intentionally vulnerable project for people to play with and exploit
• https://paraxial.io/blog/potion-shop – Vulnerable "Potion Shop" project
• https://owasp.org/www-project-juice-shop/ – OWASP's "Juice Shop" vulnerable project
• https://twitter.com/sm_debenedetto/status/1638496777463648260 – The book "Programming Phoenix LiveView" by Bruce Tate and Sophie DeBennedetto released a new update.
• https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/ – The book on PragProg
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1638158470317834246 – Tip for testing function components by rendering them to HTML
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1640696116017614850 – Tip for paginating as an infinite scroll with streams
• https://hex.pm/packages/timescale – Timescale library published a pseudo-stable version, 0.1.0. (no longer alpha)
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/129 – Our interview with Dave Lucia about Timescale
• https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_range/EctoRange.html – New Ecto library about storing Ecto Ranges. Provides Ecto types for Postgres about storing a time range, date range, datetime ranges, and integer ranges, and supports indeterminate bounds.

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