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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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Elixir Community News

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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://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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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14145 – José Valim opened a PR for Elixir 1.19 adding enhanced type inference capabilities to most expressions in Elixir.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/236 – ElixirLS version 0.26.0 released with Elixir 1.18 support.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/v0.26.0/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for ElixirLS core updates in version 0.26.0.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/vscode-elixir-ls/blob/v0.26.0/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for VS Code extension updates in ElixirLS 0.26.0.
• https://github.com/aglundahl/deno_rider – DenoRider, a new library that embeds the Deno javascript runtime into Elixir applications.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/denorider-an-embedded-javascript-runtime-in-elixir/68125 – Announcement and discussion thread for DenoRider.
• https://deno.com/ – Reference to the Deno project that DenoRider embeds.
• https://cortexjs.io/compute-engine/ – Example of a JavaScript library that could be integrated with DenoRider.
• https://gleam.run/news/improved-performance-and-publishing/ – Gleam v1.7.0 release announcement with improvements to record updates and decoder generation.
• https://x.com/louispilfold/status/1875168038640812458 – Announcement about Jak's contributions to Gleam and opportunity to support via GitHub Sponsors.
• https://ivanmunguia.dev/blog/posts/create-address-autocomplete-with-elixir-phoenix-liveview-part-2 – Tutorial on implementing Google Maps autocomplete with Phoenix LiveView (Part 2).
• https://ivanmunguia.dev/blog/posts/create-address-autocomplete-with-elixir-phoenix-liveview – Tutorial on implementing Google Maps autocomplete with Phoenix LiveView (Part 1).
• https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1876193891084644631 – Saša Jurić announces speaking at Goatmire conference.
• https://goatmire.com – Website for Goatmire conference, taking place September 10-12 in Varberg, Sweden.

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