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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/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://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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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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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://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.0-rc.0 – Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 release with mix format --migrate, type checking improvements, faster compile times, and parallel dependency compilation
• https://x.com/gleamlang/status/1929535582423650789 – Gleam v1.11.0 announcement
• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-javascript-gets-30-percent-faster/ – Gleam compiled JavaScript runs 30% faster performance improvement
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/changelog/v1.11.md – Gleam v1.11.0 changelog with testing tools and performance improvements
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/06/02/elixir-outreach-stipend-for-speakers/ – Elixir Outreach stipend program by Dashbit, Oban and the EEF providing up to $700 USD for speakers presenting Elixir to other ecosystems
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknKAFzEsBg – ElixirConf US 2024 video release featuring multiple talks
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbW2Zli4LurDGc6lL5ij-9Y – ElixirConf US 2024 playlist with 16 new videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSrzruaby1M – Ash AI Launch talk by Zach Daniel from ElixirConf EU
• https://tuist.dev/blog/2025/06/10/open-sourcing-noora-for-the-web – Noora design system for Phoenix LiveView open-sourced announcement
• https://noora.tuist.dev/ – Noora - complete, accessible design system for Phoenix LiveView with Figma files and ready-to-use components
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3827 – Phoenix LiveView PR adding support for for comprehensions in HEEX templates with keyed change tracking
• https://hexdocs.pm/lua/changelog.html#v0-3-0-2025-06-09 – Lua for Elixir v0.3.0 changelog with new guard functions
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lr6g7g3nqs26 – Bluesky post about Lua for Elixir update with guard support
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1929976577749664052 – Brian Cardarella announcing web_socket_dist library release
• https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1930262610705846640 – Brian explaining the use-case behind web_socket_dist library
• https://github.com/otp-interop/web_socket_dist – web_socket_dist library for Erlang distribution over WebSockets
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/distributed.html – Erlang distributed systems documentation
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1930670782788653284 – José Valim announcing Tidewave on X/Twitter
• https://dashbit.co/blog/announcing-tidewave – Dashbit blog post announcing Tidewave - Elixir MCP server for AI runtime intelligence
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/mcp_proxy_rust#installation – Tidewave MCP proxy installation and setup instructions

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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 limited time offer.
• https://github.com/hexpm/hex/releases/tag/v2.2.0 – Hex releases 2.2.0 introducing the :warn_if_outdated option to help keep dependencies updated.
• Taking a week off - no episode next week, but returning the following week.
• https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-performance-monitoring – Honeybadger now offers APM with built-in Elixir traces, including default dashboards for Ecto, Phoenix/LiveView, Oban, Absinthe, Finch, and Tesla.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1920062725394243640 – José Valim demonstrates Tidewave being used with Zed editor's AI coding agents.
• https://zed.dev/agentic – Zed's agentic features used with Tidewave to code a pricing plan component.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1kgyfhb/livedebugger_v020_is_out/ – LiveDebugger v0.2.0 released with Chrome DevTools extension, component highlighting, callback trace filtering, and dark mode.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Previous podcast episode discussing LiveDebugger with Krzysztof.
• https://blog.swmansion.com/whats-new-in-livedebugger-v0-2-0-4543d3af5486 – Blog post covering the new features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0.
• https://hexdocs.pm/luerl/readme.html – Luerl v1.4.1 released with Hex docs - an implementation of Lua 5.3 in Erlang/OTP.
• https://github.com/rvirding/luerl – The GitHub repository for Luerl, which Dave Lucia worked on with Robert Virding.
• https://www.lua.org/about.html – Information about Lua, a lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lozadtvqtc2m – Dave Lucia's announcement of his new Elixir "Lua" library.
• https://davelucia.com/blog/lua-elixir – Blog post explaining Dave's new Elixir Lua library.
• https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – The GitHub repository for the new Elixir Lua library, providing an ergonomic interface to Luerl.
• https://hexdocs.pm/handoff/ – Documentation for "handoff", a new Elixir library for distributed function graph execution.
• https://bsky.app/profile/polvalente.social/post/3louqxeegrs2u – Paulo Valente's announcement of the handoff library, which enables distributed Nx computations.
• https://github.com/polvalente/handoff – GitHub repository for the handoff library created by Paulo Valente and sponsored by TvLabs.
• https://bsky.app/profile/lucasvegi.bsky.social/post/3lke2pt2zws2e – Lucas Vegi's PhD thesis "Code Smells and Refactorings for Elixir" is a finalist for the SBC Dissertation Award.
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/code-anti-patterns.html – Elixir's code anti-patterns guide, a practical resource related to code smells and refactoring in Elixir.

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Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a limited time offer.
• https://x.com/ba_wolf/status/1918008345862049820 – Bryant shared on X that Tidewave pairs well with Oban jobs, allowing cursors to run jobs and check status with errors stored in the record.
• https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lo7fc7jy262n – A user found Tidewave for Elixir promising, noting it solved a bug that Claude couldn't by using the package_docs_search tool.
• https://bsky.app/profile/petros.software/post/3lohcby7frv22 – Despite the AI revolution, programmers still need to read code, making human-friendly languages like Elixir and Phoenix important choices.
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3loamzmazlk2s – Tidewave.ai can now be installed through the Ash HQ installer, with Zach Daniel teasing more information in coming weeks.
• https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/tips_and_tricks.html#configure-your-prompts – Tips and tricks documentation for improving your Tidewave experience, including prompt configuration.
• https://geekmonkey.org/detecting-deprecated-regex-module-attributes-in-elixir-with-credo/ – Fabian Becker's blog post showing how to create a Credo rule to detect regex module attributes that will be deprecated in Elixir 1.19.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14381 – PR explaining the issue with regex module attributes and introducing the workaround for the upcoming Elixir 1.19 deprecation.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo2rsc3th22h – Brian Cardarella shared that LiveViewNative started a new "OTP Interop" GitHub organization to extract work that enables offline mode.
• https://github.com/otp-interop – The new OTP Interop GitHub organization housing projects to improve Elixir's interoperability with other platforms.
• https://github.com/otp-interop/swift-erlang-actor-system – Project providing Erlang/Elixir integration for Swift Distributed Actors.
• https://github.com/otp-interop/elixir_pack – Tool to build Elixir applications for iOS, part of the OTP Interop initiative.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo4shx2cpk2g – LiveViewNative now supports Apple App Store's new allowances for outside transaction services like Stripe.
• https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-judge-rules-apple-violated-order-reform-app-store-2025-04-30/ – Reuters report on US judge ruling that Apple violated the order to reform its App Store policies.
• https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2025/apple-appeals-after-judge-finds-company-disobeyed-ruling/ – Coverage of Apple appealing after judge found the company disobeyed the previous ruling about App Store competition.
• https://www.techspot.com/news/107752-court-orders-apple-stop-blocking-competition-app-store.html – Court orders Apple to stop blocking competition in the App Store, forcing changes to payment systems.
• https://docs.stripe.com/sdks/ios – Stripe's iOS SDK documentation for building payments into iOS apps, relevant after the App Store ruling.
• https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones – Related post about Apple's history of restrictive practices, in this case with Pebble smartwatches.

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