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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://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://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://erlef.org/ – David encourages companies that use Elixir to sponsor the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, emphasizing it's a community responsibility and any amount helps.
• 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://x.com/benoitc/status/2023675416465023212 – Benoît Chesneau announces Hackney v3.1.0, a simple HTTP client for Erlang, now with HTTP/3 support via pure Erlang — no C compiler, CMake, or Go required.
• 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/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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• 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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• 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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• 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://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://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://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/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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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://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://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://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://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://www.erlang.org/news/180 – OTP 28 release announcement with new priority messages functionality and SBOM support
• https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 – EEP 76 specification for priority messages in OTP 28
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConf EU 2025 YouTube playlist with conference videos
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=3 – Chris McCord's keynote "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators"
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889 – Chris McCord's announcement about phoenix.new paid service
• https://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's new phoenix.new paid service at Fly.io
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2 – James Arthur's keynote "Introducing Phoenix Sync" from ElixirConf EU
• https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/ – Phoenix Sync GitHub repository for real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix apps
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html – Phoenix Sync documentation on HexDocs
• https://github.com/josevalim/sync – José Valim's sync project that inspired Phoenix Sync
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results – EEF board election results for Cohort C
• https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633 – EEF Twitter announcement of election results
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates – Information about the EEF election candidates
• https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement – EEF becomes CVE Numbering Authority for Hex and BEAM ecosystem
• https://github.com/erlef-cna – EEF CNA GitHub organization
• https://cna.erlef.org/ – EEF CNA website
• https://github.com/surface-ui/surface – Surface UI project for server-side rendering components
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3810 – Draft PR for co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView
• https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir Lua package v0.2.x release by TvLabs
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034 – Dave's tweet about ElixirConf EU Luerl talk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98 – "Lua on the BEAM" talk by Dave Lucia & Robert Virding
• https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj – Discord link for Lua community
• https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093 – German Velasco's video highlighting LiveDebugger tool
• https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225 – German Velasco's BlueSky post about LiveDebugger
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Thinking Elixir episode 249 featuring LiveDebugger discussion
• https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html – MDEx v0.7 documentation for new ~MD sigil
• https://hexdocs.pm/autumn – Autumn syntax highlighter package that works with MDEx
• https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid – MDEx Mermaid plugin for adding mermaid support to Markdown
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i – Zach Daniel's BlueSky post about usage_rules.md convention
• https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules – Usage rules package documentation
• https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/ – Usage rules GitHub repository
• https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ – Microsoft announcement about Windows Subsystem for Linux going open source
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/believe-it-or-not-microsoft-just-announced-a-linux-distribution-service-heres-why/ – ZDNet article explaining Microsoft's Linux strategy and Azure statistics

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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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• https://youtu.be/vGue4LtqeWg – Introduction video for Tidewave, a Phoenix/Rails MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access your application's runtime.
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/issues/49 – Hexdocs PR enabling documentation context for Tidewave, allowing AI assistants to access app documentation without manual copying.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1915017804937375896 – Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app that writes code.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1917002231322116298 – Chris McCord demonstrating an interactive LiveView hosted IDE with realtime terminal support synced across browsers/devices.
• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lngay5chys22 – EEF announcement about the "mix-dependency-submission" GitHub Action for submitting Elixir/Mix dependencies.
• https://github.com/erlef/mix-dependency-submission – GitHub repo for the mix-dependency-submission tool that calculates dependencies for Mix and submits them to GitHub's API.
• https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api – GitHub documentation about the Dependency Submission API used by the mix-dependency-submission tool.
• https://exmeralda.chat/chat/start – ExMeralda.chat, a chatbot for hex.pm packages from bitcrowd.dev, using their Elixir RAG library.
• https://bitcrowd.dev/exmeralda-a-community-chatbot-for-hex-packages/ – Blog post explaining ExMeralda, a community chatbot for Hex packages that demonstrates RAG systems with LLMs.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k600mu/livedebugger_v020_upcoming_features_part_1/ – Reddit post from Software Mansion about upcoming features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0, expected in early May.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl-y49Ou7E – Full interview discussing LiveDebugger in more depth.
• https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive – mix test.interactive - an interactive test runner for ExUnit tests that enhances testing workflows.
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/1916824204156035300 – Twitter post highlighting mix test.interactive's features including running tests by names, rerunning on file save, and more.
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025 – Information about upcoming Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board elections with important dates.
• https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/async-tests-in-elixir/ – Andrea Leopardi's blog post about reworking singleton architecture to leverage async tests in ExUnit.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrAqMyjbkJQ – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by Jason Stiebs on FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution).
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OK9B4yRfg – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by James Isenhart on 'OpenTelemetry: From Desire to Dashboard'
• https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/slopsquatting-malware/ – Article about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers by exploiting AI hallucinations of package names.

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• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025 – EEF board elections announced with important dates - candidacy submissions by May 8th, voting open May 9-16th.
• https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1911847956308959650 – Gleam v1.10.0 will ship with Build SBoMs and SLSA build provenance for all release artifacts and Docker images, improving visibility into dependencies and software supply chain security.
• https://x.com/theerlef/status/1910348770514006242 – The "Elixir Secure Coding Training (ESCT)" project has been transferred to the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation for a more permanent home and maintainership.
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lmcqhzoc7c26 – Dave Lucia shares information about the ESCT project transfer from Podium to TvLabs and ultimately to the EEF.
• https://github.com/erlef/elixir-secure-coding – An interactive cybersecurity curriculum designed for enterprise use at software companies using Elixir.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/6184 – Fix for Plug.Debugger screen which was showing ANSI codes in HTML.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/6194 – Fix for the Phoenix installer's incorrect application of custom variants in tailwind v4.
• https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/security/advisories/GHSA-3988-q8q7-p787 – AshAuthentication vulnerability published with mitigation steps - update packages, set require_interaction to true, and add confirm_route above auth_routes.
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 is open for submitting talks and workshops in Orlando. Talk submissions due April 29, workshop submissions due April 15.
• https://x.com/elixirconf/status/1907843035544826137 – Announcement for ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando with deadlines for talk and workshop submissions.
• https://x.com/ElixirConfEU/status/1911747531953832323 – ElixirConfEU Speakers were announced for the upcoming conference in Krakow, Poland.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/#tickets – Ticket information for ElixirConfEU - 250 Euros for virtual ticket, 600 Euros for in-person ticket.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/#keynotes – Keynote information for ElixirConfEU in Krakow, Poland, May 14-16 (training on May 14, regular sessions on May 15-16).

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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://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-8-released – Phoenix 1.8.0-rc released with DaisyUI styled Tailwind components, magic link authentication, revised layouts, and new scopes pattern for data access and authorization.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-1-8-0-rc-0-released/70256 – Discussion forum post about the Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.0 release.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/b1c459943b3279f97725787b9150ff4950958d12/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog detailing the few deprecations in Phoenix 1.8.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/1.8.0-rc.0/scopes.html – New scopes guide in Phoenix 1.8, designed to make secure data access the default.
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/4599 – Privacy/security focused PR merged into Ecto adding a @schema_redact module attribute to make redacting fields easier.
• https://bsky.app/profile/nezteb.net/post/3lm6nbpgelk2b – Bluesky post about the new Ecto schema redaction feature.
• https://github.com/erlef/elixir-secure-coding – Elixir Secure Coding Training (ESCT) project, an interactive cybersecurity curriculum for Elixir teams, has found a new maintainer in TvLabs.
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3llwjpgsrgs2u – Announcement about the ESCT project maintainership transition, with plans to eventually move it to the EEF.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bobbby.online/post/3llwpqtwwf22r – Tip for Elixir users - setting export VISUAL=your_editor_of_choice allows entering multiline commands in iex shell by pressing ESCAPE+o.
• https://dep-mcp.9elements.com/ – Daniel Hoelzgen created a new MCP Server that brings package repository awareness for Hex.pm and other package managers to code editors supporting Model Context Protocol.
• https://x.com/brainlid/status/1909600607935381553 – Configuration instructions for using the dep-mcp server in Cursor.
• https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando is open for submitting talks (deadline Apr 29) and workshops (deadline Apr 15).
• https://x.com/elixirconf/status/1907843035544826137 – Announcement about ElixirConf US 2025 with information about joining the waitlist for pre-sale tickets.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger
• https://elixirforum.com/t/livedebugger-tool-for-debugging-liveview-apps/69668
• https://blog.swmansion.com/introduction-to-livedebugger-a-tool-for-debugging-phoenix-liveview-apps-bf7e56ab00fb
• https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM
• https://swmansion.com/
• https://membrane.stream/
• https://react.dev/learn/react-developer-tools
• https://github.com/JohnnyCurran/TimeTravel
• https://github.com/ash-project/igniter/

Guest Information

• https://x.com/swmansion – Software Mansion on Twitter/X
• https://bsky.app/profile/swmansion.com – Software Mansion on Bluesky
• https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger on Github
• https://blog.swmansion.com/ – Software Mansion Site
• https://x.com/kraleppa – Krzysztof on Twitter/X
• https://bsky.app/profile/kraleppa.bsky.social – Krzysztof on Bluesky
• https://github.com/kraleppa – Krzysztof on Github

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Elixir Community News

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/03/25/cyanview-elixir-case/ – New Elixir case study about Cyanview, a Belgian company whose Remote Control Panel for camera shading is used at major events like the Olympics and Super Bowl. Their Elixir-powered solution enables remote camera control across challenging network conditions.
• https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6.0-rc.1/changelog.html – Oban Pro 1.6 released with subworkflows, improved queue partitioning (20x faster), and a new guide explaining different job composition approaches.
• https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6.0-rc.1/composition.html – New Oban Pro guide explaining when to use chains, workflows, chunks, or batches for job composition.
• https://github.com/DockYard/openid_connect – The Elixir package 'openid_connect' reached version 1.0, providing client library support for working with various OpenID Connect providers like Google, Microsoft Azure AD, Auth0, and others.
• https://hexdocs.pm/openid_connect/readme.html – Documentation for the newly released openid_connect 1.0 package.
• https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3llqwsbyutc2z – Announcement that openid_connect is maintained by tvlabs.
• https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3llee5lyerk2b – PhoenixTest v0.6.0 has been released with significant changes, including a breaking change.
• https://github.com/germsvel/phoenix_test – GitHub repository for PhoenixTest.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test/upgrade_guides.html#upgrading-to-0-6-0 – Upgrade guide for updating to PhoenixTest v0.6.0 with its breaking change.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test/changelog.html#0-6-0 – Changelog for PhoenixTest v0.6.0.
• https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-language-server – Supabase has released a new Postgres Language Server for developers, providing IDE intellisense and autocomplete for PostgreSQL.
• https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Supabase.postgrestools – VSCode extension for Supabase's new Postgres developer tools.
• https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-language-server – GitHub repository for Supabase's Postgres Language Server.
• https://pgtools.dev/ – Official website for Postgres Tools with documentation and features.
• https://pgtools.dev/checking_migrations/ – Feature in Postgres Tools that lints database migrations to check for problematic schema changes.
• https://github.com/fly-apps/safe-ecto-migrations – Resource for ensuring safe Ecto migrations.
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – Article about safe Ecto migrations posted on Fly.io.
• https://elixirevents.net/ – Community resource created by Johanna Larsson for tracking, sharing, and learning about Elixir events worldwide.
• https://bsky.app/profile/elixirevents.net – Bluesky account for ElixirEvents.net for following Elixir community events.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://paraxial.io/
• https://paraxial.io/blog/index – Blog with posts about security for Elixir, Rails, and the Paraxial service
• https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/93 – Our last discussion was 3 years ago in episode 93! Titled "Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas"
• https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Change-Business/dp/0062060244
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Kafkaesque - having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality
• https://paraxial.io/blog/oban-pentest – Completed a Security Audit of Oban Pro - this is after ObanPro went free and OpenSource
• https://paraxial.io/blog/elixir-best – Elixir and Phoenix Security Checklist: 11 Best Practices
• https://paraxial.io/blog/rails-command-injection – Ruby on Rails Security: Preventing Command Injection
• https://paraxial.io/blog/paraxial-three – Paraxial.io v3 blog post

Guest Information

• Michael Lubas, Paraxial.io Founder - michael@paraxial.io
• https://x.com/paraxialio – on Twitter/X
• https://x.com/paraxialio – on Twitter/X
• https://github.com/paraxialio/ – on Github
• https://www.youtube.com/@paraxial5874 – Paraxial.io channel on YouTube
• https://genserver.social/paraxial – on Fediverse
• https://paraxial.io/ – Blog

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Elixir Community News

• https://gigalixir.com/thinking – Gigalixir is sponsoring the show, offering 20% off standard tier prices for a year with promo code "Thinking".
• https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync – New library called phoenix_sync providing real-time sync for Postgres-backed Phoenix applications.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html – Documentation for phoenix_sync, a solution for building modern, real-time apps with local-first/sync in Elixir.
• https://github.com/josevalim/sync – José Valim's original proof of concept repo that was promptly archived.
• https://electric-sql.com/ – Electric SQL's platform that syncs subsets of Postgres data into local apps and services, allowing data to be available offline and in-sync.
• https://solnic.dev/posts/announcing-textparser-for-elixir/ – Peter Solnica released TextParser, a library for extracting interesting parts of text like hashtags and links.
• https://hexdocs.pm/text_parser/readme.html – Documentation for the Text Parser library that helps parse text into structured data.
• https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/mix-hex-info – Elixir stream tip on using mix hex.info to find the latest package version for a Hex package locally, without needing to search on hex.pm or GitHub.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/tailwind/blob/main/README.md#updating-from-tailwind-v3-to-v4 – Guide for upgrading Tailwind to V4 in existing Phoenix applications using Tailwind's automatic upgrade helper.
• https://gleam.run/news/hello-echo-hello-git/ – Gleam 1.9.0 release with searchability on hexdocs, Echo debug printing for improved debugging, and ability to depend on Git-hosted dependencies.
• https://d-gate.io/blog/everything-i-was-lied-to-about-node-came-true-with-elixir – Blog post discussing how promises made about NodeJS actually came true with Elixir.
• https://hexdocs.pm/wasmex/Wasmex.Components.html – Wasmex updated to v0.10 with support for WebAssembly components, enabling applications and components to work together regardless of original programming language.
• https://ashweekly.substack.com/p/ash-weekly-issue-8 – AshWeekly Issue 8 covering AshOps with mix task capabilities for CRUD operations and BeaconCMS being included in the Ash HQ installer script.
• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/command-and-commandfor – Chrome update brings new browser feature with commandfor and command attributes, similar to Phoenix LiveView.JS but native to browsers.
• https://codebeamstockholm.com/ – Code BEAM Lite announced for Stockholm on June 2, 2025 with keynote speaker Björn Gustavsson, the "B" in BEAM.
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – AlchemyConf coming up March 31-April 3 in Braga, Portugal. Use discount code THINKINGELIXIR for 10% off.
• https://www.gigcityelixir.com/ – GigCity Elixir and NervesConf on May 8-10, 2025 in Chattanooga, TN, USA.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU on May 15-16, 2025 in Kraków & Virtual.
• https://goatmire.com/#tickets – Goatmire tickets are on sale now for the conference on September 10-12, 2025 in Varberg, Sweden.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02/26/elixir-openchain-certification/
• https://cna.erlef.org/ – EEF CVE Numbering Authority
• https://erlangforums.com/t/security-working-group-minutes/3451/22
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220 – previous interview with Alistair
• https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act – CRA - Cyber Resilience Act
• https://www.cisa.gov/ – CISA US Government Agency
• https://www.cisa.gov/sbom – Software Bill of Materials
• https://oss-review-toolkit.org/ort/ – Desire to integrate with tooling outside the Elixir ecosystem like OSS Review Toolkit
• https://github.com/voltone/rebar3_sbom
• https://cve.mitre.org/
• https://openssf.org/projects/guac/
• https://erlef.github.io/security-wg/security_vulnerability_disclosure/ – EEF Security WG Vulnerability Disclosure Guide

Guest Information

• https://x.com/maennchen_ – Jonatan on Twitter/X
• https://bsky.app/profile/maennchen.dev – Jonatan on Bluesky
• https://github.com/maennchen/ – Jonatan on Github
• https://maennchen.dev – Jonatan's Blog
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-woodman-51934433 – Alistair Woodman on LinkedIn
• awoodman@erlef.org
• https://github.com/ahw59/ – Alistair on Github
• http://erlef.org/ – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Website

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Elixir Community News

• https://gigalixir.com/thinking – Visit Gigalixir.com to sign up and get 20% off your first year. Or use the promo code "Thinking" during signup.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.18.2 – Elixir 1.18.2 was released with enhancements to Code.Fragment and Regex, plus bug fixes for CLI, ExUnit, IEx.Autocomplete, and mix deps.update.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.18.1 – Elixir 1.18.1 included bug fixes for Kernel, ExUnit.Case, mix compile.elixir, mix escript.build, and Mix.Shell, especially related to error handling and Windows compatibility.
• https://www.erlang.org/news/174 – Erlang OTP 28 RC-1 is out with a new source Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) on the Github Releases page.
• https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql – A new experimental SQL sigil for Ecto brings an extensible SQL parser to Elixir with automatic parameterized queries.
• https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-ecto/c/8MOkRFAdLZc – The experimental SQL sigil for Ecto is being discussed on the Elixir-Ecto mailing list.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYUNI2Pm6_w – New talk from GOTO 2025 with Saša Jurić and Adrienne Braganza Tacke on "Small PRs, Big Impact - The Art of Code Reviews."
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – AlchemyConf is coming up March 31 - April 3 in Braga, Portugal.
• https://www.gigcityelixir.com/ – GigCity Elixir and NervesConf are happening in Chattanooga, TN, USA with NervesConf on May 8 and the main event on May 9-10.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU will be held May 15-16, 2025 in Kraków & Virtual.
• https://goatmire.com/#tickets – Goatmire tickets are on sale now for the event happening September 10-12, 2025 in Varberg, Sweden.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://dashbit.co/blog/dashbit-plans-2025
• https://github.com/thewca/wca-live – Speed cubing software
• https://dashbit.co/blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine
• https://hexdocs.pm/pythonx/Pythonx.html
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx
• https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social/post/3liyrfvlth22c – Jose said “We said we will focus on interoperability for 2025 and we are ready to share the first results.”
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/fine – “Fine” is a new package related to the elixir-nx organization. It's a C++ library enabling more ergonomic NIFs, tailored to Elixir.
• https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/ – Discussion about removing the Python GIL

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Elixir Community News

• https://gigalixir.com/thinking – Visit Gigalixir.com to sign up and get 20% off your first year. Or use the promo code "Thinking" during signup.
• https://hexdocs.pm/pythonx/Pythonx.html – Documentation for PythonX, a new library for Python interoperability in Elixir
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx – PythonX GitHub repository
• https://dashbit.co/blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine – Blog post explaining Python integration in Elixir
• https://samrat.me/running-ml-models-in-elixir-using-pythonx/ – Guide on running ML models using PythonX
• https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social/post/3liyrfvlth22c – José Valim announces focus on interoperability for 2025
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/fine – Fine, a new C++ and Elixir library for more ergonomic NIFs in Elixir
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoFNns01VjA – Video presentation about compiling Elixir to eBPF
• https://homepages.dcc.ufmg.br/~fernando/publications/papers/CGO25_Kael.pdf – Academic paper on compiling Elixir to eBPF
• https://github.com/lac-dcc/honey-potion – Elixir package for eBPF compilation
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1892957017825771848 – Chris McCord demos AI-powered Phoenix app creation
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1894229609945710798 – Demo of Claude 3.7 generating a themed Phoenix blog with authentication
• https://bsky.app/profile/lawik.bsky.social/post/3liym6ggrn62p – Goatmire conference announcement
• https://goatmire.com/#tickets – Goatmire conference tickets on sale for September 10-12, 2025 in Varberg, Sweden

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Guest Information

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-erni/ – Kimberly Erni on LinkedIn

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-debugger – New Phoenix LiveView debugging tool released providing browser-based debugging capabilities similar to React DevTools.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lhn3y7vw4k2v – Confirmation that LiveDebugger works with LiveView Native.
• https://github.com/probably-not/artifix – New project Artifix announced, allowing creation of private Hex Registry on S3 and Cloudfront with customizable deployment patterns.
• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-gets-rename-variable/ – Gleam v1.8.0 released with significant Language Server enhancements and compiler improvements.
• https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic – Difftastic, a structural diff tool, now supports HEEx syntax highlighting.
• https://bsky.app/profile/crbelaus.com/post/3lhtpkkn4vc2l – Additional announcement about Difftastic's HEEx support.
• https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/pull/785 – Pull request adding HEEx support to Difftastic.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1887957394149310502 – Chris McCord shares a preview of integrated AI work at Fly.io, demonstrating web search capabilities.

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