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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://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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Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1572934094098694145 – Phoenix LiveView v0.18 was released!
• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-0.18-released – LiveView release blog post
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.18.0/CHANGELOG.md – LiveView changelog
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rqBLjr5Eo – Chris McCord's ElixirConf keynote talking about the release
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckJPn7n-k-vorjpQLTKtOlo4pxKYP64J71yg5iutTeY9jG5w/viewform – Code Smells online survey
• https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells – Previous Elixir Code Smells github repository
• https://ti.to/strange-loop/2023 – Strange Loop's final conference held in Saint Louis, MO. Sept 21-22 in 2023
• Elixir 1.14 hidden date/time gem

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