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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/dan_note/status/2048273367598252360 – Announcement tweet for Folio, a new Elixir library for generating print-quality PDFs, SVGs, and PNGs from Markdown and Elixir data.
• https://github.com/dannote/folio – Folio on GitHub — an open-source library that generates print-quality PDF/SVG/PNG from Elixir data, powered by Typst via Rustler NIF. Documents are Elixir values with no templates or external processes required.
• https://genericjam.com/blog/mob-intro – Blog post introducing Mob — "LiveView for native mobile via NIF with BEAM on device with native views and all logic in Elixir." Created by Kevin Edey, a former React Native and native iOS developer.
• https://hexdocs.pm/mob/readme.html – Mob HexDocs — a BEAM-on-device mobile framework for Elixir. OTP runs inside iOS and Android apps via a thin NIF, with screens as GenServers and UI rendered by Compose and SwiftUI. Currently in early development.
• https://github.com/GenericJam/mob – Mob on GitHub — the source for the BEAM-on-device mobile framework supporting Android emulator and iOS simulator.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/2049057610721112537 – Announcement tweet for Oban v2.22 open-source release, highlighting new features including Job Querying, Smarter Sonar, and Migration Checks.
• https://github.com/oban-bg/oban/releases/tag/v2.22.0 – Oban v2.22.0 release notes covering Job Querying, Smarter Sonar, and Migration Checks improvements.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/2049844973445468336 – Announcement tweet for Oban Pro v1.7.0, highlighting Signals and awaiting, Unique workflows, Rate limiting overhaul, Chunking overhaul, Global cancel/discard hooks, and Improved indexes.
• https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.7.0/changelog.html – Oban Pro v1.7.0 changelog detailing Signals and awaiting, Unique workflows, Rate limiting overhaul, Chunking overhaul, Global cancel/discard hooks, and Improved indexes.
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2048787962666623106 – Announcement tweet for LiveVue v1.1, highlighting Node-less SSR via QuickBeam, v-inject directive, headless components, and shared props.
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2048787965111918775 – Follow-up tweet introducing QuickBeam as a new third SSR mode for LiveVue — running QuickJS as a NIF for better performance, now the default mode.
• https://hexdocs.pm/live_vue/persistent_layout.html – LiveVue docs on persistent layouts — allows rendering a root Vue component in root.heex.html that survives navigation, preserving local state, scroll position, etc., with components passed as slots.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2049054978384208212 – Announcement tweet for ExAST, a new library for searching, replacing, and diffing Elixir code by AST pattern.
• https://github.com/dannote/ex_ast – ExAST on GitHub — provides a query API for structural searches and codemods over Elixir AST, with support for matching by shape, filtering by context, resolving local aliases, and composing predicates.
• https://ast-grep.github.io/ – ast-grep — a related tool referenced in the ExAST context for structural code search and rewriting.
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/erlangquic-pure-erlang-quic-http3-stack-benoit-chesneau-ccd3e – LinkedIn article introducing erlang_quic — the first production-ready pure-Erlang implementation of QUIC and HTTP/3, implementing RFC 9000/9001, RFC 9114, RFC 9204, and extension RFCs.
• https://x.com/benoitc/status/2047955032100725237 – Announcement tweet for erlang_quic v1.3.0, a pure-Erlang QUIC and HTTP/3 stack running on stock OTP 27 or newer.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang_quic – erlang_quic on GitHub — pure-Erlang QUIC/HTTP3 stack with no external dependencies, featuring three congestion controllers, connection migration, TLS 1.3, and a quic_dist mode replacing TCP-based distribution.
• https://github.com/benoitc/erlang_quic/blob/main/docs/h3_compliance.md – HTTP/3 Compliance Matrix for erlang_quic, documenting RFC compliance status across the implementation.
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/carlos-daniel-pohlod-software-engineer_ruby-spinel-ugcPost-7454676794986790912-rqZy – LinkedIn post about Spinel, an experimental compiled Ruby project by Matz (creator of Ruby) that can be up to 86× faster than miniruby in benchmarks. Relevant to the Elixir community given Ruby's influence on Elixir's syntax.
• https://github.com/matz/spinel – Spinel on GitHub — compiles Ruby source code into standalone native executables via whole-program type inference and optimized C code generation, achieving significant speedups over CRuby.

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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://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a limited time offer.
• https://x.com/ErlangDiscu/status/1914259474937753747 – Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability discovered in Erlang/OTP SSH.
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-37cp-fgq5-7wc2 – Official security advisory for the Erlang/OTP SSH vulnerability.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/erlang-ssh – Paraxial.io's detailed blog post addressing how the SSH vulnerability impacts typical Elixir systems.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/updated-nerves-systems-available-with-cve-2025-32433-ssh-fix/70539 – Updated Nerves systems available with SSH vulnerability fix.
• https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lndzg72r2k2g – Announcement of Oban Pro v1.6's new "Cascade Mode" feature.
• https://oban.pro/articles/weaving-stories-with-cascading-workflows – Blog post demonstrating Oban Pro's new Cascading Workflows feature used to create children's stories with AI.
• https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social/post/3lmw5fvnyvc2k – José Valim teasing a new logo with "Soon" message.
• https://tidewave.ai/ – New site mentioned in José Valim's teasers, not loading to anything yet.
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai – New GitHub organization related to José Valim's upcoming announcement.
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/mcp_proxy_elixir – The only public project in the tidewave-ai organization - an Elixir MCP server for STDIO.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1913073561561858229 – Chris McCord teasing AI development with Phoenix applications.
• https://ashweekly.substack.com/p/ash-weekly-issue-13 – Zach Daniel teasing upcoming Ash news to be announced at ElixirConf EU.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/dune-sandbox-for-elixir/42480 – Dune - a sandbox for Elixir created by a Phoenix maintainer.
• https://github.com/functional-rewire/dune – GitHub repository for Dune, an Elixir code sandbox.
• https://blog.sequinstream.com/why-we-built-mini-elixir/ – Blog post explaining Mini Elixir, another Elixir code sandbox solution.
• https://github.com/sequinstream/sequin/tree/main/lib/sequin/transforms/minielixir – GitHub repository that contains Mini Elixir, an Elixir AST interpreter.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k27ekg/we_built_a_custom_elixir_ast_interpreter_for/ – Reddit discussion about Mini Elixir AST interpreter.
• https://github.com/semaphoreio/semaphore – Semaphore CI/CD platform open-sourced under Apache 2.0 license - primarily an Elixir application.
• https://semaphore.io/ – Official website for Semaphore CI/CD platform.
• https://docs.semaphoreci.com/CE/getting-started/install – Installation guide for Semaphore Community Edition.
• https://bsky.app/profile/markoanastasov.bsky.social/post/3lj5o5h5z7k2t – Announcement from Marko Anastasov, co-founder of Semaphore CI, about open-sourcing their platform.
• https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql – GitHub repository for SQL parser and sigil with impressive benchmarks.
• https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-ecto/c/8MOkRFAdLZc?pli=1 – Discussion about SQL parser being 400-650x faster than Ecto for generating SQL.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lndymobsak2p – Announcement about BeaconCMS reducing development due to Dockyard cuts.
• https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vnywtpvzgdgetnwea3fs3y6w – Related profile for BeaconCMS announcement.
• https://beaconcms.org/ – BeaconCMS official website.
• https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon – GitHub repository for BeaconCMS.

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Discussion Resources

• Discussion about Device Bound Session Credentials, a W3C initiative being built into major browsers that will require minor changes to Phoenix for implementation.
• https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-dbsc/ – W3C - Device Bound Session Credentials proposal
• https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-dbsc/ – Device Bound Session Credentials explainer
• https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/device-bound-session-credentials – Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) on the Google Chrome developer blog
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module – Wikipedia article on Trusted Platform Module, relevant to Device Bound Session Credentials discussion.
• https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1021-notes.pdf – Other podcast show notes discussing Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC).
• https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1021?autostart=false – Security Now podcast episode covering Device Bound Session Credentials (time coded link to discussion).

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Elixir Community News

• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lhc5552djc24 – Erlang/OTP team announces compliance with OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 standard for open source license compliance.
• https://openchainproject.org/featured/2025/02/01/erlang-otp-iso5230 – Details about OpenChain certification and its importance for Erlang/OTP's 2025 goals for enhancing community infrastructure.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220 – Reference to Allistair Woodman episode providing additional context about Erlang/OTP.
• https://www.elixirpatterns.dev/#pricing – New book "Elixir Patterns" by Hugo Barauna and Alex Koutmos has been released.
• https://bsky.app/profile/hugobarauna.com/post/3lgv5yfw5o22q – Author's announcement about the Elixir Patterns book release.
• https://www.elixirpatterns.dev/#free-chapters – Free sample chapters of Elixir Patterns book available with accompanying Livebooks.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZvljvgKy8 – Launch livestream recording for the Elixir Patterns book.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/oban-pentest – Security audit results for Oban Web and Oban Pro by Paraxial.io, showing no critical vulnerabilities.
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – Announcement for Alchemy Conf happening April 2-3 in Braga Portugal.
• https://x.com/hugobarauna/status/1886766098411909420 – Hugo Barauna announces he'll be speaking about Livebook and Livebook Teams internals at Alchemy Conf.
• https://stratus3d.com/blog/2025/02/03/asdf-has-been-rewritten-in-go/ – Announcement about asdf v0.16 major update and rewrite in Go.
• https://asdf-vm.com/guide/upgrading-to-v0-16.html#installation – Installation guide for the new asdf v0.16 with breaking changes.

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Elixir Community News

• https://oban.pro/articles/oss-web-and-new-oban – Oban Web has been officially released as OpenSource, including MySQL support in Oban v2.19 and Oban Web v2.11.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbW2Zli4LurDGc6lL5ij-9Y – Nine new ElixirConf 2024 videos have been published and added to the official YouTube playlist.
• https://hologram.page/ – Introduction of Hologram, a new full stack isomorphic Elixir web framework that transpiles Elixir to JavaScript for client-side code.
• https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – The GitHub repository for Hologram, currently at version 0.2.0.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test_playwright/PhoenixTest.Playwright.html – PhoenixTest now has a Playwright driver, enabling three layers of Phoenix testing with a common assertion layer.
• https://github.com/ityonemo/protoss – Protoss, a library for powerful Elixir protocols, is now feature-complete and moving to version 1.0. Looking for maintainer.
• https://ashweekly.substack.com/p/ash-weekly-issue-1 – Launch of Ash Weekly newsletter to keep up with Ash Framework updates and news.
• https://ash-project.github.io/ash_phoenix/nested-forms.html – AshPhoenix update featuring improved handling for nested forms.
• https://sessionize.com/code-beam-lite-stockholm-2025 – Call for speakers open until February 20th for Code BEAM Lite Stockholm, happening June 2nd 2025.
• NervesConf EU and Goatmire Elixir announced for September 10-12 in Varberg, Sweden.
• https://www.gigcityelixir.com/ – GigCityElixir conference announced in Chattanooga, TN, May 9-10, preceded by NervesConf on May 8th.

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Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mKp30PNM_Q4 – Parker Selbert announced that the Oban Web dashboard will be open sourced.
• https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/ – The Rails community is working on a database-backed job queue called "Solid Queue".
• Mark shares a personal story about the significance of Oban Web being open sourced for startups.
• https://x.com/shahryar_tbiz/status/1850844469307785274 – An announcement of an open source project with more than 80 Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://github.com/mishka-group/mishka_chelekom – GitHub repository for the open source project with Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://mishka.tools/chelekom/docs/ – Documentation and interactive examples for the Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1850882330249875883 – Zach Daniel mentions that Igniter is effectively used for installing components.
• https://www.youtube.com/live/bHoCMMk2ksc – Dave Lucia will live-stream coding an Igniter installer for OpenTelemetry.
• https://fluxonui.com/getting-started/introduction – Introduction to Fluxon UI, a paid resource with Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://tsh.io/state-of-frontend/#frameworks – Results of a frontend technology survey where Phoenix is mentioned.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSk21zn8fFZAa5UdY76ASWAwyu_xWFR6u – YouTube playlist of Elixir Stream Week presentations.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/2024-10-21-elixir-stream-week-five-days-five-streams-five-elixir-experts-online/66482/17 – Forum post about Elixir Stream Week featuring presentations and streams.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/klife-a-kafka-client-with-performance-gains-over-10x/67040 – Introduction of Klife, a new Elixir + Kafka client with improved performance.
• https://github.com/oliveigah/klife – GitHub repository for the Klife Kafka client in Elixir.
• https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon/blob/main/ROADMAP.md – Roadmap for the BeaconCMS project.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1850106541887689133?s=12&t=ZvCKMAXrZFtDX8pfjW14Lw – José Valim clarifies that Elixir and LSP remain separate projects with independent release schedules.
• https://flutterfoundation.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/ – Blog post about Flutter forking into Flock to promote open-source community development.

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Elixir Community News

• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology – Stack Overflow survey released showing Elixir and Phoenix are highly admired technologies.
• https://x.com/DockYard/status/1816592108595367982 – Elixir's admiration and usage metrics by developers.
• Elixir maintained its position as the second most admired language, although its usage slightly dropped.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1edjqbn/what_makes_it_that_productive_why_is_it_the_most/ – Discussion on Reddit about why Phoenix and Elixir are so admired, highlighting various features.
• https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical/releases/tag/v0.7.0 – Lexical LSP 0.7.0 update released with new features and a note for OTP 27 users to wait for 0.7.1.
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.4.0-rc1/CHANGELOG.md – Gleam v1.4.0-rc1 released for testing with impressive features, including a built-in Language Server.
• https://x.com/louispilfold/status/1817870737165664604 – Louis Pilfold, creator of Gleam, requesting sponsors due to a decline in sponsorships.
• https://github.com/thmsmlr/livescript – New library called LiveScript helps develop scripts locally with code-reloading.
• https://builtwithphoenix.com/ – New website to showcase projects built with Phoenix.
• https://x.com/mmmykolas/status/1817620188264538477 – Progress update on the "Built with Phoenix" website.
• https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-5 – Oban Pro finished their launch week with several new features.
• https://x.com/ElixirConf – ElixirConf is holding weekly Twitter Spaces sessions discussing topics like LiveView native and conference attendance.
• https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – Preview of ElixirConf 2024 including highlights of scheduled talks and speakers.

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/213

Elixir Community News

• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1815409966611648705 – Chris McCord does a YouTube video speedrun of adding a self-hosted llama2-7b to an existing application. He's running it against Ollama and making REST API calls to it, showing how to run the Ollama server on a private Fly.io IPv6 network using auto-stop and auto-start features.
• https://x.com/TylerAYoung/status/1815391743484870980 – Tyler Young shared a new release of his library parameterized_test, version v0.2.0, which includes support for longer test names, comments in tables, and Obsidian markdown table format.
• https://github.com/s3cur3/parameterized_test – GitHub repository for Tyler Young's parameterized_test library that makes it easier to create tests using multiple combinations in markdown tables.
• https://x.com/Exadra37/status/1815694986345611683 – The Mnesia database may receive native support for automated conflict resolution via CRDTs, sponsored by ErlangSolutions and developed by Vincent Lau.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHdPRyMjmW8 – Vincent Lau spoke at Code BEAM Europe 2023 about his work on adding CRDTs to Mnesia for automated conflict resolution.
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/mnesia.html – Documentation on Mnesia, a distributed key-value DBMS built into Erlang.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/1791166342034255938 – Oban Pro's launch week introduces unified migrations, worker aliases, better support for distributed databases, faster unique job checks, and the @job decorator for small jobs.
• https://x.com/sorentwo/status/1807155900609904973 – Improvements in Oban Pro include better batch workflows with mermaid visualizations.
• https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-1 – Article on Oban Pro's launch week, detailing new features and improvements.
• https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-2 – Second day of Oban Pro's launch week article series.
• https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-3 – Third day of Oban Pro's launch week article series.
• https://alembic.com.au/blog/igniter-rethinking-code-generation-with-project-patching – Blog post by Zach Daniel about Igniter, a tool for rethinking code generation with project patching, useful for installing libraries into existing Phoenix applications.
• https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2024 Preview with details on scheduled speakers and topics.

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/203

Elixir Community News

• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1.0-released – Phoenix LiveView is hitting 1.0 soon with thoughtful comparisons to the broader web development industry.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.0.0-rc.0/changelog.html – Backward incompatible changes for Phoenix LiveView 1.0 along with bug fixes.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOk67eT3fpg – Theo reacts positively to the Phoenix LiveView release, discussing it from the React and JS perspective.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkXUp0hCW8 – Keynote by José Valim on design patterns in Elixir at ElixirConf EU 2024.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1790354042243203283 – José Valim discusses design patterns in Elixir revisiting the "Gang of Four" patterns.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICJ42OyBGg – Chris McCord’s ElixirConf EU keynote on FLAME and its applications.
• https://worldpagespeed.fly.dev/ – Chris McCord’s "World Page Speed Test" tool using FLAME.
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/world-page-speed-test-elastic-scale-with-flame/ – Chris McCord’s blog post on World Page Speed Test and FLAME on Fly.io.
• https://twitter.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1775516026551099852 – Announcement of Ash 3.0 release after 46 RC releases.
• https://hex.pm/packages/ash – Ash Framework version 3.0 final release details.
• https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1790007674077073474 – Oban support is moving to ElixirForum for better searchability and visibility, away from Slack.
• https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1788181209530466518 – Oban hot tip on managing exception messages for better exception reporting.
• https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-6/ – NextLS 0.21.0 released with new features like alias-refactor workspace command, completions, snippets, and more.
• Followup from a comment last week on the difference between pattern-matching empty keyword lists and empty maps, including speed improvements in OTP 26 and 27.
• https://erlangforums.com/t/matching-empty-map-performance-of-map-size/3572 – Discussion on matching empty map performance.
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.14/naming-conventions.html#length-and-size – Naming conventions in Elixir related to length and size.
• https://github.com/mimiquate/blend – New Elixir library "Blend" helps library maintainers test against different versions of dependencies.
• https://rubygems.org/gems/appraisal – Blend library appears to be inspired by the Ruby gem “appraisal”.
• https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1790072050855588265 – Amazon AWS S3 will stop charging for unauthorized requests, being deployed to regions currently.

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Elixir Community News

• https://elixirforum.com/t/nerves-supports-erlang-otp-26-and-elixir-1-15-now/57344 – Nerves updated to support OTP 26 and Elixir 1.15
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1686350499967123456 – Phoenix LiveView 0.19 had some enhancements that German Valesco highlights in a video
• https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1684418487987441665 – Zigler 0.10.1 was released
• https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler/
• https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/beam.html – Zigler's BEAM integration docs
• https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1685390898329178114 – Private modules in Elixir? Using @moduledoc false
• https://elixirforum.com/t/proposal-private-modules-general-discussion/19374 – Previous discussion on private modules
• https://dev.to/savonarola/testing-timer-based-logic-in-elixir-with-klotho-library-2c90 – Klotho library may help with timer based testing logic
• https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1683788630156877825 – SpawnFest will be Oct 28 - 29
• https://spawnfest.org/ – SpawnFest is an annual, 48 hour, online software development contest in which teams from around the world get exactly one weekend to create the best BEAM-based app they can.
• https://github.com/meanderingstream/dl_foundations_in_elixir/blob/main/ElixirFashionML_Challenge/fashion_mnist_challenge.livemd – There's an ML challenge
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirfashionmlchallenge-general-discussion-questions/57341 – ML challenge discussion thread

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Discussion Resources

• https://getoban.pro/
• https://github.com/sorentwo/oban – OSS Oban project
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29 – Previous interview with Parker from January 2021
• https://dscout.com/
• https://getoban.pro/oban – Oban Web demo
• https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq
• https://github.com/sorentwo/kiq
• https://github.com/dashbitco/bytepack_archive

Guest Information

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