Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/179

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1724861258548052109 – Chris McCord teased a new visual on Twitter resembling a colorful flame logo with the text "Soon™", with more details to come.
• https://hauleth.dev/post/who-watches-watchmen-ii/ – Hauleth's blog post explores creating an Elixir service supervised by SystemD, building on his series about managing BEAM applications.
• https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/how-page-title-is-updated – German Valesco explains the updating of the page_title in Phoenix LiveView with a tip and video demonstration.
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/11/08/three-years-of-nx-growing-the-machine-learning-ecosystem – Sean Moriarity discusses the past three years and the future of the Elixir Machine Learning Ecosystem and Nx in a blog post on Dockyard.
• https://twitter.com/TheErlef/status/1726654135750066390 – Announcement of the 3rd edition of a BEAM-focused devroom at the 2024 FOSDEM conference, set to take place in Brussels.
• https://beam-fosdem.dev/ – FOSDEM's BEAM devroom, an event for the Elixir community and enthusiasts, provides details about the upcoming sidetrack.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY – The official playlist of ElixirConf US videos, with several more sessions expected to be added.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-030FD0Qc&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=46 – ElixirConf US video of Rafal Studnicki discussing keeping real-time auctions running during rollouts.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P44hFAhKPao&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=47 – Tyler Young's ElixirConf US presentation on migrating data without downtime.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XaB4XWg-Qg&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=48 – Michał Śledź's session at ElixirConf US on rewriting Pion in Elixir.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9pZP5jUYZg&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=49 – Andrew Berrien introduces ECSx and discusses a new approach to game development in Elixir at ElixirConf US.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F42B6AZ879Q&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=50 – Geoffrey Lessel's introduction to Vox, a static site generator for Elixir enthusiasts, at ElixirConf US.
• https://adventofcode.com/ – Advent of Code is approaching, presenting new coding challenges starting December 1st with a new rule against using AI for leaderboard rankings.
• https://twitter.com/ljgago/status/1724917401462997413 – Leonardo Gago tweets about his kino_aoc smart cell to assist with Advent of Code puzzles in Livebook.
• https://github.com/ljgago/kino_aoc – GitHub repository for KinoAoc, a Livebook smart cell created by Leonardo Gago for solving Advent of Code puzzles.

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Discussion Resources

• The discussion explores the AI ecosystem's influence on Elixir developers, addressing risks and dependencies unrelated to Elixir itself.
• Concerns are raised about the dangers of building on top of OpenAI and the risk of service outages, as experienced with an AI fitness trainer.
• Open-source AI models are discussed as viable alternatives that offer the possibility of self-hosting and independence from proprietary systems.
• Mention of the Elixir LangChain library signifies an interest in being able to seamlessly switch AI models without altering application code.
• The discussion covers the risks of government regulation, policy changes, financial and governance uncertainties, and how they could affect dependencies on single AI providers.
• An industry desire for regulatory measures is expressed, aiming to build a legal buffer that could protect from competition.
• The conversation questions the broader implications of reliance on AI, including why the topic is intriguing and why self-hosted, open-source models are crucial.
• Arguably, Elixir is considered to have a strong position for running self-managed AI models, highlighting the alignment with open-source philosophies.
• Looking to the future, Elixir is positioned well to do this.
• A final note touches on the holiday season's effect on the podcast's show schedule with potential changes or pauses in the regular programming.

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/170

Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY – ElixirConf 2023 video playlist, currently only includes the keynote videos.
• https://twitter.com/bernheisel/status/1704019930515919092 – Chris McCord's keynote for ElixirConf 2023.
• https://erlef.github.io/security-wg/web_app_security_best_practices_beam/ – Guide on Web Application Security Best Practices for BEAM languages
• https://twitter.com/paraxialio/status/1703146204404535467 – Update on the same topic on Twitter.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/134 – Podcast episode discussing inside the Security Working Group
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/93 – Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas podcast episode
• https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls – NextLS v0.12 released with new features.
• https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-3/ – More information on the Elixir Tools update.
• https://twitter.com/crbelaus/status/1702703595236331668 – Phoenix's new library to integrate Bun, the JavaScript all-in-one toolkit.
• https://hex.pm/packages/elixir_bun – Link to the new Phoenix library on Hex.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83 – More info about Zig with a previous guest Isaac Yonemoto.
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – LangChain for Elixir library was released.
• https://twitter.com/RudManusachi/status/1702093261530403223 – Brian Cardarella's LiveViewNative keynote showed the ExDoc documentation.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/readme.html#tabsets – Explanation on the use of tabsets in ExDocs.
• https://twitter.com/danielcroe/status/1703127430523703432 – Lodash JS project declared "Issue bankruptcy"
• https://github.com/lodash/lodash – Lodash, a modern JavaScript utility library, went through some changes.
• https://ziglang.org/news/bounties-damage-open-source-projects/ – ZigLang blog stating that "Bounties Damage Open Source Projects"
• https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-released-2715/ – PostgreSQL 16 released with performance improvements and new features.
• https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/active-active-postgres-16 – Understanding of "Active-Active" replication in PostgreSQL 16.

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/107

Elixir Community News

• https://hex.pm/packages/kino – Kino 0.6.2 was released. This includes Alex Koutmos recent work that makes it easy to render a supervision tree in Livebook.
• https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1542324451425107968
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1542710874586112001 – Another crazy Livebook improvement that Alex teased is a process tracing viewer.
• https://twitter.com/owenbickford/status/1543369745306632192 – Elixir-LS got an update - “Suggest an appropriate module name with the 'defmodule' snippet”
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/pull/684 – PR with demonstration video.
• https://github.com/fuelen/ecto_erd/ – Ecto.ERD library generates ERD diagram from your Ecto schemas
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1542165462599057408 – Combined June Elixir announcements
• https://pragprog.com/titles/puphoe/building-table-views-with-phoenix-liveview/ – New book titled “Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView” by Peter Ullrich.
• https://twitter.com/sasajuric/status/1542859420740239361 – Saša Jurić announced he’s working on Elixir in Action 3rd Edition.
• https://github.com/peburrows/goth/blob/v1.3.0/CHANGELOG.md – Goth library released v1.3.
• https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1539752930349293569 – Self-project management tip - "Everything goes smoother when you focus on getting 10% of a project 100% done instead of getting 100% of a project 10% done."

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Discussion Resources

• https://hex.pm/users/akoutmos – Published packages that Alex maintains
• https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/ – Nerves weather Station book
• https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – Elixir Patterns book that I am currently working on with Hugo
• https://eaglemms.com/ – Bootstrapping a business with Elixir and LiveView
• https://akoutmos.com/post/plug-runtime-config – Post about Unplug and Replug
• https://hex.pm/packages/replug
• https://hex.pm/packages/unplug
• https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1541078170383835136 – Tweet about rendering supervision trees using Kino and Mermaid in Livebook.
• https://www.whoosh.io/
• https://www.beamrad.io/ – Beam Radio podcast where Alex co-hosts.
• https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/
• https://prometheus.io/
• https://github.com/beam-telemetry
• https://www.timescale.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimescaleDB
• https://elixir-radar.com/
• https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino
• https://github.com/akoutmos/doctor – Doctor library for checking documentation coverage
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/101 – Interview with Ben Johnson about Litestream
• https://github.com/akoutmos/litestream – Alex's litestream project
• https://github.com/akoutmos/sqlite_scale – Experiment with Ecto Dynamic Repos and SQLite
• https://hex.pm/packages/mjml_eex – MjmlEEx allows you to easily create beautiful looking responsive Emails using the MJML template language, with the ergonomics and safety of a Phoenix template.
• https://github.com/adoptoposs/mjml_nif
• https://mjml.io/ – The MJML website with documentation about email formatting features.
• https://github.com/jdrouet/mrml
• https://hex.pm/packages/prom_ex – PromEx library
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SkVsUdUutE – Alex's Code BEAM talk from last spring if people want to learn more BEAM + Prometheus + Grafana = Observability Heaven

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/akoutmos – on Twitter
• https://github.com/akoutmos/ – on Github
• https://akoutmos.com/ – Blog
• https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – Elixir Patterns book

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/105

Elixir Community News

• https://2022.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2022 - Aug 30 - Sep 2 in Denver, CO. Call for proposals due July 2nd
• https://2022.elixirconf.com/registration – Early bird tickets are on sale
• https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio/status/1537502784790085634 – CodeBEAM America (November) is accepting training ideas for their upcoming conference.
• https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#v0-3-0 – Req v0.3 released with a new API
• https://hexdocs.pm/req/changelog.html#plugins – List of available Req plugins - req_easyhtml, req_s3, req_hex, req_github_oauth
• https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1537405584710029313 – Sean Moriarity shared a major milestone! The public release of Axon and AxonONNX.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/102 – Recent interview with Sean Moriarity about this work.
• https://twitter.com/elixirweekly/status/1538082201212006400 – IntelliJ IDE gets updated Elixir plugin, v13.1.0
• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1538908870743101440 – NimbleLZ4, for performing LZ4 lossless compression, released with the help of Rustler Precompiled

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Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/plausible/analytics
• https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704
• https://plausible.io/about
• http://elixirkoans.io/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7cLUygMeI
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
• https://clickhouse.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_analytical_processing
• https://github.com/plausible/clickhouse_ecto
• https://plausible.io/blog/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app
• https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ/status/1532265765042376704 – Announced they reached a revenue milestone

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/ukutaht – Uku on Twitter
• https://twitter.com/PlausibleHQ – Plausible HQ on Twitter
• https://fosstodon.org/@plausible – Mastodon
• https://github.com/ukutaht/ – Uku on Github
• https://github.com/plausible – Plausible on Github
• https://plausible.io/blog – Plausible Blog

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