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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/2017671777187438683 – José Valim shared another compilation time improvement coming to Elixir v1.20 RC. Livebook compilation time went from 6.4s to 3.2s over 3 years, achieving 2x improvement while adding the type checker. Much of this came from removing single core bottlenecks for better CPU utilization.
• https://telelang.org/ – Telelang - an alternative syntax for Erlang that compiles to Erlang code without changing semantics or standard library.
• https://github.com/fancycade/tele – GitHub repository for Tele. Marked as experimental and unstable, but demonstrates an interesting approach to creating a different syntax and parser without deeper changes.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2018345705614549274 – Announcement of Membrane YOLO Plugin for AI-powered object detection in Elixir multimedia pipelines.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1quo8ym/membrane_yolo_plugin_aipowered_object_detection/ – Reddit discussion about the Membrane YOLO Plugin.
• https://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_yolo_plugin – Membrane YOLO Plugin repository showing real-time object detection in video streams using Nx models directly within Membrane pipelines.
• https://github.com/intility/erlang-oci-builder – Build containers directly from Erlang/Elixir codebase - essentially a code-driven Dockerfile declaration with registry push support.
• https://hexdocs.pm/oci – Massdriver's OCI library providing a Plug for accepting Docker Registry's HTTP API.
• https://gist.github.com/ChristianAlexander/838100a7a34d26c43bd829fad17c4e5d – Christian Alexander's Claude Skill for updating Elixir dependencies, describing a workflow for handling updates and breaking changes through AI conversation.
• https://x.com/rootcert/status/2016889334939734033 – Christian Alexander's tweet about the dependency update skill, describing how it changed the update cycle from painful to conversational.
• https://diff.hex.pm/ – Hex package diff tool, suggested as addition for security review of dependency upgrades.
• https://x.com/zachsdaniel1/status/2018350155905347807 – Announcement of AshPartition, a new Ash-related package for managing partitions.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ash_postgres_partition/dsl-ashpostgrespartition.html – Documentation for AshPartition DSL.
• https://github.com/m0rt3nlund/ash_postgres_partition – AshPartition GitHub repository - a community contributed helper library for adding partitions in Ash using AshPostgres with tenant support.
• https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-scraps-burdensome-software-security-rules/ – White House rescinds Biden-era software security guidance including SBOM requirements, shifting responsibility to individual agencies. However, SBOMs expected to continue due to European initiatives.
• https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/30/2041200/white-house-scraps-burdensome-software-security-rules – Slashdot coverage of the software security rules change.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2018350969545736254 – José Valim shares a vibe-coded MCP App built over the weekend that turns pull request reviews into interactive learning experiences inside Claude Desktop.
• https://github.com/tidewave-ai/pr-quiz – PR Quiz open source project - turns pull request reviews into interactive learning experiences with a 7:25 minute demo video.
• https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills – Anthropic research on "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills" showing junior developers who fully relied on AI learned less. Emphasizes that cognitive effort and getting stuck is important for mastery.
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/#keynotes – ElixirConf EU speaker list is complete with 39 speakers plus keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord. Conference in Málaga, Spain (and virtual) on April 23-24. In-person tickets €539 (early bird), virtual €129.

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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://bsky.app/profile/samrat.me/post/3lksxzzjqss2t – Phoenix now comes with DaisyUI, a decision that has sparked mixed reactions in the community.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/6121 – The GitHub issue discussing the addition of DaisyUI to Phoenix, showing the community's divided opinions.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/6121#issuecomment-2739647725 – José Valim's explanation of the decision to include DaisyUI in Phoenix.
• https://security.erlef.org/aegis/ – EEF Security Working Group released their objectives and roadmap as the Aegis of the ecosystem.
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/245 – Previous podcast episode featuring the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation (EEF).
• https://x.com/erlangforums/status/1902297914791358669 – Announcement of Erlang/OTP 28.0-rc2 release.
• https://erlangforums.com/t/erlang-otp-28-0-rc2-released/4599 – Forum discussion about the Erlang/OTP 28.0-rc2 release.
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-28.0-rc2 – GitHub release page for Erlang/OTP 28.0-rc2, which includes a source Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
• https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 – Erlang Enhancement Proposal (EEP) 76 introducing priority messages, a key feature in OTP 28.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9JRhIKQmqk – Sean Moriarity's keynote at Code BEAM America 2025 about designing LLM Native systems.
• https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/AI-project-fail-data-SPGlobal/742768/ – Report showing AI project failure rates are on the rise, with 42% of businesses scrapping most AI initiatives.
• https://tech.doofinder.com/posts/live-view-portal – Introduction to LiveViewPortal, a JavaScript library for embedding Phoenix LiveView pages into any website.
• https://github.com/doofinder/live_view_portal – GitHub repository for LiveViewPortal.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/liveviewportal-embed-liveviews-in-other-websites/70040 – Elixir Forum discussion about LiveViewPortal.
• https://bsky.app/profile/ftes.de/post/3lkohiog4uv2b – Announcement of phoenix_test_playwright v0.6.0 release.
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright – GitHub repository for phoenix_test_playwright with new features like cookie manipulation and browser launch timeout options.
• https://bsky.app/profile/david.bernheisel.com/post/3lkoe4tvc2s2o – Announcement about Elixir's upcoming improvement to spawn more OS processes for compiling dependencies.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14340 – Pull request for concurrent dependencies compilation in Elixir, potentially improving performance by 2x.
• https://goatmire.com/ – Explanation of the name "Goatmire," which is a loose translation of Getakärr, the historical name for Varberg.

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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.

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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

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• 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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