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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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Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1516533938977705990 – Wojtek Mach shared some additional reasons for using NIFs to work with Rust or Zig that aren't performance related.
• https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1516773412848422919 – Angelika Tyborska shared that the Elixir track on Exercism.io got two new fun practice exercises
• http://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/exercises/killer-sudoku-helper – Exercism.io Elixir puzzle - Killer Sudoku Helper
• https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/exercises/state-of-tic-tac-toe – Exercism.io Elixir puzzle - State of Tic Tac Toe
• https://gleam.run/news/v0.21-introducing-the-gleam-language-server/ – Gleam now has a language server
• https://twitter.com/cigrainger/status/1518896955921154048 – Nx Explorer project reaches a new milestone and was released to Hex.
• https://hexdocs.pm/explorer/exploring_explorer.html – Includes a “Ten Minutes to Explorer” Livebook guide
• https://twitter.com/MozillaHubs/status/1516469058849312768 – Mozilla hiring for a Senior Elixir Engineer to help work on their Hubs Team to help build open social spaces for the web.
• https://hubs.mozilla.com/
• https://github.com/mozilla/hubs
• https://github.com/mozilla/reticulum
• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/06/02/social-virtual-spaces-with-elixir-at-mozilla – Elixir blog post from a year ago about the Mozilla Hubs Elixir project.
• https://github.com/elixir-makeup/makeup_diff – Parker Selbert created makeup_diff for displaying diff markup in ExDocs
• https://www.erlang.org/blog/type-based-optimizations-in-the-jit/ – Blog post on the Erlang blog looked interesting. About OTP 25 type optimizations for the JIT compiler.
• https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto-2022/#schedule – CodeBeam in Stockholm Sweden speaker lineup and schedule are out.
• https://www.empex.co/mtn – Empex MTN in Salt Lake City on May 6
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU in London on June 9-10
• https://elixirconf.com/events – ElixirConf US in Colorado on August 30-Sep2

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Discussion Resources

• https://davelucia.com/blog/avro-2.0
• https://github.com/beam-community/avro_ex
• https://avro.apache.org/
• https://kafka.apache.org/
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Previous discussion
• https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/bloomberg-terminal/
• https://theoutline.com/
• https://elm-lang.org/
• https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
• https://thrift.apache.org/
• https://github.com/klarna/erlavro
• https://databricks.com/
• https://spark.apache.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
• https://databricks.com/glossary/what-is-parquet
• https://www.snowflake.com/workloads/data-lake/
• https://github.com/beam-community
• https://github.com/doomspork
• https://github.com/surface-ui/surface
• https://github.com/pragdave/earmark
• https://github.com/pragdave
• https://github.com/davydog187/marx
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmBdFh5N1g4 – Migrating from Kafka to RabbitMQ at SimpleBet - Why and How
• https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1512393866653011968 – Announced leaving SimpleBet and co-founding something new.
• https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1512393877575110668 – Co-Founding Bitfo as the CTO.
• https://www.bitfo.com/
• https://ethereumprice.org/
• https://www.bitcoinprice.com/
• https://defirate.com/

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