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• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-20-0-rc-6-released/75448 – Elixir v1.20.0-rc.6 released on the ElixirForum - the likely final release candidate before v1.20.0 final, completing the ~15 week type inference roadmap. Includes tips for profiling compile times before and after upgrading.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.20.0-rc.6 – GitHub release page for Elixir v1.20.0-rc.6. Highlights include full type inference across applications and type inference across deps.
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2026-results – EEF 2026 election results - David Bernheisel, Francesco Cesarini, Amos King, and Alistair Woodman were elected.
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2054945784148201684 – Software Mansion announces LiveStash v0.3.0, featuring a new Redis Adapter and Auto-Stashing for Phoenix LiveView state recovery on WebSocket reconnects.
• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-stash – GitHub repo for LiveStash - a library providing a reliable API to stash and recover Phoenix LiveView assigns when socket connections are interrupted or re-established.
• https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/2057517360060522872 – A call to action for companies generating revenue on the BEAM ecosystem to support the EEF. The EEF maintains a CNA and coordinates security across the ecosystem including hex.pm, but the current effort is no longer sustainable.
• https://hauleth.dev/post/writing-tests/ – A solid blog post on writing better Elixir tests. Covers using a @subject module attribute, grouping tests with describe, preferring dependency injection over mocking, avoiding factory libraries in favor of calling context functions directly, and using property-based testing with StreamData.
• https://x.com/github/status/2056884788179726685 – GitHub's official tweet confirming unauthorized access to their internal repositories. No confirmed evidence of impact to customer data outside GitHub's internal repos at time of posting.
• https://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2056970677668770117 – Report that GitHub was compromised by TeamPCP via a poisoned VS Code extension on an employee device, resulting in ~3,800 internal repositories being exfiltrated and sold on a cybercrime forum.
• https://x.com/star_knight12/status/2056977944334266428 – Detailed breakdown of the GitHub hack - the Nx Console VS Code extension (2.2M installs) was hijacked with a credential stealer hidden in an orphan commit. It harvested tokens from GitHub, npm, AWS, Kubernetes, and 1Password. The poisoned version was live for only 11 minutes before detection.

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• https://github.com/elixir-localize/localize – The Localize library v0.15.0 was released — a locale-aware formatting, validation, and data access library for Elixir built on the Unicode CLDR repository. Consolidates the ex_cldr_* family into a single package with no compile-time code generation; all CLDR data loads at runtime and caches in :persistent_term.
• https://x.com/dan_note/status/2044763774146466053 – Announcement tweet for the new "Reach" library — a program dependence graph tool for Elixir and Erlang.
• https://github.com/dannote/reach – Reach builds a graph of data flow, control flow, and side effects in your code so you can trace values to their origin, find tainted paths from user input to dangerous sinks, or check if statements can be safely reordered. Works on Elixir/Erlang source and compiled BEAM bytecode.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2044483950089834990 – José Valim demos new Tidewave updates — voice input now works, and while talking you can click on elements to build context into a message. Also works when referencing lines of code in code reviews.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2044060492704948305 – Tidewave can now be installed as a browser PWA (Progressive Web App).
• https://bsky.app/profile/david.bernheisel.com/post/3mjkl6ck4a22c – David Bernheisel shares a "frustration driven development" Zsh autocompletion script for mix tasks — announcement and discussion post on Bluesky.
• https://github.com/dbernheisel/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/_mix – The Zsh autocompletion script for mix tasks. Runs mix help to find tasks and their descriptions, then mix help {task} for switches, feeding results into the Zsh completion engine with per-project caching.
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2026 – The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation has announced its 2026 board elections. Candidacy submissions close May 7th (23:59 UTC), voting runs May 8–15. Must be a paying, contributing, or managing member to participate.

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• Show update - podcast is now also on YouTube with images of blog posts, projects, and articles displayed during discussions
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/2000540145645162507 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.20 is well underway in active development
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#complete-typing-of-maps-keys – Changelog showing complete typing of maps keys in Elixir v1.20
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases – Elixir releases page - current latest version is 1.19.4
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory – Set theory reference for understanding Elixir's type system approach
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_topology – Set-theoretic topology reference
• https://bsky.app/profile/gleam.run/post/3ma3u7ta2sk2c – Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 announcement
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.14.0-rc1/CHANGELOG.md – Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 changelog with updates including fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements
• https://bsky.app/profile/akoutmos.bsky.social/post/3ma2rsncqtc25 – mjml_eex v0.13.0 release announcement
• https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex – mjml_eex library for formatting emails using MJML and EEx
• https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – mjml_eex changelog showing upgrade to MJML 5.3 and comment support
• https://mjml.io/ – MJML website for responsive email templates
• https://github.com/mjmlio/mjml – MJML GitHub repository
• https://mjmlio.github.io/mjml-app/ – MJML app for building email templates
• https://dashbit.co/blog/zero-trust-for-plug-phoenix – Dashbit blog post announcing nimble_zta for zero trust authentication
• https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_zta – nimble_zta library with zero trust strategies for CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform IAP, and Tailscale
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine) – BEAM virtual machine Wikipedia reference
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrYdkHRCJqM – My BEAM History - Björn Gustavsson ElixirConf EU 2025 talk covering BEAM internals
• https://goatmire.bold.video/ – GoatMire conference website with published videos
• https://www.youtube.com/@goatmireinternational – GoatMire YouTube channel
• https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/detecting-and-listing-duplicate-records-with-phoenix-ecto – Blog post with tips on detecting duplicate records using Ecto queries
• https://pixabay.com/music/christmas-christmas-show-438871/ – Credit for Christmas themed intro music

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Elixir Community News

• https://bsky.app/profile/david.bernheisel.com/post/3lffr6xdvq22r – ex_doc will soon feature a new button to navigate to the latest version's documentation when viewing older versions.
• https://x.com/mrpopov_com/status/1878817795049488421 – Phoenix Analytics 0.3.0 released with improved support for Fly.io and Heroku deployments.
• https://github.com/lalabuy948/PhoenixAnalytics – Plug and play analytics solution for Phoenix applications, offering embedded dashboard functionality.
• https://dashbit.co/blog/data-evolution-with-set-theoretic-types – José Valim's article explaining how set-theoretic types will improve library backwards-compatibility in Elixir.
• https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/elixir-118-type-system-changes – German Velasco's ElixirStream video demonstrating the improved type system changes in Elixir 1.18.
• https://pragprog.com/titles/ldash/ash-framework/ – Ash Framework book by Rebecca Le and Zach Daniel released in beta on PragProg, covering LiveView, auth, search, APIs, and notifications.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame – FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution) by Chris McCord enables dynamic resource scaling on Fly.io.
• https://github.com/probably-not/flame-ec2 – FlameEC2 library extends FLAME functionality to AWS EC2 machines.
• https://bsky.app/profile/codebeam.bsky.social/post/3lfp4penmik2v – Code BEAM Lite London 2025 is on January 31, featuring Michał Muskała as speaker.
• https://alchemyconf.com/ – Alchemy Conf scheduled for March 31 - April 3 in Braga, Portugal.
• https://membrz.club/alchemyconf/events?tag=workshop – Alchemy Conf workshops announced featuring Saša Jurić, Zach Daniel, and Andrea Leopardi.
• https://x.com/Alchemy_Conf/status/1879136370691862929 – Additional announcement about Alchemy Conf workshop details.

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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14145 – José Valim opened a PR for Elixir 1.19 adding enhanced type inference capabilities to most expressions in Elixir.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/236 – ElixirLS version 0.26.0 released with Elixir 1.18 support.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/blob/v0.26.0/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for ElixirLS core updates in version 0.26.0.
• https://github.com/elixir-lsp/vscode-elixir-ls/blob/v0.26.0/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for VS Code extension updates in ElixirLS 0.26.0.
• https://github.com/aglundahl/deno_rider – DenoRider, a new library that embeds the Deno javascript runtime into Elixir applications.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/denorider-an-embedded-javascript-runtime-in-elixir/68125 – Announcement and discussion thread for DenoRider.
• https://deno.com/ – Reference to the Deno project that DenoRider embeds.
• https://cortexjs.io/compute-engine/ – Example of a JavaScript library that could be integrated with DenoRider.
• https://gleam.run/news/improved-performance-and-publishing/ – Gleam v1.7.0 release announcement with improvements to record updates and decoder generation.
• https://x.com/louispilfold/status/1875168038640812458 – Announcement about Jak's contributions to Gleam and opportunity to support via GitHub Sponsors.
• https://ivanmunguia.dev/blog/posts/create-address-autocomplete-with-elixir-phoenix-liveview-part-2 – Tutorial on implementing Google Maps autocomplete with Phoenix LiveView (Part 2).
• https://ivanmunguia.dev/blog/posts/create-address-autocomplete-with-elixir-phoenix-liveview – Tutorial on implementing Google Maps autocomplete with Phoenix LiveView (Part 1).
• https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1876193891084644631 – Saša Jurić announces speaking at Goatmire conference.
• https://goatmire.com – Website for Goatmire conference, taking place September 10-12 in Varberg, Sweden.

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Elixir Community News

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/12/19/elixir-v1-18-0-released/ – Official Elixir 1.18.0 release announcement
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.18/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for Elixir 1.18.0 release
• https://bsky.app/profile/david.bernheisel.com/post/3leetmgvihk2a – Details about upcoming Elixir 1.19 type checking capabilities for protocols
• https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social/post/3ldyphlun4c2z – José Valim's retrospective on Elixir's progress in 2024, highlighting type system improvements and project releases
• https://github.com/liveview-native/live_view_native/releases – LiveView Native v0.4.0-rc.0 release announcement
• https://x.com/liveviewnative/status/1869081462659809771 – Twitter announcement about LiveView Native release
• https://github.com/liveview-native/live_view_native/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for LiveView Native v0.4.0-rc.0
• https://bsky.app/profile/josevalim.bsky.social/post/3le25qqcfh22x – ExDoc v0.36 release announcement introducing swup.js for navigation
• https://github.com/swup/swup – Swup.js GitHub repository
• https://swup.js.org/ – Swup.js documentation
• https://swup.js.org/getting-started/demos/ – Swup.js demos showing page transition capabilities
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/pull/44 – Pull request for cross-package function search in ExDoc using Typesense
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/issues/1811 – Related issue for cross-package function search feature
• https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3lejnfttgok2u – Announcement of parameterized_test v0.6.0 with improved failure messages
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test/changelog.html#0-5-1 – phoenix_test v0.5.1 changelog with new assertion helpers
• https://x.com/germsvel/status/1873732271611469976 – Twitter announcement about phoenix_test updates
• https://x.com/ElixirConf/status/1873445096773111848 – Announcement of new ElixirConf US 2024 videos
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbW2Zli4LurDGc6lL5ij-9Y – YouTube playlist of ElixirConf US 2024 talks
• https://x.com/TylerAYoung/status/1873798040525693040 – Recommendation for David's ETL talk at ElixirConf
• https://goatmire.com/ – New Elixir conference "Goatmire" announced in Sweden
• https://bsky.app/profile/lawik.bsky.social/post/3ldougsbvhk2s – Lars Wikman's announcement about Goatmire conference

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Elixir Community News

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/19/elixir-v1-15-0-released/ – Elixir 1.15 release blog post
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.0 – full release notes
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1670879654134050828 – José Valim's tweet about reported compilation time improvements
• https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-15-0-released/56584 – ElixirForum.com post about the release with comments, feedback, and workarounds for issues.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.7.4/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.7.4 (then up to 1.7.6) was released with a small, but handy fix around deploying with active websockets
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/ – StackOverflow Developer Survey results
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology-most-popular-technologies – Most popular technologies
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-top-paying-technologies-top-paying-technologies – Top paying technologies
• https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-desired-web-frameworks-and-technologies – Phoenix is the most admired web framework and technology
• https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1669423297518264320 – LiveView Native got animated charts working in SwiftCharts
• https://twitter.com/moomerman/status/1670021284900614144 – Apache ECharts with LiveView
• https://huggingface.co/blog/livebook-app-deployment – José Valim's has a Livebook blog post on the Hugging Face blog.
• https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1670789241436028931 – Using IEx helpers in Livebook cells - import IEx.Helpers
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1669669754305404928 – German Velasco has created a number of short tip videos that now have a home on ElixirStreams.com
• https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1670856560480747526 – Adding Bandit to a Phoenix 1.7 project fits in a single tweet
• https://erlef.org/events – The EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation) has an "events" page.1

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Discussion Resources

• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/adding-dialyzer-without-the-pain/ – Blog post with more resources and code
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html – Dialyzer docs
• https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir – Dialyxir project
• https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir/pull/493 – PR to add new format for ignore_file_strict
• https://elixirforum.com/t/blog-post-adding-dialyzer-without-the-pain/56461 – Feedback to blog post that we discuss
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PZE40h13wM – Slaying the Type Hydra, or How We Went from 12,000 Dialyzer Errors to None | Jesper Eskilson - Senior Engineer at Klarna
• https://github.com/bamorim/typed_ecto_schema
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/72 – Interview about type_check
• https://github.com/Qqwy/elixir-type_check
• https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical – Lexical Language Server
• https://github.com/elixir-tools/next-ls – Next-LS Language Server
• https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s10-e12-jose-guillaume-giuseppe-types-elixir/ – José Valim, Guillaume Duboc, and Giuseppe Castagna discussing static types in Elixir

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