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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/1982913977459061036 – José Valim discusses how newcomers found it challenging to find which API to use when docs were spread around Phoenix, LiveView, Ecto, etc.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ – HexDocs home page with new search functionality
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs-search – GitHub repository for the HexDocs search engine, built in Gleam and Lustre
• https://hex.pm/blog/announcing-new-hexdocs-search-engine – Official announcement of the new HexDocs search engine powered by Typesense
• New mix hex.search command available after updating with mix local.hex - searches across all your project dependencies with their specific versions
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/ – Elixir standard library docs (currently not included in hex.search results)
• https://bsky.app/profile/swmansionelixir.bsky.social/post/3m3s3bzsp6s2g – Software Mansion announces the Elixir Language Tour
• https://elixir-language-tour.swmansion.com – Web-based interactive Elixir learning tool using Popcorn (Elixir running in WebASM) - no installation required
• https://x.com/polvalente/status/1981174585040261610 – Paulo Valente announces completion of Nx work targeting Mac hardware
• https://github.com/elixir-nx/emlx/pull/87 – PR for EMLX Nx Backend enabling Stable Diffusion on Mac GPU using MLX (an array framework for Apple silicon)
• Work sponsored by tvlabs, dashbit, and TheErlef - companies can sponsor ongoing Nx work through TheErlef
• https://x.com/gergelyorosz/status/1980560177305878702 – Analysis of how the AWS outage exposed engineering failures where products don't plan for region or provider failures
• https://www.techradar.com/home/smart-home/smart-bed-owners-experience-aws-nightmare-as-outage-leaves-them-sweating-and-stuck-in-upright-position – Eight Sleep Pod smart beds were left overheating and stuck in upright positions during the AWS outage
• https://immich.app/ – Self-hosted photo and video management solution (not cloud-dependent)
• https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp – Google Chrome releases public preview of Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI coding assistants
• https://tidewave.ai/ – Tidewave Web - browser agnostic development tool

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/268

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://github.com/typhoonworks/lotus – Lotus - a lightweight SQL query runner and storage library for Elixir applications with Ecto
• https://github.com/typhoonworks/lotus_web – LotusWeb - companion library for the Lotus SQL query runner
• Provides a safe, read-only environment for executing analytical queries while offering organized storage and management of saved queries
• https://www.metabase.com/ – Metabase - business intelligence tool that Lotus draws inspiration from
• https://github.com/ankane/blazer – Blazer - Ruby gem that inspired the Lotus library

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/
• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/eval – Interactively run an IEx shell in the browser locally with no Elixir install
• https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/ – Github project for Popcorn
• https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3luptf3p76s24 – Popcorn announcement post
• https://blog.swmansion.com/popcorn-bringing-elixir-to-the-browser-8993a58a00be – Blog post about Popcorn and how it works, limitations, etc.
• https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM - Tiny Erlang VM
• https://atomvm.org/ – AtomVM is a lightweight implementation of the BEAM virtual machine
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – LiveDebugger - Software Mansion project we talked about previously
• https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten – Emscripten - An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
• https://wasi.dev/ – WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is a group of standards-track API specifications for software compiled to the W3C WebAssembly (Wasm) standard.
• https://github.com/software-mansion/smelter – Toolkit for real-time, low latency, programmable video and audio mixing.
• https://smelter.dev/
• https://globalelixirmeetups.com/ – Website setup to coordinate the meetups (find a registered one or host)

Guest Information

• https://x.com/uusszz – on Twitter/X
• https://github.com/mat-hek/ – on Github
• https://swmansion.com/ – Software Mansion website
• https://x.com/elixirmembrane – Membrane Framework on X/Twitter
• https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social – Membrane Framework on Bluesky
• https://discord.com/invite/nwnfVSY – Software Mansion on Discord

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• Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social
• David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com
• David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/256

Elixir Community News

• https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes.
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.19 RC release with up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, types system updates, and improved pretty printing
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConfEU videos playlist with all 4 keynotes and Lightning Talks
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-ckmSt1gI&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=13 – José Valim's keynote "Type System and Elixir Updates + Extended Q&A"
• https://github.com/naymspace/backpex – Backpex - highly customizable administration panel for Phoenix LiveView applications
• https://backpex.live/ – Backpex project landing page
• https://demo.backpex.live/admin/users – Live demo of Backpex admin panel
• https://hexdocs.pm/ash_ai/readme.html – Ash AI documentation - AI implementation for the Ash Framework
• https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1927249155019149409 – Zach Daniel's tweet teasing Ash AI features
• https://blog.swmansion.com/elixir-contributor-summit-2025-shaping-the-future-together-at-software-mansion-cc3271a188eb – Blog post about the informal Elixir Contributors Summit held after ElixirConf EU
• https://github.com/smartrent/quokka – Quokka - Elixir formatter that combines mix format and mix credo to automatically fix code style issues
• https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn – Popcorn - library for running client-side Elixir in browsers with JavaScript interoperability
• https://popcorn.swmansion.com/simple_repl/ – Popcorn live demo REPL
• https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM project that Popcorn is based on, compiles to WASM
• https://www.mimiquate.com/blog/introducing-elixir-observer-a-better-way-to-explore-elixir-packages – Blog post introducing Elixir Observer for exploring Hex packages
• https://elixir-observer.com/ – Elixir Observer website for package exploration
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-FsRSDg6Pc – YouTube demo video of Elixir Observer
• https://github.com/mimiquate/elixir_observer – Open source GitHub repository for Elixir Observer
• https://elixir-observer.com/packages/ecto – Example of Ecto package analysis on Elixir Observer

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/162

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView released v0.19.5
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1681719691503386632 – Will the Elixir type system make it harder for beginners?
• https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1683468212975939585 – New Req feature that makes it easy to stream a response.
• https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/breakdown-of-http-clients-in-elixir/ – Andrea Leopardi wrote a helpful post about HTTP clients in Elixir.
• https://www.thestackcanary.com/from-python-pytorch-to-elixir-nx/ – An article titled “From Python to Elixir Machine Learning” has been getting some attention recently about moving from Python PyTorch to Elixir-Nx.
• https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1681422911763107841 – Sean Moriarity's book "Machine Learning in Elixir" is now in beta
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/154 – Previous interview with Sean Moriarity - Serving Up AI with Sean Moriarity
• https://pragprog.com/titles/smelixir/machine-learning-in-elixir/ – Machine Learning in Elixir book
• https://twitter.com/ElixirMembrane/status/1679129777490280449 – The Membrane Framework announced they are planning a conference in October.
• https://rtcon.live/ – Membrane Framework conference will be October 12-14 in Krakow Poland.
• https://twitter.com/IScottMing/status/1682307757695979521 – Lexical LSP now supports Elixir 1.15
• https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical/issues/244 – Github issue for tracking Lexical LSP and OTP 26 support
• https://paraxial.io/blog/still-safe – Michael Lubas wrote a new security blog post about Elixir in response to a research paper.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://twitter.com/royalicing/status/1671689512685301762 – Orb, a friendly DSL for WebAssembly
• https://icing.space/2023/introducing-orb
• https://hexdocs.pm/orb/Orb.html
• https://github.com/RoyalIcing/Orb – Orb Github project
• https://calculated.world/
• https://icing.space/2023/how-is-a-webassembly-module-like-a-ruby-class
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/09/01/dockyard-r-d-firefly-optimizes-your-elixir-compilation
• https://getfirefly.org/ – Firefly project
• https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly – Firefly Github project
• https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/
• https://www.figma.com/
• https://github.com/RoyalIcing/OrbWasmtime
• https://hex.pm/packages/rustler
• https://github.com/viniarck/wasmtime-ex
• https://github.com/tessi/wasmex
• https://github.com/christhekeele/matcha
• https://components.guide/color
• https://github.com/grych/drab

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/royalicing – on Twitter
• https://github.com/royalicing/ – on Github
• https://hachyderm.io/@royalicing – on Fediverse
• https://icing.space/ – Blog

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• Cade Ward - @cadebward
• Cade Ward on Fediverse - @cadebward@genserver.social

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