Thinking Elixir Podcast

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The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and develo... more

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December 30, 2025285: From Popcorn to Robots
News includes Software Mansion pushing the boundaries of Popcorn by running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly, the Programming Nerves book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna launching in beta, a new minimalist Stripe integration library called PinStripe, Beam Bots announced for resilient robotics on the BEAM, Saša Jurić’s thought-provoking Goatmire talk now available online, Tidewave.ai adding Vue.js support with impressive performance improvements, LiveTable v0.4.0 released with powerful data table features, Supabase announcing Multigres for horizontally scalable Postgres, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/285
Elixir Community News
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https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/2001673272706945157 – Software Mansion announces running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly with Popcorn
https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/tree/main/examples/local_form_demo – Example demo of a LiveView running in WASM in the browser
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/local-forms/ – Interactive example of a local LiveView running a form with Ecto schema validations in the browser
https://nitter.net/davydog187/status/2001666856243933662 – Dave Lucia announces JQL library for working with Jira Query Language
https://github.com/tv-labs/jql – JQL - An Ecto-like DSL for writing Jira Query Language to automate Jira tasks
https://bsky.app/profile/hugobarauna.com/post/3ma74jhrid22u – Hugo Baraúna announces the Programming Nerves book beta launch
https://www.programmingnerves.dev – Programming Nerves book website - learn to build production ready embedded systems with Elixir and Nerves
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eileen-noonan-72a2856_tinyelixirstripe-activity-7407602470325022720-aWql/ – Eileen Noonan announces PinStripe library for Stripe integration
https://dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with-req-stripe – Dashbit article on SDKs with Req for Stripe by Wojtek Mach that inspired PinStripe
https://github.com/enoonan/pin_stripe/ – PinStripe GitHub repository - A minimalist Stripe integration for Elixir
https://hexdocs.pm/pin_stripe/readme.html – PinStripe documentation on HexDocs
https://harton.nz/blog/announcing-beam-bots/ – Announcement blog post for Beam Bots - Resilient Robotics on the BEAM
https://beambots.dev/ – Beam Bots website
https://github.com/beam-bots/bb – Beam Bots GitHub repository with Spark DSL for declarative robot definitions
https://nitter.net/sasajuric/status/2003049285739290645 – Saša Jurić announces his Goatmire talk is now online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrKfCs-mr0 – "Tell me a Story" talk by Saša Jurić - musings on software development in collaborative environments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE – The Soul of Erlang talk from 2019 referenced in the discussion
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2003485910399348757 – José Valim shares Tidewave.ai updates including Vue.js support
https://tidewave.ai/blog/depth-based-inspector – Tidewave's new depth-based inspector for selecting elements behind other elements
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp – Claude's Chrome Extension for agentic browsing
https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/blob/main/reports/claude-in-chrome-v-chrome-devtools-mcp.md – Comparison of Claude Code using Chrome extension vs Chrome's dev tool for token usage
https://nitter.net/virinchi_cv/status/2000786463206858819 – Announcement of LiveTable v0.4.0 release
https://livetable.gurujada.com/ – LiveTable website - Phoenix LiveView library for feature-rich data tables
https://github.com/gurujada/live_table – LiveTable GitHub repository
https://nitter.net/kiwicopple/status/2002071541237100828 – Supabase announces Multigres - horizontally scalable Postgres architecture
https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository
https://multigres.com/ – Multigres website - Vitess adaptation for Postgres
https://vitess.io/ – Vitess - cloud-native database that extends MySQL with sharding and high availability
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32min
December 23, 2025284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System
News includes José Valim announcing that Elixir v1.20 is well underway with full-type inference possibly landing before the end of the year, Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 with fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for creating beautiful email templates, Dashbit's new nimble_zta library for zero trust authentication extracted from Livebook, Björn Gustavsson's ElixirConf EU talk on BEAM history and internals with insights on a potential BEAM v2 runtime 5-10 years away, GoatMire conference videos being published, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/284
Elixir Community News
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Show update - podcast is now also on YouTube with images of blog posts, projects, and articles displayed during discussions
https://nitter.net/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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25min
December 16, 2025283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk
News includes celebrating Erlang's 27th birthday as open source, results from the Elixir Hub 2025 survey showing strong community growth with over 1000 participants, a fun Govee Lights control library, a new data_migration package for LiveDashboard, Tidewave.ai's impressive accessibility testing and fixing capabilities showing 2x better performance than Claude Code standalone, critical React Server Components remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Next.js, and Zig's dramatic departure from GitHub citing Microsoft's AI obsession and declining service quality, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/283
Elixir Community News
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Happy Birthday to Erlang - celebrating 27 years as Open Source
https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1808898170673639547 – EEF vote on when to celebrate the Erlang Anniversary (July 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) – Wikipedia article noting Erlang was released as free and open-source in 1998
https://web.archive.org/19991009002753/http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTpos.shtml – Archive of the original Erlang open source release announcement
https://api.github.com/repos/erlang/otp – Erlang OTP GitHub repository information showing it was created in 2009
https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/LICENSE.txt – Erlang OTP license changed to Apache License 2.0 in June 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar – Critical writings that extolled the values of open source
https://elixir-hub.com/surveys/2025 – Elixir Hub 2025 survey with over 1000 participants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition – Dreyfus model of skill acquisition referenced in survey analysis
https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1pa3y3x/elixir_package_for_govee_lights_device_control – Reddit posting about Govee Lights Elixir control package
https://github.com/adia-dev/govee-lights-ex – GitHub project for Govee Lights Elixir package
https://hexdocs.pm/govee_lights – HexDocs documentation for Govee Lights package
https://hex.pm/packages/data_migration – Published data_migration package for viewing and running Ecto Data Migrations from LiveDashboard
https://github.com/tv-labs/data-migration – GitHub repository for data_migration package
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfsigp5qadbh2vzs4h7vprvs/post/3m7iaqk37tk2q – Bluesky post announcing data_migration
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995891610568073650 – José Valim's post about Tidewave.ai finding and fixing accessibility issues
https://tidewave.ai/blog/improving-web-accessibility-with-trace-augmented-generation – Tidewave blog post detailing their accessibility improvement process
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1998066738865569930 – José Valim's post about Tidewave recent updates including file references and viewport presets
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession – Article about Zig programming language leaving GitHub due to Microsoft's AI obsession
https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 – GitHub issue demonstrating GitHub Actions quality decline
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-its-poor-ai-products/ar-AA1RWB7f – Article about Microsoft's struggles with AI product adoption
https://threatprotect.qualys.com/2025/12/04/react-server-components-rsc-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/ – Critical remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182)
https://snyk.io/blog/security-advisory-critical-rce-vulnerabilities-react-server-components/ – Snyk security advisory about critical RCE vulnerabilities in React Server Components
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44min
December 09, 2025282: Type Systems and View Transitions
News includes cutting-edge research from José Valim and Guillaume Duboc on the data structures powering Elixir's type system that made v1.19 both stronger and faster than v1.18, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with new conveniences including view transition API support, LiveDebugger's biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection and resource monitoring, a new Nx feature enabling Python-Elixir model integration, LangChain library updates, Hologram's creator seeking sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time development, WebGPU now supported in all major browsers bringing desktop-class GPU performance to the web, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/282
Elixir Community News
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https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/12/02/lazier-bdds-for-set-theoretic-types/ – Blog post by Guillaume Duboc and José Valim about "Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types" - documenting the data structures powering Elixir's type system and optimizations in v1.19
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995862601113501791 – José Valim's tweet about the BDD blog post
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.4 – Elixir v1.19.4 release with bug fixes and new mix xref feature
https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Xref.html – Documentation for mix xref task including new --min-cycle-label option
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE Index - programming language popularity rankings
https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ – Article critiquing TIOBE's methodology as fundamentally flawed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234633 – Hacker News discussion where José shares how Elixir disappeared from TIOBE top 100 due to having too many books on Amazon
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/changelog.html#v1-1-18-2025-11-25 – Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 release with new conveniences including function passing in assign, onDocumentPatch callback, and phx-viewport-overrun-target attribute
https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/cf7cdb91ba037b08cdc583763e4ffc69 – Example gist for using the new onDocumentPatch callback with view transition APIs
https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/613125993362e30443e58558aa3c8ba0 – Example gist for phx-viewport-overrun-target for infinite table scrolling
https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/1995511897651806624 – Software Mansion announcement of LiveDebugger 0.5.0 release
https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveDebugger documentation - their biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection, async loading, dead LiveViews tracking, and resource monitoring
https://nitter.net/davydog187/status/1994960093511905305 – Dave Lucia's tweet about new Nx feature by Paulo Valente
New Nx feature allows models written in Python to talk to Elixir and vice versa, breaking down integration barriers
https://bsky.app/profile/brainlid.bsky.social/post/3m6z4xoglls24 – Bluesky announcement of Elixir LangChain v0.4.1 release
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – LangChain library for Elixir - GitHub repository
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – LangChain changelog with enhancements for DeepSeek, OpenAI and Anthropic
https://nitter.net/bart_blast/status/1994150917420056651 – Bart Blast's tweet requesting sponsorship for Hologram development
https://hologram.page/blog/seeking-sustainable-sponsorship – Blog post explaining the need for sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time Hologram development
https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram GitHub repository - transpiles pure Elixir to JS for the browser
https://web.dev/blog/webgpu-supported-major-browsers – Article announcing WebGPU is now supported in major browsers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGPU_API – MDN documentation for WebGPU API - successor to WebGL providing better GPU compatibility and advanced features
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35min
December 02, 2025281: Planning for the Unexpected
News includes Erlang OTP 28.2 release with improvements across the runtime and standard library, a significant update to the Elixir "whois" library for querying domain registration information, Tidewave Web adding Figma support for designer integration, a new KQL (Kibana Query Language) parser library from TvLabs, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation now publishing vulnerability data directly to OSV.dev, and more! We also have an in-depth discussion about the difference between handling errors and designing for failure, exploring how Elixir and the BEAM give you the ability to plan for system recovery from unexpected exceptions using primitives like supervisors.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/281
Elixir Community News
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https://nitter.net/erlangforums/status/1992988094522384681 – Erlang OTP 28.2 release announcement
https://erlangforums.com/t/patch-package-otp-28-2-released/5279 – Details on OTP 28.2 release including fixes to Compiler, Erts/JIT, Kernel, public_key, SSH, SSL (better TLS 1.3 support), and syntax_tools
https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3m67zxzzdjs25 – Tyler Young announces significant update to the Elixir "whois" library
https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/whois.ex – Pure Elixir WHOIS client and parser for querying domain registration information
The date_time_parser library was updated to 1.3.0 to help support the whois library update
https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/figma.html – Tidewave Web adds Figma support documentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPC2KbkIeQ – YouTube video demonstrating how the Figma integration works with Tidewave
https://hex.pm/packages/kql – TvLabs releases library that parses KQL (Kibana Query Language)
https://github.com/tv-labs/kql – GitHub repository for the KQL parser library
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/query – Microsoft Kusto query language documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/lucene-query-syntax – Lucene query syntax documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/esql-kibana – ElasticQL documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qt3c3wtm4y63hc7qftg2erdp/post/3m63azgtbds2t – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation CNA now publishes vulnerability data directly to OSV.dev
https://security.erlef.org/aegis/ – Information about the EEF ÆGIS Initiative, now covering Nerves project and OpenRiak
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1991140574540251590 – José Valim's post about CloudFlare outage discussing the difference between handling errors vs designing for failure and how Erlang/Elixir's approach provides system-level mechanics for resilience
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29min
November 25, 2025280: Dark Matter Developers
News includes Elixir 1.19.3 point release with enhanced regular expression support in config files, Tidewave Web adding support for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents, Hologram's JavaScript porting initiative seeking community help to complete their browser runtime, a new pg_large_objects library for streaming large binary data with Postgres, the experimental playwright_ex library for browser automation, and the latest TIOBE Index showing C# nearly displacing Java while Elixir ranks at #38, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/280
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https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.3 – Elixir 1.19.3 point release with support for /E modifier in config file regular expressions and mix help for standard library apps
https://tidewave.ai/blog/claude-code-codex – Tidewave Web now supports Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxzPZ0PGd2s – Video showing how to configure Claude Code and Codex agents in Tidewave Web
https://nitter.net/bart_blast/status/1989862380776370450?s=12&t=Xn6DY9Qzc5nGLdqEskRjvQ – Hologram announcement about JavaScript porting request
https://hologram.page/blog/elixir-to-javascript-porting-initiative – Hologram's call for help porting Erlang functions to JavaScript for browser runtime
https://hologram.page/reference/client-runtime/erlang – Progress page tracking Erlang to JavaScript porting efforts for Hologram
https://github.com/frerich/pg_large_objects – New pg_large_objects library for streaming large binary data to/from Postgres using the Large Object API
https://elixirforum.com/t/playwright-ex-playwright-client-for-browser-automation/73323 – New playwright_ex library for browser automation with Chromium, Firefox, Safari and Edge
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE Index updated language rankings with C# nearly displacing Java and Elixir at 38
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/#instances – TIOBE Index methodology explaining how language popularity is calculated
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor – Reference to Microsoft Blazor as context for C# growth
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43min
November 18, 2025279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes
News includes Chris McCord's FlyDeploy for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io, the Elixir GRPC library update with interactive Livebook documentation, ErrorTracker v0.7.0 with LiveView 1.0 support, a new AI-powered terminal emulator called exterm_ai, Horde joining a new GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, SmartLogic's case study using Elixir for real-time air quality monitoring, GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript becoming the most used language, and Mark shares his detailed AI development workflow that compresses 2 weeks of work into 2 days by using coding agents as a Software Architect, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/279
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https://github.com/chrismccord/fly_deploy – Chris McCord releases FlyDeploy - enables hot code upgrades for Elixir applications on Fly.io without restarts or downtime
https://nitter.net/sleipni_r/status/1986791040607481930 – Elixir GRPC library updated to v0.11.4 with beautiful interactive Livebook documentation and new stream features including effects and map_error
https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.7.0 – ErrorTracker v0.7.0 released with Igniter installer, LiveView 1.0 support, better MariaDB support, and security updates
https://github.com/metehan/exterm_ai – exterm_ai - an advanced web-based terminal emulator with built-in AI assistance powered by OpenRouter, like a web-based warp.dev
https://github.com/elixir-horde/horde – Horde - distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt
https://github.com/elixir-horde – New @elixir_horde GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, fault-tolerant supervision, and global process registration
https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3m52kusb7ek2x – PSA for Zed editor users about Expert LSP not having versioned releases yet
https://gist.github.com/dbernheisel/b533b289fd5ed13f8333ae92a71c9606 – David's guide for configuring Zed to manually update Expert LSP
https://bsky.app/profile/smartlogic.io/post/3m5ecck4h3j2q – SmartLogic announcement about ICRT case study
https://smartlogic.io/case-studies/icrt – SmartLogic case study on using Elixir to help researchers with real-time air quality monitoring and alerts for residents
https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/top-3-liveview-form-mistakes – Article covering the top 3 LiveView form mistakes - slow laggy forms, brittle UI/database coupling, and valid data that can't submit
https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang – Article about falling in love with Erlang
https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/why-i-chose-phoenix-liveview-over-rails-laravel-and-next-js – Article explaining why the author chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/ – GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript overtaking Python and JavaScript, 36M new developers joined, and AI adoption accelerating
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
Discussion Resources
Mark shares his AI development workflow using Claude Code and Cursor, going from PRD to implementation plan to working code with tests in 2 days instead of 2 weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULfEcPR0Gc – Y Combinator podcast about why enterprise is bad at AI, discussing the MIT report on AI initiative failures
https://github.com/maxim-ist/elixir-architect – New Elixir Architect Claude Code skill for AI-assisted development
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47min
November 11, 2025278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes
News includes the Curiosum Elixir survey closing soon, ReqLLM reaching 1.0 with standardized LLM API support across multiple providers, Isaac Yonemoto's Codicil library bringing semantic code understanding to AI assistants through MCP, José Valim teasing Tidewave Web expansion to support Django, Rails, Next.js and other popular frameworks, phoenix_test_playwright adding browser pooling for improved performance, Peter Ullrich's deep dive into using Postgres WAL for database change notifications at scale, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/278
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://elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition – Curiosum Elixir survey open until November 14th, 2025 (about 2 days remaining when episode releases)
https://elixir-hub.com/surveys – Where survey results will be published after the survey closes
https://nitter.net/mikehostetler/status/1985134169899360709 – Announcement tweet about ReqLLM 1.0 release
https://agentjido.xyz/blog/announcing-req_llm-1_0 – Blog post announcing ReqLLM 1.0, a Req-based package to standardize LLM API calls and responses across providers
https://github.com/agentjido/req_llm – ReqLLM GitHub repository - went through 8 RCs to reach 1.0, includes Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock support, and more
https://nitter.net/DNAutics/status/1983278808271663452 – Isaac Yonemoto's tweet about using an LLM to build an MCP to analyze and service Elixir codebases
https://github.com/E-xyza/codicil/ – Codicil - Elixir library providing AI coding assistants with deep semantic understanding of your codebase through the Model Context Protocol
Isaac will be speaking about Codicil at ExMex conference (which will have concluded by episode release)
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1985408862690685315 – José Valim teases upcoming Tidewave Web expansion to support multiple frameworks including Django, FastAPI, Flask, Next.js, Phoenix, Rails, and React + Vite
https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright – phoenix_test_playwright library - executes PhoenixTest cases in actual browsers via Playwright
https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 with expanded click support, drag and drop, and browser pooling for reduced memory and higher speed
https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright/pull/86 – Pull request implementing browser pooling feature
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test – PhoenixTest documentation
https://bsky.app/profile/peterullrich.com/post/3m4qms5kp322y – Peter Ullrich's Bluesky post about listening to database changes through Postgres WAL
https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal – In-depth blog post about using Postgres Write Ahead Log (WAL) for database change notifications at scale, avoiding pg_notify performance issues
https://github.com/superfly/fly_rpc_elixir – fly_rpc Elixir library that uses WAL monitoring to track Postgres replication for distributed RPC calls across regions
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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32min
November 04, 2025277: Searching Across the Hexiverse
News includes a powerful new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam that lets you search across all your project dependencies with mix hex.search, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour that runs in the browser via WebASM, Paulo Valente's breakthrough getting Stable Diffusion running on Mac GPUs through EMLX, lessons learned from the AWS outage that left smart beds stuck and overheating, Chrome DevTools' new MCP server for AI coding assistants, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/277
Elixir Community News
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https://nitter.net/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://nitter.net/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://nitter.net/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
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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27min
October 28, 2025276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed
News includes the major release of Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, plus the first OpenChain certification bringing more transparency to the BEAM ecosystem. We also cover the Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library update for Tailwind 4 support, visual improvements coming to ExDocs admonition blocks, Anthropic's new ClaudeCode Web that lets you code directly in the browser with GitHub integration, a critical Redis security vulnerability with a perfect 10.0 severity score affecting hundreds of thousands of servers, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/276
Elixir Community News
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https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1978729853349196170 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.19 release on social media
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/ – Official blog announcement for Elixir v1.19 release
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.19/changelog.html – Detailed changelog documentation for Elixir v1.19
https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1978896262473662539 – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation announces OpenChain certification for Elixir v1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02/26/elixir-openchain-certification/ – Details about Elixir's OpenChain certification bringing transparency and trust to the BEAM ecosystem
https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/issues/2149#issuecomment-3394340806 – ExDocs visual adjustments to admonition blocks for better consistency across light and dark modes
https://bsky.app/profile/yellowduck.be/post/3m3htzs4qyg2a – Announcement of Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library v0.0.8 update
https://mishka.tools/blog/introducing-mishka-chelekom-v0.0.8-with-tailwind-4-support-and-custom-configuration – Details about Mishka Chelekom v0.0.8 with Tailwind 4 support and Phoenix 1.8 compatibility
https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1942240/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions – Report on AWS outage on October 20, 2025 that affected half the web
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status – AWS health status dashboard
GitHub announced plans to move infrastructure to Azure over 1-2 years
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web – Anthropic announces ClaudeCode Web
https://claude.ai/code – ClaudeCode Web interface
https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg – Video demonstration of ClaudeCode Web
https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ – Redis security advisory for CVE-2025-49844 with a 10.0 severity score allowing remote code execution
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