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September 30, 2025272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto
News includes the release of Vault, a lightweight library for process-scoped global data storage that uses the Process Dictionary for immutable context sharing, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant ML-DSA cryptographic support and enhanced DNS resolver capabilities, Tidewave Teams launching and Tidewave's new TODO support, AshTypescript for automatic TypeScript type generation from Ash resources with impressive frontend integration demos, exciting Elixir 1.19-rc.0 performance improvements showing dependency compilation speeds cut by more than half on multi-core systems, conference updates from the successful Goatmire Elixir 2025 event, and the ExMex Elixir conference opening ticket sales for their November Austin event, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/272
Elixir Community News
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https://elixirforum.com/t/vault-a-lightweight-process-scoped-global-data-storage-with-immutability-guarantees/72553 – Elixir Forum announcement for Vault library - lightweight process-scoped global data storage
https://github.com/dimamik/vault – GitHub repository for Vault - provides immutable data storage within a process subtree using Process Dictionary
https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-28.1 – OTP 28.1 release with support for compiled Regular Expression export/import, DNS resolver enhancements, and ML-DSA quantum-resistant algorithm support
https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/204/final – FIPS 204 specification for ML-DSA quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithm
https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/teams.html – Documentation for Tidewave Teams feature - central management for billing and configuration
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1970493050725245120 – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave now supporting TODOs
https://github.com/ash-project/ash_typescript – AshTypescript library for automatic TypeScript type generation from Ash resources and actions
https://github.com/ChristianAlexander/ash_typescript_demo – Community demo project showing ash_typescript integration with TypeScript frontend
https://x.com/RootCert/status/1967380217795846645 – Christian Alexander's tweet showcasing TypeScript bridge for Ash resources over HTTP and Phoenix Channels
https://bsky.app/profile/derekkraan.bsky.social/post/3lyufmue6ss2f – Derek Kraan's performance report on Elixir 1.19-rc.0 showing significant dependency compilation speed improvements
https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lxvf7fi2j22v – Zach Daniel's macOS command for setting MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT environment variable
MacOS ENV command for partition count export MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=$(( $(sysctl -n hw.physicalcpu) / 2 ))
Linux ENV command for partition count export MIX_OS_DEPS_COMPILE_PARTITION_COUNT=$(( $(lscpu -p | grep -v '^#' | sort -u -t, -k2,2 | wc -l) / 2 ))
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp – Peer Stritzinger's Kickstarter for rebar3 improvements, including plugin lockfile mechanisms
https://underjord.io/conference-report-goatmire-elixir-2025.html – Lars Wikman's conference report from Goatmire Elixir 2025 with behind-the-scenes insights
https://bsky.app/profile/exmexconf.bsky.social/post/3lv74npz6mc2u – ExMex Elixir conference announcement for ticket sales opening
https://exmexconf.com/ – ExMex Elixir conference website - November 6-7 in downtown Austin
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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31min
September 23, 2025271: Testing, Searching, and Funding
News includes an interactive test runner called mix_test_interactive that brings Jest-style testing to ExUnit, TrieHard - a blazing fast Rust-powered Trie implementation for search and autocomplete functionality, ReqLLM - a new unified library for LLM interactions built on Req, Hologram v0.6.0 bringing production-ready features to the pure Elixir full-stack framework, the successfully funded Rebar4 project promising better OTP integration, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/271
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/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive – An interactive test runner for ExUnit tests with dynamic test filtering
https://x.com/navinpeiris/status/1967077714030195143 – X post sharing the mix_test_interactive library
https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive?tab=readme-ov-file#interactive-commands – Interactive commands documentation for mix_test_interactive
https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit – An interactive Git shell mentioned as a related tool
https://x.com/nikos_maroulis/status/1967626142560793057 – X post announcing TrieHard library by Nikos Maroulis
https://github.com/nyo16/trie_hard – Blazing fast, memory-efficient Trie implementation for Elixir with Rust backend
https://torus.dimamik.com/ – Alternative to TrieHard for database-based search functionality
https://github.com/dimamik/torus – GitHub repository for Torus database search library
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigram – Trigram reference mentioned in discussion
https://github.com/agentjido/req_llm – ReqLLM - A Req-based library for LLM interactions by Mike Hostetler
https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1966989434781659571 – X post thread for the new ReqLLM library
https://elixirforum.com/t/reqllm-composable-llm-client-built-on-req/72514/7 – ElixirForum post with ReqLLM discussion
Jido - toolkit for building autonomous, distributed agent systems in Elixir
https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-6-0-released – Hologram v0.6.0 release announcement with production-ready features
https://hologram.page/demos/bouncing-ball – Interactive Bouncing Ball Demo showcasing Hologram's new action delay capabilities
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp – Successfully funded Rebar4 project Kickstarter campaign
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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18min
September 16, 2025270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar
News includes a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with the goal of making it an official part of the OTP build system, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration for accessing multiple LLM models, Phoenix 1.8.1 release fixing AGENTS.md generation issues, ElixirConf US 2025 videos being slowly released on YouTube including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, an AshFramework security advisory about before_transaction hooks, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/270
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/grisporg/status/1963674539008639403 – Tweet about Peer Stritzinger launching a new Kickstarter for Rebar4 development
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp – Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with goal to integrate into OTP project as official build system
https://tidewave.ai/blog/open-router-open-ai – Tidewave Web now supports OpenRouter, unlocking access to other LLM models
https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-goes-full-stack – Announcement that Tidewave Web adds React support and goes full-stack
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962922957933625593 – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave Web React support
https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/react.html – Tidewave documentation on React integration
https://github.com/tidewave-ai/roadmap/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc – Tidewave roadmap on GitHub where users can vote for next framework to support
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.8.1 release changelog with fixes for AGENTS.md CSS and JavaScript sections
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWZzC6nN1OaBZLmxhpqCLfKt – ElixirConf US 2025 videos playlist being slowly released on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fj2u6Vm42E – Chris McCord's keynote "Elixir's AI Future" from ElixirConf US 2025
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lpylqrcpp6ttqqtrykj5wyoa/post/3lxvntora2c2k – Bluesky post about ElixirConf videos being accidentally published early
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-jj4j-x5ww-cwh9 – AshFramework CVE advisory about before_transaction hooks executing despite policy restrictions
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised – Industry news about major NPM packages being compromised affecting 2+ billion downloads per week
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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24min
September 09, 2025269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives
News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that's already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fascinating research showing Elixir performing exceptionally well in LLM code generation benchmarks (scoring highest among all tested languages), the announcement that next ElixirConf US will be in Chicago, and a critical security alert about a new type of developer dependency attack that weaponizes AI CLI tools, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/269
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/elixir-lang/expert – Expert, the new official Elixir LSP was released
https://expert-lsp.org/ – Expert LSP official website
https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/blob/main/pages/installation.md#editor-specific-setup – Installation instructions for different editors
https://zed.dev/docs/languages/elixir#expert – Zed editor already supports Expert
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960402157922082981 – José Valim announces Tidewave Web first update
https://tidewave.ai/blog/editor-integration-notifications – Tidewave Web blog post and full changelog
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960692138112352355 – José mentions plans to open public roadmap soon
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962491846795391333 – José Valim interviewed about Tidewave Web with Ruby focus
https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-introducing-tidewave-interview-with-jos-valim#interview-with-jose-valim – Full Ruby AI interview with José Valim
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960683093225865463 – José discusses Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs – Zed working on Claude Code support
https://github.com/orgs/tidewave-ai/projects/1 – Tidewave's public roadmap
https://github.com/polvalente/handoff – Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution
https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1961071773438574897 – LiveDebugger v0.4.0 release announcement
https://forms.gle/V6tUHpJt94vi1v1TA – LiveDebugger feedback form
https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger GitHub repository
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962649394139877479 – José Valim shares Elixir's exceptional LLM performance results
https://x.com/tomthesilva/status/1962628935730241712 – Thomas Silva's research on language performance in code generation
https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark – Tencent's AutoCodeBenchmark multilingual coding evaluation
https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/blob/main/figures/exp_acb.png – Benchmark results showing Elixir's top performance
https://x.com/hugobarauna/status/1961914102764261688 – Next ElixirConf US announced for Chicago
Errata correction from José about OIDC implementation attribution to Jonatan Männchen
https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1960771720727683507 – New developer dependency attack vector using AI CLI tools
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-popular-nx-build-system-package-compromised-with-data-stealing-malware – Supply chain security alert about compromised Nx package
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/ – Semgrep security analysis of the NPM project's Nx compromise
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome – Anthropic's post about securing browser interactions
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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30min
September 02, 2025268: Got your Popcorn here!
News includes a new library called Lotus and LotusWeb that provides a safe, read-only environment for running SQL analytics queries with organized storage for saved queries. After the news, we had an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project, which enables Elixir to run in WebAssembly (WASM) in the browser courtesy of AtomVM. We dig into how it works, what it's capable of doing, and where it could go in the future!
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 [email protected]
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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42min
August 26, 2025267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim
News includes the exciting announcement of Tidewave Web, a new AI-powered service that runs locally in your development environment with an AI chat sidebar that can directly interact with and modify your Phoenix and Rails applications. José Valim joins us for a deeper dive into Tidewave as well! We also cover a comprehensive new ElixirLang blog post about interoperability in 2025 that explores all the ways Elixir and BEAM can work with other languages and runtimes, from traditional NIFs and Ports to newer options like AtomVM for microcontrollers, Popcorn for browser deployment, and integrations with Rust, Zig, Python, and C++. Additionally, Livebook Teams has officially launched out of beta with SSO support and enterprise features, Oban v2.20.0 brings job updating capabilities and improved plugin supervision, PhoenixAnalytics v0.4.0 adds 12 new themes and drops the DuckDB requirement, LiveView v1.1.7 introduces a new stream_async function, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/267
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://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-web-phoenix-rails – Tidewave Web service announcement - an AI chat in the sidebar that can directly interact with and modify your app during development
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1957763507211927557 – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave implementing autoplay features and using contextual browser testing
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1957545436824166605 – José Valim's tweet announcing the new ElixirLang blog post on interoperability
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/08/18/interop-and-portability/ – ElixirLang blog post "Interoperability in 2025 beyond the Erlang VM" covering NIFs, Ports, AtomVM, Popcorn, Hologram, and various language integrations
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1956342836430881102 – José Valim's announcement that Livebook Teams is out of beta
https://livebook.dev/teams/ – Livebook Teams landing page - deploy Elixir notebooks as internal apps with SSO and Google Workspace support, $30/editor pricing
https://github.com/erlef/oidcc – OpenId Connect client library in Erlang & Elixir
https://bsky.app/profile/oban.pro/post/3lwekwml7zc2k – Oban v2.20.0 release announcement with update job, unique state groups, and nested plugin supervision features
https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html – Oban v2.20.0 changelog with detailed improvements
https://hexdocs.pm/oban/v2-20.html – Oban v2.20.0 optional upgrade steps for pruning performance improvements
https://x.com/mrpopov_com/status/1956006788819472594 – PhoenixAnalytics v0.4.0 release announcement
https://github.com/lalabuy948/PhoenixAnalytics – PhoenixAnalytics repository - now supports 12 themes, Postgres/MySQL/SQLite, and no longer requires DuckDB
https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lwod4ia6522e – LiveView v1.1.7 release announcement
https://github.com/utopos/live_stream_async – Reference to live_stream_async library that inspired the new stream_async function
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.1.7/changelog.html#v1-1-7-2025-08-18 – Phoenix LiveView 1.1.7 changelog with new stream_async function and portal hooks bugfix
https://elixircasts.io/multiple-layouts-in-phoenix-1.8 – ElixirCasts video tutorial on new Phoenix v1.8 layouts functionality
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
Discussion Resources
https://tidewave.ai
https://github.com/tidewave-ai/tidewave_phoenix
https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-web-phoenix-rails
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1957763507211927557
https://agents.md/
Guest Information
https://genserver.social/josevalim – José Valim on Mastadon
https://x.com/josevalim – José Valim on X/Twitter
https://github.com/josevalim – José Valim on Github
https://dashbit.co/ – Dashbit website and blog
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1h 9min
August 19, 2025266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features
News includes the official release of Phoenix 1.8.0 with exciting new features like dark mode themes, streamlined generators, magic links in phx.gen.auth, and AGENTS.md for LLM-assisted development. ElixirLS v0.29.2 with call hierarchy provider and MCP server integration, the new Torus library for seamless PostgreSQL search with Ecto, ThinkingElixir courses becoming completely free and open, a new Elixir Hub website centralizing community resources, LiveTable v0.3.1 updates for dynamic LiveView tables, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/266
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/chris_mccord/status/1952839142993252736 – Chris McCord announces Phoenix 1.8.0 release on X
https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-8-released – Official Phoenix 1.8.0 release blog post with details on new features
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.8.0/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.8.0 changelog detailing all changes and improvements
Phoenix 1.8.0 features include AGENTS.md for LLM development, themes with dark mode, streamlined generators, phx.gen.auth magic links, revamped guides, and scopes
https://thinkingelixir.com/ – ThinkingElixir courses (Pattern Matching and Code Flow) are now completely free and open, no longer requiring login. Site converted from WordPress to static hosting.
https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/releases/tag/v0.29.2 – ElixirLS v0.29.2 release with call hierarchy provider, built-in MCP server for LLM integration, and custom .formatter.exs file location setting
https://github.com/dimamik/torus – Torus - new Elixir library for seamless PostgreSQL search integration with Ecto
https://torus.dimamik.com/ – Torus library demo site showcasing search capabilities
https://bsky.app/profile/curiosum.bsky.social/post/3lwb7kqp34c2u – Bluesky announcement of new Elixir Hub website
https://x.com/pattrnmatch/status/1953905555141005692 – X post about Elixir Hub website launch
https://elixir-hub.com/ – Elixir Hub website - centralized resource for Elixir companies, books, and podcasts
https://bsky.app/profile/virinchicv.bsky.social/post/3lssupg7j7c2t – Bluesky announcement of LiveTable v0.3.1 update
https://github.com/gurujada/live_table – LiveTable - LiveView library for dynamic tables with sorting, filtering, and pagination
https://hexdocs.pm/flop – Flop library - alternative to LiveTable for data filtering and pagination
https://hexdocs.pm/flop_phoenix – Flop Phoenix - Phoenix integration for Flop filtering library
https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lwcf5xstik23 – EEF Bluesky post about sharing BEAM events on their website
http://erlef.org/events – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation events page for submitting BEAM community events
https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 official website
https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf US 2025 both virtual and in Orlando FL, August 28-29. Tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off
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August 12, 2025265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results
News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 being released with exciting new features like colocated JavaScript, portals for teleporting content, keyed comprehensions, and improved change tracking, Stack Overflow Survey 2025 results showing Elixir as the third most admired language and Phoenix as the most admired web framework for the third year running, Peter Solnica announcing a new high-level relation abstraction library called drops_relation built on top of Ecto, The Primeagen (a popular YouTube dev influencer) switching to Elixir and showcasing pattern matching features, Software Mansion organizing Global Elixir Meetups around the world for September 2025, ElixirConf US 2025 tickets available with a discount code, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/265
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/1951022612886462937 – José Valim announces Phoenix LiveView v1.1 release
https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1-1-released – Official Phoenix blog post for LiveView 1.1 release
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v1.1/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for the LiveView 1.1 release with upgrade instructions
https://github.com/dashbitco/lazy_html – LazyHTML - A new Dashbit project for efficient parsing and querying of HTML documents
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025 – Stack Overflow Survey 2025 results
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1950248561884410004 – José Valim congratulates Rust, Gleam and Elixir on being the top 3 most admired languages
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#2-dev-id-es – Stack Overflow 2025 survey section on development IDEs
https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3lv6opdo7b22p – Peter Solnica announces drops_relation v0.1.0
https://solnic.dev/posts/introducing-drops-relation/ – Blog post introducing Drops.Relation library
https://github.com/solnic/drops_relation – Drops.Relation GitHub repository - high-level relation abstraction on top of Ecto
https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1mcu6i8/theprimeagen_is_switching_to_elixir_from_rust/ – Reddit discussion about The Primeagen switching to Elixir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH9rm2U8jBQ – The Primeagen's YouTube video showcasing Elixir features
https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1950923744655954385 – Software Mansion announces Global Elixir Meetups idea
https://globalelixirmeetups.com/ – Website to coordinate global Elixir meetups happening September 22-28, 2025
https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando FL, August 28-29
https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf 2025 tickets with 10% discount using "ThinkingElixir" code
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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43min
August 05, 2025264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks
News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps to enhance coding agent experiences, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser through WebAssembly with no installation required, LiveVue v0.6.0 with 90% payload size reduction through JSON Patch operations, an awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading code changes while preserving LiveView state, MDEx v0.8 adding decorators support for enhanced code block styling, Hologram v0.5.0 delivering major performance improvements with milliseconds to microseconds execution times, ElixirConf US 2025 tickets available with our discount code, and a discussion about how AI-generated code is creating new bottlenecks in QA and code review processes, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/264
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/1948826989357367698 – José Valim announces Phoenix v1.8 will ship with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps, ensuring teams using coding agents have an outstanding experience out of the box
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/50ffaa5aa1c60503f01cd2107edd43f22435f9e7 – Phoenix commit adding the AGENTS.md file by Chris McCord
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/installer/templates/phx_single/AGENTS.md – The actual AGENTS.md template file in Phoenix
https://hex.pm/packages/usage_rules – Related package for usage rules
https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3luptf3p76s24 – Announcement post about Popcorn - Elixir in your browser via WebAssembly
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/ – Popcorn - run Elixir locally in your browser with no install required
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/eval – Interactive IEx shell demo running in the browser
https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/ – GitHub project for Popcorn
https://blog.swmansion.com/popcorn-bringing-elixir-to-the-browser-8993a58a00be – Blog post explaining how Popcorn works and its limitations
https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM - Tiny Erlang VM that powers Popcorn
https://atomvm.org/ – AtomVM website with details about the lightweight BEAM implementation
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/25/floss-weekly-episode-838-atomvm-and-the-full-stack-elixir-developer/ – Podcast appearance by AtomVM team
https://x.com/jskalc/status/1947674420459254203 – LiveVue v0.6.0 release announcement
https://github.com/Valian/live_vue – LiveVue project - end-to-end reactivity for Phoenix LiveView and Vue
https://x.com/jskalc/status/1950110941137285567 – Jakob explains new End to End testing setup for LiveVue
https://x.com/jskalc/status/1949882608424538420 – Awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading while keeping state
https://x.com/jskalc/status/1788308446007132509 – Original tip post about LiveView hot reloading
https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/2c26c876bb4430c1bdcd313b64e4c2c5 – Chris McCord's Gist showing how to implement LiveView hot reload with state preservation
https://x.com/leandrocesquini/status/1949827775541502037 – MDEx v0.8 release announcement
https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex – MDEx project - Markdown processor for Elixir
https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/0.8.0/MDEx.html#module-code-block-decorators – Documentation for MDEx decorators feature
https://bsky.app/profile/bartblast.com/post/3lutbbibma22a – Hologram v0.5.0 announcement
https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-5-0-released – Hologram v0.5.0 release blog post
https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram project - components defined in Elixir that become JS in the browser
https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2025 website
https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf ticket discount link with ThinkingElixir code for 10% off
https://x.com/ThatArrowsmith/status/1948490317277143438 – George Arrowsmith's tweet about QA becoming a bottleneck with AI-generated code
https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1948491086130819331 – Mike Hostetler's response about teams struggling with code review and QA of AI-generated code
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1948634632716488809 – José Valim's insight on the need for new software verification practices with AI code generation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2IZLR0LXc – Mark's first AI demo video: I Built an AI Tool That Saves Me Hours Every Week (Demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piS1J4ru1fE – Mark's second AI demo video: How to Build AI Systems That Actually Run Your Business (Not Just Chat)
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41min
July 29, 2025263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big
News includes the BEAM runtime fitting into just 16MB for the GRiSP Nano prototype, the BBC using Elixir to serve most of their web and mobile traffic, GenStage's pull-based design delivering 50% performance improvements, a new PDF data extraction library that leverages Python through PythonX, AppSignal's guide to deploying Phoenix with Kamal, an Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in applications, Peter Solnica's new inflection library for word transformations, Fly.io announcing Docker Compose compatibility for multi-container deployments, and the full ElixirConf 2025 agenda going live with discount tickets available, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/263
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://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto – GRiSP Nano prototype shows BEAM can run in just 16MB of memory
https://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2 – GRiSP 2 tiny computer available now for BEAM applications
https://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s – Bluesky post announcing BBC's ElixirConf EU talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20 – How Elixir Powers the BBC From PoC to Production at Scale by Ettore Berardi
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/24846-en_GB/ – BBC job posting for Senior Software Engineer using Elixir
https://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801 – GenStage's pull-based design explanation with 6-minute video showing 50% speed improvement
https://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412 – X post announcing the pdf_extractor library for data extraction from PDFs
https://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/ – PDF data extraction library for Elixir
https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html – Documentation for pdf_extractor library
https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber – Python pdfplumber library that pdf_extractor leverages
https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx – PythonX library for seamless Python integration with Elixir
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244 – Interview with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonX
https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html – AppSignal article on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamal
https://kamal-deploy.org/ – Kamal deployment tool - Capistrano for Containers
https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house – Elixir School open source repository
https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua – Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in Elixir applications
https://hexdocs.pm/lua/ – Elixir Lua package documentation
https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir friendly wrapper around luerl Erlang package
https://github.com/rvirding/luerl – Luerl Erlang package for Lua integration
https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c – Peter Solnica announces new Inflection library on Bluesky
https://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector – Drops Inflector library for word inflections in Elixir
https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y – Fly.io announces Docker Compose compatibility
https://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285 – Fly.io community post about Docker Compose compatibility journey
https://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729 – Guide on using containers with flyctl
https://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/ – Fly.io documentation for multi-container machines
https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – David's Elixir gendiff project
https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2025 full agenda now live
https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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