216: Ecto Soft Deletions Masterclass
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Exploring Elixir Macros and Error Tracker Update
This chapter explores the complexities of macros in Elixir, emphasizing the use of the macro.to_string function for understanding the abstract syntax tree. It also includes an update on Error Tracker 0.2, highlighting new features such as SQLite support and telemetry events for Phoenix applications.
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News includes a new video from José Valim demonstrating Livebook deployments, Chris McCord's "Pawsitively" project integrating content moderation with Livebook, the release of Zigler 0.13.1, a new AI-centric library called Honeycomb by Sean Moriarity and Andrés Alejos, an Elixir job listing at Apple, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/216
Elixir Community News
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwLx5beXxsg – How to deploy a Livebook app with Livebook Teams.
- https://livebook.dev/teams/ – Link to Livebook Teams homepage.
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDfvUqT4f_s95dqNGyoXwVMD_Vl059jT6r5MPgXB99XVMCuw/viewform – Request to join the free Livebook Teams beta.
- https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1821586189364994202 – Chris McCord shared a demo project called "Pawsitively" which implements a content moderation system.
- https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/4824237157902ed1c47f825b1f1d9d27 – Gist of the demo which uses Livebook and Mistral LLM for content moderation.
- https://pawsitively.fly.dev/ – Play with the "Pawsitively" demo online.
- The demo defines everything in a Livebook file and covers “Manual Docker Deployment”.
- https://x.com/dnautics/status/1822878889275719795 – Announcement of Zigler 0.13.1.
- https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler – GitHub page for Zigler.
- https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/0.13.1/Zig.html – Zigler 0.13.1 documentation.
- https://ziglang.org/ – Official site for the Zig programming language.
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/83 – Podcast episode discussing Zig and Zigler in depth.
- https://x.com/germsvel/status/1823304992876618032 – German Velasco shows how to use
Macro.to_string/1to convert AST to clearer Elixir code. - https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.2.0 – Release details for ErrorTracker 0.2.0.
- https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/soft-deletion-with-postgresql-but-with-logic-on-the-database – Blog post about hard and soft deletion with PostgreSQL.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1821143821649948822 – José Valim shares a tip on soft deletion with PostgreSQL.
- https://dashbit.co/blog/soft-deletes-with-ecto – Article on implementing soft deletes with Ecto.
- https://github.com/seanmor5/honeycomb – New AI-centric library Honeycomb for fast LLM inference with Elixir and Bumblebee.
- https://x.com/sean_moriarity/status/1820887135291085244 – Sean Moriarity's announcement of Honeycomb library.
- https://x.com/wojtekmach/status/1823339271731683743 – Wojtek Mach explains more about Hex.pm's "Bob" and its future directions.
- https://github.com/erlef/build-and-packaging-wg/issues/80 – Proposal on managing Erlang builds.
- https://x.com/wojtekmach/status/1823374248569626638 – Further updates on Bob and Erlang builds.
- https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200562288/senior-software-engineer-elixir-environmental-systems – The Elixir developer position at Apple.
- https://2024.elixirconf.com/schedule/#schedules – ElixirConf 2024 schedules are posted.
- https://x.com/i/lists/1819858270737268846 – Twitter list of ElixirConf speakers.
- https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2024 official website.
- ElixirConf weekly hangouts with speakers at 11am CDT on Twitter. Talks span from August 28-30.
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