225: A BeaconCMS of Hope
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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This chapter covers key highlights from the Elixir community, focusing on the upcoming Elixir version 1.18 and its new features like enhanced type systems and JSON support. It also touches on recent conferences in Europe where major announcements have been shared.
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News includes coming info on new features in Elixir v1.18, the release of Beacon CMS v0.1 with new tools for developers, German Velasco's insightful video on the origins of Phoenix contexts, Alex Koutmos sharing his sql_fmt tool for cleaner SQL code in Ecto, an exciting new tool for the Mastodon community called MastodonBotEx, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/225
Elixir Community News
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1846109246116536567 – José Valim updated his Elixir Stream Week presentation to talk about Elixir v1.18.
- https://x.com/NickGnd/status/1846103330352697455 – Discussion about the new LSP server for Elixir v1.18.
- https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc – ExWebRTC library for Elixir mentioned in the context of Elixir Stream Week.
- https://x.com/BeaconCMS/status/1844089765572026611 – Announcement of Beacon CMS v0.1 release.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBLOd9Oxwpc – Hype video for the new Beacon CMS release.
- https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon – The GitHub repository for Beacon CMS, an open-source CMS built with Phoenix LiveView.
- https://www.youtube.com/live/c2TLDiFv8ZI – Zach Daniel and Leandro paired programming session on Beacon CMS Igniter task.
- https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon_demo – Beacon_demo project helps users try Beacon CMS locally.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jk0fIJOFuc – ElixirConf video related to Beacon CMS development.
- Hexdeck.pm is a new community tool for browsing multiple HexDocs pages at once.
- https://hexdeck.pm/ – Website for hexdeck.pm, a documentation aggregator.
- https://github.com/hayleigh-dot-dev/hexdeck – GitHub repository for hexdeck.pm, created by Hayleigh from the Gleam team.
- https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/releases/tag/v0.24.1 – Update to ElixirLS, fixing several crashes.
- German Velasco created a stream video explaining the origins of Phoenix "contexts".
- https://x.com/germsvel/status/1846137519508787644 – Tweet about German Velasco's stream video on Phoenix contexts.
- https://www.elixirstreams.com/tips/why-phoenix-contexts – German explains the history of Phoenix Contexts.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMO28ar0lW8 – Chris McCord's keynote on Phoenix 1.3 at Lonestar ElixirConf 2017.
- https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1-3-0-released – Blog post on Phoenix 1.3 release.
- https://x.com/akoutmos/status/1843706957267656969 – Alex Koutmos' announcement of sql_fmt version 0.2.0 support for ~SQL sigil and Mix Formatter plugin.
- https://github.com/akoutmos/sql_fmt – GitHub repository for sql_fmt, a SQL formatting tool.
- https://github.com/akoutmos/ecto_dbg – GitHub page for ecto_dbg, which uses sql_fmt for debugging Ecto SQL queries.
- https://mastodon.kaiman.uk/@neojet/113284100323613786 – MastodonBotEx simplifies interacting with the Mastodon API.
- https://github.com/kaimanhub/MastodonBot.ex – GitHub repository for MastodonBotEx designed for Mastodon API interactions.
- https://codebeamnyc.com/#schedule – Details about the schedule for CodeBEAM NYC Lite for November 15, 2024.
- https://elixirfriends.transistor.fm/episodes/friend-3-tyler-young – Elixir Friend's podcast episode with Tyler Young discussing marketing and technology topics.
- https://elixirfriends.transistor.fm/episodes/friend-2-david-bernheisel – Previous Elixir Friend's podcast episode with David Bernheisel.
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