Thinking Elixir Podcast

News includes the public launch of Phoenix.new - Chris McCord's revolutionary AI-powered Phoenix development service with full browser IDE and remote runtime capabilities, Ecto v3.13 release featuring the new transact/1 function and built-in JSON support, Nx v0.10 with improved documentation and NumPy comparisons, Phoenix 1.8 getting official security documentation covering OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, Zach Daniel's new "evals" package for testing AI language model performance, and ElixirConf US speaker announcements with keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord. Saša Jurić shares his comprehensive thoughts on Elixir project organization and structure, Sentry's Elixir SDK v11.x adding OpenTelemetry-based tracing support, and more! Then we dive deep with Chris McCord himself for an exclusive interview about his newly launched phoenix.new service, exploring how AI-powered code generation is bringing Phoenix applications to people from outside the community. We dig into the technology behind the remote runtime and what it means for the future of rapid prototyping in Elixir. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/259 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://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's phoenix.new project is open to the public https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1936068482065666083 – Phoenix.new was opened to the public - a service for building Phoenix apps with AI runtime, full browser IDE, and remote development capabilities https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto – Ecto v3.13 was released with new features including transact/1, schema redaction, and built-in JSON support https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/blob/v3.13.2/CHANGELOG.md#v3132-2025-06-24 – Ecto v3.13 changelog with detailed list of new features and improvements https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx – Nx v0.10 was released with documentation improvements and floating-point precision enhancements https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/blob/main/nx/CHANGELOG.md – Nx v0.10 changelog including new advanced guides and NumPy comparison cheatsheets https://paraxial.io/blog/phoenix-security-docs – Phoenix 1.8 gets official security documentation covering OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/6295 – Pull request adding comprehensive security guide to Phoenix documentation https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lscszxpakc2o – Zach Daniel announces new "evals" package for testing and comparing AI language models https://github.com/ash-project/evals – Evals project for evaluating AI model performance on coding tasks with structured testing https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3lsbt7anbda2o – ElixirConf US speakers beginning to be announced including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes – ElixirConf website showing keynote speakers and initial speaker lineup https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1937149387299316144 – Saša Jurić shares collection of writings on Elixir project organization and structure recommendations https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-core-and-the-interface-c267f0da43 – Saša Jurić's article on organizing Elixir projects with core and interface separation https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-boundaries-ba013c731c0a – Article on using boundaries in Elixir applications for better structure https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-anatomy-of-a-core-module-b7372009ca6d – Deep dive into structuring core modules in Elixir applications https://github.com/sasa1977/mix_phx_alt – Demo project showing alternative Phoenix project structure with core/interface organization https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-elixir/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1100 – Sentry updates Elixir SDK to v11.x with tracing support using OpenTelemetry Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://phoenix.new/ – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix. Describe your app, and watch it take shape. Prototype quickly, experiment freely, and share instantly. https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1936074795843551667 – You can vibe code on your phone https://x.com/sukinoverse/status/1936163792720949601 – Another success example - Stripe integrations https://openai.com/index/openai-codex/ – OpenAI Codex, Open AI's AI system that translates natural language to code https://devin.ai/ – Devin is an AI coding agent and software engineer that helps developers build better software faster. Parallel cloud agents for serious engineering teams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk – Chris McCord's ElixirConf EU Keynote talk titled "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators" Guest Information https://x.com/chris_mccord – on X/Twitter https://github.com/chrismccord – on Github http://chrismccord.com/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Honeybadger.io: Honeybadger is a performance monitoring and error tracking tool that combines the best monitoring features into one simple interface that works with all the frameworks you use and comes with fantastic support from a small team of passionate developers. 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News includes the first CVE released under EEF's new CNA program for an Erlang zip traversal vulnerability, Phoenix MacroComponents being delayed for greater potential, Supabase announcing Multigres - a Vitess-like proxy for scaling Postgres to petabyte scale, a surge of new MCP server implementations for Phoenix and Plug including Phantom, HermesMCP, ExMCP, Vancouver, and Excom, a fun blog post revealing that Erlang was the only language that didn't crash under extreme load testing against 6 other languages, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 being teased with Firefox extension support and enhanced debugging capabilities, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/258 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://cna.erlef.org/cves/cve-2025-4748.html – New CVE for Erlang regarding zip traversal - 4.8 severity (medium) with workaround available or update to latest patched OTP versions First CVE released under the EEF's new CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) program - a successful process milestone https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lrlhd5etkc2p – Phoenix MacroComponents is being delayed in search of greater potential https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3846 – Draft PR for Phoenix MacroComponents development https://x.com/supabase/status/1933627932972376097 – Supabase announcement of Multigres project https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres – Multigres - Vitess for Postgres, announcement of a new proxy for scaling Postgres databases to petabyte scale https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository Sugu, co-creator of Vitess, has joined Supabase to build Multigres https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp – Phantom MCP server - comprehensive implementation supporting Streamable HTTP with Phoenix/Plug integration https://hex.pm/packages/hermes_mcp – HermesMCP - comprehensive MCP server with client, stdio and Plug adapters https://hex.pm/packages/ex_mcp – ExMCP - comprehensive MCP implementation with client, server, stdio and Plug adapters, uses Horde for distribution https://hex.pm/packages/vancouver – Vancouver MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools https://hex.pm/packages/excom – Excom MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzZ44-xVds – AshAI video demo showing incredible introspection capabilities for MCP frameworks https://freedium.cfd/https:/medium.com/@codeperfect/we-tested-7-languages-under-extreme-load-and-only-one-didnt-crash-it-wasn-t-what-we-expected-67f84c79dc34 – Blog post comparing 7 languages under extreme load - Erlang was the only one that didn't crash https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger v0.3.0 release being teased with new features https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3lrb4kpmmw227 – Software Mansion preview of LiveDebugger v0.3.0 features including Firefox extension and enhanced debugging capabilities https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s14-e03-langchain-llm-integration-elixir/ – Elixir Wizards podcast episode featuring discussion with Mark Ericksen on the Elixir LangChain project for LLM integration Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Honeybadger.io: Honeybadger is a performance monitoring and error tracking tool that combines the best monitoring features into one simple interface that works with all the frameworks you use and comes with fantastic support from a small team of passionate developers. With error tracking, performance and uptime monitoring, log management, dashboards, and more, Honeybadger has everything you need to gain real-time insights into the health of your Elixir and Phoenix applications. Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes. Start monitoring today →

News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 with significant type checking improvements and faster compile times, Gleam v1.11.0 delivering 30% faster JavaScript performance, the new Elixir Outreach stipend program providing funding for speakers to present at non-Elixir conferences, a batch of ElixirConf US 2024 videos featuring talks were published, the open-sourcing of Noora design system for Phoenix LiveView, upcoming support for “for” comprehensions in HEEX templates, and José Valim's announcement of Tidewave - the groundbreaking MCP server that gives AI agents runtime access to your Elixir applications rather than just static code, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/257 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/releases/tag/v1.19.0-rc.0 – Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 release with mix format --migrate, type checking improvements, faster compile times, and parallel dependency compilation https://x.com/gleamlang/status/1929535582423650789 – Gleam v1.11.0 announcement https://gleam.run/news/gleam-javascript-gets-30-percent-faster/ – Gleam compiled JavaScript runs 30% faster performance improvement https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/main/changelog/v1.11.md – Gleam v1.11.0 changelog with testing tools and performance improvements https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/06/02/elixir-outreach-stipend-for-speakers/ – Elixir Outreach stipend program by Dashbit, Oban and the EEF providing up to $700 USD for speakers presenting Elixir to other ecosystems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aknKAFzEsBg – ElixirConf US 2024 video release featuring multiple talks https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbW2Zli4LurDGc6lL5ij-9Y – ElixirConf US 2024 playlist with 16 new videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSrzruaby1M – Ash AI Launch talk by Zach Daniel from ElixirConf EU https://tuist.dev/blog/2025/06/10/open-sourcing-noora-for-the-web – Noora design system for Phoenix LiveView open-sourced announcement https://noora.tuist.dev/ – Noora - complete, accessible design system for Phoenix LiveView with Figma files and ready-to-use components https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3827 – Phoenix LiveView PR adding support for for comprehensions in HEEX templates with keyed change tracking https://hexdocs.pm/lua/changelog.html#v0-3-0-2025-06-09 – Lua for Elixir v0.3.0 changelog with new guard functions https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lr6g7g3nqs26 – Bluesky post about Lua for Elixir update with guard support https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1929976577749664052 – Brian Cardarella announcing web_socket_dist library release https://x.com/bcardarella/status/1930262610705846640 – Brian explaining the use-case behind web_socket_dist library https://github.com/otp-interop/web_socket_dist – web_socket_dist library for Erlang distribution over WebSockets https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/distributed.html – Erlang distributed systems documentation https://x.com/josevalim/status/1930670782788653284 – José Valim announcing Tidewave on X/Twitter https://dashbit.co/blog/announcing-tidewave – Dashbit blog post announcing Tidewave - Elixir MCP server for AI runtime intelligence https://github.com/tidewave-ai/mcp_proxy_rust#installation – Tidewave MCP proxy installation and setup instructions Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Honeybadger.io: Honeybadger is a performance monitoring and error tracking tool that combines the best monitoring features into one simple interface that works with all the frameworks you use and comes with fantastic support from a small team of passionate developers. With error tracking, performance and uptime monitoring, log management, dashboards, and more, Honeybadger has everything you need to gain real-time insights into the health of your Elixir and Phoenix applications. Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes. Start monitoring today →

News includes the Elixir 1.19 RC release featuring up to 4x faster compilation and significant types system improvements, more ElixirConfEU videos including José Valim's keynote on type system updates, the look at the Backpex admin panel for Phoenix LiveView applications, Ash AI's impressive AI integration using the Elixir LangChain library, an informal Elixir Contributors Summit recap from Software Mansion, the Quokka formatter that automatically fixes Credo style code issues, Popcorn's browser-based Elixir implementation with JavaScript interoperability, and the launch of Elixir Observer for better Hex package exploration, and more! 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 Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Honeybadger.io: Honeybadger is a performance monitoring and error tracking tool that combines the best monitoring features into one simple interface that works with all the frameworks you use and comes with fantastic support from a small team of passionate developers. With error tracking, performance and uptime monitoring, log management, dashboards, and more, Honeybadger has everything you need to gain real-time insights into the health of your Elixir and Phoenix applications. Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes. Start monitoring today →

News includes the major OTP 28 release with priority messages functionality, ElixirConf EU 2025 videos starting to appear including Chris McCord's keynote on his new phoenix.new service and James Arthur's introduction of Phoenix Sync for real-time database synchronization, the EEF board election results and their new role as a CVE Numbering Authority for the Hex ecosystem, upcoming co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView, updates to the Elixir Lua package and MDEx with its new Markdown sigil, a new convention for AI-friendly usage_rules.md files in hex packages, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/255 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://www.erlang.org/news/180 – OTP 28 release announcement with new priority messages functionality and SBOM support https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 – EEP 76 specification for priority messages in OTP 28 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConf EU 2025 YouTube playlist with conference videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=3 – Chris McCord's keynote "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators" https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889 – Chris McCord's announcement about phoenix.new paid service https://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's new phoenix.new paid service at Fly.io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2 – James Arthur's keynote "Introducing Phoenix Sync" from ElixirConf EU https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/ – Phoenix Sync GitHub repository for real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix apps https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html – Phoenix Sync documentation on HexDocs https://github.com/josevalim/sync – José Valim's sync project that inspired Phoenix Sync https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results – EEF board election results for Cohort C https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633 – EEF Twitter announcement of election results https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates – Information about the EEF election candidates https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement – EEF becomes CVE Numbering Authority for Hex and BEAM ecosystem https://github.com/erlef-cna – EEF CNA GitHub organization https://cna.erlef.org/ – EEF CNA website https://github.com/surface-ui/surface – Surface UI project for server-side rendering components https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3810 – Draft PR for co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir Lua package v0.2.x release by TvLabs https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034 – Dave's tweet about ElixirConf EU Luerl talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98 – "Lua on the BEAM" talk by Dave Lucia & Robert Virding https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj – Discord link for Lua community https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093 – German Velasco's video highlighting LiveDebugger tool https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225 – German Velasco's BlueSky post about LiveDebugger https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Thinking Elixir episode 249 featuring LiveDebugger discussion https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html – MDEx v0.7 documentation for new ~MD sigil https://hexdocs.pm/autumn – Autumn syntax highlighter package that works with MDEx https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid – MDEx Mermaid plugin for adding mermaid support to Markdown https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i – Zach Daniel's BlueSky post about usage_rules.md convention https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules – Usage rules package documentation https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/ – Usage rules GitHub repository https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ – Microsoft announcement about Windows Subsystem for Linux going open source https://www.zdnet.com/article/believe-it-or-not-microsoft-just-announced-a-linux-distribution-service-heres-why/ – ZDNet article explaining Microsoft's Linux strategy and Azure statistics Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social Dave Lucia - @davydog187 Sponsored By:Honeybadger.io: Honeybadger is a performance monitoring and error tracking tool that combines the best monitoring features into one simple interface that works with all the frameworks you use and comes with fantastic support from a small team of passionate developers. With error tracking, performance and uptime monitoring, log management, dashboards, and more, Honeybadger has everything you need to gain real-time insights into the health of your Elixir and Phoenix applications. Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! 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News includes Hex 2.2.0 with the new :warn_if_outdated option for keeping dependencies updated, Honeybadger's APM with built-in Elixir traces for major components, José Valim demonstrating Tidewave with Zed's AI coding agents, LiveDebugger v0.2.0 with DevTools integration and component highlighting, Dave Lucia's new Elixir "Lua" library for embedding Lua scripting, Paulo Valente's "handoff" library for distributed function graph execution, a PhD thesis on Elixir code smells becoming a finalist for a prestigious award, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/254 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 limited time offer. https://github.com/hexpm/hex/releases/tag/v2.2.0 – Hex releases 2.2.0 introducing the :warn_if_outdated option to help keep dependencies updated. Taking a week off - no episode next week, but returning the following week. https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-performance-monitoring – Honeybadger now offers APM with built-in Elixir traces, including default dashboards for Ecto, Phoenix/LiveView, Oban, Absinthe, Finch, and Tesla. https://x.com/josevalim/status/1920062725394243640 – José Valim demonstrates Tidewave being used with Zed editor's AI coding agents. https://zed.dev/agentic – Zed's agentic features used with Tidewave to code a pricing plan component. https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1kgyfhb/livedebugger_v020_is_out/ – LiveDebugger v0.2.0 released with Chrome DevTools extension, component highlighting, callback trace filtering, and dark mode. https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Previous podcast episode discussing LiveDebugger with Krzysztof. https://blog.swmansion.com/whats-new-in-livedebugger-v0-2-0-4543d3af5486 – Blog post covering the new features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0. https://hexdocs.pm/luerl/readme.html – Luerl v1.4.1 released with Hex docs - an implementation of Lua 5.3 in Erlang/OTP. https://github.com/rvirding/luerl – The GitHub repository for Luerl, which Dave Lucia worked on with Robert Virding. https://www.lua.org/about.html – Information about Lua, a lightweight, embeddable scripting language. https://bsky.app/profile/davelucia.com/post/3lozadtvqtc2m – Dave Lucia's announcement of his new Elixir "Lua" library. https://davelucia.com/blog/lua-elixir – Blog post explaining Dave's new Elixir Lua library. https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – The GitHub repository for the new Elixir Lua library, providing an ergonomic interface to Luerl. https://hexdocs.pm/handoff/ – Documentation for "handoff", a new Elixir library for distributed function graph execution. https://bsky.app/profile/polvalente.social/post/3louqxeegrs2u – Paulo Valente's announcement of the handoff library, which enables distributed Nx computations. https://github.com/polvalente/handoff – GitHub repository for the handoff library created by Paulo Valente and sponsored by TvLabs. https://bsky.app/profile/lucasvegi.bsky.social/post/3lke2pt2zws2e – Lucas Vegi's PhD thesis "Code Smells and Refactorings for Elixir" is a finalist for the SBC Dissertation Award. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/code-anti-patterns.html – Elixir's code anti-patterns guide, a practical resource related to code smells and refactoring in Elixir. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By: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 limited time offer.

News includes growing excitement around Tidewave for Elixir with users sharing success stories and integration tips, preparation for Elixir 1.19's deprecation of regex in module attributes, LiveViewNative launching a new "OTP Interop" organization focused on enabling offline functionality, and a major U.S. court ruling against Apple's App Store policies that opens new payment options for iOS developers, creating opportunities for services like Stripe to offer more competitive alternatives to Apple's 30% commission, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/253 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 limited time offer. https://x.com/ba_wolf/status/1918008345862049820 – Bryant shared on X that Tidewave pairs well with Oban jobs, allowing cursors to run jobs and check status with errors stored in the record. https://bsky.app/profile/ceolinwill.bsky.social/post/3lo7fc7jy262n – A user found Tidewave for Elixir promising, noting it solved a bug that Claude couldn't by using the package_docs_search tool. https://bsky.app/profile/petros.software/post/3lohcby7frv22 – Despite the AI revolution, programmers still need to read code, making human-friendly languages like Elixir and Phoenix important choices. https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3loamzmazlk2s – Tidewave.ai can now be installed through the Ash HQ installer, with Zach Daniel teasing more information in coming weeks. https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/tips_and_tricks.html#configure-your-prompts – Tips and tricks documentation for improving your Tidewave experience, including prompt configuration. https://geekmonkey.org/detecting-deprecated-regex-module-attributes-in-elixir-with-credo/ – Fabian Becker's blog post showing how to create a Credo rule to detect regex module attributes that will be deprecated in Elixir 1.19. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/14381 – PR explaining the issue with regex module attributes and introducing the workaround for the upcoming Elixir 1.19 deprecation. https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo2rsc3th22h – Brian Cardarella shared that LiveViewNative started a new "OTP Interop" GitHub organization to extract work that enables offline mode. https://github.com/otp-interop – The new OTP Interop GitHub organization housing projects to improve Elixir's interoperability with other platforms. https://github.com/otp-interop/swift-erlang-actor-system – Project providing Erlang/Elixir integration for Swift Distributed Actors. https://github.com/otp-interop/elixir_pack – Tool to build Elixir applications for iOS, part of the OTP Interop initiative. https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lo4shx2cpk2g – LiveViewNative now supports Apple App Store's new allowances for outside transaction services like Stripe. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-judge-rules-apple-violated-order-reform-app-store-2025-04-30/ – Reuters report on US judge ruling that Apple violated the order to reform its App Store policies. https://www.pymnts.com/apple/2025/apple-appeals-after-judge-finds-company-disobeyed-ruling/ – Coverage of Apple appealing after judge found the company disobeyed the previous ruling about App Store competition. https://www.techspot.com/news/107752-court-orders-apple-stop-blocking-competition-app-store.html – Court orders Apple to stop blocking competition in the App Store, forcing changes to payment systems. https://docs.stripe.com/sdks/ios – Stripe's iOS SDK documentation for building payments into iOS apps, relevant after the App Store ruling. https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones – Related post about Apple's history of restrictive practices, in this case with Pebble smartwatches. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By: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 limited time offer.

News includes Tidewave, a new Phoenix MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access application runtime, Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app with LiveView hosted IDE features, a new GitHub Action for submitting Elixir dependencies to enhance security, ExMeralda.chat, a community chatbot for querying Hex packages, updates on Software Mansion's LiveDebugger v0.2.0 coming in May, mix test.interactive for enhanced ExUnit testing workflows, and information about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers, and more!Template Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/252 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 limited time offer. https://youtu.be/vGue4LtqeWg – Introduction video for Tidewave, a Phoenix/Rails MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access your application's runtime. https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/issues/49 – Hexdocs PR enabling documentation context for Tidewave, allowing AI assistants to access app documentation without manual copying. https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1915017804937375896 – Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app that writes code. https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1917002231322116298 – Chris McCord demonstrating an interactive LiveView hosted IDE with realtime terminal support synced across browsers/devices. https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lngay5chys22 – EEF announcement about the "mix-dependency-submission" GitHub Action for submitting Elixir/Mix dependencies. https://github.com/erlef/mix-dependency-submission – GitHub repo for the mix-dependency-submission tool that calculates dependencies for Mix and submits them to GitHub's API. https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api – GitHub documentation about the Dependency Submission API used by the mix-dependency-submission tool. https://exmeralda.chat/chat/start – ExMeralda.chat, a chatbot for hex.pm packages from bitcrowd.dev, using their Elixir RAG library. https://bitcrowd.dev/exmeralda-a-community-chatbot-for-hex-packages/ – Blog post explaining ExMeralda, a community chatbot for Hex packages that demonstrates RAG systems with LLMs. https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k600mu/livedebugger_v020_upcoming_features_part_1/ – Reddit post from Software Mansion about upcoming features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0, expected in early May. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl-y49Ou7E – Full interview discussing LiveDebugger in more depth. https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive – mix test.interactive - an interactive test runner for ExUnit tests that enhances testing workflows. https://x.com/jskalc/status/1916824204156035300 – Twitter post highlighting mix test.interactive's features including running tests by names, rerunning on file save, and more. https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025 – Information about upcoming Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board elections with important dates. https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/async-tests-in-elixir/ – Andrea Leopardi's blog post about reworking singleton architecture to leverage async tests in ExUnit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrAqMyjbkJQ – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by Jason Stiebs on FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OK9B4yRfg – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by James Isenhart on 'OpenTelemetry: From Desire to Dashboard' https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/slopsquatting-malware/ – Article about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers by exploiting AI hallucinations of package names. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - Bluesky Message the show - X Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen on X - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.social Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.com David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By: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 limited time offer.

A critical vulnerability in Erlang/OTP's SSH raises alarms about potential risks for Elixir applications. Innovations like Oban Pro's new 'Cascade Mode' feature offer exciting tools for collaborative storytelling. The podcast discusses NERVS device security, stressing timely updates and risk assessment tools. Also highlighted are emerging AI integrations in development, including cost-effective solutions over traditional hiring. The open-sourcing of Semaphore CI sparks interest, alongside advancements in web security techniques, shaping the future of the tech landscape.

The discussion kicks off with important updates on EEF board elections and key dates for candidacy and voting. There’s buzz around ElixirConf US 2025 and ElixirConf EU with details on the speaker lineup. Gleam's new version is set to enhance software security through better visibility into dependencies. The Elixir Secure Coding Training is finding a stable home with the EEF, promising better guidance for developers. Plus, insights on recent security vulnerabilities in the Ash framework and upcoming Phoenix features keep the excitement going!