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 vulnerabil...

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 r...

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 LiveV...

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 Softwa...

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 hook...

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" librar...

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 devel...

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 te...

News includes a critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Erlang/OTP SSH, José Valim teasing a new project, Oban Pro v1.6's impressive new "Cascade Mode" feature, Semaphore CI/CD platform being open-sourced as a primarily Elixir application, new sandboxing options for Elixir code with Dune and Mini Elixir, BeaconCMS development slowing due to DockYard cuts, and a look at the...

News includes EEF board elections with voting beginning May 9th, Gleam v1.10.0 enhancing security with SBoMs and SLSA build provenance, an AshAuthentication vulnerability with mitigation steps, the Elixir Secure Coding Training project finding a permanent home at the EEF, announcements for both ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando and ElixirConfEU in Krakow with speaker lineup, and more! Show Notes onlin...

News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc release with DaisyUI styled Tailwind components and magic link authentication, a new design pattern called "scopes", a new privacy-focused feature in Ecto for schema redaction, the Elixir Secure Coding Training project finding a new home at TvLabs, a helpful iex shell tip for multiline commands, and more! We interview Krzysztof Nalepa, the primary creator of LiveDebu...

News includes a new Elixir case study about Cyanview's camera shading technology used at major events like the Olympics and Super Bowl, Oban Pro 1.6 with 20x faster queue partitioning, the openid_connect package reaching version 1.0, Supabase's new Postgres Language Server for developer tooling, and ElixirEvents.net as a community resource. Plus, we interview Michael Lubas, founder of Paraxial.io,...

News includes Phoenix now including DaisyUI which has sparked mixed reactions, Erlang/OTP 28.0-rc2 release introducing priority process messages, the EEF Security Working Group's roadmap called Aegis, a new LiveViewPortal library for embedding LiveView pages in any website, upcoming improvements in Elixir that will spawn more OS processes for compiling dependencies potentially doubling performance...

News includes the release of Plug v1.17.0 with dark mode support for Plug. Debugger, an exciting Phoenix PR for co-located hooks that would place hook logic directly next to component code, a new RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) library from Bitcrowd for enhancing LLM interactions with document management, a syntax highlighter called Autumn powered by Tree-sitter, an Elixir-built YouTube downl...

News includes a new library called phoenix_sync for real-time sync in Postgres-backed Phoenix applications, Peter Solnica released a Text Parser for extracting structured data from text, a useful tip on finding Hex package versions locally with mix hex.info , Wasmex updated to v0.10 with WebAssembly component support, and Chrome introduces a new browser feature similar to LiveView. JS. We also tal...

News includes the release of Elixir 1.18.2 with various enhancements and bug fixes, a new experimental SQL sigil for Ecto that brings automatic parameterized queries, a recent GOTO 2025 talk featuring Saša Jurić on code reviews. We talked with Jonatan Kłosko about his work on PythonX, a new library for executing Python code inside Elixir, the Fine library for working with C++ NIFs, and much more!...

News includes the announcement of PythonX for Python interoperability in Elixir, groundbreaking academic work on compiling Elixir to eBPF for Linux kernel-level operations, and exciting AI-powered Phoenix application demos from Chris McCord. We also dive into the current state of the Elixir job market, discussing the shift away from remote work and the challenges facing junior and mid-level develo...

News includes exciting updates to Phoenix gen_auth with magic links and sudo mode security features, a comprehensive guide on Elixir and Phoenix security best practices from Paraxial.io, significant updates to the DaisyUI Components library for Phoenix LiveView reaching version 0.7.0, more on LiveDebugger tool for Phoenix applications, performance improvements in PostgreSQL's self-join handling, a...

News includes the release of LiveDebugger, an exciting new browser-based debugging tool for Phoenix LiveView applications and the announcement of Artifix for creating private Hex registries on S3 and CloudFront. We are also joined by Tim Knight, the CTO at Gigalixir, to get a peek inside the machine that is Gigalixir and learn more about how the platform specializes in providing an excellent Elixi...

News includes Erlang/OTP achieving OpenChain ISO certification for open source license compliance, the release of the new "Elixir Patterns" book by Hugo Barauna and Alex Koutmos, a security audit of Oban Web and Pro by Paraxial.io showing excellent results, upcoming Alchemy Conf in Portugal, and a major rewrite of the asdf version manager to Go, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkin...

News includes an impressive case study from Remote showing how they scaled Elixir to support nearly 300 engineers and reach unicorn status, Tailwind CSS 4.0's major release with Phoenix integration in progress, Chris McCord teasing an exciting AI code generator project on Fly.io, the release of Elixir LangChain v0.3.0 with expanded support for multiple AI providers, ElixirConfEU 2025 tickets going...

News includes the exciting release of Oban Web as open source with newly added MySQL support, nine new ElixirConf 2024 videos have been published, a new full-stack web framework called Hologram that transpiles Elixir to JavaScript was announced, PhoenixTest gained Playwright driver support for enhanced testing capabilities, Protoss reached feature-complete status as it moves to version 1.0, and se...

News includes upcoming improvements to ex_doc for version navigation, the release of Phoenix Analytics 0.3.0 for plug-and-play application metrics, José Valim's detailed exploration of set-theoretic types for better library compatibility, German Velasco's demonstration of Elixir 1.18's enhanced type system, the beta release of the Ash Framework book on PragProg, and exciting developments in the FL...

News includes José Valim's exciting PR for Elixir 1.19 that dramatically enhances type inference capabilities, ElixirLS's new 0.26.0 release with Elixir 1.18 support, a fascinating new DenoRider library for embedding JavaScript runtime in Elixir applications, Gleam v1.7.0's release with improved performance and publishing features, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/23...

News includes the official release of Elixir 1.18.0 with enhanced type system support, José Valim's retrospective on Elixir's progress in 2024, LiveView Native's significant v0.4.0-rc.0 release with a new networking stack, ExDoc v0.36's introduction of swup.js for smoother page navigations, the announcement of a new Elixir conference called Goatmire in Sweden, and more! Show Notes online - http://...