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Two new security advisories published against Phoenix. Update your #ElixirLang dependencies to 1.5.15, 1.6.17, 1.7.24, or 1.8.9 to get the fixes. 👍 github.com/phoenixframe...
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The final episode! After 6 years, we close with news on LiveView 1.2 colocated CSS, Earmark’s retirement, Sagents v0.8.0, #Postgres 19, SpaceX buying Cursor AI for $60B, and what’s next for David and Mark! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5FW...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 309: The Final Episode
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Elixir v1.20 is officially a gradually typed language, HexDocs moves to per-package subdomains, the #Miasma worm hits 73 @microsoft.com @github.com repos, and more! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang #security www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlSq...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 308: Elixir Goes Gradually Typed
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Ecto 3.14 ships UUIDv7 support, Oban Pro adds human-approval workflow steps, Hologram v0.9 brings pure-Elixir realtime push, Dashbit shares Tidewave's #Git integration design, and the #NSA drops new Zero Trust guideline, and more! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxr...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 307: Trust Nothing, Sort Everything
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It’s true! After 6 years of weekly episodes, the Thinking Elixir Podcast will be ending on June 23rd. Three episodes left. It’s been an incredible run and I’m grateful for every listener who came along for the journey. #podcast #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang
Security is front and center with atom exhaustion CVEs and an urgent hackney #security upgrade. Elixir 1.20's type system catching real bugs, a new BEAM-native coding agent called "vibe", and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Eb...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 306: Don't Exhaust Your Atoms
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News includes Elixir 1.20.0-rc.6 (last RC?), EEF 2026 election results, LiveStash v0.3.0 for Phoenix LiveView state recovery, a call to fund EEF #security work, and @github.com got hacked via a VS Code extension, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFn...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 305: Eleven Minutes to Mayhem
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News includes Elixir’s set-theoretic type inference completing all language constructs, #OTP 29.0 released, a wave of CVEs hitting the Phoenix stack, big SWAR string performance gains, and a #LiveView hot-reload tip, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Qm...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 304: Types, CVEs, and Hot Reloads
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EEF 2026 election candidates are out, Elixir-Vibe launches tools to fight #AI code #slop, erlang_python 3.0.0 embeds CPython into the BEAM, ElixirConf EU 2026 videos are dropping, and more! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang #python @elixirconf.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Vu...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 303: The Taming of the Slop
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News includes Mob bringing BEAM-on-device native #mobile dev to Elixir, Folio for print-quality PDFs via Rustler NIF, Oban v2.22 & Pro v1.7.0 released, LiveVue v1.1 with Node-less SSR, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQCE...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 302: BEAM in Your Pocket
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News includes Phoenix LiveDebugger hitting v1.0, LiveStash v0.2.0 released, German Velasco’s TestingLiveView(dot)com course is now free, Volt v0.8.0 drops Node.js for frontend builds, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO-y...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 301: Testing, Debugging, and Departures
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Episode 300! News includes the Localize library v0.15.0, a new program dependence graph tool called Reach, #Tidewave voice input and #PWA support, @TheErlef 2026 elections, plus a special in-depth interview with @josevalim.bsky.social! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5DV...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 300: Celebrating 300 with José Valim
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The EEF needs your support for a major security grant, Hex-pm completes its first security audit, @josevalim.bsky.social drops a massive Tidewave update, and we discuss the ClickFix supply chain attack that hit #Axios, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_gh...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 299: Don't Paste That Into Your Terminal
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News includes a redesigned Hex-pm website, #Hex 2.4 adding #OAuth and #2FA, the official Elixir Expert LSP hitting v0.1, a new LiveStash library for LiveView state recovery, and more! #ElixirLang @ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4t...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 298: Hex Gets a Glow Up
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News includes Quickbeam bringing a full #JS runtime into the #BEAM, Elixir’s type system inspiring #Python’s Ruff, LiveView Debugger v0.7, Oban v2.21, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfB0...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 297: JavaScript Joins the BEAM?
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Elixir v1.20 RCs arrive with a faster compiler, @josevalim.bsky.social ships Distributed #Python in Livebook, Chris McCord releases fly_deploy for zero-downtime hot deploys, #OpenAI builds an agent orchestrator in @elixir-lang.org, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r6...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 296: OpenAI Chose Elixir and A VM Inside a VM
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🌴 No new episode this week. We're taking a little vacation! We’ll be back next week with a fresh episode. Thanks for your patience! 🎙️ #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus
News includes @josevalim.bsky.social's deep dive into #ElixirLang type system changes, a new Dashbit post on type systems as leaky abstractions, Oban Pro teasing Workflow UI improvements, MDEx v0.11.6, Livebook Desktop on Linux, and more! @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJQo...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 295: Is Your Type System Leaking?
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Sagents v0.3.x is out! Lots to share! AI agents doing things on your behalf is great... until they do the wrong thing. Sagents lets you define exactly which operations need human approval. github.com/sagents-ai/s... #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang #LLM #AI #agents 🧵👇
News includes Expert LSP releasing its first RC, Elixir v1.20 compile time improvements up to 20% faster, #Livebook Desktop moving to Tauri with #Linux support, a new erlang-python library for ML/AI integration, and more! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang #AI #ML www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed83...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My!
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News includes Hackney v3.1.0 with pure #Erlang HTTP/3 support, Hornbeam running #Python apps on the BEAM, the Easel Canvas 2D drawing library for #LiveView, Hologram v0.7.0 reaching 96% Erlang runtime coverage, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuH...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 293: The BEAM as the Universal Runtime
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Introducing Sagents -- an open-source #ElixirLang framework for building #AI agents with human oversight, composable middleware, and real-time Phoenix LiveView integration. Built on OTP. Each agent is a supervised GenServer. Watch the full demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-14...
Sagents: Build AI Agents in Elixir with Human Oversight, SubAgents, and Real-Time Debugging
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News includes @elixir-lang.org v1.20 achieving 2x compilation speedup, Telelang alternative #Erlang syntax, Membrane’s #AI-powered YOLO plugin, @josevalim.bsky.social PR Quiz tool for interactive code review learning, and the #ElixirConfEU speaker lineup! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Makf...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 291: From 2x Compilation to Junior Comprehension
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News includes @elixir-lang.org v1.20.0-rc.1, 2 new Elixir-native Bash interpreters, zero-boilerplate component storybooks, #DurableObject library for persistent actors, @postgresql.org search extension, a new #RAG approach skips vector DBs, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzOk...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 290: Postgres Finally Gets Real Search
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News includes porting Erlang to QNX for automotive systems, ExDoc 0.40.0 with LLM features, Oban Pro for #Python, new #AI evaluation tools Tribunal and Beamlens, Tidewave hits 100k ARR, PhD thesis on typing Elixir, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=a967...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 289: Erlang Drives into QNX Territory
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Elixir’s 15th anniversary brings v1.20 RC with full type inference, Chris McCord launches Sprites(dot)dev, LiveVue v1.0 goes stable, Gust #workflow engine debuts, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org #VueJS www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJA9...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference
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News includes Arcana #RAG library for Phoenix, MquickjsEx embedding #JavaScript in #ElixirLang, LiveDebugger adds Streams support, Durable workflow engine, @josevalim.bsky.social teasing type improvements, Hologram receiving EEF support, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULP...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 287: From RAGs to Rich Workflows
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News includes #NextJS to Phoenix migration story, massive Credo performance improvements, Torchx on Apple Metal, DNSimple’s #Erlang case study, first #GleamLang conference announced, and more! Plus a 2025 retrospective. #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0R...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review
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News includes running #LiveView in the browser with #WebAssembly, New Nerves book launches in beta, PinStripe for Stripe integration, Beam Bots for robotics, @sasajuric.bsky.social's #Goatmire talk, Tidewave updates, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-f3...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 285: From Popcorn to Robots
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Elixir v1.20 with full-type inference coming soon, @gleam.run v1.14.0-rc1, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for email templates, Dashbit’s nimble_zta library for zero trust auth, Björn Gustavsson’s #BEAM history talk, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjb...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System
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