Show notes
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.
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