The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
165: Thinking Elixir News
In the news, we cover a new Livebook Desktop feature tease, a new daily bite-sized Elixir newsletter, Supabase's new Supavisor architecture, and Livebook joins the online Spawnfest competition as a sponsor. We also share a PSA about Alpine Docker image troubles with OTP 26 and an Ecto schema introspection tip. Elixir's errors get more helpful when modules aren't found, then a new Hex search tool was created and explained, and much more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/165
Elixir Community News
- https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1688596696123555855 – Wojtek Mach teased a new "Check for Updates" Livebook Desktop feature with a screenshot.
- https://twitter.com/philipbrown/status/1688885480283156481 – A new 5-minute daily Elixir newsletter is being launched by Philip Brown and Richard Taylor.
- https://twitter.com/kiwicopple/status/1690032065641684992 – Supabase shared news of their new Supavisor architecture.
- https://github.com/supabase/supavisor – Github project for the Elixir supavisor Postgres connection pooler
- https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-1-million – Blog post - Supavisor - Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections
- https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1690031606159802368 – Livebook is joining the online Spawnfest competition as a sponsor.
- https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689843816000307200 – Alex Koutmos shared a PSA for issues running Elixir 1.15+OTP 26 in an Alpine 3.17.4 container.
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/7292 – OTP issue tracking the problem for OTP 26
- https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689683030162513948 – Alex Koutmos shared an Ecto Tip about schema introspection.
- https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA/status/1689701911908249601 – Steve Bussey shared an Ecto tip for using test code to introspect schemas and check for missing indexes
- https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-2/ – NextLS will use burrito to distribute binaries instead of
Mix.install - https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1689951699832639489 – Jose Valim drew attention to the Honey Potion project letting you write Elixir code that is compiled down to eBPF
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBPF – Background on eBPF
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgT_gMWJuvY – HoneyPotion project usage demoed in a video
- https://github.com/lac-dcc/honey-potion – Honey Potion project on Github
- https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1691082535143440385 – Elixir is gaining some more helpful error messages when referencing modules
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12839 – Merged PR to Improve UndefinedFunctionError for mis-cased module
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12859 – Merged PR to Improve UndefinedFunctionError for unqualified module
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/let-s-search-all-of-elixir-s-packages/ – Jason Stiebs wrote a blog post called “Let's search all of Elixir's Packages!”
- https://hex-search.fly.dev/ – Cool Hex search tool created by Jason Stiebs
- https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorp_bsl_licence/ – Hashicorp goes “Business Source License”
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