Episode 259 of Thinking Elixir. 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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpDaUVxiII

In the second part of our two-part series, we’ll set up more advanced Ecto monitoring using AppSignal: https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/07/01/advanced-ecto-for-elixir-monitoring-with-appsignal.html

Upcoming features, optimizations, and experimental ideas that will shape Permit development. Another part about our open-source, Permit is ready to read on our blog. https://curiosum.com/sl/q22c8vig

A good reusable datatable for Phoenix LiveView is the need of the hour. Introducing LiveTable: A Powerful Phoenix LiveView library that provides dynamic, interactive tables with built-in support for sorting, filtering, pagination, and data export capabilities.

Hex Link: https://hex.pm/packages/live_table

Full Article: https://www.virinchi.me/portfolios/livetable-realtime-data-tables-in-elixir/

We built a demo application with 2 Million rows of data to demonstrate scalability of LiveTable.

Check out the demo: https://www.livetable.gurujada.com

An Advanced Demo of LiveTable with Custom UI, Card Mode, Transformers & Custom Queries. Read the Full article here: https://www.virinchi.me/portfolios/turning-jee-counselling-chaos-into-a-liveview-showcase/

The Elixir “underscore” is a really important DX language feature. It helps the developer communicate it’s intention clearly and also eliminates unnecessary possible confusions when we read the code. https://remotereason.com/blog/elixir-and-erlang-underscore-great-dx

I’m super happy for this release! 🥳 It brings YOLOX support, custom-trained models, and faster postprocessing thanks to Nx.Defn.

https://www.poeticoding.com/elixir-yolo-v0-2-0-yolox-support-custom-models-and-performance-boost/

During CodeBeam Europe I will be delivering training: Deploying Elixir on GCP.

Starting with building Docker image, through selecting best GCP service for the use case (including GCE, GKE, Cloud Run) all the way to clustering the app and accessing the Google APIs (including using workload identity on GKE).

If you’re new to the cloud or you’re familiar with other offerings, or you want to understand how Elixir could work in the cloud environment - that training should be useful for you!

https://codebeameurope.com/trainings/deploying-elixir-on-gcp/

Join us for a full day of expert-led talks and in-depth discussions on messaging technologies. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with messaging professionals and learn from industry leaders. Get the Pulse of Messaging Tech – Where distributed systems meet cutting-edge messaging. Early-bird pricing is available for a limited time. https://mqsummit.com/#tickets

Episode 258 of Thinking Elixir. 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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVyY4XHVm8

We’re on the hunt for bold, brilliant talks around:

🧠 AI & ML in BEAM 🚀 Growth & Adoption strategies 🔧 Real-World Usage stories 🌱 Scalability & Sustainability solutions ✨ Gleam in Production insights

Got an idea? Now’s the time. Share it with the BEAM community before it’s too late! https://sessionize.com/code-beam-europe-2025/

You might want to choose Ash for your next Project! Read now to learn more!! https://devcarrots.com/blog/why-you-should-use-ash/

We’ve just published a new article about the latest updates to Permit – authorization library for Elixir.In the article, Michał, our CTO expands on the topic he presented at ElixirConf EU and explains how Permit helps manage access control in Elixir projects.

👉 https://curiosum.com/sl/q01mxf82

https://arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/did-contexts-kill-phoenix

review this PR

https://github.com/matheuscamarques/snooker_game_ex/pull/4

https://gleam.run/cheatsheets/gleam-for-elixir-users/ Explore differences and similarities between Elixir and Gleam:

• Comments
• Variables
• Functions
• Modules
• Operators
• Constants
• Blocks
• Data types
• Patterns
• Custom types

Phoenix 1.8.0-rc was released in March 2025 to much excitement in the Elixir community. Highlights included daisyUI, enhancements to phx.gen.auth, and scopes to ensure strong access control. Given the security improvements in the first release candidate, it seems appropriate that the final release of Phoenix 1.8 will include official security documentation.

https://paraxial.io/blog/phoenix-security-docs

A lot of Phoenix beginners get confused by contexts. They’re not sure what contexts are, how to use them, or what their contexts should be called.

In my new post I explain contexts as simply as possible. It shouldn’t be difficult, because contexts are, in fact, very simple! The confusion, I think, comes from people overthinking things, and trying to understand contexts as something more complicated than they actually are.

Check out the explanation: https://arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/phoenix-contexts-are-simpler-than-you-think

Thanks for the amazing submissions! 🎉 We’re extending the #MQSummit Call for Papers to July 6 - more time to share your story. Don’t miss out! 🚀 #CallForPapers https://mqsummit.com/#cft

Episode 257 of Thinking Elixir. 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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJmanHLxnY

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