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Hi everyone, I am sharing this announcement here in case some of you might be interested.
Dear colleagues,
IRIF (Paris) is opening a p...
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How Can I Optimise Compile Time Dependencies
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A Simple Log Collector for Elixir
I’ve just released a small log collection stack for Elixir applications.
The idea is simple: store app...
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I have just published AuditTrailEx 0.1.0, an audit logging and change-history library for Ecto. I built it for my own Phoeni...
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Hello folks!
So at work, we are seeing some situations where we have to define some “fixed” strings that are used across the codebase in...
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Your standard application generally only tracks what is true right now. Updates overwrite previous data, and asking questions about the p...
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Recorded live from Goatmire in Varberg, we recap the conference, its Nerves-powered orchestra, LED tree, and badges, and discuss José Val...
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So I’ve got this RAG project called Cake that I’ve been working on a good long while. For this topic, the RAG part is less important than...
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Hi everyone! I just published bizdays, a library for business day calculations in Elixir, shipping with the Brazilian ANBIMA calendar.
W...
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Every other Phoenix project I start I find myself building some sort of rich text experience, either in LiveView or even switching to a F...
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Lovely people :victory_hand:
I am happy to announce that smithy-beam is published to Maven Central and Hex :tada:
Smithy-beam generates...
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New episode with Alex Koutmos covering the overlap between Elixir and financial systems - practically, architecturally, and historically....
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Hi all, I want to show off a project I’ve been building: Bundar.
What it is: a push-to-deploy platform. You bring your own server (an...
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I was working on an old idea of a “Soft PLC” written on top of Elixir. It was too much work but with the advent of better AI I though...
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I’ve built a small demo app to understand what an “AI agent” actually is under the hood, and to show it with Elixir’s own tools ...
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VitalAIze 0.3.0 is out. It puts your other machines on your team on the board, live. I changed the architecture and am using gRPC to stre...
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I recently learned about this API and was surprised there’s no explicit support for it in the the Phoenix.
Example use cases:
A webs...
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Hello all :wave:
I’m happy to share LiveAnimate, a library for declarative UI animations in Phoenix LiveView.
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add one <.m...
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In my third year of college, around 2010, I found Erlang. A few years later, I found Elixir. I liked the ideas at once: many small proces...
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Hi everyone! This is my first time posting here, so be gentle (or at least polite). I’ve been lurking for a while and I’m genuinely excit...
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Hello all :wave:
I’m happy to share LiveAnimate, a library for declarative UI animations in Phoenix LiveView.
The idea:
add one <.m...
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Every other Phoenix project I start I find myself building some sort of rich text experience, either in LiveView or even switching to a F...
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I mentioned this back in March in the “What Elixir related stuff are you doing?” thread. It’s been out of beta for a while now, so I figu...
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Your standard application generally only tracks what is true right now. Updates overwrite previous data, and asking questions about the p...
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Hi! I’ve built Stealth Kitty, an unofficial Elixir client and terminal chat for Proton Lumo. It works in guest mode without a token, or w...
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So I’ve got this RAG project called Cake that I’ve been working on a good long while. For this topic, the RAG part is less important than...
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Hi all, I want to show off a project I’ve been building: Bundar.
What it is: a push-to-deploy platform. You bring your own server (an...
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Lovely people :victory_hand:
I am happy to announce that smithy-beam is published to Maven Central and Hex :tada:
Smithy-beam generates...
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Hello folks!
So at work, we are seeing some situations where we have to define some “fixed” strings that are used across the codebase in...
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Hi everyone! I just published bizdays, a library for business day calculations in Elixir, shipping with the Brazilian ANBIMA calendar.
W...
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Recorded live from Goatmire in Varberg, we recap the conference, its Nerves-powered orchestra, LED tree, and badges, and discuss José Val...
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I’ve been building Longx, an open-source, self-hosted workspace for AI agents. The backend uses Elixir, Phoenix, Ash, and SQLite; the web...
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A little off-topic, but I feel like people here have a good head on their shoulders.
I used to be quite good at making software. Was luc...
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I love Elixir. It’s one of 2 programming languages I’ve ever fallen in love with.
But I don’t use it anymore.
Serverless was the promis...
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Aloha gang,
There’s a new class of AI model out from TypeSafe. Jev is their flagship model. You can learn about it here:
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What IDE or editor are you using for Elixir development?
Personally, I use Zed, and I really like it, but sometimes I wish there were a ...
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Following on from some recent threads about AI and AI created projects I’m curious what people have been creating with AI tools …and perh...
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I’ve released the first beta of Draught, a coding-agent CLI and runtime built with Elixir.
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While reading the Scoped Routes section, I noticed that the documentation currently refers to a problem without explainin...
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(I just needed to vent somewhere and LinkedIn is full of hope, or hype, I’m not sure which exactly)
AI dream has many faces, but general...
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Hey everyone — I’m putting together a practical, code-first book on building production-ready business applications with Phoenix LiveView...
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This was an interesting post by Jose. Curious to hear what others think. Evolving programming languages in the AI era - Dashbit Blog
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I like to find performance optimizations and hidden bugs in Elixir codebases with coding agents.
If I just ask them directly to find tho...
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A few months ago I needed a log dashboard for my Phoenix app. I looked at a few cloud services, but since I didn’t need an...
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I haven’t seen a list of useful Elixir specific skills for the popular AI tools yet so I’m starting one here with my first.
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Hello everyone!
This year is going to be shorter, but the difficulty will grow faster. Today I already feel that this is not standard “D...
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As more and more code is written by agents, driven by humans, what strategies are you employing to keep the slop at bay?
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Edit: 2026 May 15 - This post is archived.
Mob is alive!!
Main docs: mob v0.7.11 — Documentation
A bit of explanation for the slightly c...
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OpenAI published a repo built primarily with Elixir (96.1%).
https://github.com/openai/symphony
https://github.com/openai/symphony/blob...
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Hey, I’m Jesse and I’m the main contributor behind Dexter, a full-featured, lightning-fast Elixir LSP optimized for large codebases. It s...
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I am happy to introduce the very α version of the new programming language compiled to BEAM.
Welcome Cure.
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Today we celebrate 15 years since Elixir’s first commit! To mark the occasion, we are glad to announce the first release candidate for El...
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Hobbes is a low-level distributed database for the Elixir programming language.
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Hi there! We created Gust: A task orchestrator inspired by Airflow.
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The first release candidate for the Expert language server project is now available!
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Announcement: Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language - The Elixir programming language
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In the code below, if the create action is not set to accept “extra_key” as an input, it errors out with a message shown above. Is there ...
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We have an ECS cluster with 4 services, where each task joins a single cluster, via discovery ECS discovery service.
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Erlang/OTP 25 [erts-13.2.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1]
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Kind of like when jquery came out, it was super necessary. Existing drag and drop libraries have a bunch of baggage to support old browse...
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Posting this to see if we can make things easier for people to get into Neovim. If you use Neovim and have a favourite distro please let ...
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I’d love to hear what people think about Wisp, the new Gleam web framework started by Gleam’s primary creator Louis Pilfold.
Gleam, alon...
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simple_feature_flags is a tiny package that lets you turn features on or off based on which environment (e.g. localhost, staging, product...
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You may know https://ui.shadcn.com/, a UI component library for React. I really love it’s design style and components. I’ve built some co...
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Check the announcement blog for details!
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I am excited to share our heart project Backpex with you.
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This is a proposal for introducing local accumulators to Elixir. This is another attempt of solving the comprehension probl...
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Hi. I am new in Elixir. I have got to know about two file extensions for Elixir - .ex and .exs. Documentation says:
" …In addition to ...
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I think this twitter post and youtube video didn’t get as much attention as I hoped
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As the title says, please share what you’ve been up to with Elixir. Whether that’s been learning it, looking into it, making stuff with i...
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I would like to know what is the best IDE for elixir development?
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What is the idiomatic way of matching for not nil in Elixir?
E.g.,
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defp halt_if_not_signed_in(conn, signed_in_account) when...
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This post is an instruction guide to help you setup your Neovim for Elixir development from scratch. It includes general information on h...
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Hello again - after a longish gap I’ve decided I really must dig into Elixir and see what’s been happening here - so I have a few questio...
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i’m a new one to elixir
which editor can i use
vs code? or atom?
Thanks! :smiley:
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This post is a wiki (feel free to hit the edit button near the bottom right of this post to add your own changes!)
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After calling mix ecto.create I get this error:
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TL;DR: I’ve just released an implementation of Microsoft’s IDE-independent Language Server Protocol for Elixir. It adds language support ...
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Lets say I have map like this fetching from my database
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I have seen a lot of code which picks the first element from a list using Enum.at(0) instead of List.first. Is there a reason why people ...
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The obligatory hello world thread!
Who are you and where are you from? :stuck_out_tongue:
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