Macro Mayhem 002: OTP Security Patches, Fly.io Pivots, and AI Code Copyright

Congrats on a great second podcast - I’ve got it on in the background and love how you’re covering things such as forum discussions

Quick suggestion (no worries if you think it’ll be too much work) but I reckon when you post on the forum adding two headings/sections (under the video) would be really helpful:

Topics Covered

• News
• Blog Posts
• Discussion Topic 1
• Discussion Topic 2
• Etc
• (If you can add time-stamps even better)

Related Threads

• Related Thread 1
• Related Thread 2
• Blog Post Thread 1
• Blog Post Thread 2
• etc

Reasons:

• Let’s people quickly see whether you’re covering a topic they might be interested in (so the more complete your list is the better)
• When you link to a thread you actually get a link back to this one, so if someone is following a discussion they’ll see you covered it in your podcast too
• Let’s people jump straight into those discussions as well if they fancy it

No worries if you think it’s too much work, but worth a go imo

Thank you and that’s a great idea! I wasn’t sure what to put here, so I kept it minimal. But here’s the summary of today’s episode already in that format

FOLLOW UPS

• Deep dish is indeed pizza, not a pie. (Is it though?)
• Hologram is written in Elixir

NEWS — 02:31

• OTP Emergency Patch releases for OTP 27, 28, 29 fix a bunch of vulnerabilities
  • OTP 29.0.4 released
  • OTP 28.5.0.4 released
  • OTP 27.3.4.15 released
• Gleam 1.18 released
  • A field day for Gleam’s language server
• ElixirConf US 2025 Talks are being published on YouTube
  • ElixirForum: #elixirconf tag
• Version 0.3.0 of the Programming Nerves book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Barauna is out
  • programmingnerves.dev
  • Announcement on Bluesky

BLOGS — 09:57

• Mike Zornek — Shimming your way off a dead Elixir dependency
• Johanna Larson — Distributed rate limiter with HRW in Elixir
• Paul Ricks — Profiling Rust NIFs in Elixir (with hotpath)
• Jacob Swanner — Batching Phoenix LiveView Updates
• Paraxial — Security Vendor’s AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe
• German Velasco — Diverge then converge with LLMs
• PSA — Don’t write on Medium

MEETUPS & CONFERENCES — 27:36

• Nerves Meetup — online via Zoom, this week (August 12)
• UnConference before ElixirConf US (Sept 9) and CodeBEAM EU (Oct 20)
  • luma.com/erlef
• Goatmire — Varberg, Sweden, Sept 28 – Oct 3
  • goatmire.com

DISCUSSION

• 33:23 — Deployment strategies in 2026: Fly.io shifting focus
  • Kurt, Scott, money, sprites
  • Will the Apps and Machine platform start winding
    down?
  • dmkenney/xamal
  • Coolify
• 52:55 — What will more intelligence actually do for us?
  • noahpinion.blog
• 59:51 — GCC declines AI contributions & code copyright
  • GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs — Except For Test
    Cases

Hi
Great stuff—it’s really cool to have this podcast. If I may make a suggestion: there is a significant difference in volume between the two of you; using a compressor could help even out the levels and make for a more comfortable listening experience.
Best regards

Heya @nseaSeb, thanks for the suggestion! We are aware of the volume difference, we’re still working on dialing in our setup

We’re gonna try playing with some of the mic settings before the next episode and hopefully it will be better. Thanks for listening!!