Macro Mayhem 004 - Peter announces Pushin.eu, Oban 2.24, and Ash CVEs

Peter announces Pushin.eu, a GitHub competitor hosted in the EU, written in Elixir. Other topics include Phoenix ships security patches spanning four versions, Oban 2.24 and Oban Pro 1.8rc land, and Ash publishes a batch of CVEs alongside a wave of new Elixir tool releases.

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FOLLOW UPS — 00:59

• Steffen Deusch — Phoenix gets security patches going back 4 versions (1.5 to 1.8)
  • “Apps using old Phoenix should still update, for sure, but not necessarily for security reasons”
  • “As a general note: a common misconception is also that people think they have to copy whatever changes we did to the generators. That’s not the case. You can
    of course do that, but it’s in no way a requirement to update to later Phoenix versions. It’s 1.x, so updates are generally non-breaking.”

NEWS — 04:12

• Nerves has an AI policy now — CONTRIBUTING.md
• Oban 2.24 and Oban Pro 1.8rc are out
  • Oban v2.24.0 released
  • Oban Pro announcement
  • oban-bg/oban v2.24.0 release notes
  • Oban Pro changelog
• samly (Elixir SAML client) has security issues and needs maintainers — forum
  discussion
• Ash releases a bunch of CVEs — ERLEF CVE list
• Quite a lot of small tools were released. An overview:
  • Abuuba — a drop-in replacement for Mastodon
  • BeamConsole — an embeddable process map and
    flight recorder for BEAM applications
  • Voyager — a modern alternative to Observer
  • MapLibreX — MapLibre GL JS as Phoenix LiveView components
  • Temper — flaky test detection for ExUnit
  • DSH — a DeepSeek coding harness written in Elixir
  • Probex — exact answers to
    structural questions about Elixir source, built by agents for agents
  • PaperForge — a pure Elixir platform for
    building, securing, and transforming PDFs
  • Press — a HTML-to-PDF library, 100% in Elixir
  • Announcing Pushin

BLOGS — 32:44

• Gleam — Takeaways from the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
• LiveView Local: first release
• River — We replaced our ledger with two functions
• Johanna Larson — Speeding up a Phoenix LiveView web app with a CDN
• Aleksei Matiushkin (mudasobwa)
  • Anti-Antipatterns in Elixir Libraries
  • Why LLMs Rock (or: BooLLMean Logic for the Uninitiated)
• Lars Wikman — Nerves, apparently popular with agents
• Terence Tao — Mathematics in the age of AI
  • “The goal of training a mathematician is not achieved by producing correct homework”
  • “Above all, our community needs to come together to have open and honest discussions”

MEETUPS & CONFERENCES — 45:31

• Nerves Meetup — taking a break in September
• ElixirConf US — next week, Sept 10 & 11th. Ping Gus on socials if you’re going and want to meet up
• CodeBEAM Europe — Oct 21–22, Haarlem
• Goatmire — Sept 28 – Oct 2, two days of workshops, three days of conference
• AshConf/Goatmire Hackathon — Oct 3

DISCUSSION — 50:32

• Pushin
• Options for Git Hosting
• Using LLMs for building big ideas