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Episode 306 of Thinking Elixir. Security takes center stage this week as the EEF’s Jonatan Männchen highlights that atom exhaustion accounts for roughly one tenth of all CVEs in the BEAM ecosystem and Sobelow can help catch it before it hits production. Hackney users get an urgent nudge to upgrade to v4.0.3, which patches 9 CVEs including high-severity issues and fixes missing HTTP/3 certificate verification, thanks in part to Peter Ullrich’s AI-assisted vulnerability research. On the exciting side, the new Elixir 1.20-rc.6 type system is proving its worth in the real world, with Tyler Young reporting it caught ~500 issues, including outright bugs, that 1.19 completely missed. Dannote releases “vibe”, an ambitious BEAM-native coding agent for Elixir/OTP projects featuring a TUI, LiveView web console, subagents, and more!
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michallepicki
I will miss listening to you guys! It was the best BEAM podcast for me, no “what did you have for breakfast” chit-chat, almost purely technical but with just enough personality and jokes to make it not too dry
AstonJ
Agree with @michallepicki - it’s been an incredible 6 years!!
Thank you @brainlid and @dbern - Thinking Elixir will be missed! Although… have you thought about going back to your shorter more manageable episodes?
I really like short n sweet podcasts… as I’ve mentioned before in one of your threads:
Whatever you decide, thank you for an amazing 6 years of Thinking Elixir and I wish you both all the best for your future projects
jswanner
Oh man… Ruby 5 flashback! I co-hosted a handful of episodes, found one of them: Ruby5 - Episode #174 - May 10, 2011
AstonJ
Nice one Jacob! I think I remember that episode too!
Maybe you could partner up with Mark or David (or someone else) and start an Elixir version
brainlid
Thanks @AstonJ! Yes, I too really enjoyed the Ruby 5 and it was actually a source of inspiration for the show format. The problem David and I have is even when we set out to create a short episode, they go long! It actually takes more work to keep it short and tight. Both in prep and editing.
AstonJ
That’s (always getting carried away chatting) a sign of a good friendship Mark! Long may it continue and I’ll look forward to see what you and David get up to in future
aifrak
I will miss your podcast also. It was one of my main sources of Elixir news with good summaries, because I don’t have twitter or mastodon. This podcast introduced me to the Elixir ecosystem and to its most important / prominent Elixir members.
Thank you for all those years!