Thinking Elixir 306 - Don't Exhaust Your Atoms

[brainlid]

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!

Thinking Elixir Podcast 306: Don't Exhaust Your Atoms

[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:

@AstonJ

Ah nice! Just noticed it’s 8 minutes long - reminds me of Ruby 5 - you could call these Elixir in Eight

Creating the same kind of app to present the content could be a nice little project for you too:

There used to a brilliant Ruby podcast called Ruby 5, and apart from aiming to be around 5 mins per episode (which is perfect for me personally) they had visual indicators of where you were while listening too, and those sections expanded with further info when they were the current topic. It’s no longer around now but here’s an archive.org snapshot: Ruby5 - Episode #504 - October 21st, 2014 (you can hit play, but unfortunately it seems to loop after a minute or so - but you can see what I mean about the title/section updates).

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