Episode Details

News includes Chris McCord releasing a shell-based web browser tool for LLMs extracted from phoenix.new, a new schema validation library called Zoi inspired by JavaScript's Zod, AshDiagram for generating beautiful visualizations of AshFramework applications, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's progress toward EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness with their Ægis security initiative, PostgreSQL 18.0 release with Index Skip Scans and async I/O improvements, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 release, IEEE's Top Programming Languages 2025 list and a discussion about whether AI-assisted coding means the end of programming language rankings, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/273

Elixir Community News

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• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1972721288029548924 – Chris McCord announces the web shell command for LLM web browsing
• https://github.com/chrismccord/web – Web - shell command for simple LLM web browsing that converts web pages to markdown, executes js, and interacts with pages
• https://hexdocs.pm/zoi/Zoi.html – Zoi - a new schema validation library for Elixir inspired by the popular JavaScript library Zod
• https://github.com/phcurado/zoi – Zoi GitHub repository
• https://zod.dev/ – Zod - the JavaScript library that inspired Zoi
• https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lzwvkdlsw22c – Announcement of AshDiagram by Jonatan Männchen
• https://hexdocs.pm/ash_diagram/AshDiagram.html – AshDiagram - library for generating beautiful diagrams to visualize AshFramework applications including Entity Relationship, Class, C4 Architecture, and Policy diagrams
• https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_diagram – AshDiagram GitHub repository with examples of generated diagrams
• https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lzypq74brc25 – EEF Security Update announcement
• https://security.erlef.org/assets/aegis/updates/2025-q3.pdf – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's Ægis Initiative Q3 2025 security update document
• https://erlef.org/blog/eef/beam-worm – EEF blog post about BEAM security initiatives
• https://cyber-resilience-act.com/