Episode Details

News includes Arcana, a new RAG library for Phoenix that adds vector search and AI Q&A using Postgres and pgvector, a JavaScript embedding library called MquickjsEx that brings MicroQuickJS to Elixir processes, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with support for LiveView Streams, DaisyUI officially supporting Phoenix in their commercial dashboard templates, Durable - a new workflow engine similar to Temporal, José Valim teasing beautiful type system improvements, the Hologram project receiving an EEF stipend, Jido 2.0 demonstrating swarms of 1,575 agents indexing code in 7 seconds, ElixirConf EU 2026 announcing José Valim and Chris McCord as keynote speakers, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/287

Elixir Community News

• https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
• https://x.com/georgeguimaraes/status/2006068635878490310 – Announcement of Arcana, a new RAG library for Elixir/Phoenix
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation – Wikipedia explanation of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/arcana – Arcana GitHub repository - adds vector search and AI Q&A to Phoenix apps using Postgres + pgvector
• https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/arcana/blob/main/guides/dashboard.md – Arcana dashboard guide for developing and testing RAG setups
• https://x.com/pic/orig/media%2FG9b-pFpXUAAYIb0.jpg – Screenshot of the Arcana RAG dashboard
• https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 – bge-small-en-v1.5 model that can run locally via Bumblebee for embeddings
• https://x.com/jskalc/status/2005676915479453869 – Announcement of mquickjs_ex library wrapping MQuickJS runtime
• https://github.com/Valian/mquickjs_ex – MQuickJsEx GitHub repository - embeds JavaScript in Elixir processes via NIFs
• https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/23/microquickjs/ – Simon Willison's article about MicroQuickJS by Fabrice Bellard - JavaScript engine for embedded systems
• https://x.com/swmansionelixir/status/2000959719440068622 – Announcement of LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with support for LiveView Streams
• https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveDebugger documentation from Software Mansion<