165: Thinking Elixir News

In the news, we cover a new Livebook Desktop feature tease, a new daily bite-sized Elixir newsletter, Supabase's new Supavisor architecture, and Livebook joins the online Spawnfest competition as a sponsor. We also share a PSA about Alpine Docker image troubles with OTP 26 and an Ecto schema introspection tip. Elixir's errors get more helpful when modules aren't found, then a new Hex search tool was created and explained, and much more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/165 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/165)
Elixir Community News
- https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1688596696123555855 (https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1688596696123555855?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Wojtek Mach teased a new "Check for Updates" Livebook Desktop feature with a screenshot.
- https://twitter.com/philipbrown/status/1688885480283156481 (https://twitter.com/philipbrown/status/1688885480283156481?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – A new 5-minute daily Elixir newsletter is being launched by Philip Brown and Richard Taylor.
- https://twitter.com/kiwicopple/status/1690032065641684992 (https://twitter.com/kiwicopple/status/1690032065641684992?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Supabase shared news of their new Supavisor architecture.
- https://github.com/supabase/supavisor (https://github.com/supabase/supavisor?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Github project for the Elixir supavisor Postgres connection pooler
- https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-1-million (https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-1-million?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Blog post - Supavisor - Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections
- https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1690031606159802368 (https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1690031606159802368?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Livebook is joining the online Spawnfest competition as a sponsor.
- https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689843816000307200 (https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689843816000307200?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Alex Koutmos shared a PSA for issues running Elixir 1.15+OTP 26 in an Alpine 3.17.4 container.
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/7292 (https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/7292?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – OTP issue tracking the problem for OTP 26
- https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689683030162513948 (https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689683030162513948?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Alex Koutmos shared an Ecto Tip about schema introspection.
- https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA/status/1689701911908249601 (https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA/status/1689701911908249601?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Steve Bussey shared an Ecto tip for using test code to introspect schemas and check for missing indexes
- https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-2/ (https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-2/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – NextLS will use burrito to distribute binaries instead of Mix.install
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1689951699832639489 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1689951699832639489?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Jose Valim drew attention to the Honey Potion project letting you write Elixir code that is compiled down to eBPF
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBPF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBPF?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Background on eBPF
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgT_gMWJuvY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgT_gMWJuvY?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – HoneyPotion project usage demoed in a video
- https://github.com/lac-dcc/honey-potion (https://github.com/lac-dcc/honey-potion?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Honey Potion project on Github
- https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1691082535143440385 (https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1691082535143440385?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir is gaining some more helpful error messages when referencing modules
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12839 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12839?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Merged PR to Improve UndefinedFunctionError for mis-cased module
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12859 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12859?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Merged PR to Improve UndefinedFunctionError for unqualified module
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/let-s-search-all-of-elixir-s-packages/ (https://fly.io/phoenix-files/let-s-search-all-of-elixir-s-packages/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Jason Stiebs wrote a blog post called “Let's search all of Elixir's Packages!”
- https://hex-search.fly.dev/ (https://hex-search.fly.dev/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Cool Hex search tool created by Jason Stiebs
- https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorpbsllicence/ (https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorp_bsl_licence/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Hashicorp goes “Business Source License”
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at show@thinkingelixir.com (mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com)
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social (https://genserver.social/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com (mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com)
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social (https://genserver.social/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social (https://genserver.social/dbern)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)
- Cade Ward on Fediverse - @cadebward@genserver.social (https://genserver.social/cadebward)