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

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1688596696123555855 – Wojtek Mach teased a new "Check for Updates" Livebook Desktop feature with a screenshot.
• https://twitter.com/philipbrown/status/1688885480283156481 – A new 5-minute daily Elixir newsletter is being launched by Philip Brown and Richard Taylor.
• https://twitter.com/kiwicopple/status/1690032065641684992 – Supabase shared news of their new Supavisor architecture.
• https://github.com/supabase/supavisor – Github project for the Elixir supavisor Postgres connection pooler
• https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-1-million – Blog post - Supavisor - Scaling Postgres to 1 Million Connections
• https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1690031606159802368 – Livebook is joining the online Spawnfest competition as a sponsor.
• https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689843816000307200 – 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 – OTP issue tracking the problem for OTP 26
• https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1689683030162513948 – Alex Koutmos shared an Ecto Tip about schema introspection.
• https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA/status/1689701911908249601 – 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/ – NextLS will use burrito to distribute binaries instead of Mix.install
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1689951699832639489 – 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 – Background on eBPF
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgT_gMWJuvY – HoneyPotion project usage demoed in a video
• https://github.com/lac-dcc/honey-potion – Honey Potion project on Github
• https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1691082535143440385 – Elixir is gaining some more helpful error messages when referencing modules
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12839 – Merged PR to Improve UndefinedFunctionError for mis-cased module
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12859 – Merged PR to Improve UndefinedFunctionError for unqualified module
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/let-s-search-all-of-elixir-s-packages/ – Jason Stiebs wrote a blog post called “Let's search all of Elixir's Packages!”
• https://hex-search.fly.dev/ – Cool Hex search tool created by Jason Stiebs
• https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/hashicorp_bsl_licence/ – Hashicorp goes “Business Source License”

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