News includes Tidewave, a new Phoenix MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access application runtime, Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app with LiveView hosted IDE features, a new GitHub Action for submitting Elixir dependencies to enhance security, ExMeralda.chat, a community chatbot for querying Hex packages, updates on Software Mansion's LiveDebugger v0.2.0 coming in May, mix test.interactive for enhanced ExUnit testing workflows, and information about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers, and more!Template
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Elixir Community News
https://paraxial.io/ (https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – 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 limited time offer.
https://youtu.be/vGue4LtqeWg (https://youtu.be/vGue4LtqeWg?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Introduction video for Tidewave, a Phoenix/Rails MCP server that helps AI-enabled editors access your application's runtime.
https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/issues/49 (https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs/issues/49?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Hexdocs PR enabling documentation context for Tidewave, allowing AI assistants to access app documentation without manual copying.
https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1915017804937375896 (https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1915017804937375896?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris McCord teasing his AI-enabled Phoenix app that writes code.
https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1917002231322116298 (https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1917002231322116298?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris McCord demonstrating an interactive LiveView hosted IDE with realtime terminal support synced across browsers/devices.
https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lngay5chys22 (https://bsky.app/profile/theerlef.bsky.social/post/3lngay5chys22?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF announcement about the "mix-dependency-submission" GitHub Action for submitting Elixir/Mix dependencies.
https://github.com/erlef/mix-dependency-submission (https://github.com/erlef/mix-dependency-submission?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GitHub repo for the mix-dependency-submission tool that calculates dependencies for Mix and submits them to GitHub's API.
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api (https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-security/understanding-your-software-supply-chain/using-the-dependency-submission-api?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – GitHub documentation about the Dependency Submission API used by the mix-dependency-submission tool.
https://exmeralda.chat/chat/start (https://exmeralda.chat/chat/start?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ExMeralda.chat, a chatbot for hex.pm packages from bitcrowd.dev, using their Elixir RAG library.
https://bitcrowd.dev/exmeralda-a-community-chatbot-for-hex-packages/ (https://bitcrowd.dev/exmeralda-a-community-chatbot-for-hex-packages/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Blog post explaining ExMeralda, a community chatbot for Hex packages that demonstrates RAG systems with LLMs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k600mu/livedebuggerv020upcomingfeaturespart_1/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1k600mu/livedebugger_v020_upcoming_features_part_1/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Reddit post from Software Mansion about upcoming features in LiveDebugger v0.2.0, expected in early May.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl-y49Ou7E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNl-y49Ou7E?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Full interview discussing LiveDebugger in more depth.
https://github.com/randycoulman/mixtestinteractive (https://github.com/randycoulman/mix_test_interactive?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – mix test.interactive - an interactive test runner for ExUnit tests that enhances testing workflows.
https://x.com/jskalc/status/1916824204156035300 (https://x.com/jskalc/status/1916824204156035300?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Twitter post highlighting mix test.interactive's features including running tests by names, rerunning on file save, and more.
https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025 (https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Information about upcoming Erlang Ecosystem Foundation board elections with important dates.
https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/async-tests-in-elixir/ (https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/async-tests-in-elixir/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Andrea Leopardi's blog post about reworking singleton architecture to leverage async tests in ExUnit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrAqMyjbkJQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrAqMyjbkJQ?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by Jason Stiebs on FLAME (Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OK9B4yRfg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62OK9B4yRfg?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf US 2024 talk by James Isenhart on 'OpenTelemetry: From Desire to Dashboard'
https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/slopsquatting-malware/ (https://gridinsoft.com/blogs/slopsquatting-malware/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Article about slopsquatting, a new malware technique targeting AI-assisted developers by exploiting AI hallucinations of package names.
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