News includes the major OTP 28 release with priority messages functionality, ElixirConf EU 2025 videos starting to appear including Chris McCord's keynote on his new phoenix.new service and James Arthur's introduction of Phoenix Sync for real-time database synchronization, the EEF board election results and their new role as a CVE Numbering Authority for the Hex ecosystem, upcoming co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView, updates to the Elixir Lua package and MDEx with its new Markdown sigil, a new convention for AI-friendly usage_rules.md files in hex packages, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/255 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/255)
Elixir Community News
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https://www.erlang.org/news/180 (https://www.erlang.org/news/180?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – OTP 28 release announcement with new priority messages functionality and SBOM support
https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 (https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEP 76 specification for priority messages in OTP 28
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf EU 2025 YouTube playlist with conference videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojLVHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2oZ&index=3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=3?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris McCord's keynote "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators"
https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889 (https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris McCord's announcement about phoenix.new paid service
https://phoenix.new/ (https://phoenix.new/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris McCord's new phoenix.new paid service at Fly.io
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – James Arthur's keynote "Introducing Phoenix Sync" from ElixirConf EU
https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/ (https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Phoenix Sync GitHub repository for real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix apps
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Phoenix Sync documentation on HexDocs
https://github.com/josevalim/sync (https://github.com/josevalim/sync?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim's sync project that inspired Phoenix Sync
https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results (https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF board election results for Cohort C
https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633 (https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF Twitter announcement of election results
https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates (https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Information about the EEF election candidates
https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement (https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF becomes CVE Numbering Authority for Hex and BEAM ecosystem
https://github.com/erlef-cna (https://github.com/erlef-cna?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF CNA GitHub organization
https://cna.erlef.org/ (https://cna.erlef.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – EEF CNA website
https://github.com/surface-ui/surface (https://github.com/surface-ui/surface?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Surface UI project for server-side rendering components
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/pull/3810 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3810?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Draft PR for co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView
https://github.com/tv-labs/lua (https://github.com/tv-labs/lua?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Elixir Lua package v0.2.x release by TvLabs
https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034 (https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Dave's tweet about ElixirConf EU Luerl talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – "Lua on the BEAM" talk by Dave Lucia & Robert Virding
https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj (https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Discord link for Lua community
https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093 (https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – German Velasco's video highlighting LiveDebugger tool
https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225 (https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – German Velasco's BlueSky post about LiveDebugger
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Thinking Elixir episode 249 featuring LiveDebugger discussion
https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html (https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – MDEx v0.7 documentation for new ~MD sigil
https://hexdocs.pm/autumn (https://hexdocs.pm/autumn?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Autumn syntax highlighter package that works with MDEx
https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid (https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – MDEx Mermaid plugin for adding mermaid support to Markdown
https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i (https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Zach Daniel's BlueSky post about usage_rules.md convention
https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules (https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Usage rules package documentation
https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/ (https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Usage rules GitHub repository
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Microsoft announcement about Windows Subsystem for Linux going open source
https://www.zdnet.com/article/believe-it-or-not-microsoft-just-announced-a-linux-distribution-service-heres-why/ (https://www.zdnet.com/article/believe-it-or-not-microsoft-just-announced-a-linux-distribution-service-heres-why/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ZDNet article explaining Microsoft's Linux strategy and Azure statistics
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