News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that's already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fascinating research showing Elixir performing exceptionally well in LLM code generation benchmarks (scoring highest among all tested languages), the announcement that next ElixirConf US will be in Chicago, and a critical security alert about a new type of developer dependency attack that weaponizes AI CLI tools, and more!
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https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert (https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Expert, the new official Elixir LSP was released
https://expert-lsp.org/ (https://expert-lsp.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Expert LSP official website
https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/blob/main/pages/installation.md#editor-specific-setup (https://github.com/elixir-lang/expert/blob/main/pages/installation.md#editor-specific-setup?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Installation instructions for different editors
https://zed.dev/docs/languages/elixir#expert (https://zed.dev/docs/languages/elixir#expert?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Zed editor already supports Expert
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960402157922082981 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960402157922082981?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim announces Tidewave Web first update
https://tidewave.ai/blog/editor-integration-notifications (https://tidewave.ai/blog/editor-integration-notifications?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave Web blog post and full changelog
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960692138112352355 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960692138112352355?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José mentions plans to open public roadmap soon
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962491846795391333 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962491846795391333?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim interviewed about Tidewave Web with Ruby focus
https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-introducing-tidewave-interview-with-jos-valim#interview-with-jose-valim (https://rubyai.beehiiv.com/p/ruby-ai-introducing-tidewave-interview-with-jos-valim#interview-with-jose-valim?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Full Ruby AI interview with José Valim
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960683093225865463 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1960683093225865463?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José discusses Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP)
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/agent_servers/src/claude.rs?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Zed working on Claude Code support
https://github.com/orgs/tidewave-ai/projects/1 (https://github.com/orgs/tidewave-ai/projects/1?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave's public roadmap
https://github.com/polvalente/handoff (https://github.com/polvalente/handoff?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution
https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1961071773438574897 (https://x.com/elixirmembrane/status/1961071773438574897?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – LiveDebugger v0.4.0 release announcement
https://forms.gle/V6tUHpJt94vi1v1TA (https://forms.gle/V6tUHpJt94vi1v1TA?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – LiveDebugger feedback form
https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger (https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – LiveDebugger GitHub repository
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962649394139877479 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962649394139877479?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim shares Elixir's exceptional LLM performance results
https://x.com/tomthesilva/status/1962628935730241712 (https://x.com/tomthesilva/status/1962628935730241712?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Thomas Silva's research on language performance in code generation
https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark (https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tencent's AutoCodeBenchmark multilingual coding evaluation
https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/blob/main/figures/exp_acb.png (https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmark/blob/main/figures/exp_acb.png?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Benchmark results showing Elixir's top performance
https://x.com/hugobarauna/status/1961914102764261688 (https://x.com/hugobarauna/status/1961914102764261688?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Next ElixirConf US announced for Chicago
Errata correction from José about OIDC implementation attribution to Jonatan Männchen
https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1960771720727683507 (https://x.com/zack_overflow/status/1960771720727683507?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – New developer dependency attack vector using AI CLI tools
https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-popular-nx-build-system-package-compromised-with-data-stealing-malware (https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/supply-chain-security-alert-popular-nx-build-system-package-compromised-with-data-stealing-malware?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Supply chain security alert about compromised Nx package
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/ (https://semgrep.dev/blog/2025/security-alert-nx-compromised-to-steal-wallets-and-credentials/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Semgrep security analysis of the NPM project's Nx compromise
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Anthropic's post about securing browser interactions
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