203: Thinking Elixir News

News includes Phoenix LiveView hitting 1.0 soon, with thoughtful comparisons to the broader web development industry and detailed changelog insights. Theo reacts positively to the release from a React and JS perspective, highlighting its significance. José Valim's keynote at ElixirConf EU 2024 revisits the famous "Gang of Four" design patterns and their relevance to Elixir today. Chris McCord introduces the innovative World Page Speed Test using FLAME, illustrating its ease of use and benefits over traditional solutions. Ash 3.0 is officially released after 46 RC releases. Additionally, Oban support is moving to ElixirForum to improve searchability, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/203

Elixir Community News

• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1.0-released – Phoenix LiveView is hitting 1.0 soon with thoughtful comparisons to the broader web development industry.
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.0.0-rc.0/changelog.html – Backward incompatible changes for Phoenix LiveView 1.0 along with bug fixes.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOk67eT3fpg – Theo reacts positively to the Phoenix LiveView release, discussing it from the React and JS perspective.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkXUp0hCW8 – Keynote by José Valim on design patterns in Elixir at ElixirConf EU 2024.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1790354042243203283 – José Valim discusses design patterns in Elixir revisiting the "Gang of Four" patterns.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICJ42OyBGg – Chris McCord’s ElixirConf EU keynote on FLAME and its applications.
• https://worldpagespeed.fly.dev/ – Chris McCord’s "World Page Speed Test" tool using FLAME.
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/world-page-speed-test-elastic-scale-with-flame/ – Chris McCord’s blog post on World Page Speed Test and FLAME on Fly.io.
• https://twitter.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1775516026551099852 – Announcement of Ash 3.0 release after 46 RC releases.
• https://hex.pm/packages/ash – Ash Framework version 3.0 final release details.
• https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1790007674077073474 – Oban support is moving to ElixirForum for better searchability and visibility, away from Slack.
• https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1788181209530466518 – Oban hot tip on managing exception messages for better exception reporting.
• https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-6/ – NextLS 0.21.0 released with new features like alias-refactor workspace command, completions, snippets, and more.
• Followup from a comment last week on the difference between pattern-matching empty keyword lists and empty maps, including speed improvements in OTP 26 and 27.
• https://erlangforums.com/t/matching-empty-map-performance-of-map-size/3572 – Discussion on matching empty map performance.
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.14/naming-conventions.html#length-and-size – Naming conventions in Elixir related to length and size.
• https://github.com/mimiquate/blend – New Elixir library "Blend" helps library maintainers test against different versions of dependencies.
• https://rubygems.org/gems/appraisal – Blend library appears to be inspired by the Ruby gem “appraisal”.
• https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1790072050855588265 – Amazon AWS S3 will stop charging for unauthorized requests, being deployed to regions currently.

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