About this episode
<p>News includes Chris McCord's FlyDeploy for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io, the Elixir GRPC library update with interactive Livebook documentation, ErrorTracker v0.7.0 with LiveView 1.0 support, a new AI-powered terminal emulator called exterm_ai, Horde joining a new GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, SmartLogic's case study using Elixir for real-time air quality monitoring, GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript becoming the most used language, and Mark shares his detailed AI development workflow that compresses 2 weeks of work into 2 days by using coding agents as a Software Architect, and more!</p>
<p>Show Notes online - <a href="http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/279" rel="nofollow">http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/279</a></p>
<p><strong>Elixir Community News</strong></p>
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<li><a href="https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_campaign=thinkingelixir-oct2025" rel="nofollow">https://paraxial.io/</a> – 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 special offer.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/chrismccord/fly_deploy?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chrismccord/fly_deploy</a> – Chris McCord releases FlyDeploy - enables hot code upgrades for Elixir applications on Fly.io without restarts or downtime</li>
<li><a href="https://nitter.net/sleipni_r/status/1986791040607481930?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://nitter.net/sleipni_r/status/1986791040607481930</a> – Elixir GRPC library updated to v0.11.4 with beautiful interactive Livebook documentation and new stream features including effects and map_error</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.7.0?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.7.0</a> – ErrorTracker v0.7.0 released with Igniter installer, LiveView 1.0 support, better MariaDB support, and security updates</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/metehan/exterm_ai?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/metehan/exterm_ai</a> – exterm_ai - an advanced web-based terminal emulator with built-in AI assistance powered by OpenRouter, like a web-based warp.dev</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/elixir-horde/horde?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/elixir-horde/horde</a> – Horde - distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/elixir-horde?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/elixir-horde</a> – New @elixir_horde GitHub organization focused on distributed systems, fault-tolerant supervision, and global process registration</li>
<li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3m52kusb7ek2x?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/peregrine.bsky.social/post/3m52kusb7ek2x</a> – PSA for Zed editor users about Expert LSP not having versioned releases yet</li>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/dbernheisel/b533b289fd5ed13f8333ae92a71c9606?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/dbernheisel/b533b289fd5ed13f8333ae92a71c9606</a> – David's guide for configuring Zed to manually update Expert LSP</li>
<li><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/smartlogic.io/post/3m5ecck4h3j2q?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://bsky.app/profile/smartlogic.io/post/3m5ecck4h3j2q</a> – SmartLogic announcement about ICRT case study</li>
<li><a href="https://smartlogic.io/case-studies/icrt?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://smartlogic.io/case-studies/icrt</a> – SmartLogic case study on using Elixir to help researchers with real-time air quality monitoring and alerts for residents</li>
<li><a href="https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/top-3-liveview-form-mistakes?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://johnelmlabs.com/posts/top-3-liveview-form-mistakes</a> – Article covering the top 3 LiveView form mistakes - slow laggy forms, brittle UI/database coupling, and valid data that can't submit</li>
<li><a href="https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang</a> – Article about falling in love with Erlang</li>
<li><a href="https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/why-i-chose-phoenix-liveview-over-rails-laravel-and-next-js?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/why-i-chose-phoenix-liveview-over-rails-laravel-and-next-js</a> – Article explaining why the author chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js</li>
<li><a href="https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-developer-joins-github-every-second-as-ai-leads-typescript-to-1/</a> – GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report showing TypeScript overtaking Python and JavaScript, 36M new developers joined, and AI adoption accelerating</li>
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<p><strong>Discussion Resources</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Mark shares his AI development workflow using Claude Code and Cursor, going from PRD to implementation plan to working code with tests in 2 days instead of 2 weeks</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULfEcPR0Gc?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULfEcPR0Gc</a> – Y Combinator podcast about why enterprise is bad at AI, discussing the MIT report on AI initiative failures</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/maxim-ist/elixir-architect?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/maxim-ist/elixir-architect</a> – New Elixir Architect Claude Code skill for AI-assisted development</li>
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