255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps

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

Elixir Community News

https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes. https://www.erlang.org/news/180 – OTP 28 release announcement with new priority messages functionality and SBOM support https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0076 – EEP 76 specification for priority messages in OTP 28 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConf EU 2025 YouTube playlist with conference videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL_VHc4gLk&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=3 – Chris McCord's keynote "Code Generators are Dead. Long Live Code Generators" https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1923417060593356889 – Chris McCord's announcement about phoenix.new paid service https://phoenix.new/ – Chris McCord's new phoenix.new paid service at Fly.io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IWShnVuRCg&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=2 – James Arthur's keynote "Introducing Phoenix Sync" from ElixirConf EU https://github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync/ – Phoenix Sync GitHub repository for real-time sync to Postgres-backed Phoenix apps https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_sync/readme.html – Phoenix Sync documentation on HexDocs https://github.com/josevalim/sync – José Valim's sync project that inspired Phoenix Sync https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-results – EEF board election results for Cohort C https://x.com/TheErlef/status/1924531926008004633 – EEF Twitter announcement of election results https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2025-candidates – Information about the EEF election candidates https://erlef.org/blog/security/eef-cna-announcement – EEF becomes CVE Numbering Authority for Hex and BEAM ecosystem https://github.com/erlef-cna – EEF CNA GitHub organization https://cna.erlef.org/ – EEF CNA website https://github.com/surface-ui/surface – Surface UI project for server-side rendering components https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3810 – Draft PR for co-located hooks and macro components in LiveView https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir Lua package v0.2.x release by TvLabs https://x.com/davydog187/status/1925186045156463034 – Dave's tweet about ElixirConf EU Luerl talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBBoXXH_98 – "Lua on the BEAM" talk by Dave Lucia & Robert Virding https://discord.gg/6Ukp9vpj – Discord link for Lua community https://x.com/germsvel/status/1922602086065148093 – German Velasco's video highlighting LiveDebugger tool https://bsky.app/profile/germsvel.com/post/3lp4snnkpj225 – German Velasco's BlueSky post about LiveDebugger https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/249 – Thinking Elixir episode 249 featuring LiveDebugger discussion https://hexdocs.pm/mdex/MDEx.Sigil.html – MDEx v0.7 documentation for new ~MD sigil https://hexdocs.pm/autumn – Autumn syntax highlighter package that works with MDEx https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex_mermaid – MDEx Mermaid plugin for adding mermaid support to Markdown https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lpofyykwds2i – Zach Daniel's BlueSky post about usage_rules.md convention https://hexdocs.pm/usage_rules – Usage rules package documentation https://github.com/ash-project/usage_rules/ – Usage rules GitHub repository https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/ – 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/ – ZDNet article explaining Microsoft's Linux strategy and Azure statistics

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