FOLLOW UPS

NEWS

BLOGS

Mike Zornek - Shimming your way off a dead Elixir dependency
1. https://mikezornek.com/posts/2026/7/shim-off-a-dead-elixir-dependency
Johanna Larson - Distributed rate limiter with HRW in Elixir
1. https://jola.dev/posts/distributed-ratelimiter-with-hrw
Paul Ricks - Profiling Rust NIFs in Elixir (with hotpath)
1. https://blog.smaller-infinity.com/posts/profiling-rust-nifs-in-elixir
Jacob Swanner - Batching Phoenix LiveView Updates
1. https://jacobswanner.com/development/2026/batching-phoenix-liveview-updates/
Paraxial - Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe
1. https://paraxial.io/blog/ai-spam
German Velasco - Diverge then converge with LLMs
1. https://www.germanvelasco.com/blog/diverge-then-converge-with-llms
PSA - Don’t write on medium

MEETUPS & CONFERENCES

Nerves Meetup - online via Zoom, this week (August 12)
UnConference before ElixirConf US (Sept 9) and CodeBEAM EU (Oct 20)
1. https://luma.com/erlef
Goatmire - Varberg, Sweden Sept 28 - Oct 3
1. https://goatmire.com

DISCUSSION

Deployment strategies in 2026 - Fly.io shifting focus:
1. https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/
2. https://community.fly.io/t/will-the-apps-and-machine-platform-start-winding-down/28380
3. https://github.com/dmkenney/xamal
4. https://coolify.io/
What will more intelligence actually do for us?
1. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-will-more-intelligence-actually
GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases
1. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Declining-AI-Contributions

Macro Mayhem

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