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TL;DR: is it OK in elixir to pass large (MBytes) binary strings through function parameters ? If not, what would be a clean way to transfer this binary to the end user in a Plug HTTP response ?

Context: My program reads binary data

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I’ve been working on PhoenixSpectral, a library that makes Phoenix controller @spec annotations drive both OpenAPI generation and runtime request/response validation — no separate schema definitions.

The main design departure from

Episode 303 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation publishing its 2026 board election candidates with voting now open, a new GitHub organization called Elixir-Vibe launching with tools to detect and fix AI-generated Elixir “s

By: Wilfredo Barrios (Coding5s)

Short description:

The Coding5s Interactive Lab is a free, open-source, and interactive way to learn Elixir, from Fundamentals to OTP. Inste

Hey all — I open-sourced an Elixir library that a few people in my previous threads might find useful.

metamorphic_crypto is a NaCl-compatible encryption library for Elixir with post-quantum support, powered by a Rust NIF core with precompiled b

Hi all,

I’ve released bylaw_ecto_query, a small OSS library for validating prepared Ecto.Query structs before they run.

Imagine you ship an API endpoint that does not order the results determinisitcally. A customer sees inc

I have an Elixir module in which I am trying to call out to Pdfcpu to modify existing PDFs. Pdfcpu is written in Go and has a CLI and an API, and I am trying to use the API. I am using Wasmex to run the WASM code and interface with Elixir.

I hav

Softly, Surely: Bringing Elixir to Work - Ellyse Cedeno | Code BEAM Europe 2025

Softly, Surely: Bringing Elixir to Work - Ellyse Cedeno | Code BEAM Europe 2025

This talk was recorded at Code BEAM Europe in November 2025. If you’re curiou

I’m currently building an event ticketing system in Elixir and I’m looking for advice on properly handling race conditions around ticket inventory.

I’m using Oban for background processing with jobs responsible for:

• Initiating p

I’m trying to use change filter and custom validation in a single update action. The custom validation is atomic and validating fields through relationship.

It gives error related to the generated SQL. I’m new to Ash and maybe there are somethin

TigerBeetlex an Elixir and Zig Love Story - Riccardo Binetti | ElixirConf EU 2025

TigerBeetlex an Elixir and Zig Love Story - Riccardo Binetti | ElixirConf EU 2025

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A complete Elixir implementation for parsing Database Markup Language (DBML) schemas and generating Ecto schema files and Ecto migrations automatically.

1. Standalone CLI Tool - The new dbml escript binary for command-line usag

What’s New in Elixir Types Guillaume Duboc | ElixirConf EU 2025

What's New in Elixir Types Guillaume Duboc | ElixirConf EU 2025

This talk was recorded at ElixirConf EU 2025. If you’re curious about our upcoming event, check https://el

Hi everyone,

I’m building Aethrion, an early alpha Elixir runtime for persistent AI characters.

Repo: GitHub - simulacre7/aethrion: A shared social layer for persistent AI characters. · GitHub

Aethrion is an experi

I know very little about the Elixir telemetry libraries. I have an existing project I’ve started working on, and the cardinality of the metrics being scraped (by Prometheus) is way too high–resulting in really long scrape times, and timeouts. Current c

https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2052736520172236873

By the same logic this could be a canary in the coal mine

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Measuring What Matters: Metrics from the Start - Kate Rezentes | ElixirConf US 2025

Measuring What Matters: Metrics from the Start - Kate Rezentes | ElixirConf US 2025

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Task.async(fn → Rust.performant() end)

Elixir Rust

What actually happens when BEAM resilience meets Rust performance?

Florian Gilcher and Leandro Pereira join BEAM There, Done That to talk NIFs, ports, hybrid architectures, and why

Two libraries. φ-accrual failure detector (Hayashibara 2004) split into core + transport.

phi_accrual 1.0 — phi_accrual | Hex

Source-agnostic. Feed in heartbeat arrivals, read out φ. No transport, no membership, no thresh

JIT is limited in some special environments because they don’t allow modifying memory and then executing it (RW → RX) for security reasons. I’m looking for a way to support AOT(Ahead Of Time) in BEAM. Does anyone have experience with this?

6 pos

I have a macro that expands into a module definition. The use case is that we take a testcase defined in one elixir module (parent) and modify some parameters and generate a new module that calls parent where needed but as a new, separate testcase. (Th

Hi guys,

I’ve been running Qwen locally for the last two weeks using an opencode + Ollama + qwen3.6:35b-A3B setup with q4_k_m quantization on a MacBook Pro M2 Max (32GB RAM).

My development workflow is heavily GitHub-centric: GitHub Issue

Security advisory: Decimal DoS vulnerability

A vulnerability has been published for decimal where very large exponents can cause excessive memory allocation and crash the BEAM VM.

Affected versions: decimal < 3.0.0…

Metastatic is a library that provides a unified MetaAST (Meta-level Abstract Syntax Tree) intermediate representation for parsing, transforming, and analyzing code across multiple programming languages using a three-layer meta-model architecture.

I just published Filament, a component and state-management layer for Phoenix LiveView that brings a few ideas from React into Elixir — without the JavaScript.

Handoff - a new Nx-compatible library for distributed DAGs - Paulo Valente | ElixirConf US 2025

Handoff - a new Nx-compatible library for distributed DAGs - Paulo Valente | ElixirConf US 2025

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I was looking for an open router sdk in elixir but i didn’t find anything so here you go openrouter_sdk | Hex

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Just wondering since the knowledge cutoff for LLMs is about a year or so behind the current date.

It would be nice if the models were able to know how to use the type annotation syntax when it comes out, instead of having to wait until they are

Howdy all! I’m a former web dev that had used Elixir at work and loved it. I decided to try and learn some machine learning basics and started building my own micro models that I could train and test locally on my PC. I’m using livebook on a ubuntu par

I know I put the cart before the horse, but AI providers started this race, not me.

Welcome Typle, the library that leverages a modern Elixir type system to discover types given the bunch of Elixir code.

The real application is my credo a

Lather has quite a few users and when searching for it here I realized it had never really been announced.

Apologies for the late notice but Lather is a full featured SOAP client and server for Elixir.

• Universa

Turn Old into New: Moving to Elixir Feature by Feature - Anita Ludermann | ElixirConf EU 2025

Turn Old into New: Moving to Elixir Feature by Feature - Anita Ludermann | ElixirConf EU 2025

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Our platform turns natural-language documents authored in MS Word into self executing smart legal contracts that automate financial flows, structure compliance, and capture verifiable evidence directly from the agreement itself.

Hologram UI is in the works - the official component library for Hologram - and the waiting list is now open.

A common reaction when I mention this is: “Just generate it with an LLM.”

But there’s more to a good c

I was using a for loop while matching on a pattern something like this

And I noticed that this was not running as I thought and the reason was because the structure didn’t match. I instead needed to do

About us

My name: Ben Wilson
My position: CTO
Company name: CargoSense
Company website: http://cargosense.com/
Company headquarters (country): US
Company info and history (how you’re using Elixi

Four Elixir behaviours keep a production trading pipeline completely broker-agnostic — not one big interface but four, each with a distinct responsibility. The dispatch mechanism stores the broker module as an atom in the database and calls behaviour c

Ever wanted to deploy your Elixir apps to a VPS?

In episode 205, we use Tidewave to build a Phoenix app and Potions to deploy it to a VPS we own.

In this episode, you'll

Introducing Trellis: Open Source Hardware for Nerves - Gus Workman | ElixirConf EU 2025

Introducing Trellis: Open Source Hardware for Nerves - Gus Workman | ElixirConf EU 2025

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Episode 302 of Thinking Elixir. News includes Mob, an exciting new framework that brings BEAM-on-device mobile development to Elixir with OTP running natively inside iOS and Android apps, Folio a new library for generating print-quality PDFs and SVGs f

Hi everyone,

I am trying to run Elixir on Windows 11 with Erlang/OTP 28.

After installation, everything works fine at the beginning. But after some time, I get problems:

• In Windows Command Prompt, when I run:
  mix he

@auth and Beyond: Building Custom GraphQL Directives in Absinthe - Ivy Markwell | ElixirConf US 2025

@auth and Beyond: Building Custom GraphQL Directives in Absinthe - Ivy Markwell | ElixirConf US 2025

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I’ve recently tried to make elixirkit - the desktop app tooling behind livebook - work with oidcc for openid connect authentication. This is a bit of a log of what I learned and how I did things.

How to combine an el

I’ve released ex_graphblas v0.2.0, an Elixir library for sparse linear algebra and graph computation inspired by the GraphBLAS standard.

ex_graphblas lets you express graph algorithms as sparse matrix operations using semiring algebr

Vibe Coding with Elixir: Harnessing AI to Build Real-World Apps - Micah Woods | ElixirConf US 2025

Vibe Coding with Elixir: Harnessing AI to Build Real-World Apps - Micah Woods | ElixirConf US 2025

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Bugfix update for Cartograph - E2E Query Param Patching for LiveView

What's Changed fix: use elixir in readme codeblock by @rma97 in #6 Fix URL Encoding for Phoenix Params by @GrammAcc in #7 New Co

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I was able to obtain the missing NervesConf videos from 2024 and publish the full set. Thanks to John Cotton for the multimedia work, Todd Resudek for organizing, and Bruce & Maggie Tate for hosting!

What’s new with Nerves - @jjcarstens

Making Bookings Asynchronously - Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim & Rauan Assis | ElixirConf EU 2025

Making Bookings Asynchronously - Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim & Rauan Assis | ElixirConf EU 2025

This talk was recorded at ElixirConf E

I have written some bindings to the Z3 theorem prover. The Z3 executable is used as part of a port (i.e. I am not binding to the executable using the C API), which allows for interactive proofs using the Zee3.push(solver_pid) and Zee3.