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Elixir Radar Newsletter Issue #501

 

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Articles

Bart Blast shares the results of the Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative: 150 newly ported Erlang functions, pushing browser-side Erlang coverage from 34% to 96%. String processing, collections, sets, Unicode, and much more now work client-side.

Postgres 18 adds native UUIDv7 support, but how do you use it with Ecto? Matt Savoia walks you through the schema and migration setup, including a gotcha where Ecto still generates UUIDv4 by default and how to fix it.

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Aayush Sahu shares the journey of moving his personal website from NextJS to Phoenix. He covers using MDEx for markdown rendering with HEEX components, adding real-time features with PubSub across clustered nodes on Fly.io, and his experience using AI coding agents along the way.

Jeff Morgan shares a detailed look at how he configures his AI dev environment for Elixir using Claude Code and Tidewave. He covers plugins, MCP servers, custom skills, AGENTS.md setup, and quality gates that keep the AI agent in check.

 

Videos

Mark Ericksen demos Sagents, an Elixir framework for building AI agents with composable middleware, human-in-the-loop approval, sub-agent delegation, and a real-time live debugger. Each agent runs as a supervised GenServer with full lifecycle management.

 

Job listings

Chromatic - Remote, USA or Canada
Chromatic is hiring a backend engineer to help build and scale the platform APIs that power their visual testing and review workflows for Storybook teams. Salary Range: US$145K - US$184K + equity.

 

Events

March 23 / Vancouver, Canada
April 23-24 / Málaga, Spain & Virtual
September 10-11 / Chicago, USA & Virtual
September 30 - October 02 / Vanberg, Sweden

 

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