About this episode
News includes a powerful new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam that lets you search across all your project dependencies with mix hex.search, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour that runs in the browser via WebASM, Paulo Valente's breakthrough getting Stable Diffusion running on Mac GPUs through EMLX, lessons learned from the AWS outage that left smart beds stuck and overheating, Chrome DevTools' new MCP server for AI coding assistants, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/277
Elixir Community News
https://paraxial.io/ – 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.
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1982913977459061036 – José Valim discusses how newcomers found it challenging to find which API to use when docs were spread around Phoenix, LiveView, Ecto, etc.
https://hexdocs.pm/ – HexDocs home page with new search functionality
https://github.com/hexpm/hexdocs-search – GitHub repository for the HexDocs search engine, built in Gleam and Lustre
https://hex.pm/blog/announcing-new-hexdocs-search-engine – Official announcement of the new HexDocs search engine powered by Typesense
New mix hex.search command available after updating with mix local.hex - searches across all your project dependencies with their specific versions
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/ – Elixir standard library docs (currently not included in hex.search results)
https://bsky.app/profile/swmansionelixir.bsky.social/post/3m3s3bzsp6s2g – Software Mansion announces the Elixir Language Tour
https://elixir-language-tour.swmansion.com – Web-based interactive Elixir learning tool using Popcorn (Elixir running in WebASM) - no installation required
