Listen "220: The EEF Has Your Regulatory Back"
Episode Synopsis
News includes the archiving of the “Phoenix Sync” project, a major update to Gettext that enhances compilation efficiency, the release of ErrorTracker v0.2.6 with new features like error pruning and ignoring, and José Valim highlighting UX issues with ChatGPT's new UI. We were also joined by Alistair Woodman, a board member of the EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation), who explained the EEF's recent efforts to stay ahead of legislation and technical regulatory shifts that may impact developers soon. Alistair discussed the changing regulatory landscape in the US and the EU due to high-profile exploits, outages, and nation-state supply chain attacks. We learned how the EEF supports Elixir and BEAM developers and what they need from the community now, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/josevalim/sync (https://github.com/josevalim/sync?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – The "Phoenix Sync" project has been archived with no immediate explanation yet.
- https://github.com/elixir-gettext/gettext/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0260 (https://github.com/elixir-gettext/gettext/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0260?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Gettext has a big update to version 0.26.0 which includes a more efficient compilation.
- https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr (https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Gettext feels similar to how ExCldr allows defining a custom backend.
- https://elixirstatus.com/p/TvydI-errortracker-v026-has-been-released (https://elixirstatus.com/p/TvydI-errortracker-v026-has-been-released?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ErrorTracker v0.2.6 has been released with key improvements like a global error tracking disable flag, automatic resolved error pruning, and error ignorer.
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower (https://github.com/mimiquate/tower?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tower is a flexible error tracker for Elixir applications that listens for errors and reports them to configured reporters like email, Rollbar, or Slack.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1832509464240374127 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1832509464240374127?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José highlighted some UX issues with ChatGPT's new UI, mentioning struggles with concurrent updates.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1833176754090897665 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1833176754090897665?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José postponed publishing a video on optimistic updates with LiveView due to an Apple announcement.
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mixinstallexamples (https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – A new WebRTC example was added to the "Mix Install Examples" project.
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mixinstallexamples/pull/42 (https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/pull/42?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – The WebRTC example shows how to use the ex_webrtc Elixir package in a small script, compatible with Mix.install/2.
- https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc (https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – The Elixir package used for the WebRTC example.
- https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1831668872732180697 (https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1831668872732180697?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Laravel raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel, likely related to their Laravel Cloud hosting platform.
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberResilienceAct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Resilience_Act?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes (https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/CISA%20Secure%20by%20Design%20Pledge_508c.pdf (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/CISA%20Secure%20by%20Design%20Pledge_508c.pdf?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2336216/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html (https://www.infoworld.com/article/2336216/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/acquisitions/tail-f.html (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/acquisitions/tail-f.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.nist.gov/ (https://www.nist.gov/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZUtilsbackdoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024CrowdStrikeincident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/stanfords-deborah-sivas-on-scotus-loper-decision-overturning-chevrons-40-years-of-precedent-and-its-impact-on-environmental-law (https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/stanfords-deborah-sivas-on-scotus-loper-decision-overturning-chevrons-40-years-of-precedent-and-its-impact-on-environmental-law?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://openssf.org/ (https://openssf.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels (https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.cve.org/ (https://www.cve.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://erlef.org/wg/security (https://erlef.org/wg/security?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
Guest Information
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-woodman-51934433 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-woodman-51934433?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Alistair Woodman on LinkedIn
- [email protected]
- http://erlef.org/ (http://erlef.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Website
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Message the show on Fediverse - @[email protected] (https://genserver.social/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[email protected] (https://genserver.social/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[email protected] (https://genserver.social/dbern)
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/josevalim/sync (https://github.com/josevalim/sync?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – The "Phoenix Sync" project has been archived with no immediate explanation yet.
- https://github.com/elixir-gettext/gettext/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0260 (https://github.com/elixir-gettext/gettext/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0260?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Gettext has a big update to version 0.26.0 which includes a more efficient compilation.
- https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr (https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Gettext feels similar to how ExCldr allows defining a custom backend.
- https://elixirstatus.com/p/TvydI-errortracker-v026-has-been-released (https://elixirstatus.com/p/TvydI-errortracker-v026-has-been-released?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ErrorTracker v0.2.6 has been released with key improvements like a global error tracking disable flag, automatic resolved error pruning, and error ignorer.
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower (https://github.com/mimiquate/tower?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tower is a flexible error tracker for Elixir applications that listens for errors and reports them to configured reporters like email, Rollbar, or Slack.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1832509464240374127 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1832509464240374127?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José highlighted some UX issues with ChatGPT's new UI, mentioning struggles with concurrent updates.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1833176754090897665 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1833176754090897665?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José postponed publishing a video on optimistic updates with LiveView due to an Apple announcement.
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mixinstallexamples (https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – A new WebRTC example was added to the "Mix Install Examples" project.
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mixinstallexamples/pull/42 (https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/pull/42?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – The WebRTC example shows how to use the ex_webrtc Elixir package in a small script, compatible with Mix.install/2.
- https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc (https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – The Elixir package used for the WebRTC example.
- https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1831668872732180697 (https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1831668872732180697?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Laravel raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel, likely related to their Laravel Cloud hosting platform.
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberResilienceAct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Resilience_Act?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes (https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/CISA%20Secure%20by%20Design%20Pledge_508c.pdf (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/CISA%20Secure%20by%20Design%20Pledge_508c.pdf?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2336216/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html (https://www.infoworld.com/article/2336216/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/acquisitions/tail-f.html (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/acquisitions/tail-f.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.nist.gov/ (https://www.nist.gov/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZUtilsbackdoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024CrowdStrikeincident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/stanfords-deborah-sivas-on-scotus-loper-decision-overturning-chevrons-40-years-of-precedent-and-its-impact-on-environmental-law (https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/stanfords-deborah-sivas-on-scotus-loper-decision-overturning-chevrons-40-years-of-precedent-and-its-impact-on-environmental-law?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://openssf.org/ (https://openssf.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels (https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.cve.org/ (https://www.cve.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://erlef.org/wg/security (https://erlef.org/wg/security?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
Guest Information
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-woodman-51934433 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-woodman-51934433?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Alistair Woodman on LinkedIn
- [email protected]
- http://erlef.org/ (http://erlef.org/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Website
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Message the show on Fediverse - @[email protected] (https://genserver.social/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[email protected] (https://genserver.social/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[email protected] (https://genserver.social/dbern)
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