270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar

16/09/2025 23 min

Listen "270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar"

Episode Synopsis

News includes a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with the goal of making it an official part of the OTP build system, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration for accessing multiple LLM models, Phoenix 1.8.1 release fixing AGENTS.md generation issues, ElixirConf US 2025 videos being slowly released on YouTube including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, an AshFramework security advisory about before_transaction hooks, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/270 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/270)
Elixir Community News
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https://x.com/grisporg/status/1963674539008639403 (https://x.com/grisporg/status/1963674539008639403?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tweet about Peer Stritzinger launching a new Kickstarter for Rebar4 development
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/rebar3-integrating-with-erlang-otp?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with goal to integrate into OTP project as official build system
https://tidewave.ai/blog/open-router-open-ai (https://tidewave.ai/blog/open-router-open-ai?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave Web now supports OpenRouter, unlocking access to other LLM models
https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-goes-full-stack (https://tidewave.ai/blog/tidewave-goes-full-stack?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Announcement that Tidewave Web adds React support and goes full-stack
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962922957933625593 (https://x.com/josevalim/status/1962922957933625593?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – José Valim's tweet about Tidewave Web React support
https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/react.html (https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/react.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave documentation on React integration
https://github.com/tidewave-ai/roadmap/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc (https://github.com/tidewave-ai/roadmap/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tidewave roadmap on GitHub where users can vote for next framework to support
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Phoenix 1.8.1 release changelog with fixes for AGENTS.md CSS and JavaScript sections
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWZzC6nN1OaBZLmxhpqCLfKt (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWZzC6nN1OaBZLmxhpqCLfKt?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf US 2025 videos playlist being slowly released on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fj2u6Vm42E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fj2u6Vm42E?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris McCord's keynote "Elixir's AI Future" from ElixirConf US 2025
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lpylqrcpp6ttqqtrykj5wyoa/post/3lxvntora2c2k (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lpylqrcpp6ttqqtrykj5wyoa/post/3lxvntora2c2k?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Bluesky post about ElixirConf videos being accidentally published early
https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-jj4j-x5ww-cwh9 (https://github.com/ash-project/ash/security/advisories/GHSA-jj4j-x5ww-cwh9?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – AshFramework CVE advisory about before_transaction hooks executing despite policy restrictions
https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Industry news about major NPM packages being compromised affecting 2+ billion downloads per week
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