226: GPUs, DNS, and Igniting Elixir Dreams

Thinking Elixir Podcast

News includes the ongoing Elixir Stream Week featuring José Valim's insights on Elixir 1.18, the announcement of refactoring capabilities in Igniter, two groundbreaking Elixir-related papers at the Brazilian Symposium including Hok for GPU kernels, Dave Lucia's contribution to support multiple DNS queries in dns_cluster, the latest updates in the Tucan plotting library, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/226

Elixir Community News

• https://elixir-webrtc.org/elixir-stream-week – Elixir Stream Week is currently underway.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/2024-10-21-elixir-stream-week-five-days-five-streams-five-elixir-experts-online/66482 – ElixirForum post with links to videos as they are released.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ITVPqCoWEQ – YouTube link for José Valim's presentation on 'What's new in Elixir 1.18.'
• https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc – The presentation was live-streamed using Elixir WebRTC.
• https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1848478296016646431 – Announcement of Igniter's refactoring capabilities for Elixir.
• https://github.com/ash-project/igniter/issues/106 – Exploration of incorporating Javascript AST modifications with OXC in Igniter.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/two-new-elixir-related-papers-at-the-28th-brazilian-symposium-on-programming-languages/66473 – Discussion of two new Elixir-related papers presented at the Brazilian Symposium.
• Hok is a DSL for writing GPU kernels in Elixir and won the Best Paper award.
• https://x.com/davydog187/status/1846620564594540758 – Dave Lucia's PR merged into the dns_cluster library to support multiple DNS queries.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/dns_cluster/pull/7 – Details of the PR that adds support for multiple DNS queries in dns_cluster.
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/dns_cluster – Github repository for dns_cluster, enabling DNS clustering for distributed Elixir nodes.
• https://x.com/p_nezis/status/1848377363869941845 – Announcement of tucan v0.4.0 release with enhancements for Elixir plotting library.
• https://hexdocs.pm/tucan/readme.html – Documentation for tucan, a plotting library built on VegaLite.
• https://github.com/pnezis/tucan – GitHub repository for Tucan, simplifying the creation of interactive plots.
• https://x.com/p_nezis/status/1848384131769463030 – Upcoming support for live updates and LiveView integration in Tucan.
• https://elixirstatus.com/p/sGDIF-errortracker-v040-has-been-released – Announcement of ErrorTracker v0.4.0 release.
• https://github.com/elixir-error-tracker/error-tracker/releases/tag/v0.4.0 – ErrorTracker v0.4.0 includes the ability to sanitize and filter error contexts.

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