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Tailored Challenges and Learning Tools

Personalized Exercism Challenges

I found a way to generate individually tailored Exercism challenges, complete with working tests, a quirky backstory, and hints using a coding agent (Cline). Makes learning Elixir a breeze while also reinforcing areas I need more time in. Source

New Elixir Tool for Livebook

New Elixir tool LivebookTools lets you work on Livebook in your own editor and opens MCP access to cell outputs so Cursor can automatically iterate on the code if the cell has errors. Source

Elixir and Phoenix Updates

Phoenix Tutorial Series

Episode 4 of my Phoenix tutorial series is out now! This one is about tests, introducing ExMachina and ExCoveralls. Source

Release of Phoenix Library for Real-Time Sync

Released a new Phoenix library for real-time syncing at CodeBEAM yesterday. Check it out if you’re interested in building modern, real-time apps on local-first/sync in Elixir. Source

Elixir Language Enhancements

Elixir v1.18 Release

Elixir v1.18 is out: it features type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON, ExUnit improvements, and IEx auto-reload. Source

Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 Announcement

Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is finally here! If you haven't given Elixir/Phoenix a try, you can now get started in seconds by installing Elixir and generating a Phoenix project from a single command. Source

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