299: Don't Paste That Into Your Terminal
From Thinking Elixir Podcast by ThinkingElixir.com
April 14, 2026 · 42 min
About this episode
The episode discusses recent developments in the Elixir and Erlang ecosystems, including security audits, project updates, and a significant supply chain attack.
The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is seeking community support for a major grant to fund the Ægis security project and the deadline is April 17th to show support, Hex.pm published the results of its first-ever comprehensive third-party security audit revealing three high-severity findings that have since been fixed, José Valim unveils a massive Tidewave update including UI Variants and a new "vision" mode that lets your coding agent take screenshots and record videos of your web app, Hex.pm gains the ability to serve llms.txt files for Elixir and Erlang packages, Remote releases a new Elixir LSP called Dexter written in Go, Lotus gets significant updates as an embeddable BI engine for Phoenix apps, Ghostty terminal emulator bindings land in Elixir bringing GenServer-based terminals to LiveView, and we discuss the alarming ClickFix supply chain attack that compromised Axios and what it means for open source maintainers everywhere, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/299 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…
People in this episode
Host: José Valim
Topics covered
- Erlang Ecosystem
- security project
- Elixir updates
- Hex.pm audit
- open source
- supply chain attack
Keywords
- Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
- Hex.pm
- José Valim
- Elixir LSP
- ClickFix
- security audit
- Tidewave update
- Ghostty
- Lotus
- supply chain attack
Sponsors
Paraxial.io
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Hex.pm, Remote, Lotus, Ghostty, Axios
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