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One more day! We're extending ExMex Conf 2026 standard ticket pricing by 24 hours. Plus, community ticket requests are still open! If ticket cost is keeping you from attending, you can request a free ticket through today, October 21st. exmexconf.com

We're excited to have Paraxial.io sponsoring ExMex Conf 2026! Paraxial.io is the only cybersecurity solution with full Elixir support. Thanks for supporting ExMex and the Elixir community! paraxial.io

Lots happening with ExMex Conf 2026! The schedule is live, lightning talk submissions are open, and standard ticket pricing ends in one week. Plus, if ticket cost is keeping you from attending, community tickets are available to request through Oct 21. exmexconf.com

We're excited to have LoLo sponsoring ExMex Conf 2026! LoLo uses Elixir to help relationship-driven businesses stay top of mind through curated gifts from local, independent merchants. joinlolo.com Thanks for supporting ExMex and the Elixir community!

Our final ExMex Conf 2026 speaker announcement! Isaac Yonemoto shares what he learned from a year of AI-assisted coding for pharma. David Bluestein II is putting the BEAM on your phone with MOB. That's the lineup. Now come join us in Austin! Nov 12–13 exmexconf.com

Two more speakers joining us at ExMex Conf 2026! John Mauro explores the future of full-stack Elixir with local-first apps and Hologram. Thomas Millar asks: what if that gaming PC in your closet could be your production AI cluster? exmexconf.com

Two more speakers joining us at ExMex Conf 2026! Justin Tormey asks why we keep building the same features over and over. Hal Fulton introduces Termex and Tidex, his take on a tiny terminal workbench built with Elixir. November 12–13 in Austin. exmexconf.com

Two more speakers joining us at ExMex Conf 2026! Amos King is torture-testing Raft with Elixir and asking if your service is actually correct under pressure. Petrus Janse van Rensburg explores why your LLM probably shouldn't be your state machine. exmexconf.com

We're in Chicago for ElixirConf this week! If you see us around, come say hi. We'd love to meet you and talk all things ExMex. And if you're thinking about joining us in Austin this November, find us for an ExMex Conf promo code. exmexconf.com

Two more speakers joining us at ExMex Conf 2026! Jamie Wright shares "A Love Letter to the Web Form" and the history behind something we use every day. Owen Bickford says "Passkeys Please!" and explores better authentication with Phoenix LiveView. exmexconf.com

What do you learn building your first AI feature in Rails? In his RBQ Conf talk, Chris Gratigny shares lessons from taking an AI implementation from experimentation toward production, including prompts, tool calls, RubyLLM, and more. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=miD-...

One more day! We're extending ExMex Conf 2026 Early Bird pricing by 24 hours. If you've been meaning to grab your ticket, you've got a little extra time. Join us November 12th & 13th in Austin, TX. exmexconf.com

Hit a scaling wall with Rails? The framework might not be the problem. In his RBQ Conf talk, Cristian Planas introduces three structural villains that can limit Rails apps as they grow and explores how to defeat them. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbc...

What can Ruby do with the JVM behind it? In his RBQ Conf talk, Charles Oliver Nutter explores how JRuby can take Ruby beyond its usual boundaries, from maximizing cores to single-file apps, portable GUIs, and more. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPT...

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Meet our first ExMex Conf 2026 speakers! John Curran asks, "What the heck is taking so long?" Chris Bell takes us inside building the Knock agent with "Files over tools." Plus, just one week left for Early Bird tickets. exmexconf.com

Your tests pass. But would they actually catch a bug? In his RBQ Conf talk, Szymon Fiedler explores mutation testing with Mutant and how intentionally introducing bugs can reveal blind spots in your test suite. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mavt...

Ruby isn't just for web applications. In his RBQ Conf talk, Amir Rajan takes a deep dive into the internals of DragonRuby Game Toolkit and explores what it takes to build a cross-platform game engine with Ruby. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuC-...

We're excited to be returning to Capital Factory for ExMex Conf 2026! Join us in the heart of downtown Austin on November 12th & 13th for two days of Elixir, community, and conversation. Early Bird tickets are still on sale. exmexconf.com

Observability. SRE. SLOs. Traces. Metrics. Logs. You've probably heard the terms—but what do they actually mean? Ariel Valentin cuts through the buzzwords and shares a practical introduction to observability for Ruby developers. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErL...

Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe The dangers of AI generated SEO spam are real, especially when it comes to cybersecurity! paraxial.io/blog/ai-spam

LLM features shouldn't be treated like a black box bolted onto your Rails app. In his RBQ Conf talk, David Paluy explores practical patterns for instrumenting LLM calls so you can measure cost, latency, failures, and more in production. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4e...

ExMex 2026 tickets are now on sale! Join us in Austin on November 12th & 13th for two days of Elixir talks, community, and conversation. We've also updated the website with travel information to help you start planning your trip. exmexconf.com

🚨 Announcing our new Podcast 🚨 Gus (@gworkman.bsky.social) and I have started a new #ElixirLang Podcast Macro Mayhem - @macromayhem.fm We cover Elixir news and general industry topics every 2 weeks. Our first episode is out now, available on all podcast players or on our website: macromayhem.fm

“Rails magic” is really just code waiting to be understood. In her RBQ Conf talk, Meghan Gutshall explores ActiveRecord Enums, when to use them, the features they provide, and how to trace their behavior through the Rails codebase. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1k...

As more tools abstract away our workflows, understanding Git is becoming more important, not less. PJ Hagerty explores why Git still matters and how a better understanding of version control can strengthen your development workflow. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0a...

We're excited to announce this year's ExMex Conf keynote speakers! Please join us in welcoming James and Lorena to Austin this November. Early Bird tickets will be on sale soon. exmexconf.com

Everything worked perfectly... until two requests arrived at the same time. In his RBQ Conf talk, Yarik explores the concurrency problems Rails apps quietly ignore and shares practical patterns for handling concurrent access safely. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fa...

How does someone use their own domain as their Fediverse identity? In his RBQ Conf talk, Tom Brown shares what he learned from two years of building a Ruby Fediverse application and explains how WebFinger Reverse Discovery makes it possible. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mKH...

Need a little more time? We're extending the ExMex Conf 2026 Call for Speakers by 24 hours. The CFP will now close tomorrow, July 16th, at the end of the day. If you've been meaning to submit, this is your chance. exmexconf.com

Postgres partitioning can feel confusing, risky, or reserved for massive enterprise apps. Alex Yarotsky shows how Rails developers can approach partitioning with practical, real-world techniques you can apply with confidence. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZZ...

Regex can feel like magic. But what actually happens when Ruby sees something like `/abc/`? In his RBQ Conf talk, Daniel follows a regular expression through Ruby's internals — from parsing to bytecode to execution. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkb_...

One week left to submit your talk for ExMex Conf 2026. Have something you've built, learned, explored, or discovered with Elixir? We'd love to hear about it. Have an idea but not sure if it's ready? Reach out. We're happy to help. CFP closes July 15th. exmexconf.com

Your background job ran for hours, processed millions of records... then disappeared during a deploy. Retries won't save you from a job that never failed. In his RBQ Conf talk, Bart explores resilient background jobs in Ruby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrm...

Missed RBQ Conf? Or want to revisit a favorite talk? Starting this week, we'll be releasing about two talks each week from the inaugural RBQ Conf. Watch every release at rbqconf.com.

LiveView is great - until you need it on a third-party site. @hacknut.bsky.social shows how to run Phoenix apps across the web with iframes, custom elements & LiveState: youtu.be/ljx3uDsy9Rg 🎟️ Level up your Elixir game in Chicago: elixirconf.com

The ExMex Conf 2026 Call for Speakers is now open. Whether it's your first conference talk or your fiftieth, we'd love to hear what you've been building, learning, and exploring w/ Elixir. CFP closes July 15th. Sponsor opportunities are also available. exmexconf.com

ExMex Conf returns to Austin, TX on November 12th & 13th, 2026. A few updates as we kick things off: • CFP opens in 1 week • Sponsor opportunities are now available Get ready. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on. exmexconf.com

Final ExMex 2025 video drop: Elixir DIY - making Elixir your own. Own Your Infra — Thomas Athanas The Case for Custom Task Oversight in Elixir — Curtis Ault Automating my office with Nerves — Jason Axelson exmexconf.com/#videos That’s a wrap! #ExMexConf #ElixirLang

Penultimate ExMex 2025 release! Category: Phoenix From LiveView to PubSub systems Animated LiveView: Pushing TailwindCSS v4 to the limit — Justin Tormey Make PubSub great again! — Alvaro Callero exmexconf.com/#videos Final drop next week. #ExMexConf #ElixirLang

This week’s category: Elixir & AI From practical tools to new ideas, these talks explore how Elixir & AI work together. Getting Elixir on the AI Flywheel — Isaac Yonemoto Turning AI into an Engineering discipline — Thomas Millar exmexconf.com/#videos #ExMexConf

Quick update on ExMex videos: We’re taking this week off from releases while we wrapped up **RBQConf**. Back next week with more talks. Appreciate the patience 🙏 #ExMexConf #ElixirLang

Games in Ruby? it’s totally doable with DragonRuby. Thanks Amir for a great talk and great framework. #RBQConf

David gives us something to think about w.r.t. AI and measuring its performance/outcomes like anything else in software development. #RBQConf

Making the case for Open Telemetry and Observabilty in Ruby and Rails. Excellent talk from Austin’s own, Ariel Valentin. #RBQConf

Yarik walks us through production race conditions that can happen even with Transactions in place. #RBQConf

Metaverse? no thanks! Fediverse is pretty cool. Thanks Tom for a wonderful talk to start the second day! #RBQConf

PJ reminds takes down memory lane, reminding us what life was like before git and why git is more important than ever. #RBQConf

Bart shows us how to think through building resilient background jobs. Great talk with solid examples. #RBQConf

Learning about Rails Magic through Enums. Awesome talk from Meg this morning! #RBQConf