QFM110: Elixir Reading List - April 2026
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Quiet but substantial month for Elixir. Two new arrivals expand the Ash ecosystem: ash_credo brings static code analysis as a Credo plugin, and the official ash_storage lands attachment and file management for Ash resources. agentjido/jidoka is an experimental spike for a Jido-based agent DSL, and elixir-test-critic packages test-quality rules for ExUnit projects.
Lotus is the month's most ambitious release: an embeddable business intelligence engine for Phoenix apps, with SQL editor, dashboards, charts, and AI query generation that mount directly in your app. ghostty_ex wraps libghostty-vt as NIFs for the BEAM — a terminal emulator library you can supervise. Mob v0.5.6 ships the latest cut of the mob-programming CLI.
Two practitioner reads close out the month: "Scotty, I need warp speed in three minutes" on Elixir performance under pressure, and Cyrus Radfar's "AI agents keep failing. The fix is 40 years old." — functional programming as the substrate AI agents need, not the curiosity it's been treated as.
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