QFM114: Elixir Reading List — May 2026
Everything I found interesting about the Elixir ecosystem during May 2026
Coding agents came home to the BEAM this month. matteing/opal is a small, sharp coding agent written in Elixir, and BeamAgent and MonkeyClaw argue that an agent runtime built on OTP supervision and message-passing gets for free much of what the Python frameworks bolt on later.
Cinderella-Man/credence is a semantic linter that reasons about intent rather than AST shape; ex_slop hunts the AI-generated slop now seeping into Elixir code; and CodeMySpec pitches spec-first generation at engineers who still want to own what ships.
The rest is the good stuff that makes Elixir feel like Elixir. GenericJam/mob runs the BEAM on-device as a mobile framework; dannote/folio renders print-quality PDF, SVG and PNG from Markdown through Typst; and mcass19/kino_ex_ratatui drops ExRatatui terminal UIs into a Livebook cell. For a satisfying build-from-the-RFC read, the Google Authenticator computation in Elixir reconstructs TOTP from first principles.
Feed: May 2026
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