Curiosum

03/06/2026

And here he is! Bart Blast is the second one from our team who'll be speaking at the Goatmire Elixir conference in Sweden.

Check his profile, and read more about the topic: Hologram: Building Local-First Apps in Pure Elixir.
Here:
👉 https://goatmire.com/talk/hologram-building-local-first-apps-in-pure-elixir

28/05/2026

Ready for the Hologram v0.9 update?
The main change is a big one: realtime support.

For anyone following the project, Hologram is a full-stack Elixir web framework that lets you build web apps in pure Elixir, without writing JavaScript.

With this release, the server can push updates to connected clients without polling. You broadcast an action, and Hologram runs the matching handler on every subscribed client.

There are also a few other updates in v0.9, including support for the with special form, AI assistant support, a new mix holo task, memory usage improvements during development, and more.

Read the full release notes in Bart Blast’s post: https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-v0-9

v0.9 brings a realtime layer to Hologram - dispatch actions from your server to connected clients with structured channels and pub/sub fan-out, all in pure Elixir. Plus the 'with' special form, AI assistant support, and more.

22/05/2026

Our team doesn't stop! After a good presentation during the Elixir Conf this year, Marta Habdas is joining the Goatmire conference in Sweden as a speaker.

She's going with the “Controlled Noise on Nerves” topic, a talk about using Elixir and Nerves with noisy sensor input, DIY audio controllers, Arduino boards, Raspberry Pi, and Pure Data.

See her profile here:
👉 https://www.goatmire.com/speaker/marta-habdas

And the second announcement is coming... 😏

How to use the noisy sensor input for expressive musical effect? And how can Elixir and Nerves help with it? I explore these questions while experimenting with DIY audio controllers built with Arduino boards, Raspberry Pi running Nerves and Pure Data. I use prototypes, not finished devices, and this...

13/05/2026

👉 https://curiosum.com/blog/updates-to-permit-igniter-setup-and-plural-actions

Permit now takes less work to try in a Phoenix app.
We published an update on Permit, our open source authorization framework for Elixir.

If you haven’t used it before: Permit helps define and apply authorization rules in Elixir apps, with integrations for Ecto, Phoenix, LiveView, and Absinthe.

The latest updates bring Igniter-powered setup across the ecosystem, so new projects can get the base authorization structure with: mix permit.install. There are also Phoenix improvements around plural actions, route handling, :create authorization, and LiveView stream options.

Permit authorization framework adds Igniter setup, Phoenix route fixes, plural actions and safer create checks. Discover what changed in this release.

06/05/2026

Hologram UI gives the Elixir community early access to a maintained component library built specifically around Hologram’s conventions.

We’re supporting this as a main sponsor because we think Hologram is one of the more interesting projects happening around Elixir UI development right now.

The offer is easy: ready-to-use components, consistent APIs, shared design tokens, and patterns that fit Hologram instead of feeling bolted on from somewhere else.

For teams and developers building with Hologram, that means less time spent rebuilding the same UI basics and more time spent on the actual product.

Early access is open here:
https://hologram.page/ui

23/04/2026

First presentation by Jakub Lambrych is behind us! For more details, catch him at our stand.

And tomorrow there'll be a chance to listen to Marta Habdas and Bart Blast from the Curiosum team.
Join them at 11:55.
👉 https://www.elixirconf.eu/talks/testing-concurrency-and-fault-tolerance-in-elixirnerves/
👉 https://www.elixirconf.eu/participants/bart-blast/

23/04/2026

We’re at in Málaga, and the conference starts today.

You can find us at our stand if you want to talk about Elixir, product work, Hologram, team setup, or just say hi.

We also brought printed copies of the Elixir Adoption Guide that we first released last year, and this time it’s back in paper form with updates inside.

If you’re not in Málaga, you can still get the e-book here:
https://curiosum.com/ebooks/elixir-adoption-guide

Come by the stand and grab a copy.

15/04/2026

A practical piece on building a DIY sound controller with Nerves, prepared by our dev Marta Habdas is ready to read on the Curiosum blog here:
👉 https://curiosum.com/blog/making-sound-with-embedded-elixir-using-nerves

The article covers using Raspberry Pi + Nerves for sensor-based systems, reading data from Arduino boards, and handling failures without bringing the whole setup down. It’s a nice one for people interested in embedded Elixir, hardware, and fault-tolerant systems that have to deal with messy real-world input.

Marta will also be speaking at ElixirConf EU next week.
If you’re joining , save these details: her talk is on Friday at 11:55.
👉 https://www.elixirconf.eu/talks/testing-concurrency-and-fault-tolerance-in-elixirnerves/

Embedded Elixir sound controller using Nerves, Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Discover fault-tolerant sensor handling for DIY audio projects today.

07/04/2026

Asking about components last week wasn’t a coincidence.
At hashtag in Malaga, Kuba Lambrych from our Curiosum team will give a talk: Hooked on widgets: A better pattern for reusable LiveView components.

The poll answers made one thing clear: most people see reusable component patterns in LiveView as a real topic, not a theoretical one. Some of you said that better native abstractions are still missing. Others said the current approach is workable. And when it comes to extracting components, the most common rule was simple: once you use something more than twice, it should probably stop living inline.
That is exactly the space Kuba’s talk sits in.
He’ll show a practical pattern for building reusable, stateful widgets in LiveView with function components and hooks, based on real implementation work rather than theory.

We’re sharing a short video from Kuba with a quick intro to the topic, and if you’re coming to ElixirConf EU, join the session.
➡️ https://www.elixirconf.eu/participants/jakub-lambrych/

26/03/2026

Hologram now has official VS Code support.
https://hologram.page/blog/hologram-vscode-extension-released

The new extension adds full syntax highlighting for HOLO templates in ~HOLO sigils and .holo files. That makes everyday work in VS Code easier when you’re dealing with Hologram templates.
Nice update for the project and the community around it.

We support Hologram, and if you’re at ElixirConf, come by our stand if you want to talk about it.

The new Hologram extension for VS Code brings full syntax highlighting for HOLO templates - ~HOLO sigils in .ex files and standalone .holo template files.