QFM106: Elixir Reading List — March 2026

Everything I found interesting last month about the Elixir programming ecosystem

AI agents keep landing on the BEAM. This month’s Elixir Reading List has five of them: sagents wires OTP supervision into interactive AI agents with LiveView, AlexClaw and Giulia go local-first, and opal proves you can build a coding agent in pure Elixir. The MicroGPTEx four-part series goes deeper, building a GPT from scratch using pure functional Elixir with no external dependencies.

Hologram v0.8.0 ships JavaScript interop for Elixir web apps, and quickbeam goes further with a full JavaScript runtime on the BEAM — Web APIs backed by OTP, native DOM, built-in TypeScript toolchain. A solid post on why everyone keeps reinventing BEAM OTP explains the gravitational pull of the actor model. Jake Lazaroff’s interactive intro to CRDTs is broadly useful, and Curiosum walks through Phoenix app monitoring with Grafana and PromEx.

Feed: March 2026

Check out all of the new, as well as previous links, here:

• https://quantumfaxmachine.com/blog/elixir/qfm106-elixir-reading-list-march-2026

As always, the Quantum Fax Machine Propellor Hat Key will guide your browsing. Enjoy!

Regards, M@

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