About the show
The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more.
Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process.
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Episodes
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247: Phoenix's DaisyUI Facelift
April 1st, 2025 | 19 mins 50 secs
eef, elixir, otp, phoenix, sbom
News includes Phoenix adding DaisyUI, Erlang/OTP 28.0-rc2 with priority messages, LiveViewPortal for embedding LiveView in any website, upcoming Elixir improvements to double dependency compilation speed, and more!
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246: Dark Mode Debugger and Its RAG Time
March 25th, 2025 | 33 mins 21 secs
elixir, fine, pinchflat, plug, rag, vite plus, vuejs
News includes Plug v1.17.0 with dark mode, a Phoenix PR for co-located hooks, a new RAG library for LLMs, the Autumn syntax highlighter, an Elixir-built YouTube downloader, and more!
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245: Supply Chain Security and SBoMs
March 18th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
eef, elixir, news, sbom, security
News includes phoenix_sync for real-time Postgres sync, a new Text Parser library, Wasmex updates for WebAssembly components, plus our interview with EEF's CISO about supply-chain security, SBoMs, and what this means for the Elixir community!
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244: Running Python in Elixir?
March 11th, 2025 | 58 mins 53 secs
elixir, news, nif, python, sql
News includes Elixir 1.18.2, a new SQL sigil for Ecto, and a chat with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonX - a new library for executing Python code inside Elixir, plus upcoming conference announcements and more!
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243: Elixir Jobs: Seniors Only Need Apply?
March 4th, 2025 | 59 mins 25 secs
ebpf, elixir, employment, jobs, junior, news, python, pythonx
News includes PythonX for Python interoperability in Elixir, academic work on Elixir-to-eBPF compilation, AI-powered Phoenix demos from Chris McCord, plus insights on the current Elixir job market and tips for job seekers!
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242: Magic Links and Sudo Mode
February 25th, 2025 | 20 mins 21 secs
auth, debugger, elixir, phoenix, security, sudo
News includes Phoenix gen_auth adding magic links and sudo mode security, DaisyUI Components reaching v0.7.0, new security best practices from Paraxial.io, PostgreSQL self-join improvements, and more!
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241: A LiveView Debugger and Gigalixir
February 18th, 2025 | 44 mins 59 secs
debugging, deployment, elixir, gigalixir, hex, liveview, news, paas
News includes a new browser-based debugging tool for LiveView, a project for creating private Hex registries, plus Tim Knight from Gigalixir joins us to discuss their Elixir-focused platform, and more!
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240: Standards and Security
February 11th, 2025 | 18 mins 50 secs
asdf, certification, elixir, news, oban, openchain, pentest, security
News includes Erlang/OTP achieving OpenChain ISO certification, a new "Elixir Patterns" book release, a security audit validating Oban Web and Pro's safety, and more!
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239: Scaling to Unicorn Status
February 4th, 2025 | 29 mins 9 secs
ai, elixir, langchain, news, remote, unicorn
News includes Remote's Elixir case study showcasing unicorn-level scaling, Tailwind CSS 4.0's release, Chris McCord's AI code generator preview, Elixir LangChain v0.3.0's update, and more!
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238: Oban Web Goes Free and Open
January 28th, 2025 | 25 mins 35 secs
elixir, hologram, news, oban, playwright, testing
News includes Oban Web being released as open source with MySQL support, the introduction of the Hologram web framework, PhoenixTest gaining Playwright support, and more!
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237: Types, Analytics, and FLAME on EC2
January 21st, 2025 | 27 mins 6 secs
analytics, ec2, elixir, flame, types
News includes improvements to ex_doc's version navigation, Phoenix Analytics 0.3.0 release, José Valim's exploration of set-theoretic types, the beta release of the Ash Framework book, FLAME's new AWS EC2 support, and more!
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236: Turn it up to 1000!
January 14th, 2025 | 21 mins 50 secs
conferences, deno, elixir, javascript, news, types
News includes José Valim's enhanced type inference PR for Elixir 1.19, ElixirLS's 0.26.0 release, a new DenoRider library for JavaScript integration, Gleam v1.7.0's performance improvements, and more!