Thinking Elixir Podcast

News and interviews for the Elixir community

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

  • 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!

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    235: Wrapping Up 2024 with Types

    January 7th, 2025  |  26 mins 55 secs
    2024, conferences, elixir, liveview native, news, page transitions, swup.js, types

    News includes Elixir 1.18.0's release with enhanced type system support, LiveView Native's v0.4.0-rc.0 with a new networking stack, ExDoc v0.36's smooth page transitions with swup.js, Swedish goats, and more!

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    234: Source Drops, AI, and Holiday Cheer

    December 24th, 2024  |  14 mins 43 secs
    ai, beamops, christmas, elixir, news, source

    News includes "Engineering Elixir Applications" source release, the "hex2txt" package for AI coding, LiveView Native's LiveUploads, AI iOS app guide by Headway, and more! Enjoy festive greetings and best wishes!

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    233: LiveView 1.0 and Elixir 1.18!

    December 17th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins
    aurora dsql, aws, elixir, liveview, nerves, nerves cloud, nerves hub, news

    Phoenix LiveView 1.0 is out! Elixir 1.18 introduces JSON support and test improvements. AWS Aurora DSQL debuts, and Lars Wikman shares updates on Nerves and oswag.org. And more!

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    232: Towering Over Errors

    December 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 9 secs
    elixir, errors, errortracker, news, nx, tower

    News includes updates from Saša Jurić, Phoenix LiveView RC 8, ErrorTracker, NX MLX backend, a chat with Gonzalo Rodriguez about Tower for error reporting, and more!

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    231: Pretty Error and OTP Raw Mode

    December 3rd, 2024  |  17 mins 9 secs
    cli, elixir, error, native, news, otp, raw

    News includes Dave Lucia's PR improving Elixir errors, OTP 28's "raw mode", Johanna Larsson's Elixir event site, DockYard's LiveView Native contracts, and more!

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    230: Hot k8s Takes and Self-Hosting

    November 26th, 2024  |  36 mins 6 secs
    conference, elixir, k8s, kubernetes, news, self-hosting

    News includes episodes now on YouTube, Parker Selbert's move to self-hosting, Gleam v1.6.0 release, José Valim's hot-take on Kubernetes, and more!