Episode Archive
257 episodes of Thinking Elixir Podcast since the first episode, which aired on June 17th, 2020.
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257: Runtime Intelligence and MCP Servers
June 17th, 2025 | 27 mins 7 secs
ai, elixir, mcp, news, outreach, tidewave
News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 with type checking improvements, Gleam v1.11.0 with 30% faster JavaScript, the Elixir Outreach stipend program, ElixirConf videos, Noora design system for LiveView, and José Valim’s Tidewave MCP server for AI runtime intelligence, and more!
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256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging
June 10th, 2025 | 23 mins 42 secs
admin pages, ash, conference, elixir, wasm
News includes Elixir 1.19 RC with 4x faster compilation, ElixirConfEU videos featuring José Valim's keynote, the admin panel Backpex, Ash AI integration, Quokka formatter, browser-based Elixir with Popcorn, and more!
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255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps
June 3rd, 2025 | 32 mins 2 secs
28, cna, eef, elixir, news, otp, phoenix, vibe
News includes OTP 28 release, ElixirConf EU videos with Chris McCord's phoenix.new keynote, Phoenix Sync for real-time database sync, EEF board elections and CVE authority status, LiveView macro components, and more!
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254: Lua Scripting and Tidewave on Zed
May 20th, 2025 | 31 mins 22 secs
elixir, hex, lua, mcp, news, scripting, tidewave, zed
News includes Hex 2.2.0 with dependency updates, Honeybadger's APM for Elixir, José Valim demo of Tidewave with Zed, LiveDebugger v0.2.0, Dave Lucia's Elixir Lua library, Paulo's "handoff" for distributed execution, and more!
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253: Tidewave Triumphs and App Store Rebellions
May 13th, 2025 | 23 mins 32 secs
ai, app store, apple, elixir, mcp
News includes excitement around Tidewave for Elixir, preparation for Elixir 1.19's regex deprecation, LiveViewNative's new "OTP Interop" organization, and a major court ruling opening new payment options for iOS developers, and more!
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252: Riding the Tidewave of AI-Enhanced Phoenix
May 6th, 2025 | 34 mins 16 secs
ai, elixir, news, security, tidewave
News includes Tidewave (a Phoenix MCP server for AI editors), Chris McCord's AI-enabled Phoenix app teasers, ExMeralda.chat for Hex packages, LiveDebugger updates, mix test.interactive for enhanced testing, and more!
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251: SSH Vulnerability and Cookies are Changing
April 29th, 2025 | 41 mins 51 secs
cookies, device, elixir, oban, security, ssh, vulnerability
News includes a critical vulnerability in Erlang/OTP SSH, José Valim's new project teaser, Oban Pro's new "Cascade Mode", Semaphore CI open-sourcing their Elixir platform, code sandboxing options, and more!
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250: EEF Elections and Security
April 22nd, 2025 | 14 mins 23 secs
eef, elixir, news, security
News includes EEF board elections, Gleam v1.10.0 enhancing security with SBoMs, an AshAuthentication vulnerability with fixes, ElixirConf US 2025 in Orlando and ElixirConfEU in Krakow announcements, and more!
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249: LiveDebugger: Peering Inside a LiveView
April 15th, 2025 | 50 mins 6 secs
debugger, elixir, liveview, news, phoenix, scopes
News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc with magic link auth and DaisyUI components, Ecto's new privacy features, the Elixir Secure Coding project's new home, and more! Plus an interview with Krzysztof Nalepa about LiveDebugger.
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248: Security Insights with Paraxial
April 8th, 2025 | 57 mins 43 secs
cyanview, elixir, news, paraxial, postgres, security, supabase
News features Cyanview's Elixir case study, Oban Pro 1.6 with 20x faster queues, openid_connect 1.0, Supabase's Postgres tools, plus a security deep dive with Paraxial.io founder Michael Lubas!
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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!