Thinking Elixir Podcast

270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar

September 16th, 2025 | 23 mins 21 secs

beam, elixir, malware, news, npm, otp, rebar, tidewave

News includes Rebar4 Kickstarter campaign, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration, Phoenix 1.8.1 release, ElixirConf US videos, AshFramework security advisory, and more!

269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives

September 9th, 2025 | 29 mins 43 secs

ai, code generation, elixir, llm, news, npm, security

News includes Expert, the new official Elixir LSP, Tidewave Web’s first major update, handoff library for distributed graph execution, LiveDebugger v0.4.0, Elixir’s exceptional performance in LLM benchmarks, ElixirConf US heading to Chicago, and more!

268: Got your Popcorn here!

September 2nd, 2025 | 41 mins 50 secs

analytics, elixir, news, popcorn, wasm

News includes a new SQL analytics library called Lotus, plus an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project enabling Elixir to run in WebAssembly in the browser!

267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim

August 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins

agents, ai, elixir, llm, mcp, news, tidewave

News includes Tidewave Web’s AI-powered development assistant with José Valim joining to go deeper, a comprehensive ElixirLang blog post on 2025 interoperability options, Livebook Teams launching out of beta, PhoenixAnalytics v0.4.0 improvements, LiveView’s new stream_async function, and more!

266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features

August 19th, 2025 | 32 mins 10 secs

1.8.0, agents, courses, elixir, llm, news, phoenix

Phoenix 1.8.0 is officially released with dark mode, magic links, and LLM tools! Plus ElixirLS updates, new Torus search library, free ThinkingElixir courses, and more!

265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results

August 12th, 2025 | 42 mins 33 secs

elixir, liveview, news, stackoverflow

News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 with colocated JavaScript and portals, Stack Overflow Survey showing Elixir as 3rd most admired language, The Primeagen switching to Elixir, Global Elixir Meetups in September 2025, and more!

264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks

August 5th, 2025 | 40 mins 6 secs

ai, bottleneck, elixir, livevue, news, popcorn, qa

News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with AGENTS support, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser via WebAssembly, LiveVue v0.6.0 with major performance improvements, and more!

263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

July 29th, 2025 | 30 mins 27 secs

bbc, beam, elixir, nano, pdf, python, pythonx, scale

News includes BEAM fitting into 16MB, BBC using Elixir for 6 years, how GenStage improves performance, PDF extraction library, Phoenix deployment with Kamal, and more!

262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

July 22nd, 2025 | 27 mins 3 secs

debugging, elixir, news, phoenix, uptime

News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4, new libraries deps_changelog and Hog, an amazing Elixir system achieving 100% uptime for 5+ years, ElixirConf 2025 schedule, and more!

261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?

July 15th, 2025 | 29 mins 30 secs

aws, elixir, figma, liveview, news

News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates, José Valim’s DevLabs interview on building authentic tools, Matthew Sinclair’s 9 reasons to choose Elixir, Figma’s $300K daily AWS costs, and more!

260: Cheaper testing with AI?

July 8th, 2025 | 22 mins 4 secs

ai, debugging, elixir, news, testing

News includes LiveDebugger v0.3.0 with enhanced Phoenix LiveView debugging, Oban 1.6 featuring sub-workflows, YOLO v0.2.0 bringing faster image detection, testing insights with AI tools, and progress on the new Expert LSP project, and more!

259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new

July 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 13 mins

ai, ecto, elixir, llm, phoenix, security

We talk with Chris McCord about his revolutionary phoenix.new AI-powered dev service and in the news cover Ecto v3.13, official Phoenix security docs, Zach Daniel’s AI evaluation tool, and more!

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