Thinking Elixir Podcast

120: Localize and Personalize Your Elixir Apps

October 11th, 2022 | 56 mins 25 secs

cldr, elixir, localize, money, numbers, personalize

Localizing and personalizing an application is separate from the language in the UI. Kip Cole explains how our app can be unintentionally offensive! He shares the tools created to localize and personalize our Elixir apps!

119: NPM CLI Maintainer Moves to Phoenix and Rust

October 4th, 2022 | 51 mins 13 secs

elixir, live view, npm, phoenix, rust

Kat Marchán was the NPM CLI maintainer for 5 years before moving to Elixir, Phoenix and Rust. Kat started Banchan Art to address the exploitation of artists. Oh, and it’s written in Elixir and is OpenSource!

118: Making Users Anonymous Upon Request

September 27th, 2022 | 39 mins 36 secs

anonymous, database, ecto, elixir, gdpr, redact

Honoring a user's “right to be forgotten” may be a legal requirement. We talk with Clément Quaresma about how the ecto_anon library can help solve that particular GDPR requirement in our Elixir apps using Ecto!

117: PhxLiveStorybook

September 20th, 2022 | 46 mins 43 secs

components, elixir, live view, phoenix, storybook, umbrella

A UI Storybook for Phoenix LiveView components? Christian Blavier joins to share what his team created and made OpenSource. What is it? It may end up in Phoenix so tune in!

116: Remote Development and Elixir

September 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins

development, docker, docker compose, elixir, localhost, remote

Making Elixir work for remote development doesn’t mean the end of localhost development? That’s what Carter Bryden explains as we examine the arguments in favor of remote development.

115: ElixirConf 2022 Recap

September 6th, 2022 | 38 mins 42 secs

announcements, conference, elixir, machine learning, native

ElixirConf just finished! We cover the big announcements, talk highlights, and other relevant tech news. We cover Elixir 1.14, Livebook, Phoenix 1.7, ML, and the surprise announcement of Phoenix LiveView Native!

114: Countdown to Conf

August 30th, 2022 | 21 mins 11 secs

breaking change, conference, elixir, soft deprecation

We cover the news and look forward to ElixirConf US which is about to start! We cover breaking changes that somehow don't break things, and the announcements and conference activities we’re looking forward to.

113: Livebook Desktop

August 23rd, 2022 | 53 mins 55 secs

burrito, cross-platform, desktop, elixir, livebook, livebook desktop

Livebook Desktop makes it much easier for people to start using Elixir and Livebook. Wojtek Mach explains what Livebook Desktop is, how it works, if it makes sense to "desktop" our own apps and more!

112: Putting LiveView in a Chrome Extension

August 16th, 2022 | 54 mins 34 secs

chrome, elixir, extension, iframe, live view, liveview

Google Chrome extension that displays a LiveView and integrates with Gmail? Steve Bussey shares how he did just that! We learn how and why he did it. He shares tips for others who want to do it too!

111: Deploying a PR for Review

August 9th, 2022 | 40 mins 57 secs

deploy, elixir, fly, iterate, pr, render, review

Deploying a PR to a temporary server sounds like a great way to iterate faster! Jason Axelson shares how he did that on Render.com. We cover benefits to the team, workflow, testing, doing it on Fly.io and more!

110: The End of Localhost Development?

August 2nd, 2022 | 51 mins 13 secs

complexity, development, elixir, infrastructure, local, localhost, simplicity

Is the “end of localhost development” inevitable? How does that apply to Elixir and Phoenix projects? We think it's more likely they are trying to solve the wrong problem.

109: Digital Signal Processing with NxSignal

July 26th, 2022 | 35 mins 27 secs

audio, digital signal processing, dsp, elixir, grpc, nx signal

Paulo Valente explains DSPs and his new Nx library called NxSignal. We learn more about what kinds of problems Digital Signal Processors solve and what’s next for the library. The Machine Learning space for Elixir keeps growing!

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