Thinking Elixir Podcast

89: Reducing the Friction in Your Flow

March 8th, 2022  |  49 mins 3 secs

api, application design, clustering, distributed computing, elixir, friction, postgres, read replicas

We talk about the business value and personal happiness received when reducing the friction in our applications. It starts with the application design and LiveView plays a big role!

88: Phoenix Debug Toolbar and LiveView Forms with Michael Crumm

March 1st, 2022  |  53 mins 1 sec

debug toolbar, elixir, forms, liveview, phoenix, phoenix live dashboard

Michael Crumm talks about his new project PhoenixProfiler that helps profile performance, expose route info, show crash info and more. We also talk about his work to improve LiveView forms!

87: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2

February 22nd, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

anniversary, code formatter, elixir, testing, unicode

José Valim returns for part 2 of 5 in the countdown to Elixir's 10 year anniversary! Part 2 covers releases 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. Learned some great tips and even touched on upcoming features!

86: SavvyCal and Indie SaaS with Derrick Reimer

February 15th, 2022  |  50 mins 35 secs

calendar, elixir, indie, saas, venture capital

Derrick Reimer talks about Savvycal and how it’s built in Elixir. We talk about how simplicity and being nimble are competitive advantages. He shares what it’s like being an indie SaaS developer, what that means, and more!

85: Computer Vision in Elixir with Cocoa Xu

February 8th, 2022  |  27 mins 5 secs

computer vision, elixir, nerves project, opencv, robotics

We talk with Cocoa Xu about his PhD robotics project and his related Evision project that creates Elixir bindings to the OpenCV library making computer vision in Elixir much easier and more!

84: LiveBeats with Chris McCord

February 2nd, 2022  |  57 mins 52 secs

accessibility, liveview, music, phoenix, web development

Chris McCord created an awesome LiveView showcase project he used to help develop new features. Learn about LiveBeats and how it can be a great resource for the community!

83: Zig and Zigler with Isaac Yonemoto

January 25th, 2022  |  45 mins 43 secs

cross-compiling, elixir, erlang, nifs, openapi, webasm, zig, zigler

Isaac Yonemoto joins us to talk about Zig and Isaac's library Zigler. We learn where they both come from and discuss where the native, cross-compiling, NIF tool might go next and more!

82: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 1

January 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 13 secs

changelog, elixir, features, releases

José Valim joins us to kick off part 1 of a 5 part series counting down to the 10 year anniversary of Elixir! In Part 1, we cover the releases of 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3. We discuss the significant changes in each release and more!

81: Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit

January 11th, 2022  |  53 mins 44 secs

burrito, security analysis, zig

Quinn Wilton and Digit wrap up Elixir in the Burrito project making it easier to run Elixir projects in more environments! Burrito has a great origin story and possibilities for it's use. Check it out!

80: Waffle Making with Boris Kuznetsov

January 4th, 2022  |  32 mins 35 secs

elixir, file attachments, phoenix, s3, thumbnail, uploads

Boris Kuznetsov talks about the Waffle library, how it helps Elixir projects attach media to database records, how it started, it's role with LiveView, the challenges of maintaining a project created as a fork, and more!

79: Collaborative Music in LiveView with Nathan Willson

December 28th, 2021  |  44 mins 24 secs

Nathan Willson talks about creating GEMS, his globally distributed, collaboratively edited, matrix sequencing audio application! He shows us how LiveView can do more than you might think!

78: Logflare with Chase Granberry

December 21st, 2021  |  40 mins 50 secs

Chase Granberry talks about Logflare and how it’s written in Elixir and Phoenix. He shares how they use Elixir to bring logging and metrics to front-end focused devs without them knowing it. Also about Supabase acquiring Logflare!