Episode Archive
199 episodes of Thinking Elixir Podcast since the first episode, which aired on June 17th, 2020.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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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108: Stack Overflow Survey Results 2022
July 19th, 2022 | 39 mins 50 secs
community, elixir, growth, most loved, stack overflow, survey
We talk about Elixir and Phoenix’s strong showing in the Stack Overflow Survey results! 💜💜💜 We discuss what it means, what we can learn from it, how it compares, ideas to help support and grow the community, and more!
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107: Catching Up with Alex Koutmos
July 12th, 2022 | 56 mins 56 secs
book, elixir, email, learning, livebook, nerves, opensource
Alex Koutmos talks about some of his well known libraries like PromEx, but also lesser known ones like Doctor and MJML EEx. We talk about the Nerves Weather Station book and his new Livebook heavy Elixir Patterns book!
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106: Coding Music Live in SonicPi with Sam Aaron
July 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 8 mins
elixir, erlang, music, performance, sonic pi
Sam Aaron explains how Sonic Pi can live code music performances, be used in education, and is moving more to Elixir! He plans to use Phoenix LiveView in the future to create distributed jamming sessions!
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105: Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht
June 28th, 2022 | 55 mins 8 secs
analytics, elixir, google, opensource, plausible, privacy
Uku Taht shares how Plausible Analytics provides opensource analytics data that respects visitor's privacy. It’s a simple Phoenix app by a small team (3 people) that are delivering big things.
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104: Exploring Our Data with Chris Grainger
June 21st, 2022 | 48 mins 54 secs
csv, data analysis, data frames, elixir, explorer, nx, patents, spreadsheet
Explorer lets us explore and manipulate two-dimensional data like we already do with DB tables, spreadsheets, CSV files, and more. It's a tool that “regular” Elixir devs can take advantage of today!