David Bernheisel
Co-Host of Thinking Elixir Podcast
David Bernheisel has hosted 282 Episodes.
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288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference
January 20th, 2026 | 26 mins 20 secs
anniversary, elixir, markdown, sprites.dev, workflow
Elixir’s 15th anniversary brings v1.20 RC with full type inference, Chris McCord launches Sprites.dev, LiveVue v1.0 goes stable, Gust workflow engine debuts, and more!
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287: From RAGs to Rich Workflows
January 13th, 2026 | 21 mins 35 secs
arcana, elixir, elixirconf, javascript, news, rag, workflows
News includes Arcana RAG library for Phoenix, MquickjsEx embedding JavaScript in Elixir, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with Streams support, Durable workflow engine, José Valim teasing type system improvements, Hologram receiving EEF support, and more!
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286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review
January 6th, 2026 | 41 mins 7 secs
2025, apple metal, credo, elixir, news, nextjs, nx, retrospective
News includes NextJS to Phoenix migration story, massive Credo performance improvements, Torchx on Apple Metal, DNSimple’s Erlang case study, first GleamLang conference announced, and more! Plus a 2025 retrospective.
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285: From Popcorn to Robots
December 30th, 2025 | 31 mins 47 secs
elixir, liveview, multigress, news, postgres, tidewave, webassembly
News includes Software Mansion running LiveView in the browser with WebAssembly, Programming Nerves book launching in beta, PinStripe for Stripe integration, Beam Bots for robotics, Saša Jurić’s Goatmire talk, Tidewave.ai updates, and more!
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284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System
December 23rd, 2025 | 24 mins 49 secs
beam, elixir, email, goatmire, mjml, news christmas, types, zero trust
Elixir v1.20 with full-type inference coming soon, Gleam v1.14.0-rc1, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for email templates, Dashbit’s nimble_zta library for zero trust auth, Björn Gustavsson’s BEAM history talk, and more!
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283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk
December 16th, 2025 | 43 mins 23 secs
birthday, data_migration, elixir, erlang, github, news, react, tidewave, zig
Celebrating Erlang’s 27th birthday as open source, Elixir Hub 2025 survey results, new data_migration LiveDashboard package, Tidewave.ai accessibility improvements, critical React RCE vulnerabilities, and Zig leaves GitHub, and more!
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282: Type Systems and View Transitions
December 9th, 2025 | 34 mins 41 secs
ai, elixir, langchain, liveview, news, nx, performance, type system
News includes cutting-edge type system research from José Valim, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with view transition support, LiveDebugger’s biggest release, Nx Python-Elixir integration, and more!
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281: Planning for the Unexpected
December 2nd, 2025 | 28 mins 54 secs
cloudflare, eef, elixir, news, otp, supervisors
News includes OTP 28.2 release, significant update to the “whois” library, Tidewave adds Figma support, KQL parser library, EEF vulnerability data on OSV.dev, and more! Plus: designing for failure vs handling errors.
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280: Dark Matter Developers
November 25th, 2025 | 42 mins 8 secs
elixir, hologram, javascript, news, tiobe
News includes Elixir 1.19.3 release, Tidewave Web adding Claude Code and Codex support, Hologram’s JavaScript porting initiative, new pg_large_objects and playwright_ex libraries, TIOBE language index rankings, and more!
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279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes
November 18th, 2025 | 46 mins 36 secs
ai, beam, deploy, elixir, github, hot code, news, otp
FlyDeploy for hot code upgrades, GRPC library with Livebook docs, ErrorTracker v0.7.0, GitHub’s Octoverse shows TypeScript on top, and Mark’s AI workflow that turns 2 weeks into 2 days!
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278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes
November 11th, 2025 | 31 mins 43 secs
ai, db, elixir, llm, news, playwright, postgres, replication, wal
News includes ReqLLM 1.0 with standardized LLM APIs, Codicil bringing semantic code understanding to AI assistants, Tidewave Web expanding to Django, Rails, Next.js and more, phoenix_test_playwright browser pooling, and Postgres WAL for database notifications!
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277: Searching Across the Hexiverse
November 4th, 2025 | 26 mins 9 secs
aws, elixir, hex, news, search, wasm
News includes a new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour running in WebASM, Stable Diffusion on Mac GPUs through EMLX, AWS outage lessons, and more!