Mark Ericksen is the creator of ThinkingElixir.com and the podcast. He works at Fly.io and loves working in Elixir and helping others too.
Mark Ericksen has hosted 218 Episodes.
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14: LiveView and Airtable with Ricardo Garcia Vega
September 22nd, 2020 | 37 mins 39 secs
Huge batch of new then we talk with Ricardo Garcia Vega about how he paired a Phoenix application with no database Repo to an Airtable backend to quickly solve a problem but without compromising on speed or reliability.
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13: Video chat using LiveView with Jesse Herrick
September 15th, 2020 | 37 mins 44 secs
We talk with Jesse Herrick about creating a video chat app using WebRTC and Phoenix LiveView. We cover the WebRTC protocol, how Phoenix helps, JS hooks, pushing events from the server and much more! Show Notes online - https://thinkingelixir.
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12: All a Flutter over NIFs and Ports with Connor Rigby
September 8th, 2020 | 43 mins 55 secs
We catch up with Connor Rigby and learn about his recent Flutter work for Nerves. We take this opportunity to get his perspective on when to choose NIFs or Ports for native integrations, how to make NIFs more portable,
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11: New Ecto features in 3.5 with Mike Binns
September 1st, 2020 | 32 mins 53 secs
Learning about some new features coming in Ecto 3.5 from Mike Binns. Mike explains Ecto.Enum, what a ParameterizedType is, the new "redact" option on fields and much more! Show Notes online - https://thinkingelixir.
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10: Frontend vs Backend and Business Value of LiveView
August 25th, 2020 | 35 mins 16 secs
News and discussion about why the talk of "Frontend vs Backend" is wrong, Single Page Apps, seeing the business value of LiveView, and much more! Show Notes online - https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/010-frontend-vs-backend-and-business-...
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9: Decomposing models with Maciej Kaszubowski
August 18th, 2020 | 47 mins 24 secs
Decomposing models based on lifecycle with Maciej Kaszubowski. He shares tips on finding the lines, how DDD can help, ideas for modular designs, simple ways to start a PubSub architecture, avoiding "donkey code" and much more!
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8: Careers and Dev Environments
August 11th, 2020 | 39 mins 15 secs
We discuss career development as programmers, how COVID may change things, our dev setups including editors, resources, asdf, docker, and much more! Show Notes online - https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/008-careers-and-dev-environments/
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7: Background Jobs with Miguel Palhas
August 4th, 2020 | 41 mins 6 secs
We talk with Miguel Palhas about lessons learned while working with background jobs in production systems. He shares some tips he's learned through experience. We share other mistakes made and what we learn from them. We cover background job options,
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6: Elixir at FontAwesome with Rob Madole
July 28th, 2020 | 46 mins 6 secs
FontAwesome, the internet's most popular icon toolkit, uses Elixir behind the scenes. We talk with Rob Madole to learn how they got there and Rob shares insights to what goes on behind-the-scenes. We cover how they teach Elixir to their team,
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5: Learning Elixir with Ricardo Trindade
July 21st, 2020 | 31 mins 55 secs
We talk with Ricardo Trindade about learning Elixir and GraphQL. We discuss learning on personal interest projects, GraphQL vs REST, executing Ruby or Python from Elixir, helpful learning resources and much more! -
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4: ElixirConf 2020 with Jim Freeze
July 14th, 2020 | 37 mins 11 secs
ElixirConf US 2020 was announced! This will be our first virtual one. We talk with the organizer Dr. Jim Freeze to get the behind the scenes information on how it will work. We cover the current challenges facing conferences,
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3: Elixir 1.11 Preview with Wojtek Mach
July 7th, 2020 | 46 mins 11 secs
Elixir 1.11 is shaping up to be a huge release with a number of "big deal" features. We are joined by Wojtek Mach to help us understand the significance of some of the new features. These include an improved recompilation process,