Thinking Elixir Podcast

News and interviews for the Elixir community

About the show

The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.

Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more.

Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process.

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Episodes

  • 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim

    August 26th, 2025  |  1 hr 8 mins
    agents, ai, elixir, llm, mcp, news, tidewave

    News includes Tidewave Web’s AI-powered development assistant with José Valim joining to go deeper, a comprehensive ElixirLang blog post on 2025 interoperability options, Livebook Teams launching out of beta, PhoenixAnalytics v0.4.0 improvements, LiveView’s new stream_async function, and more!

  • 266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features

    August 19th, 2025  |  32 mins 10 secs
    1.8.0, agents, courses, elixir, llm, news, phoenix

    Phoenix 1.8.0 is officially released with dark mode, magic links, and LLM tools! Plus ElixirLS updates, new Torus search library, free ThinkingElixir courses, and more!

  • 265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results

    August 12th, 2025  |  42 mins 33 secs
    elixir, liveview, news, stackoverflow

    News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 with colocated JavaScript and portals, Stack Overflow Survey showing Elixir as 3rd most admired language, The Primeagen switching to Elixir, Global Elixir Meetups in September 2025, and more!

  • 264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks

    August 5th, 2025  |  40 mins 6 secs
    ai, bottleneck, elixir, livevue, news, popcorn, qa

    News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with AGENTS support, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser via WebAssembly, LiveVue v0.6.0 with major performance improvements, and more!

  • 263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

    July 29th, 2025  |  30 mins 27 secs
    bbc, beam, elixir, nano, pdf, python, pythonx, scale

    News includes BEAM fitting into 16MB, BBC using Elixir for 6 years, how GenStage improves performance, PDF extraction library, Phoenix deployment with Kamal, and more!

  • 262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

    July 22nd, 2025  |  27 mins 3 secs
    debugging, elixir, news, phoenix, uptime

    News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4, new libraries deps_changelog and Hog, an amazing Elixir system achieving 100% uptime for 5+ years, ElixirConf 2025 schedule, and more!

  • 261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?

    July 15th, 2025  |  29 mins 30 secs
    aws, elixir, figma, liveview, news

    News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates, José Valim’s DevLabs interview on building authentic tools, Matthew Sinclair’s 9 reasons to choose Elixir, Figma’s $300K daily AWS costs, and more!

  • 260: Cheaper testing with AI?

    July 8th, 2025  |  22 mins 4 secs
    ai, debugging, elixir, news, testing

    News includes LiveDebugger v0.3.0 with enhanced Phoenix LiveView debugging, Oban 1.6 featuring sub-workflows, YOLO v0.2.0 bringing faster image detection, testing insights with AI tools, and progress on the new Expert LSP project, and more!

  • 259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new

    July 1st, 2025  |  1 hr 13 mins
    ai, ecto, elixir, llm, phoenix, security

    We talk with Chris McCord about his revolutionary phoenix.new AI-powered dev service and in the news cover Ecto v3.13, official Phoenix security docs, Zach Daniel’s AI evaluation tool, and more!

  • 258: CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams

    June 24th, 2025  |  31 mins 48 secs
    cve, elixir, erlang, mcp, postgres, supabase

    News includes EEF’s first CVE release, Supabase’s Multigres for scaling Postgres, new MCP servers for Phoenix, Erlang surviving extreme load tests, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 preview, and more!

  • 257: Runtime Intelligence and MCP Servers

    June 17th, 2025  |  27 mins 7 secs
    ai, elixir, mcp, news, outreach, tidewave

    News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 with type checking improvements, Gleam v1.11.0 with 30% faster JavaScript, the Elixir Outreach stipend program, ElixirConf videos, Noora design system for LiveView, and José Valim’s Tidewave MCP server for AI runtime intelligence, and more!

  • 256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging

    June 10th, 2025  |  23 mins 42 secs
    admin pages, ash, conference, elixir, wasm

    News includes Elixir 1.19 RC with 4x faster compilation, ElixirConfEU videos featuring José Valim's keynote, the admin panel Backpex, Ash AI integration, Quokka formatter, browser-based Elixir with Popcorn, and more!