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
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276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed
October 28th, 2025 | 42 mins 18 secs
aws, elixir, news, openchain, redis
News includes Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking and 4x faster compilation, OpenChain certification for the BEAM ecosystem, Tailwind 4 update for a LiveView component library, ClaudeCode Web with GitHub integration, a critical Redis CVE, and more!
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275: From Slop to Success?
October 21st, 2025 | 29 mins 2 secs
agents.md, ai, consultancy, elixir, news, npm, slop
News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 is the last stop to 1.19, typed structs timeline update, new "mix help app:phoenix" command, gRPC v0.11.0, ReqCassette library, AI coding insights, and more!
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274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance
October 14th, 2025 | 31 mins 32 secs
acp, authorization, elixir, liveview native, markdown, news, permit
News includes Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 with 2.3x faster dep compiles, JetBrains adopting Agent Client Protocol, LiveView Native's uncertain future, MDex library upgrades, Permit authorization library, Aether AT Protocol for Bluesky, Supabase's $100M raise, and more!
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273: Does the Language Really Matter?
October 7th, 2025 | 39 mins 29 secs
ai, elixir, ieee, llm, news, postgres, web
News includes Chris McCord’s LLM web browser tool, Zoi schema validation library, AshDiagram for visualizing Ash applications, EEF’s progress on EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness, PostgreSQL 18 release, and more!
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272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto
September 30th, 2025 | 30 mins 57 secs
compile, crypto, deps, elixir, vault
News includes Vault library for process-scoped storage, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant cryptography, Tidewave Teams launch, AshTypescript for type-safe frontends, major Elixir 1.19-rc.0 deps compilation speed improvements, and conference updates!
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271: Testing, Searching, and Funding
September 23rd, 2025 | 17 mins 29 secs
elixir, ex_unit, interactive, rebar, testing
News includes interactive ExUnit testing with mix_test_interactive, TrieHard Rust-powered search library, ReqLLM for unified LLM interactions, Hologram v0.6.0 production features, funded Rebar4 project, and more!
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270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar
September 16th, 2025 | 23 mins 21 secs
beam, elixir, malware, news, npm, otp, rebar, tidewave
News includes Rebar4 Kickstarter campaign, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration, Phoenix 1.8.1 release, ElixirConf US videos, AshFramework security advisory, and more!
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269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives
September 9th, 2025 | 29 mins 43 secs
ai, code generation, elixir, llm, news, npm, security
News includes Expert, the new official Elixir LSP, Tidewave Web’s first major update, handoff library for distributed graph execution, LiveDebugger v0.4.0, Elixir’s exceptional performance in LLM benchmarks, ElixirConf US heading to Chicago, and more!
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268: Got your Popcorn here!
September 2nd, 2025 | 41 mins 50 secs
analytics, elixir, news, popcorn, wasm
News includes a new SQL analytics library called Lotus, plus an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project enabling Elixir to run in WebAssembly in the browser!
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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!
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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!
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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!