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

  • 233: LiveView 1.0 and Elixir 1.18!

    December 17th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins
    aurora dsql, aws, elixir, liveview, nerves, nerves cloud, nerves hub, news

    Phoenix LiveView 1.0 is out! Elixir 1.18 introduces JSON support and test improvements. AWS Aurora DSQL debuts, and Lars Wikman shares updates on Nerves and oswag.org. And more!

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    232: Towering Over Errors

    December 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 9 secs
    elixir, errors, errortracker, news, nx, tower

    News includes updates from Saša Jurić, Phoenix LiveView RC 8, ErrorTracker, NX MLX backend, a chat with Gonzalo Rodriguez about Tower for error reporting, and more!

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    231: Pretty Error and OTP Raw Mode

    December 3rd, 2024  |  17 mins 9 secs
    cli, elixir, error, native, news, otp, raw

    News includes Dave Lucia's PR improving Elixir errors, OTP 28's "raw mode", Johanna Larsson's Elixir event site, DockYard's LiveView Native contracts, and more!

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    230: Hot k8s Takes and Self-Hosting

    November 26th, 2024  |  36 mins 6 secs
    conference, elixir, k8s, kubernetes, news, self-hosting

    News includes episodes now on YouTube, Parker Selbert's move to self-hosting, Gleam v1.6.0 release, José Valim's hot-take on Kubernetes, and more!

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    229: Sharding Functions and MacOS Builds

    November 19th, 2024  |  17 mins 56 secs
    bluesky, elixir, functions, mac, nx, shard

    News includes community-maintained MacOS builds for OTP, Elixir NX advancements, Phoenix Live View updates, Gleam's new release, José Valim and the Elixir type system, and more!

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    228: From Surveys to Cheat Sheets

    November 12th, 2024  |  21 mins 7 secs
    ai, cheatsheet, conference, elixir, langchain, llm, survey

    News includes Theo's ElixirConf video release, Gleam and Curiosum survey launches, a Phoenix phx- cheatsheet tip, improvements in Elixir LangChain, upcoming CodeBeam Lite and AlchemyConf events, and more!

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    227: Oban Web Goes Open Source?

    November 5th, 2024  |  29 mins 35 secs
    components, elixir, liveview, news, oban, open source, ui, web

    News includes Oban Web going open source, a new Phoenix LiveView component resource, insights on Phoenix from a tech survey, and more!

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    226: GPUs, DNS, and Igniting Elixir Dreams

    October 29th, 2024  |  22 mins 12 secs
    dns_cluster, elixir, graphing, hok, igniter, news, tucan

    News includes insights on Elixir 1.18 from Elixir Stream Week, new refactoring tools in Igniter, advancements in Elixir DNS clustering, updates to the Tucan plotting library, and more!

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    225: A BeaconCMS of Hope

    October 22nd, 2024  |  21 mins 28 secs
    beacon, cms, elixir, format, mastodon, sql

    News includes upcoming Elixir v1.18 news, the release of Beacon CMS v0.1, German Velasco on Phoenix contexts, Alex Koutmos's sql_fmt tool, MastodonBotEx, and more!

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    224: Language Server Leak and Stream Week Reveals

    October 15th, 2024  |  18 mins 19 secs

    News includes ElixirLS v0.24.0 unveiling Expert, NervesHub v2.0 enhancements, Elixir Stream Week featuring José Valim, updates in Elixir's ML libraries, and more!

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    223: A Boost for Nx, Lib Updates, and Passion Projects

    October 8th, 2024  |  22 mins 24 secs
    ai, cachex, elixir, geo, gpu, mozilla, nx, passion

    News includes José Valim and Chris McCord's article collab on AI GPUs, Nx's selection for Mozilla's Accelerator, PostgreSQL 17 enhancements, major updates to Cachex and Geo, and more!

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    222: OTP Update and Deprecating Unless

    October 1st, 2024  |  18 mins 57 secs
    discord, elixir, news, otp, unless

    News includes OTP 27.1 and Gleam v1.5.0 updates, deprecation of unless coming in Elixir 1.18, new Elixir WebRTC data channels, to Discord’s websocket traffic reduction by 40%, and more exciting Elixir tools and resources!