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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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps
June 3rd, 2025 | 32 mins 2 secs
28, cna, eef, elixir, news, otp, phoenix, vibe
News includes OTP 28 release, ElixirConf EU videos with Chris McCord's phoenix.new keynote, Phoenix Sync for real-time database sync, EEF board elections and CVE authority status, LiveView macro components, and more!
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254: Lua Scripting and Tidewave on Zed
May 20th, 2025 | 31 mins 22 secs
elixir, hex, lua, mcp, news, scripting, tidewave, zed
News includes Hex 2.2.0 with dependency updates, Honeybadger's APM for Elixir, José Valim demo of Tidewave with Zed, LiveDebugger v0.2.0, Dave Lucia's Elixir Lua library, Paulo's "handoff" for distributed execution, and more!
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253: Tidewave Triumphs and App Store Rebellions
May 13th, 2025 | 23 mins 32 secs
ai, app store, apple, elixir, mcp
News includes excitement around Tidewave for Elixir, preparation for Elixir 1.19's regex deprecation, LiveViewNative's new "OTP Interop" organization, and a major court ruling opening new payment options for iOS developers, and more!