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

  • 109: Digital Signal Processing with NxSignal

    July 26th, 2022  |  35 mins 27 secs
    audio, digital signal processing, dsp, elixir, grpc, nx signal

    Paulo Valente explains DSPs and his new Nx library called NxSignal. We learn more about what kinds of problems Digital Signal Processors solve and what’s next for the library. The Machine Learning space for Elixir keeps growing!

  • 108: Stack Overflow Survey Results 2022

    July 19th, 2022  |  39 mins 50 secs
    community, elixir, growth, most loved, stack overflow, survey

    We talk about Elixir and Phoenix’s strong showing in the Stack Overflow Survey results! 💜💜💜 We discuss what it means, what we can learn from it, how it compares, ideas to help support and grow the community, and more!

  • 107: Catching Up with Alex Koutmos

    July 12th, 2022  |  56 mins 56 secs
    book, elixir, email, learning, livebook, nerves, opensource

    Alex Koutmos talks about some of his well known libraries like PromEx, but also lesser known ones like Doctor and MJML EEx. We talk about the Nerves Weather Station book and his new Livebook heavy Elixir Patterns book!

  • 106: Coding Music Live in SonicPi with Sam Aaron

    July 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 8 mins
    elixir, erlang, music, performance, sonic pi

    Sam Aaron explains how Sonic Pi can live code music performances, be used in education, and is moving more to Elixir! He plans to use Phoenix LiveView in the future to create distributed jamming sessions!

  • 105: Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht

    June 28th, 2022  |  55 mins 8 secs
    analytics, elixir, google, opensource, plausible, privacy

    Uku Taht shares how Plausible Analytics provides opensource analytics data that respects visitor's privacy. It’s a simple Phoenix app by a small team (3 people) that are delivering big things.

  • 104: Exploring Our Data with Chris Grainger

    June 21st, 2022  |  48 mins 54 secs
    csv, data analysis, data frames, elixir, explorer, nx, patents, spreadsheet

    Explorer lets us explore and manipulate two-dimensional data like we already do with DB tables, spreadsheets, CSV files, and more. It's a tool that “regular” Elixir devs can take advantage of today!

  • 103: Vaxine.io and CRDT DBs with James Arthur

    June 14th, 2022  |  54 mins 27 secs
    antidote, crdt, database, distributed, elixir, vaxine

    We learn about Vaxine.io, an Elixir layer built on top of a distributed CRDT-based Erlang DB called Antidote. We cover CRDTs, the CURE protocol, and what Vaxine brings to the party.

  • 102: Machine Learning in Elixir with Sean Moriarity

    June 7th, 2022  |  42 mins 12 secs
    ai, axon, elixir, genetic algorithms, machine learning, nx

    Sean Moriarity explains Machine Learning in the Elixir space. It's a fast developing area and Sean helps us follow the important points even if we aren't doing ML ourselves… because our teams may still need it.

  • 101: Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson

    May 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins
    backup, database, distributed, durability, elixir, replication, sqlite

    Ben Johnson explains Litestream.io, his tool that replicates SQLite databases to remote servers and to backup locations like S3. We talk through using it with Phoenix applications and what that would mean.

  • 100: 10 Years of Elixir with José Valim

    May 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 31 mins
    1.14, 2.0, concurrency, dashbit, elixir, functional, machine learning

    José Valim talks about 10 years of Elixir! 🎂🎉 We cover v1.13, upcoming v1.14, far future v2.0 and much more! We talk about the story and growth of Dashbit and share appreciation for the community we are a part of!

  • 99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis

    May 17th, 2022  |  43 mins 49 secs
    channels, elixir, parser, phoenix, syntax, tree-sitter, websockets
  • 98: Elixir in the iOS App Store with Dominic Letz

    May 10th, 2022  |  47 mins 26 secs
    blockchain, cross platform, desktop, elixir, live view, mobile