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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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis
May 17th, 2022 | 43 mins 49 secs
channels, elixir, parser, phoenix, syntax, tree-sitter, websockets
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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