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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73: Elixir at Supabase with Paul Copplestone
November 16th, 2021 | 45 mins 4 secs
We talk with Paul Copplestone, founder and CEO of Supabase. Supabase leverages the power of Elixir, Postgres, and more to create an OpenSource Firebase alternative that brings these powers to the Jamstack community.
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72: TypeCheck with Wiebe-Marten Wijnja
November 9th, 2021 | 46 mins 19 secs
We talk with Wiebe-Marten Wijnja about his project TypeCheck that provides a new kind of runtime type checking for Elixir applications. The syntax builds on your existing spec types so it still works for dialyzer but adds additional compile time create...
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71: LiveView and the 7-GUI Tasks with German Velasco
November 2nd, 2021 | 52 mins 3 secs
We catch up with German Velasco then talk about how he learned of the 7-GUI Tasks online challenge and how he wanted to see how LiveView could approach it. We talk about his ElixirConf presentation and how the idea of modeling state impacted his soluti...
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70: PardallMarkdown with Alfred Reinold Baudisch
October 26th, 2021 | 40 mins 37 secs
After a big news section, we talk with Alfred Reinold Baudisch about his project PardallMarkdown. It's a reactive Elixir server that reads markdown files, compiles them to HTML, stores them in an ETS table, and serves them up.
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69: Elixir on Mobile with Dominic Letz
October 19th, 2021 | 46 mins 3 secs
We talk with Dominic Letz about running Elixir on an Android phone installed in an APK which hosts a LiveView application accessed through a WebView! All while also pursuing a Web 3.0 architecture of being decentralized! Wow!
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68: Rust and Elixir with Nik Begley
October 12th, 2021 | 40 mins 31 secs
We talk with Niklas Begley about his Doctave service and the problems it's solving. From there we cover why they use Rust for a key piece of the service and how Elixir fits in. We cover tools like Rustler for integrating Elixir and Rust smoothly.
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67: Building a Healthy Community
October 5th, 2021 | 40 mins 28 secs
We talk about ways we can all contribute to building a healthy Elixir community. The Elixir community is a welcoming, encouraging and helpful place and we want to help keep it that way! We talk about common problems facing maintainers,
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66: Tracing Production with Kai Wern Choong
September 28th, 2021 | 39 mins 25 secs
We talk with Kai Wern Choong about his experience with tracing performance problems in production. We talk about what “tracing” means in a BEAM system, available tools like recon, great resources for learning how the tools work and general approaches f...
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65: Meet Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev
September 21st, 2021 | 47 mins 31 secs
We talk with Elixir Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev about how he got involved in Elixir, what it’s like being on the Core Team, some of his contributions, areas in Elixir that interest him, and his tips for learning a new programming language!
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64: OTP Certificate Woes with Bram Verburg
September 14th, 2021 | 42 mins 52 secs
We talk with Bram Verburg about an important root certificate expiring at the end of September and how this impacts your Elixir and Erlang projects! Bram helps explain where this IS and IS NOT a problem. He also explains the different update options av...
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63: SMS Texting in Nerves with Peter Ullrich
September 7th, 2021 | 43 mins 33 secs
We talk with Peter Ullrich about his experience sending SMS messages from a Raspberry Pi Zero using Nerves. We cover what went well, what didn’t and get a glimpse into the current state of Nerves for a newbie when dealing with hardware.
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62: Chris McCord joins Fly.io and Phoenix 1.6
August 31st, 2021 | 56 mins 57 secs
We talk with Chris McCord about his recent announcement that he’s moved to work at Fly.io! We cover what this means for the Phoenix project and ongoing Phoenix development work. He shares why he’s excited about the Fly platform which includes how it re...