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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31: Crawling the Web using Elixir with Oleg Tarasenko and Tze Yiing
January 19th, 2021 | 50 mins 33 secs
We talk with Oleg Tarasenko and Tze Yiing about crawling the web using Elixir. Oleg created the crawly project to help solve this problem and Tze Yiing joined him as a contributor and maintainer. We cover how Elixir is well suited to orchestrate crawli...
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30: Mutation Testing using Muzak with Devon Estes
January 12th, 2021 | 58 mins 49 secs
We talk with Devon Estes, the creator of a new Elixir mutation testing library called Muzak. Devon joins us to explain what mutation testing is and how it can help development teams in organizations move faster and with greater confidence.
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29: Running Jobs using Oban with Parker Selbert
January 5th, 2021 | 47 mins 39 secs
We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator of the job processing library Oban. He shares the benefits of using Postgres as the data store over more common choices like Redis. Oban also offers a paid "pro" level and Parker explains how a paid feature set ...
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28: DepViz and ElixirLS with Jason Axelson
December 29th, 2020 | 48 mins 40 secs
We talk with Jason Axelson. He created the DepViz tool that can help improve your Elixir compile-time experience. Jason explains how to use the tool to identify where compile time dependencies may be causing issues in your project and provides tips on ...
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27: Ash Framework with Zach Daniel
December 22nd, 2020 | 42 mins 7 secs
We talk with Zach Daniel, the creator of the Ash Framework, a declarative, resource-oriented application framework for Elixir that lets you build out JSON or GraphQL APIs in minutes. In this episode he explains the history,
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26: Elixir in Higher Ed with Jonathan Allen
December 15th, 2020 | 36 mins 3 secs
We talk with Jonathan Allen, an instructor at a Utah college, who taught Elixir to his Distributed Computing students. He tells how he got Elixir into the classroom, what the students loved, what was hard, and how we in the professional community can i...
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25: Improving developer experience with Marlus Saraiva
December 8th, 2020 | 52 mins 36 secs
We talk with Marlus Saraiva about three big projects he is a part of. All of which are around improving the developer experience in Elixir! We start with Broadway, a library that makes working with GenStage even easier.
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24: LiveView Uploads with Chris McCord
December 1st, 2020 | 57 mins 8 secs
We talk with Chris McCord about the Phoenix LiveView 0.15.0 release which includes uploads! Chris explains the background on the release and his video showing it off. He shares his go-to stack when starting a new Phoenix project (HINT it includes Tailw...
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23: Gleam and Static Types with Louis Pilfold
November 24th, 2020 | 48 mins 57 secs
We talk with Louis Pilfold about how he created Gleam, a static typed language that runs on the BEAM. Louis explains some of the challenges with bringing static types to the BEAM and shares ideas on what can possibly be done about it.
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22: Running migrations in production with Patryk Bąk
November 17th, 2020 | 40 mins 10 secs
We talk with Patryk Bąk about running migrations in production. For production systems where downtime or service interruptions are a problem, we sometimes need to take special care when migrating data structures or the data itself.
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21: Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js and LiveView with Patrick Thompson
November 10th, 2020 | 31 mins 18 secs
We talk with Patrick Thompson about the PETAL stack. The combination of Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js and LiveView! Patrick and David help me understand why people are excited about Tailwind CSS and how it works nicely with Alpine.js.
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20: LiveView v LiveWire, Alpine.js with Caleb Porzio
November 3rd, 2020 | 57 mins 4 secs
We reached outside the Elixir community to talk with Caleb Porzio. Caleb is the creator of PHP Laravel LiveWire, a framework inspired by LiveView. He created Alpine.js to help solve problems common to both LiveWire and LiveView.