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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209: New Admin Panel, LiveView Component Kit, and more!
July 2nd, 2024 | 36 mins 40 secs
admin, ai, components, elixir, liveview, seo
News includes setup-beam reading
.tool-versions, Wojtek on SDK API reduction, Ash's support for UUIDv7, Backpex admin panel, SaladUI's ReactJS conversion feature, José Valim's AI function naming trick, and more! -
208: Elixir 1.17, Phoenix Playground and more
June 25th, 2024 | 31 mins 49 secs
1.17.0, elixir, news, phoenix
Explore Elixir 1.17's new features, Phoenix Playground innovations, and José Valim latest academic update on set-theoretic types. Plus, updates on Igniter, Nx Scholar, and Inertia.js gets a Phoenix adapter. Dive into these and more!
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207: Poison v6 is Waaay Faster and Drama Turns Productive
June 18th, 2024 | 30 mins 57 secs
elixir, liveview, news, poison, state
News includes the release of Poison v6.0.0, Lumen/Firefly project ending, a new accessibility library for Elixir, José Valim on managing client/server state in LiveView, Elixir Conf US 2024 tickets, and more!
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206: BeamOps - DevOps on the BEAM
June 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 48 secs
beamops, deployment, devops, elixir, erlang
In this episode, we discuss Elixir 1.17.0-rc.1 and interview Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste about their new book "Engineering Elixir Applications." We dive into "BeamOps" and BEAM DevOps challenges.
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205: Elixir 1.17 RC and Other News
June 4th, 2024 | 27 mins 55 secs
elixir, imdb, otp, performance, release candidate
Dive into Elixir 1.17-rc0's type system and new functions, OTP 27's compiler boosts, Erlang Docs on ExDoc, Elixir's 12th birthday celebration, and more!
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204: OTP 27 and Blend for Lib Maintainers
May 28th, 2024 | 56 mins 8 secs
blend, ci, dependency, elixir, library, otp
After the news of OTP 27 and more, we chat with Marcelo Dominguez about the "Blend" library, aiding Elixir devs supporting multiple versions of a dep. Inspired by the Rubygem "appraisal", it fits into CI systems making library maintenance more manageable.
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203: Thinking Elixir News
May 21st, 2024 | 27 mins 8 secs
aws, elixir, flame, liveview, news, oban
News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.0 release, José Valim's ElixirConf EU keynote on design patterns, Chris McCord’s FLAME-based World Page Speed Test, Ash 3.0 release, Oban support moving to ElixirForum, and more!
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202: Thinking Elixir News
May 14th, 2024 | 26 mins 47 secs
aws, bloom, elixir, ftc, news, phoenix
New ElixirLS launch boosts coding efficiency, José Valim hails type system upgrades, “Bloom” extends Phoenix, Chris McCord demos global hot code deploys, plus FTC and AWS updates, and more!
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201: Thinking Elixir News
May 7th, 2024 | 18 mins 30 secs
elixir, ftc, lexical, lsp, news, slack, soul of erlang
Explore Lexical 0.6.0's release, Elixir's smarter Slack bots, Saša Jurić’s “Soul of Erlang/Elixir” at 5 years, and we dive into the FTC's ban of non-competes. Tune in for these tech insights & more!
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200: Ready for a new frontier?
April 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
elixir, ios, jetpack, liveview native, mobile
Is Elixir ready to expand into a new frontier? Learn about LiveView Native’s potential for Elixir on mobile with Brian Cardarella & Carson Katri. Get updates on EEF elections, and Livebook integrations. Plus, tech insights & more community news.
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199: Websockets' Late Hero and Elixir's Fresh Updates
April 23rd, 2024 | 40 mins 35 secs
ai, cloudflare, elixir, langchain, migrations, mox, news, websockets
Elixir 1.17.0-dev changes, ExDoc v0.32's sleek features, Cloudflare's late heroic websocket entry post-Phoenix fame, a new BEAM-focused DevOps book, and more! —tune in for tech deep dives and laughs!
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198: Cade Gets the Last Word
April 16th, 2024 | 21 mins 24 secs
ash, cade, elixir, news, redis
New Elixir v1.17.0 features, Kino Benchee for @Livebookdev, 🐦🔥 Phoenix emoji's debut, Ash Framework v3 RC news, plus a heartfelt host update from Cade. Don't miss out!