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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157: Adding Dialyzer Late in the Game
June 27th, 2023 | 53 mins 37 secs
bugs, dialyzer, elixir, language servers, static types, types
Discover the ins and outs of Dialyzer, the static code analysis tool in the Elixir community. Join our chat with Noah Betzen as he shares tips, strategies, and resources to overcome common challenges when adding it to a mature project!
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156: React to LiveView for Performance
June 20th, 2023 | 45 mins 8 secs
elixir, liveview, performance, react, reactjs
From React to LiveView: Tim Gremore said goodbye to his app slowdowns! He shares how LiveView solved a painful performance issue, in addition to tips, lessons learned, and more in this episode.
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155: Thinking Elixir News
June 13th, 2023 | 9 mins 15 secs
arrow, elixir, news, security
Get the latest in the Elixir community! Hear about OpenSource contributor recognition, another AI insight, a new beta book to help transition from OO languages, what's Arrow?, conferences needing speakers, and more!
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154: Serving Up AI with Sean Moriarity
June 6th, 2023 | 50 mins 55 secs
ai, bumblebee, chatgpt, elixir, nx, servings
Discover the intersection of AI and Elixir with Sean Moriarity’s insights on the public AI shift, Python frustration alleviation, integrating ML solutions, LLaMa support in Bumblebee, and more!
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153: Elixir Tools and Language Servers
May 30th, 2023 | 56 mins 11 secs
credo, developer tools, elixir, lsp, visual studio code
Language servers are crucial for modern developers and Mitch Hanberg is blazing a new path with gen_lsp. Discover how he implemented a Credo LS and hear his vision for Elixir dev tools and his new elixir-tools Github org.
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152: Rust and Elixir Play Great Together
May 23rd, 2023 | 50 mins 15 secs
developer experience, dx, elixir, liveview, nif, phoenix, rust, rustler
Rustler gives Elixir easy access to Rust and community libraries. We talk with Jason Stiebs about being a Phoenix Core Team Member, making debugging a crashing LiveView nicer, how to leverage Rust when we need it, and more!
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151: Peeking inside the Livebook
May 16th, 2023 | 43 mins 26 secs
collaborative, elixir, launch week, livebook, news
Recently Livebook had its first launch week! We met with Jonatan Kłosko to learn how things like apps and stamping work along with the new Teams feature. He shares his favorite unsung features and more!
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150: Thinking Elixir News
May 9th, 2023 | 13 mins 13 secs
eef, elixir, liveview, liveview native, news, otp
News covers Chris McCord's keynote speech on LiveView 1.0. We cover the EEF's final election results, latest from the LiveView Native space, ex_cldr updates for localizing our apps, an OTP patch release, and more!
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149: Elixir's new Unified Logger
May 2nd, 2023 | 54 mins 27 secs
elixir, erlang, filters, handlers, logger
The recently closed 3.5 year old bug on the ElixirLang project was done by Hauleth (Łukasz Jan Niemier). He explains how Erlang and Elixir now shares a unified logger and explains what it means for us!
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148: Security Scanning our Apps with Sobelow
April 25th, 2023 | 56 mins 7 secs
ast, elixir, scanner, security, sobelow
Went deeper on Sobelow, the Elixir and Phoenix security code scanner. Hear about the creation from Griffin Byatt and where it’s going from the new maintainer Holden Oullette!
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147: Thinking Elixir News
April 18th, 2023 | 18 mins 41 secs
ecto, elixir, image, livebook, news
Day 1 & 2 of Livebook's launch week, a new JsonSchema compiler named Exonerate, Ecto 3.10.0 improves changesets, Image can now (un)skew using Nx, KnockLabs released the one_and_done library for idempotent APIs, and more!
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146: Thinking Elixir News
April 11th, 2023 | 7 mins 14 secs
eef, elixir, news, static site generator, streams
News includes Elixir 1.14.4 release and what’s in it, the EEF’s election is re-run and why, building your own static site generator with Phoenix, building Slack-like app with LiveView and streams, and more!