Thinking Elixir Podcast

News and interviews for the Elixir community

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

  • 145: Thinking Elixir News

    April 4th, 2023  |  12 mins 38 secs
    docker, eef, elixir, github, livebook, news, timescale

    News covers the initial EEF election results, a new Livebook 0.9 release, Docker reverses directions, how Github spilled the secret beans, full text search with a new Haystack lib, vulnerable juice, timescale package grows up a little, and more!

  • 144: Thinking Elixir News

    March 28th, 2023  |  13 mins 43 secs
    credo, dialyzer, elixir, liveview, machine learning

    A collection of ML stories, fixing an 8-year old LiveView bug, Docker drama, speeding up Dialyzer in CI, a new Credo release and more!

  • 143: Thinking Elixir News

    March 21st, 2023  |  13 mins 15 secs
    bumblebee, elixir, elixirconf, liveview, nerves, news, transcribe

    New minor LiveView release, a new Nerves focused Elixir case study was published, transcribing audio, using Tailscale to cluster Elixir apps across cloud providers, ElixirConf US announced and more!

  • 142: Orion for Distributed Tracing in Production

    March 14th, 2023  |  53 mins 49 secs
    debugging, distributed, elixir, performance, production, tracing

    Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run distributed tracing in your app on prod! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the perf and runs multiple traces concurrently!

  • 141: Network Programming with Elixir and Andrea Leopardi

    March 7th, 2023  |  55 mins 55 secs
    boolean, challenges, dbg, debugging, elixir, networking

    We talk with Andrea Leopardi, an Elixir core team member, author, and recent Protohackers celebrity! We cover his work on dbg, the networking challenges, his upcoming PragProg book and what new challenge has intrigued him!

  • 140: Thinking Elixir News

    February 28th, 2023  |  13 mins 28 secs
    elixir, liveview native, logger, news, phoenix, release candidate

    Progress in LiveView Native, Livebook integration with Hugging Face, Andrea Leopardi concludes his series of Protohacker videos, new Phoenix 1.7.0 RCs 3 & 4, Elixir and Erlang loggers unified after 3.5 years, and more!

  • 139: Thinking Elixir News

    February 21st, 2023  |  14 mins 16 secs
    elixir, empex, liveview, news, orion, shun

    New Phoenix LiveView 0.18.12 release brings “streams” feature and more. Another Protohackers video, AppSignal adds Oban support, Orion library does distributed tracing UI, Jose Valim interview by Exercism, and more!

  • 138: Thinking Elixir News

    February 14th, 2023  |  8 mins 36 secs
    elixir, gpu, news, nx, phoenix_template

    News covers the new core Phoenix.Template project, Nx and the coming multiple GPU support, Integrating the Trix WYSIWYG editor, and “Code Code Ship” bringing commercial package support to Elixir and more!

  • 137: Upgrading to Phoenix 1.7

    February 7th, 2023  |  36 mins 57 secs
    backward compatible, elixir, phoenix, upgrade, verified routes

    We share notes on upgrading our apps to Phoenix 1.7.0 and what it was like. We include tips and resources and talk about the backward compatibility of the project and what that means.

  • 136: Elixir around the Bonfire

    January 31st, 2023  |  49 mins 34 secs
    activity pub, bonfire networks, elixir, fediverse, mastadon

    The Fediverse is a hot topic! Mayel de Boniol explains what it means, what ActivitPub is and more! Mayel also created Bonfire Networks with Elixir and Phoenix as a framework to create federated servers! Lots to unpack!

  • 135: Thinking Elixir News

    January 24th, 2023  |  20 mins 16 secs
    circle ci, elixir, livebook, news

    News-only episode covers new overlooked Livebook features, Mint support added to Elixir GRPC, Phoenix Live Storybook gets visual comparisons, LiveView Native progress updates, the Circle CI breach and more!

  • 134: Inside the Security Working Group

    January 17th, 2023  |  54 mins 28 secs
    eef, elixir, erlang, erlef, security, working group

    We get a glimpse into the EEF’s Security Working Group with Bram Verburg. We learn about existing resources and get hints for the future. Bram shares some cool security tips and insights as well!