116: Remote Development and Elixir

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 04:15:00 -0600

In episode 110, we talked about, and rejected, the argument for the “End of Localhost Development”. Carter Bryden joins us to share a perspective from the other side, one in favor of remote development. We learn about the benefits to contractors, PR reviews, giving demos, and how containerizing our development environment even improves local development. We learn about the tools, services, and techniques that make it possible. An interesting look into a different way of developing our favorite language!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/116

Elixir Community News

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/elixir-programming-pragmatic-programmers-books – Elixir Programming Book bundle - Humble Bundle
https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1566774954393305088 – Upcoming Elixir features
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12109 – PR adding diffs for "mix format --check-formatted"
https://twitter.com/scenicframework/status/1566720982412173312 – Scenic v0.11.0 was released
https://hexdocs.pm/scenic/upgrading_to_v0-11.html – Scenic upgrade guide
https://twitter.com/dockyard/status/1565769297393135617 – DockYard ElixirConf keynote talked about 4 major R&D projects.
https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/08/29/dockyard-r-d-beacon-brings-phoenix-speeds-to-your-cms – DockYard's Beacon CMS project
https://twitter.com/amnicd/status/1563253296101756929 – Another example of a mobile app written in Elixir.
https://gitlab.com/Nicd/geo-therminator – Gitlab project of the Android Elixir app
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/98 – Interview with Dominic Letz about Elixir Desktop project
https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1565997307031703553 – Elixir track on Exercism.io is now running Elixir 1.14.
https://surface-ui.org/blog/what-s-new-in-surface-0-8 – Surface 0.8.0 was released during the conference
https://github.com/surface-ui/surface/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v080-2022-09-01 – Surface changelog includes "Scoped CSS styles"
https://twitter.com/livebookdev/status/1565434195324936194 – José Valim tweeted demonstration of Livebook's ability to manipulate pipelines using dbg feature

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/110 – End of Localhost Development?
https://twitter.com/CarterBryden/status/1555299999952486401 – Twitter response to episode prompting interview
https://quantifiedcitizen.com
https://approximated.app
https://github.com/features/codespaces – Github CodeSpaces
https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ – Amazon Cloud9
https://www.gitpod.io/ – Gitpod.io
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers
https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containers
https://mosh.org/
https://rails.new/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/carterbryden – on Twitter
https://approximated.app/ – Solo app Carter mentioned
http://quantifiedcitizen.com/ – Carter's day job
http://indielixir.com – Carter's hobby Elixir podcast

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110: The End of Localhost Development?

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 04:15:00 -0600

Some people excitedly talk about the “end of localhost development” when developer machines move to the cloud. Presumably this is better because our environments, infrastructure and projects are so complex that they need this additional layer of abstraction just to keep teams productive. Is this our inevitable future? Or is this trying to solve the wrong problem? We talk about what we think this movement is about and how it relates to us. Elixir projects can potentially be much simpler with fewer external dependencies making this move to the cloud less compelling. Join us as we contemplate how Elixir and Phoenix might fare in a world with no “localhost development”.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/110