Thinking Elixir Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Learning”

158: From Ruby to Elixir with Steve Bussey

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:15:00 -0600

A challenge for many people learning Elixir is the change in the mental model. Coming from OOP to Functional changes how we reason about our applications and the old way doesn't always map over cleanly. Also, Elixir is capable of doing a lot more than other languages and frameworks can and this means learning how to build a “normal” application may change. We talk with Steve Bussey about his new book “From Ruby to Elixir” that aims to help people bridge that gap. While the title says “Ruby”, we discuss how many of the concepts apply to people coming from most OOP languages. We talk about different libraries to recommend to people coming from a traditional Rails stack and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/158

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/security/advisories/GHSA-564w-97r7-c6p9 – Livebook security advisory for Windows installs
https://twitter.com/livebookdev/status/1671576191461990407 – Livebook security notice on Twitter
https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim/videos?filter=highlights&sort=time – José Valim shared where we can find past Twitch videos
https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-15-0-released/56584/6 – Workaround for Elixir 1.15.0 with issues compiling the Erlang dependency ssl_verify_fun.
https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1672351346278944769 – New Decision Tree library called Mockingjay takes advantage of Nx
https://github.com/acalejos/mockingjay – Mockingjay Decision Tree library
https://twitter.com/zachsdaniel1/status/1673278949667885057 – The EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation) approved the creation of a new working group.
https://erlef.org/wg/libs-and-frameworks – the Libraries and Frameworks working group page
https://twitter.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1672248650502660098 – Ash Framework released 2.11.0-rc.0 is out
https://github.com/CargoSense/briefly – Noticed "briefly" is a library to help manage temporary files
https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1672828839574089728 – Isaac Yonemoto released 0.1 of his OpenAPI router library Apical
https://hexdocs.pm/apical – Apical github project
https://www.elixir-tools.dev/next-ls/ – Mitch Hanberg sharing some early progress with his Next-LS project.
https://twitter.com/royalicing/status/1671689512685301762 – Patrick Smith shared a sneak peak of a new library called Orb for compiling Elixir code to WebAssembly
https://github.com/ComponentsGuide/components_guide/tree/master/lib/components_guide/wasm – The OpenSource project where Orb code will be extracted from.

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Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA/status/1663988571047354371 – Twitter post announcing Beta version of the book.
https://pragprog.com/titles/sbelixir/from-ruby-to-elixir/
https://www.supered.io/
https://pragprog.com/titles/sbsockets/real-time-phoenix/ – Previous book "Real-Time Phoenix” published in March 2020.
https://www.supered.io
https://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla
https://github.com/wojtekmach/req

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA – on Twitter
https://github.com/sb8244/ – on Github
http://www.stephenbussey.com/ – Blog

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Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social
Cade Ward - @cadebward
Cade Ward on Fediverse - @cadebward@genserver.social

107: Catching Up with Alex Koutmos

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 04:15:00 -0600

We caught up with Alex Koutmos, a co-host on an Elixir podcast, book author, and OpenSource library creator. We talk about some of his well known libraries like PromEx, but then go into some of his potentially lesser known ones like Doctor, Replug, Unplug, and MJML EEx. I'm happy to learn more about MJML EEx, an email formatting library for improved cross-mail client readers! We talk about the Nerves Weather Station book, and his new book project Elixir Patterns that makes heavy use of Livebook. Come enjoy a deeper visit with an Elixir community contributor!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/107

Elixir Community News

https://hex.pm/packages/kino – Kino 0.6.2 was released. This includes Alex Koutmos recent work that makes it easy to render a supervision tree in Livebook.
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1542324451425107968
https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1542710874586112001 – Another crazy Livebook improvement that Alex teased is a process tracing viewer.
https://twitter.com/owenbickford/status/1543369745306632192 – Elixir-LS got an update - “Suggest an appropriate module name with the 'defmodule' snippet”
https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/pull/684 – PR with demonstration video.
https://github.com/fuelen/ecto_erd/ – Ecto.ERD library generates ERD diagram from your Ecto schemas
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1542165462599057408 – Combined June Elixir announcements
https://pragprog.com/titles/puphoe/building-table-views-with-phoenix-liveview/ – New book titled “Building Table Views with Phoenix LiveView” by Peter Ullrich.
https://twitter.com/sasajuric/status/1542859420740239361 – Saša Jurić announced he’s working on Elixir in Action 3rd Edition.
https://github.com/peburrows/goth/blob/v1.3.0/CHANGELOG.md – Goth library released v1.3.
https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1539752930349293569 – Self-project management tip - "Everything goes smoother when you focus on getting 10% of a project 100% done instead of getting 100% of a project 10% done."

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

Discussion Resources

https://hex.pm/users/akoutmos – Published packages that Alex maintains
https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/ – Nerves weather Station book
https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – Elixir Patterns book that I am currently working on with Hugo
https://eaglemms.com/ – Bootstrapping a business with Elixir and LiveView
https://akoutmos.com/post/plug-runtime-config – Post about Unplug and Replug
https://hex.pm/packages/replug
https://hex.pm/packages/unplug
https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1541078170383835136 – Tweet about rendering supervision trees using Kino and Mermaid in Livebook.
https://www.whoosh.io/
https://www.beamrad.io/ – Beam Radio podcast where Alex co-hosts.
https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/
https://prometheus.io/
https://github.com/beam-telemetry
https://www.timescale.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimescaleDB
https://elixir-radar.com/
https://github.com/livebook-dev/kino
https://github.com/akoutmos/doctor – Doctor library for checking documentation coverage
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/101 – Interview with Ben Johnson about Litestream
https://github.com/akoutmos/litestream – Alex's litestream project
https://github.com/akoutmos/sqlite_scale – Experiment with Ecto Dynamic Repos and SQLite
https://hex.pm/packages/mjml_eex – MjmlEEx allows you to easily create beautiful looking responsive Emails using the MJML template language, with the ergonomics and safety of a Phoenix template.
https://github.com/adoptoposs/mjml_nif
https://mjml.io/ – The MJML website with documentation about email formatting features.
https://github.com/jdrouet/mrml
https://hex.pm/packages/prom_ex – PromEx library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SkVsUdUutE – Alex's Code BEAM talk from last spring if people want to learn more BEAM + Prometheus + Grafana = Observability Heaven

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/akoutmos – on Twitter
https://github.com/akoutmos/ – on Github
https://akoutmos.com/ – Blog
https://elixirpatterns.dev/ – Elixir Patterns book

Find us online

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Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward

90: Elixir Cards with Tetiana Dushenkivska

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

We talk with Tetiana Dushenkivska, the creator of Elixir Cards, a series of Elixir flashcards with multiple ways to use them. We talk about why she created the cards, how they helped her, and how others have used them. We talk about learning models and the importance of repetition for memorizing things. Tetiana shares how LiveView is used in the creation of the cards and more! David shares how he used the cards for fun drills at meetups and Tetiana fondly recalls a tournament held at a previous Elixir conf. She also shares what she's working on now for a future online learning system.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/90

Elixir Community News

https://lu.ma/elixir-social – Elixir lunch is now Elixir social
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1499132873114361872 – The Phoenix HEEX template formatter now merged in to LiveView
https://twitter.com/nivenhuh/status/1483895710932078593 – Apple was hiring for an Elixir developer to join their Environment team. Position is closed, but an insight to Elixir usage at the company.
https://www.apple.com/environment/ – Apple environment initiative
https://twitter.com/emjii/status/1500574395936485384 – Performance work continues for Apple's M1 chips and Elixir. This tweet is about slow package unpacking during mix deps.get
https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/pull/122 – Alex Koutmos shared that PromEx now allows you to bundle Grafana's Agent so you can push metrics to Prometheus.
https://fly.io/blog/intro-to-accessibility/ – An intro to Accessibility on the web. LiveBeats will continue to get enhancements so we can see an example.
https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1500521232965451776 – Frank Hunleth tuning Nerves for the new Grisp 2 board. Can get pre-built binaries to play with.
https://www.grisp.org/ – Grisp 2 is a hardware device built with Elixir and Erlang in mind
https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/4750#issuecomment-823816722 – Correction about constant time and :crypto.hash_equals

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

Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/elixircards – Elixir Cards Twitter account
https://twitter.com/gitcards – Git Cards Twitter account
https://www.elixircards.co.uk/ – Website for sales/marketing of Elixir Cards
https://gitflashcards.com/ – Git cards website
https://pragprog.com/titles/elixir16/programming-elixir-1-6/
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Enum.html
https://www.eng.auburn.edu/current-students/documents/forgetting-curve.pdf
https://kapeli.com/dash – Dash tool on MacOS for combined documentation searching
https://zealdocs.org/ – Zeal is a Dash-like tool that is OpenSource and cross platform for Linux and Windows.
https://xkcd.com/1168/ – Comic about remembering Tar commands
sales@cleverbunny.io

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/Tetiana12345678 – on Twitter
https://github.com/tetiana12345678 – on Github
sales@cleverbunny.io

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