Episodes
News includes the release of community-maintained prebuilt MacOS builds for OTP by the Erlef, advancements in Elixir NX with the ability to "shard" functions, and exciting updates in Phoenix Live View as it approaches its 1.0 milestone. We also cover Gleam's upcoming release, José Valim's success story with the Elixir type system, and information about the upcoming Elixir is Weird conference. Join us as we dive deeper into these stories and more! Show Notes online -...
Published 11/19/24
Published 11/19/24
News includes Theo releasing his ElixirConf presentation video on his channel, the launch of the Gleam and Curiosum Elixir developer surveys, a great tip of the Phoenix phx- cheatsheet documentation, and the Elixir LangChain project's improvements over the OG Python counterpart. Plus, details on upcoming events like CodeBeam Lite in New York and AlchemyConf in Portugal, a handy communication tip for teams—and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/228 Elixir Community...
Published 11/12/24
News includes Oban Web going open source, making it more accessible for startups, a new community resource featuring over 80 Phoenix LiveView components, interesting insights from a frontend technology survey highlighting Phoenix's potential, the introduction of Klife, a high-performance Elixir + Kafka client, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/227 Elixir Community News https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mKp30PNM_Q4 – Parker Selbert announced that the Oban Web...
Published 11/05/24
News includes the ongoing Elixir Stream Week featuring José Valim's insights on Elixir 1.18, the announcement of refactoring capabilities in Igniter, two groundbreaking Elixir-related papers at the Brazilian Symposium including Hok for GPU kernels, Dave Lucia's contribution to support multiple DNS queries in dns_cluster, the latest updates in the Tucan plotting library, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/226 Elixir Community...
Published 10/29/24
News includes coming info on new features in Elixir v1.18, the release of Beacon CMS v0.1 with new tools for developers, German Velasco's insightful video on the origins of Phoenix contexts, Alex Koutmos sharing his sql_fmt tool for cleaner SQL code in Ecto, an exciting new tool for the Mastodon community called MastodonBotEx, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/225 Elixir Community News https://x.com/josevalim/status/1846109246116536567 – José Valim updated...
Published 10/22/24
News includes the latest release of ElixirLS v0.24.0 and the unveiling of Expert, the upcoming Elixir Language Server. We dive into the details of NervesHub v2.0's improvements for IoT device management and introduce the exciting Elixir Stream Week with José Valim among other top experts. We also look at the exciting updates in Elixir's core Machine Learning libraries and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/224 Elixir Community...
Published 10/15/24
News includes José Valim and Chris McCord's collaboration on AI GPU clusters with Fly.io, Nx being selected for Mozilla's Builders Accelerator with a $100,000 award, Parker Selbert's highlights on PostgreSQL 17's improvements for the Oban project, a major update to the Cachex library, and an extension of the call for talks deadline for Alchemy Conf 2025, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/223 Elixir Community...
Published 10/08/24
News includes the release of OTP 27.1 with significant improvements to the Zip module, the upcoming deprecation of the unless keyword in Elixir 1.18, support for Data Channels in Elixir WebRTC, new test-related feature highlighted by ElixirStreams to tackle intermittent failures, a detailed blog from Discord on reducing their websocket traffic by 40%, ElixirConf Lightning talks on YouTube, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/222 Elixir Community...
Published 10/01/24
News includes ElixirConf keynotes appearing on YouTube, updates on ErrorTracker's latest release, José Valim's deep dive on ChatGPT UX issues with Phoenix LiveView, Dockyard's announcement of LVN Go to streamline LiveView Native workshops, and Livebook's newest notebook navigation features. Plus, Nvidia's job opening that explicitly mentions Elixir, Alchemy Conf 2025 details, NASA's development of a Lunar timezone, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/221 Elixir...
Published 09/24/24
News includes the archiving of the “Phoenix Sync” project, a major update to Gettext that enhances compilation efficiency, the release of ErrorTracker v0.2.6 with new features like error pruning and ignoring, and José Valim highlighting UX issues with ChatGPT's new UI. We were also joined by Alistair Woodman, a board member of the EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation), who explained the EEF's recent efforts to stay ahead of legislation and technical regulatory shifts that may impact developers...
Published 09/17/24
News includes a proof of concept for Phoenix Sync by José Valim, exciting new developments in Elixir's type system, Algora.tv's open-source Twitch for developers, Sean Moriarity's insights on the future of Nx, Axon, and Bumblebee, a powerful new feature in Livebook integrating with Fly.io, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/219 Elixir Community News https://github.com/josevalim/sync – Phoenix Sync - A proof of concept of an Elixir/Phoenix node that runs...
Published 09/10/24
News includes the upcoming signed installers for Livebook and Elixir on Windows, the release of Telemetry v1.3 with improved documentation, LiveView Native 0.3.0's announcement ahead of ElixirConf, Google Research introducing an alternative SQL syntax with a pipe, a Livebook leveraging LLMs and FFMPEG for media conversion, legal updates on the US non-compete agreements ban, and potential antitrust actions against Google, and more! Show Notes online -...
Published 09/03/24
News includes the announcement of an official Elixir Language Server team, the release of Oban v2.18.1 featuring automatic transaction retries with backoff, a new macro-inspired video from German Velasco, the upcoming "Elixir Patterns" book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna, the forthcoming CodeBEAM Lite conference in NYC, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/217 Elixir Community News https://x.com/josevalim/status/1824121405996482977 – Announcement of the new...
Published 08/27/24
News includes a new video from José Valim demonstrating Livebook deployments, Chris McCord's "Pawsitively" project integrating content moderation with Livebook, the release of Zigler 0.13.1, a new AI-centric library called Honeycomb by Sean Moriarity and Andrés Alejos, an Elixir job listing at Apple, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/216 Elixir Community News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwLx5beXxsg – How to deploy a Livebook app with Livebook...
Published 08/20/24
News includes a new video by German Velasco explaining quote and unquote in Elixir macros, updates on the Hex.pm “Bob” project for pre-built Elixir and Erlang binaries, Sonic Pi sponsorships and support from Dashbit, the release of ElixirLS v0.23.0, and Google's recent antitrust ruling. We also cover new developments with the Error Tracker library, Florian Arens' guide to building a Phoenix HEEx component, and upcoming events at ElixirConf 2024, and more! Show Notes online -...
Published 08/13/24
News includes the latest Stack Overflow survey highlighting Elixir and Phoenix as highly admired technologies, a Reddit discussion on what makes Phoenix and Elixir so revered, the release of Lexical LSP 0.7.0, and Gleam v1.4.0-rc1 available for testing. Additionally, there's a spotlight on a new library called LiveScript for local script development with code-reloading, a new website showcasing projects built with Phoenix, and more! Show Notes online -...
Published 08/06/24
News includes Chris McCord's speedrun video on adding a self-hosted llama2-7b to an existing application, Tyler Young's release of parameterized_test v0.2.0, major updates in Oban Pro's new launch week, potential for CRDTs being added to Mnesia DB, Zach Daniel's blog post on Igniter for code generation, and a preview of ElixirConf 2024 with exciting speakers and topics, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/213 Elixir Community...
Published 07/30/24
In this episode of the Thinking Elixir Podcast, we dive into the exciting new Metal support in Nx, thanks to Paulo Valente's hard work, and discuss Chris McCord's impressive demo on deploying a distributed Elixir app with YugabyteDB. We also cover Paraxial.io's new free tier, the release of the REST client Polo, and the latest updates from the Peep library. Plus, a special collaboration with the Elixir Wizards crew previews ElixirConf 2024 with insights on training classes, talks, and...
Published 07/23/24
News includes the recent release of Elixir 1.17.2, updates to Livebook v0.13 making clustering in Kubernetes easier and introducing a proxy API for webhooks, and exciting developments in the Explorer library with remote dataframes. We also discuss handy Phoenix tips from Andrew Stewart and the new Gleam 1.3.0 features. In our interview, German Velasco shares his journey from Rails to Elixir, his contributions like Elixir Streams and the Phoenix Test library, and his philosophy on TDD. German...
Published 07/16/24
In this episode, we dive into the launch of Bloom UI with its creator, Chris Gregori. Chris shares his motivations behind Bloom, an opinionated extension of Phoenix core components, aimed at simplifying UI development for Elixir and LiveView projects. We discuss its command-line utility for generating components, current features like avatars and marketing layouts, and potential future directions including expanded components and web component integration. Highlights include Chris's journey...
Published 07/09/24
News includes a neat trick we learned that setup-beam can do for GitHub actions by reading a project's .tool-versions file, Wojtek's insight on reducing SDK API surfaces, Ash's support for UUIDv7, the introduction of the highly customizable Backpex admin panel, a new LiveView component library called SaladUI and its unique ReactJS component conversion feature, Jose Valim's technique of using AI for testing function names, and more! Show Notes online -...
Published 07/02/24
This week's show features the latest releases Elixir 1.17.0 and 1.17.1, bringing improved type inference and a new Duration data type. We'll also dive into Phoenix Playground's streamlined approach to single-file applications, José Valim shares another Elixir academic research project taking shape on set-theoretic types for behaviors, and updates from the Igniter project on enhancing code generation and project patching. With a look at how Phoenix and Inertia.js are joining forces and the...
Published 06/25/24
News includes the release of Poison v6.0.0, making it faster than ever, the discontinuation of the Lumen/Firefly project, and a new accessibility testing library for Elixir web apps. José Valim discusses managing client and server state with Phoenix LiveView, and there's a showcase of an AI Emoji generator written in Elixir. Tickets for ElixirConfUS 2024 are now available with exciting options for training and speakers, plus a surprise announcement for the event's emcee, and more! Show...
Published 06/18/24
In this episode we dive into the exciting release of Elixir 1.17.0-rc.1 and other news from the community. Our main segment features an in-depth interview with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste about their new Elixir book "Engineering Elixir Applications - Navigate Each Stage of Software Delivery with Confidence." We explore their professional experiences, the concept of "BeamOps," and the unique DevOps challenges and advantages in the BEAM ecosystem. Ellie and Josep share insights...
Published 06/11/24