Thinking Elixir Podcast

News this week includes the release of ElixirConf 2023 video playlist featuring keynote videos, a guide on Web Application Security Best Practices for BEAM languages from the EEF Security Working Gro…

News covers the conclusion of ElixirConf US 2023 with key highlights being Chris McCord's keynote on improved Phoenix debugging tools, and Jose Valim's keynote introducing the "Strong Arrows" concept…

News includes a new "async" feature being added to LiveView, a new translation library called Kanta was announced, formatted logging, improved keyboard navigation in ExDocs, the Membrane framework re…

We've all run "mix phx.new", but have you ever thought to customize what that does? We talk with Victor Björklund who explains how we can create customized Phoenix project generators and why we might…

Most of us have created our own filtering, sorting and pagination code before in one project after the other. Mathias Polligkeit got tired of doing that too and created the flop library to wrap it al…

In the news, we cover a new Livebook Desktop feature tease, a new daily bite-sized Elixir newsletter, Supabase's new Supavisor architecture, and Livebook joins the online Spawnfest competition as a s…

News roundup includes the ElixirConf schedule being published, Bumblebee gets streaming text support, Oban Web is getting a big update, Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons blog post brings broader positiv…

If you need background jobs or scheduled tasks in your Elixir project, you've probably already heard of Oban. We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator and maintainer of Oban, to learn more about the …

WebAssembly is an interesting technology that feels completely separate from Elixir. Patrick Smith created an Elixir project called Orb, an Elixir DSL for WebAssembly. He also shows how a WebAssembly…

Language Servers underpin the language specific support we rely on in modern code editors. Lately, there have been new efforts in this area in the Elixir community. We talk with Steve Cohen about his…

After experience with a LiveView “anti-pattern”, Andy Glassman developed an “Async Pattern” for loading data into a LiveView. Andy shares the problem this helps solve and we discuss when it's a good …

Mark and David share what's caught their interests and focus. Langchain is a popular framework in JS and Python communities for building services that knit together different services enabling people…

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 clean…

Dialyzer is something that eventually everyone hears about in the Elixir community. It's a static code analysis tool that has both fans and detractors, and with good reasons on both sides! We talk wi…

When their React app stuttered and slowed with the hundreds of items they needed to display, Tim Gremore tried it out as a LiveView rendered page and found they could scale to thousands without issue…

OpenSource contributions recognition for Jonatan Kłosko, more from Sean Moriarity on AI with Elixir, the latest update on LLaMa running locally, Stephen Bussey is helping people move from OO language…

AI topics are all the rage right now, so we team up with Sean Moriarity to unpack what's going on and what it means for Elixir. Sean talks about Nx and his insights on the timing of Elixir's readines…

Language servers are an important part of modern developer tooling. Mitch Hanberg has made this his new focus with gen_lsp, a generic language server behaviour that he then implemented a Credo langua…

Rust is a popular lower level language and the community has created a number of libraries to solve different problems. We talk with Jason Stiebs, a Phoenix Core Team member, about how Elixir and Rus…

Recently Livebook had its first launch week. We met with Jonatan Kłosko, the developer behind most of the exciting new features, to learn what some of these additions are, how they actually work and …