Thinking Elixir Podcast

News includes Ellie Fairholm and José Giralt D'Lacoste releasing the source code for "Engineering Elixir Applications," Michael Russo introducing "hex2txt" to enhance AI coding assistants, Brian Cardarella showcasing LiveView Native's LiveUploads, Headway's guide on building AI-powered iOS apps with LiveView Native, and more! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us! Show...

News includes the long-awaited release of Phoenix LiveView 1.0, exciting enhancements in Elixir 1.18 such as built-in JSON support and improved ExUnit testing capabilities, and the unveiling of AWS Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed PostgreSQL-compatible database service. Lars Wikman joins us to share updates about Nerves, including the latest on Nerves Hub, Nerves Cloud, and his project oswag....

News includes Saša Jurić updating his project for "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir" talk with the latest technologies, the release of Phoenix LiveView RC 8 with exciting new features, ErrorTracker v0.5.0's enhancements for Ash applications, and the introduction of the NX MLX backend for Apple Silicon, offering efficient machine learning on Mac hardware. Plus, a new VS Code plugin called "Refactorex"...

News includes Dave Lucia's PR making Elixir's protocol errors more readable, OTP 28 introducing a "raw mode" for immediate CLI input processing, Saša Jurić's "Against the Grain" talk on YouTube about a bespoke Kafka client, Johanna Larsson's new site listing Elixir events, DockYard's official acceptance of native application contracts highlighting the readiness of their LiveView Native library, an...

News includes episodes now available on YouTube, Parker Selbert's experience transitioning an app from the cloud to self-hosted, Gleam v1.6.0 release with context-aware features, José Valim's hot-take on Kubernetes vs. Elixir, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/230 Elixir Community News https://www.youtube.com/@brainlid – Our episodes are also being published to YouTub...

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...

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 f...

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 New...

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...

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 Eli...

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 -...

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://podcas...

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 mor...

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...

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 e...

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/...

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...

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 C...

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://...

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 c...

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 pr...

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...

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 E...

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 c...

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...