Elixir Outlaws

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show. Elixir Outlaws, 19/02/2022 On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Chris Keathley and Sean Cribbs are going to talk about Embedded Systems, Microcontrollers, Rust, Raspberry Pi, Zig, etc. There is a compelling benefit of Rust, you can’t...

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show. Elixir Outlaws, 09/02/2022 On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Amos and Sean are going to talk about what other models and frameworks are out there for building web apps. The plug has some stuff that looks like Sinatra, but the respo...

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show. Elixir Outlaws, 01/25/2021 On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Amos and Sean are going to share their technical knowledge and insight on various topics. Amos has been doing a lot of surface-ui work. The surface is a component library...

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show. Elixir Outlaws, 01/19/2021 On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Sean Cribbs and Amos will talk about WASM (Web assembly) to implement some core parts of the app and discuss the server-side too. Rusts for loop syntax is sugar for itera...

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show. On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Sean Cribbs and Amos King are going to talk about Sports of Sorts. Amos shares some driving wisdom and his fondness for silent thoughts. Sean and Amos will share some random and interesting experie...

The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show. On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Sean Cribbs and Amos King are going to talk about the Elixir Conference. Amos talks about his ordeal to reach the Elixir Conference, his flight continuously got canceled, and the entire journey was...

Anna, Sean, and Amos talk about what they do to take a break, and follow it up with how to get started on hard problems when there is no clear path forward. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.

How do we get started? How does context affect the software we write? The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.

This week, Chris and Amos discuss error handling and when its appropriate to "Let It Crash" :tm:. A transcript for this episode is available on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-101-bright-and-tight/

This week our hosts celebrate their 100th episode. The talk about their favorite moments from the show. A transcript of this episode can be found on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-100-pop-tartare/

The main topic this week is behaviours and protocols and when to use both. Chris, inspired by the wisdom of Quinn Wilton, thinks that its probably incorrect to use Behaviours to define public interfaces for APIs. Protocols seem to fit the bill better. Both hosts agree that the best kind of dependency injection is just called, "passing arguments to functions". A transcript is available for this epi...

This week, Chris, Amos, and Anna talk about conferences, strange loop, and how hard re-entering the real world has been. But, the main topic is copilot. Surprising absolutely no one, everyone has strong opinions. A transcript of this episode is available on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-98-machine-laundering/

This weeks show kicks off with discussion on Ecto. Amos claims that Chris made some bold statements about relations which Chris fervently denies. The topic eventually shifts to Chris's recent blog post on writing more maintainable elixir code. Transcript is available on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-97-successfully-vamped/

This week kicks off with a discussion on ETS tables and the various ways that they can be used. Chris talks about his experience utilizing ETS tables at Bleacher Report in order to optimize some of their critical paths and build reliability. The conversation then shifts into the various tools and techniques that Bleacher Report utilized to build resilient services. A transcript is available for th...

This week, the hosts are hanging out at ElixirConf Africa. They discuss improvements to Elixir, community building, and ways that the Elixir community can continue to improve. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-95-elixir-conf-africa-2021/ Special Guests: Collins Mucheru, Shuaib Afegubua, and Sigu Magwa.

Chris has started a new job at frame.io, and he's just getting settled in. Amos has questions and Chris describes his process for learning the history of a code base as quickly as possible. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-93-the-story-of-the-code/

This week the outlaws are live at CodeBeam and are shucking, jiving, and some combination of the two. They're also answering questions from the community. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-92-outlaws-live-at-code-beam-v/

Amos, Anna, and Chris start off the show discussing the morality of making promises you can't keep, then spend the rest of the episode discussing the ups and downs of past conference talks. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-91-i-promise-not-to-take-your-cows/ The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon . If you’re enjoying the sh...

After confirming that there is indeed a Kansas City, Missouri, the Outlaws discuss Amos's new projects using Phoenix and some LiveView, then opine about CSS, Wallaby, and testing, before closing with brief commentary on Nyx. Shout outs to Friends of The Show : Frank Herbert and Mitch Hanberg. https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/projects/ https://twitter.com/mononcqc A transcript is available for this...

Chris skipped his normal pre-podcast prep and is trying to make up for it. Amos wants to know more about what Chris does to prep; a topic which is interesting to literally no one. Quotes are missatributed as the hosts turn to the main topic of the week: What makes for good design. Chris claims to have a specific design sense but has no idea if its a good sense or not. Both he and Amos agree that c...

Chris has recently become the owner of a 3D printer and he agrees with everyone else; 3D printing is really cool. The main topic this week is Mnesia and all of the ways that its possible to "break it". Chris and Amos discuss why Mnesia has a bad reputation, where it is a good fit, and how to mitigate some of the issues. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https:/...

This week kicks off with a discussion of Amos’s reading list. Around the 30 minute mark, the topic shifts to some idle speculation about the benchmarks Jose has been teasing. Towards the end of the discussion, Chris explains his frustration with "modern infrastructure" and programmers chosing complex solutions that they don't need. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's webs...

Chris has been drawing maps for his DnD game and he's pretty proud of them. Amos is trying to order events and has questions about hybrid logical clocks. This leads to a discussion of what ordering even is and why its such a problem in distributed systems. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-86-time-is-problematic/

Chris has introduced Amos to Japandroids and its going pretty well. There is a quick discussion of embarassing punk music before the show shifts from music outlaws back to elixir outlaws. Chris is thirsty for some elixir news and Amos wants to know how Chris Gets Things Done :tm:. The guys discuss how they cultivate their personal skill sets, how they're both bad mentors, and how to read white pap...