Elixir Outlaws
136 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsElixir Outlaws is an informal discussion about interesting things happening in Elixir. Our goal is to capture the spirit of a conference hallway discussion in a podcast.
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Episodes
Episode 135: Little's Law
December 06, 2023 15:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBWe had a request from Andy Jones to talk about Little's Law. Thanks for the suggestion, Andy. Keep those coming. This is way late coming out, but our life queue was backed up. Little's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law) The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 134: Elixir Mexico: Crickets and Beer
September 22, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBSean and Amos talk tech with Raúl Chouza and Carlo Gilmar. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guests: Carlo Gilmar and Raúl Chouza.
Episode 133: Smart Rent
September 14, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBSean and Amos visit with Eric Oestrich from Smart Rent. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Eric Oestrich.
Episode 132: Making Diagrams for No Reason
September 07, 2023 09:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MBAmos and Sean visit with Sean Moriarity. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Sean Moriarity .
Episode 131: Loving What We Do
August 10, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBAmos and Sean chat with a great crew of guests hosts from Mindvalley (https://www.mindvalley.com/ctl?utm_source=mvcom&utm_campaign=vwo): Bruno Goncalves, John Wong, Fadhil Luqman, and Anton Satin. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guests: Anton Satin, Bruno Goncalves, Fadhil Luqman, and John Wong.
Episode 130: Salty Fish
July 27, 2023 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBGuest Zac Barnes joins the Outlaws. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Zac Barnes.
Episode 129: Best Food in Africa
June 05, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBPeter Ullrich joins us to discuss motorcycles and teaching Elixir. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Peter Ullrich.
Episode 128: Elixir and Roses
June 01, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBA visit with Welcome to the Jungle (https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en) about their transition to Elixir. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guests: Oksana Dushenkivska and Samuel Collon.
Episode 127: Kansas City, Here We Come
May 04, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBWe speak with Tyler Young from Felt (https://felt.com). The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Tyler Young.
Episode 126: Tech Talking Green (and Yellow)
April 06, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Kevin Edey.
Episode 125: Checking under the hood of Cars.com
March 02, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guests: Angel Jose, Christian Koch, and Stephanie Lane.
Episode 124: "A friend of the show is finally on the show"
December 22, 2022 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Eric Oestrich.
Episode 123: An Ear Bender with Fogbender CEO
December 15, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Andrei Soroker.
Episode 122: Holiday craze and changing times
November 24, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBComing Of Age | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2022 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzdVSMRu16g) The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 121: Potato Hacker vs. Ecto.Multi
September 29, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 120: "If you heard it here first..."
September 15, 2022 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 119: The Eternally Nocturnal Programmer
July 28, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Quinn Wilton.
Episode 118: Who's crap is it anyway?
July 21, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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. Special Guest: Mitchell Hanberg.
Episode 117: Honey Potion and Problem Solving
June 23, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 116: TLA+ Catlaws
June 09, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 115: EMPEX, A Tale from Two Cities
May 19, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 114: A Conversation Continued
May 05, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 113: And then there were 3
April 21, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 112: “What’s in a Name?”
March 10, 2022 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 111: Sock it to Me, Ecto
March 03, 2022 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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, 02/22/2022 On today’s episode of the Elixir Outlaws, Amos and Sean are going to talk about authentication and authorization in applications as well as creating starter applications. The forms work great for air handling and everything inside of Phoenix if you are using a changese...
Episode 110: All the Rusty Things
February 25, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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 use this block of memory, and you can check that at compi...
Episode 109: Bike Racks and Frameworks
February 10, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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 responses were not what Sean expected in some places. Many peo...
Episode 108: Macaroons and Oreos
January 27, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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 for live view. The surface has some excellent features b...
Episode 107: Nineteen-Something Cats
January 20, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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 iterators, says Sean. So, you can also sort of do method chain...
Episode 106: Outlaws Live at Codebeam 2021
December 23, 2021 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 105: Sports of Sorts
December 16, 2021 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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 experiences. Episode Highlights: Amos reveals how he developed ...
Episode 104: Hot Pockets and Refresh Buttons
December 10, 2021 21:45 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBThe Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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 hectic for him. From the scariest landing to nonstop fli...
Episode 103: Welcome back Anna
October 13, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBAnna, 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 (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 102: Who's that host? It's Sean.
October 04, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBHow do we get started? How does context affect the software we write? The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). 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.
Episode 101: Bright and Tight
September 09, 2021 16:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThis 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/
Episode 100: Pop-Tartare
August 26, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThis 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/
Episode 99: Big Tubes
August 09, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBThe 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 episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-99-big-tubes/
Episode 98: Machine Laundering
July 15, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis 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/
Episode 97: Successfully Vamped
July 08, 2021 15:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBThis 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/
Episode 96: Stuck between two ETS Tables and a GenServer
May 18, 2021 22:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThis 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 this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-96-stuck-between-two...
Episode 95: Outlaws Live at ElixirConfAfr
May 12, 2021 21:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBThis 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.
Episode 94: Crossover Math-isode
May 06, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBThis week, the Elixir Wizards take over the show. Justus does his best Chris Keathley impression and desperately wants to talk about Elixir. Unfortunately for him, the rest of the group continues to shuck and or jive. The topic eventually winds its way to LiveBook and Nx, or "Neex" if your Amos. Justus makes the bold claim that Data Scientists are just smarter than the rest of us, a notion that is quickly put down by everyone else. As the show closes, some future developments are teased and C...
Episode 93: The story of the code
April 27, 2021 16:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBChris 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/
Episode 92: Outlaws Live at CodeBeam
April 22, 2021 18:45 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBThis 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/
Episode 91: I Promise Not to Take Your Cows
April 11, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBAmos, 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 (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to ...
Episode 90: Ad Hoc-ly Specified
March 24, 2021 22:15 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBAfter 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 episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-90-ad-hoc-ly-specifie...
Episode 89: The new-new architecture
February 18, 2021 23:00 - 54 minutes - 49.4 MBChris 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 consistency is important and that software developers should always be working to making the desig...
Episode 88: Make it pop!
January 14, 2021 16:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBChris 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://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-88-make-it-pop/
Episode 87: All benefits and no tradeoffs
January 14, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBThis 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 website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-87-all-benefits-and-no-tradeoffs/
Episode 86: Time is problematic
December 31, 2020 17:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBChris 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/