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Thinking Elixir Podcast

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The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more.
Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process.
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198: Cade Gets the Last Word

April 16, 2024 10:15 - 21 minutes - 15 MB

This week's show covers exciting updates in the Elixir world, including the peek at what's coming with Elixir v1.17.0's new "Duration" and "shift" features. We'll also dive into the impressive Kino Benchee integration for Livebook, showcasing benchmarking visualizations. Not to be missed is the release of a fitting Phoenix emoji đŸŠâ€đŸ”„ that's set to ignite your dev conversations, as well as the announcement of Ash Framework's v3 Release Candidate. Amidst these powerful tools and features, there'...

197: Thinking Elixir News

April 09, 2024 10:15 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MB

In this episode, we're diving into the fascinating world of at-home AI with a ready-to-deploy project harnessing Bumblebee and Fly GPUs, unraveling the tale of how an Xz backdoor catastrophe was narrowly sidestepped, and highlighting the power of customizing your Elixir IEx environment. We'll also touch upon the eager anticipation for ElixirConf EU, taking place in Lisbon, where innovations in vehicular tech meet Elixir, and the upcoming NervesConf US - a prime event for embedded systems enth...

196: Thinking Elixir News

April 02, 2024 10:15 - 21 minutes - 15 MB

This week's news includes the release of OTP 27.0-rc2 featuring the new json module, Phoenix Live reload's insightful update, and Chris McCord's blog post that surfaces server logs directly in your browser console. We're also discussing the streamlined workflows in Oban Pro 1.4.0, and a deeper discussion on recent Redis licensing changes that have sent ripples through the open-source community. If that's not enough, we've got insights into the refactoring Elixir survey that's underway and we ...

195: Migrating from Next.js to Phoenix

March 26, 2024 10:15 - 52 minutes - 36.5 MB

In this compelling episode, we sit down with Ben Reinhart who shares his journey of transitioning from the JavaScript ecosystem, specifically migrating off of Next.js and Vercel, to Elixir and Phoenix, with Fly.io as the new host. Ben discusses his frustrations with the complexity and performance issues he faced, and how the switch to Elixir helped streamline operations and improve the efficiency of his AI-focused product at Axflow. He delves into his strategic choice for leveraging the opera...

194: Operational Elixir: Knowing When to Grow Up

March 19, 2024 10:15 - 52 minutes - 36.5 MB

In the final installment of our series, we sit down with the creator of the Ash framework, Zach Daniel, to move beyond his expertise in Ash and explore his experiences with the other systems we use to support our Elixir applications. Zach shares his journey from the dynamic environment of startups to the structured world of midsize companies, giving us a glimpse into the strategic timing for scaling monitoring and data collection tools. He emphasizes the value of fostering a blame-free cultur...

193: Operational Elixir: Observing the Midsize Madness

March 12, 2024 10:15 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MB

In this engaging third episode of our series, Dave Lucia returns to delve into the various systems that support small and medium-sized teams and companies for their Elixir systems. Dave shares insights gained from a range of situations including working at startups on up to Series C and D sized companies, with a particular focus on the critical role of observability tools. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dave discusses how these tools can greatly enhance a team's ability to monitor and t...

192: Operational Elixir: Scrappy Startups Edition

March 05, 2024 11:15 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB

In this second installment of our series, we're joined by Philip Brown, who returns to share his insights on running lean startups in the Elixir ecosystem. We dive into the art of supporting Elixir systems on a shoestring budget. Philip will walk us through his must-haves for MVPs, offering practical advice on how to leverage cost-effective solutions without sacrificing functionality. We'll discuss the balancing act between delivering a product and managing expenses, and highlight the essenti...

191: Operational Elixir: What's Supporting the Apps at Felt.com and SleepEasy.app?

February 27, 2024 11:15 - 45 minutes - 31.9 MB

In this special episode, we kick off a brand-new series that dives into the world of Elixir—but with a twist. We're exploring the systems surrounding the language and what it takes to support and run a company or team that uses Elixir. Join us as we engage in insightful conversations with various industry voices, starting with Tyler Young, about the practical systems and solutions used by businesses like Felt.com and SleepEasy.app. This series promises to be an enlightening journey for anyone...

190: Thinking Elixir News

February 20, 2024 11:15 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MB

In this episode, we delve into the significant updates to Phoenix LiveView with its march towards 1.0, including crucial bug fixes in the latest v0.20.5 release. We explore the sleek new testing utility for Elixir, example_test, that's redefining readability in code tests. Plus, the Erlang community is abuzz with a fresh proposal to integrate JSON into the standard library. We'll look into how Fly.io has made GPU instances widely available and what this means for your projects. Don't miss out...

189: Thinking Elixir News

February 13, 2024 11:15 - 12 minutes - 9.17 MB

In this week's podcast, we cover the release of Elixir 1.16.1 with its various bug fixes, delve into German Velasco's ExUnit testing tip for running tests in parallel, explore the performance boosts experienced by Thomas Millar after upgrading to Bandit, and celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Inch, René Föhring's documentation analysis tool. We also discuss the innovative use of Elixir Protocols for customized route parameters in Phoenix, the creation of a new Kino for embedding YouTube vid...

188: Thinking Elixir News

February 06, 2024 11:15 - 16 minutes - 11.8 MB

In this week's news, we follow-up on Erlang's use of ExDoc with José Valim's reveal of upcoming features for ExDoc that promises to enhance documentation experiences. We'll also explore the return of the Elixir Slack inviter, now powered by a Plug app, and take a look at the latest PhoenixTest project, aiming to unify testing workflows for LiveView and static pages. Plus, we discuss adding sound effects to LiveView with Howler.js and get a sneak peek at the Nx library's newest Explorer v0.8 r...

187: Thinking Elixir News

January 30, 2024 11:15 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MB

In this episode, we celebrate the incredible ten-year journey of the Phoenix framework, marvel at the new interactive language tour by Gleam, explore the latest features of ElixirLS v0.19.0 designed to enhance the developer experience, and delve into Erlang's big leap towards adopting ExDoc for its documentation. Stay tuned for these exciting developments in the Elixir ecosystem and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/187 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/187) Elixir ...

186: Thinking Elixir News

January 23, 2024 11:15 - 7 minutes - 5.31 MB

In today's episode, we peek into Elixir's impact on operational costs and developer experience, highlighted by Amplified's move to Elixir and insights from José Valim. Learn about the latest community discussions, including a tip for Elixir package maintainers. Plus, there's a buzz about the upcoming NervesConf US. Join us for these stories and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/186 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/186) Elixir Community News - https://www.youtube.co...

185: InstructorEx for LLMs

January 16, 2024 11:15 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MB

Dive into the world of structured LLM prompting with our latest guest who shares insights on their innovative project, InstructorEx. We'll explore how this tool is pushing the boundaries of large language models to return structured data, particularly JSON, and the benefits it offers when integrated into existing systems. The conversation takes a deep dive into the challenges and solutions of forcing LLMs to output data in desirable formats using Elixir technology, like Ecto schemas, and what...

184: Magic Links

January 09, 2024 11:15 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MB

In the news, we dive into a mix of intriguing Elixir updates and innovative developments. We explore the convenient and versatile Testcontainers project, designed to streamline your testing environment, and touch on Zach Daniel's efforts to integrate bulk operations into the Ash Framework. German Velasco has been busy sharing a wealth of tips on ElixirStreams.com, and we stumbled upon a rare gem, a Windows-focused Elixir library that bridges the gap with Azure authentication services. But the...

183: Thinking Elixir News

January 02, 2024 11:15 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MB

We kick off the new year diving into the freshly released Elixir 1.16.0 with new features like enhanced documentation and improved error reporting. We explore the burgeoning Elixir Machine Learning ecosystem, and discuss the innovative use of Llama.cpp with Elixir for machine learning on less powerful hardware. We also touch on the release of Benchee 1.3.0, which focuses on improving memory usage in benchmarks, and introduce Magma AI Prompt IDE, a handy tool for Elixir developers looking to s...

182: Year End Review

December 26, 2023 11:15 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MB

As we close another year packed with developments in the Elixir ecosystem, we're rolling out the red carpet for a "Year End Review" episode! Before we do that, we cover the most recent news events like the release of Supabase's Supavisor, a connection pooler, crafted with a helping hand from Dashbit. We shed light on the partnership between Supabase and Fly.io introducing a managed Postgres option. Then, for front-end enthusiasts, we discuss the released beta of LiveView Native and more! And,...

181: FLAME with Chris McCord

December 19, 2023 11:15 - 1 hour - 49.6 MB

In this week's episode, we ignite the exciting world of Elixir with Chris McCord's announcement of FLAME, showcasing a revolutionary approach to serverless with the Phoenix framework. Chris joins us to unravel the inspiration behind FLAME - Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution and its promise to streamline the developer experience, significantly simplifying elastic compute. We discuss why this isn't just another job queue solution and explore how it effortlessly scales. We cover ...

180: Thinking Elixir News

December 12, 2023 11:15 - 19 minutes - 14 MB

News teases an intriguing update from Chris McCord hinting at a groundbreaking feature in Phoenix and Elixir's capabilities. José Valim proposes local accumulators in Elixir, stirring discussions on the future of coding elegance. Supabase launches the innovative "libcluster_postgres" library, promising to enhance Elixir node discovery with Postgres. And for those seeking to crunch numbers differently, a must-read blog post lays out a roadmap for translating code in NumPy to Nx. Plus, Elixir e...

179: Future of AI with Elixir?

November 28, 2023 11:15 - 33 minutes - 23.5 MB

In the latest episode, we delve into the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and its implications for us as Elixir developers, highlighting the potential hazards of relying on proprietary services like OpenAI and the benefits of self-hosted, open-source AI models. We touch on the Elixir LangChain library, how Elixir's position of running our own AI models strengthens us, and the governance and financial risks of depending on a single AI provider. Tune in for why these topics matter and how they sha...

178: Safe Ecto Migrations and AI Updates

November 21, 2023 11:15 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MB

In this episode, we revisit the Safe Ecto Migrations guide and get an update on improvements. We also discuss the role and importance of OpenSource AI models. We cover updates in the Elixir LangChain library, the advantages of self-hosted AI models like Mistral, and learning how to run Bumblebee on Fly.io GPUs. Tune in for an insightful blend of database best practices and the cutting-edge of AI in Elixir, plus more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/178 (http://podcast.th...

177: Thinking Elixir News

November 14, 2023 11:15 - 13 minutes - 9.23 MB

This week's news highlights Discord's deep-dive into how they've scaled their servers to support millions of concurrent users, leveraging Elixir's power. We cover how the Oban notifier has evolved to include Phoenix.PubSub and Redis integration, allowing more flexibility for your job processing needs. LiveView Native's tutorial experience looks promising to make mobile development smoother and more intuitive. Plus, we cover the Livebook PR merge upgrading to the Bandit library and more! Show ...

176: Thinking Elixir News

November 07, 2023 11:15 - 20 minutes - 14.6 MB

In the latest episode, we explore the release of Elixir v1.16.0-rc.0 which brings compiler performance improvements, code snippets in diagnostics, and enhanced documentation. Understand the perf enhancements and get a grip on the enriching changes in Elixir docs, including novel sections on anti-patterns and a built-in cheatsheet for the Enum module. We also discuss the launch of Lexical LS 0.4.0 and FlameOn v0.6.0 with enhanced features, the potential integration of JSON support into OTP, an...

175: Thinking Elixir News

October 31, 2023 10:15 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB

In this episode, we kick off with the major release of Bandit 1.0, an Elixir substitute for Cowboy, that's making an impact with its performance. We move on to the Elixir compiler's dev experience improvements in the upcoming Elixir v1.16. We then transition to talk about the various Language Server alternatives available, how their features compare, and the newly announced Erlang Language Server at CodeBEAM Europe. We talk about the newly added support of the Mistral LLM with the Bumblebee l...

174: DockYard's BeaconCMS

October 24, 2023 10:15 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MB

The Elixir community has a new OpenSource CMS thanks to DockYard and Leandro Pereira! We talk with Leandro to better understand what the Beacon project is and what it can do. It's built using Phoenix LiveView and can be deployed standalone or as part of an existing Elixir Phoenix application. The Admin features include the ability for non-developers to edit content and immediately deploy changes without re-deploying the app. We talk about how BeaconCMS is positioned against Wordpress and stat...

173: Web App Security Best Practices and Sobelow

October 17, 2023 10:15 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MB

We delve into the tricky world of cybersecurity with our guest, Michael Lubas. We touch on the widely-discussed 23andMe data breach, discussing what went wrong and how it applies to Elixir apps. A significant part of our talk is centered around the informative guide by the EEF Security Working Group called “Web Application Security Best Practices for BEAM languages.” An essential tool featured in our discussion is Sobelow, a security-focused static code analysis tool invaluable in warding off...

172: Thinking Elixir News

October 10, 2023 10:15 - 12 minutes - 8.86 MB

The latest news features a compelling blog post on the Dashbit blog focusing on the advances in Machine Learning with Elixir, intriguing tips on how to get the most out of ExDocs for offline browsing, and using a new Phoenix LiveView 0.20.x feature. Additionally, a transition story from Serverless to Elixir, resulting in significant cost savings, got attention and was shared by “Prime Reacts”, further spreading Elixir awareness. With more exciting announcements around ElixirConf 2023 Videos a...

171: Thinking Elixir News

October 03, 2023 10:15 - 13 minutes - 9.7 MB

News includes José Valim's blog post about Elixir's "strong arrows" that expands on his keynote, the release of LiveView 0.20.0 with its myriad of updates and improvements, and a sneak peek into the upcoming Livebook features with a new "Authentication" section. Additionally, Wojtek Mach shares a success story using beammachine.cloud for a quick Erlang check, Sundi Myint shares a tip for 404 pages in LiveView when URLs are tweaked, and Lionel Aimerie demonstrates how to integrate Chart.js int...

170: Thinking Elixir News

September 26, 2023 10:15 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB

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 Group, the release of NextLS v0.12 with exciting new features, and a new library to integrate the JavaScript all-in-one toolkit, Bun with Phoenix. A new LangChain library makes it easy to integrate Elixir applications with an LLM like ChatGPT. Regarding the open source community, we discuss the major...

169: Thinking Elixir News

September 19, 2023 10:15 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MB

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 for handling dynamic types. Looking forward, the next ElixirConf will take place in Lisbon, EU in April 2024, followed by ElixirConf US 2024 at SeaWorld. Alex Koutmos points us towards a valuable resource on Erlang.org about efficiencies and performance myths, and a handy blog post walks you thro...

168: Thinking Elixir News

September 12, 2023 10:15 - 11 minutes - 8.47 MB

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 released a pure Elixir H264 video plugin, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/168 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/168) Elixir Community News - https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/pull/2763 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/2763...

167: Customizing mix phx.new?

September 05, 2023 10:15 - 52 minutes - 36.5 MB

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 want to. We also discuss customizing the phoenix generators for our already generated projects. We explore the idea of supporting 3rd-party maintained generators and what that might look like. A fun discussion sure to “generate” ideas for your project! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkinge...

166: Filtering, ordering and pagination via Flop

August 29, 2023 10:15 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MB

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 all into a portable and reusable solution. We talk with Mathias to learn what it can do and are pleased to learn it's surpassed our own solutions. He also created a flop_phoenix package with heex components to help build filter forms and tables. A fun look into an interesting library! Show Notes onl...

165: Thinking Elixir News

August 22, 2023 10:15 - 13 minutes - 9.32 MB

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 sponsor. We also share a PSA about Alpine Docker image troubles with OTP 26 and an Ecto schema introspection tip. Elixir's errors get more helpful when modules aren't found, then a new Hex search tool was created and explained, and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/16...

164: Thinking Elixir News

August 15, 2023 10:15 - 7 minutes - 5.77 MB

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 positive attention, and Elixir Nx being successfully used to follow along with high profile AI examples. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/164 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/164) Elixir Community News - https://2023.elixirconf.com/schedule (https://2023.elixirconf.com/schedule?utm...

163: Job Queues using Oban with Parker Selbert

August 08, 2023 10:15 - 55 minutes - 38.7 MB

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 project and the additional paid features in Oban Web and Oban Pro. Parker explains the origins, why it's architected the way it is, and how the paid extensions work. We also get some insights into companies using Oban and the kind of scale people reach. Spoiler--100's of millions of jobs is a thin...

162: Elixir to WebAssembly with Orb

August 01, 2023 10:15 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MB

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 component can play a meaningful role in a LiveView page! We talk more about what WebAssembly is, the promise for the technology, how it can improve UX, and where Patrick sees real practical applications for Elixir developers. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/162 (http://podca...

161: Lexical LS and Elixir Dev UX

July 25, 2023 10:15 - 57 minutes - 40.1 MB

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 project Lexical LS to learn about his new Elixir Language Server, how long he's been at it, and what it can do today. We learn about some of the technical challenges when creating a tool like this, and why there's still room for new projects in this area. Steve explains how Lexical LS is architec...

160: LiveView Async Pattern and Admin Tools

July 18, 2023 10:15 - 54 minutes - 37.9 MB

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 fit. We also talk with Andy about the current state of “admin tools” in Elixir and he shares his feelings on the importance of building admin tools from the start in our projects. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/160 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/160) Elixir Community New...

159: Langchain with Elixir and Safe Ecto Migrations

July 11, 2023 10:15 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MB

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 to quickly build impressive demos. Mark talks about the parts of Langchain that interest him and how he's been building ways for Elixir apps to play in that space too. We also catch up with David’s job change, moving, and talk about his ideas around using Oban for managing data migrations in a ne...

158: From Ruby to Elixir with Steve Bussey

July 04, 2023 10:15 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MB

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 cleanly. Also, Elixir is capable of doing a lot more than other languages and frameworks can and this means learning how to build a “normal” application may change. We talk with Steve Bussey about his new book “From Ruby to Elixir” that aims to help people bridge that gap. While the title says “Ruby”, ...

157: Adding Dialyzer Late in the Game

June 27, 2023 10:15 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MB

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 with Noah Betzen about how he brought Dialyzer to several mature Elixir projects. He wanted the benefits of finding and fixing bugs and to prevent new problems from being added. He shared tools, strategies and other resources for how to get started without stopping everything to fix all the existing...

156: React to LiveView for Performance

June 20, 2023 10:15 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

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. The LiveView version was so responsive the users thought it must not be working because there was no delay to register the changes! Tim shares their journey migrating a service from React to LiveView to solve their issue. He shares tips, what they learned in the process and more! Show Notes onli...

155: Thinking Elixir News

June 13, 2023 10:15 - 9 minutes - 6.65 MB

OpenSource contributions recognition for Jonatan KƂosko, more from Sean Moriarity on AI with Elixir, the latest update on LLaMa running locally, Stephen Bussey is helping people move from OO languages like Ruby to Elixir with a new book, unraveling recent Arrow related contributions, a security fix to apply and conferences requesting speakers! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/155 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/155) Elixir Community News - https://twitter.com/michalsla...

154: Serving Up AI with Sean Moriarity

June 06, 2023 10:15 - 50 minutes - 35.3 MB

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 readiness for the public AI shift. He explains some of the Python frustrations that Elixir can alleviate and he shares tips on putting a PoC ML solution into a production Elixir app. Recently, Sean added LLaMa support to Bumblebee and he explains the background for the OpenSource Meta LLM people have been...

153: Elixir Tools and Language Servers

May 30, 2023 10:15 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MB

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 language server on top of. Yes, that's right, Credo! We learn what that means and what his new elixir-tools Github organization is intended to do. Listen to Mich share his vision for what Elixir dev tools could be like! We get an update on his Temple project, an alternative to Phoenix templates, we lear...

152: Rust and Elixir Play Great Together

May 23, 2023 10:15 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MB

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 Rust can play well together. Jason wrote an article about how he leveraged an image processing library available in Rust by using the Elixir Rustler package. We talk about how Rustler works through NIFs, and we learn how easy using Rustler has become. It's great to understand that we have a powerful ...

151: Peeking inside the Livebook

May 16, 2023 10:15 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

Recently Livebook had its first launch week. We met with Jonatan KƂosko, the developer behind most of the exciting new features, to learn what some of these additions are, how they actually work and what's coming with the new Teams feature. Jonatan shares some of his favorite unsung features and where the new apps ability may go in the future. Livebook is an important community project and it's fun getting a deeper look inside! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/151 (http:/...

150: Thinking Elixir News

May 09, 2023 10:15 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MB

News covers Chris McCord's keynote speech on LiveView 1.0. We cover the EEF's final election results, latest from the LiveView Native space, ex_cldr updates for localizing our apps, an OTP patch release, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/150 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/150) Elixir Community News - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADQAnq0RpA&t=408s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FADQAnq0RpA&t=408s?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Chris Mc...

149: Elixir's new Unified Logger

May 02, 2023 10:15 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MB

Hauleth (Ɓukasz Jan Niemier) takes us deeper into the Elixir and Erlang loggers. He recently closed a 3.5 year old bug on the ElixirLang Github project by unifying the Elixir logger with the logger that Erlang got in OTP 21. We touch on the history, why it took so long, what we should think of the new logging levels, and what the original goals were that he set out to achieve. We also get an introduction to the new logging filters and handlers along with some peeks into future Erlang logging ...

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