Thinking Elixir Podcast

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. Subscribe to join us on this journey!

281 episodes

Language: en-us

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Episodes

281: Planning for the Unexpected

281: Planning for the Unexpected

December 2, 2025

28m

<p>News includes Erlang OTP 28.2 release with improvements across the runtime and standard library, a significant update to the Elixir &quot;whois&quot; library for querying domain registration inform...
280: Dark Matter Developers

280: Dark Matter Developers

November 25, 2025

42m

<p>News includes Elixir 1.19.3 point release with enhanced regular expression support in config files, Tidewave Web adding support for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents, Hologram&#39;s JavaScript po...
279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes

279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes

November 18, 2025

46m

<p>News includes Chris McCord&#39;s FlyDeploy for zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io, the Elixir GRPC library update with interactive Livebook documentation, ErrorTracker v0.7.0 with LiveView 1...
278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes

278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes

November 11, 2025

31m

<p>News includes the Curiosum Elixir survey closing soon, ReqLLM reaching 1.0 with standardized LLM API support across multiple providers, Isaac Yonemoto&#39;s Codicil library bringing semantic code u...
277: Searching Across the Hexiverse

277: Searching Across the Hexiverse

November 4, 2025

26m

<p>News includes a powerful new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam that lets you search across all your project dependencies with mix hex.search, Software Mansion&#39;s interactive Elixir Language T...
276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed

276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed

October 28, 2025

42m

<p>News includes the major release of Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, plus the first OpenChain certification bring...
275: From Slop to Success?

275: From Slop to Success?

October 21, 2025

29m

<p>News includes the release of Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 with impressive deps compile times and optimized set-theoretic type checking, a timeline update on typed structs arriving by next year, the new &quo...
274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance

274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance

October 14, 2025

31m

<p>News includes the release of Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 with OTP 28.1+ compatibility and impressive 2.3x faster dependency compilation, JetBrains adopting the open Agent Client Protocol for AI coding agent...
273: Does the Language Really Matter?

273: Does the Language Really Matter?

October 7, 2025

39m

<p>News includes Chris McCord releasing a shell-based web browser tool for LLMs extracted from phoenix.new, a new schema validation library called Zoi inspired by JavaScript&#39;s Zod, AshDiagram for ...
272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto

272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto

September 30, 2025

30m

<p>News includes the release of Vault, a lightweight library for process-scoped global data storage that uses the Process Dictionary for immutable context sharing, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant ML-D...
271: Testing, Searching, and Funding

271: Testing, Searching, and Funding

September 23, 2025

17m

<p>News includes an interactive test runner called mix_test_interactive that brings Jest-style testing to ExUnit, TrieHard - a blazing fast Rust-powered Trie implementation for search and autocomplete...
270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar

270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar

September 16, 2025

23m

<p>News includes a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with the goal of making it an official part of the OTP build system, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration for...
269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives

269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives

September 9, 2025

29m

<p>News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that&#39;s already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, P...
268: Got your Popcorn here!

268: Got your Popcorn here!

September 2, 2025

41m

<p>News includes a new library called Lotus and LotusWeb that provides a safe, read-only environment for running SQL analytics queries with organized storage for saved queries. After the news, we had ...
267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim

267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim

August 26, 2025

1h 8m

<p>News includes the exciting announcement of Tidewave Web, a new AI-powered service that runs locally in your development environment with an AI chat sidebar that can directly interact with and modif...
266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features

266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features

August 19, 2025

32m

<p>News includes the official release of Phoenix 1.8.0 with exciting new features like dark mode themes, streamlined generators, magic links in phx.gen.auth, and AGENTS.md for LLM-assisted development...
265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results

265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results

August 12, 2025

42m

<p>News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 being released with exciting new features like colocated JavaScript, portals for teleporting content, keyed comprehensions, and improved change tracking, Stack O...
264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks

264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks

August 5, 2025

40m

<p>News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with an AGENTS markdown file for new apps to enhance coding agent experiences, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser through WebAssembly with no installation re...
263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

July 29, 2025

30m

<p>News includes the BEAM runtime fitting into just 16MB for the GRiSP Nano prototype, the BBC using Elixir to serve most of their web and mobile traffic, GenStage&#39;s pull-based design delivering 5...
262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

July 22, 2025

27m

<p>News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4 and LiveView 1.1.0-rc.3 with igniter upgrader support, new libraries including deps_changelog and the Hog process debugging tool by Alex Koutmos, Fly.io&#39;s annou...