Day 1 and 2 of Livebook's first launch week announcements, a new JsonSchema compiler named Exonerate, Ecto 3.10.0 brings changeset improvements for LiveView, the Image library can now skew and unskew images using Nx, KnockLabs released the one_and_done library for idempotent APIs, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/147 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1644035841080143872 – Livebook's first “launch week” is going on at the time of this record...
Apr 18, 2023•19 min
News includes Elixir 1.14.4 release and what's in it, the EEF's election is re-run and why, a new ML library Scholar was released and what it's for, a Sobelow update, a post about building your own static site generator with Phoenix, a post creating a Slack-like app with LiveView and streams, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/146 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.4 – Elixir 1.14.4 released https://erlef.org/blog/eef/elect...
Apr 11, 2023•7 min
News covers the EEF election results, a new Livebook 0.9 release, Docker reverses directions, how Github spilled the secret beans, full text search with a new Haystack lib, how intentionally vulnerable Phoenix apps are educational, the timescale hex package grows up a little, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/145 Elixir Community News https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2023-results – New Erlang Ecosystem Foundation members https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-liveb...
Apr 04, 2023•13 min
A collection of ML stories, fixing an 8-year old LiveView bug, Docker drama, speeding up Dialyzer in CI, a new Credo release and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/144 Elixir Community News https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/whisper-speech-to-text-phoenix – Chris McCord made a video showing how quickly he can add audio transcription to the open-source LiveBeats application. https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/ – LiveBeats blog post with link to the project https://www.youtu...
Mar 28, 2023•14 min
A new minor LiveView release, a new Nerves focused Elixir case study was published, a post about audio transcriptions using Bumblebee and another about using Tailscale to cluster Elixir apps across cloud providers. ElixirConf US was announced, nimble_options reaches 1.0 and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/143 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.18.17/CHANGELOG.md#01817-2023-03-09 – Phoenix LiveView minor update 0.18.17 r...
Mar 21, 2023•13 min
Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run dynamic distributed tracing in your app on production! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the performance and running multiple traces simultaneously. We talk with Thomas to learn more about the history, the inspirations, how it works, why it's safe to run in production, how to get performance insights, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142 Elixir Community News https://github...
Mar 14, 2023•54 min
We talk with Andrea Leopardi, Elixir core team member, author, and recent Protohacker celebrity! We wanted to learn more about his dbg work that outputs boolean expression info and about his experience using Elixir to solve the Protohacker networking challenges. He shares how that work parlayed into creating an Elixir networking book for PragProg. He teases what he might be working next and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/141 Elixir Community News https://phoenixframe...
Mar 07, 2023•56 min
Progress report for LiveView Native, Livebook announced an integration with Hugging Face, Andrea Leopardi concludes his series of Protohacker challenge videos, new Phoenix 1.7.0 RCs 3 & 4 released, 3.5 year old issue is solved that unifies Elixir and Erlang loggers, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/140 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1625582226783064065 – LiveView Native SwiftUI Color Picker https://github.com/liveviewnative/livevie...
Feb 28, 2023•13 min
New Phoenix LiveView 0.18.12 release includes a new “streams” feature as well as other improvements. Andrea Leopardi released another Protohackers video, AppSignal adds Oban support, Orion library brings nifty distributed tracing UI, José does an interview with Exercism, Gleam gets added to Exercism, EMPEX NYC is back, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/139 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#01812-2023...
Feb 21, 2023•14 min
News-only episode covers the new Phoenix.Template project, upcoming Nx work for Elixir using multiple GPUs, benefits of Elixir as seen by new people learning it, integrating the Trix JS WYSIWYG editor with LiveView, a new service called "Code Code Ship" that aims to make commercial Hex packages a thing in the Elixir space, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/138 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/TheErlef/status/1620482168219738116 – José Valim updated Phoenix....
Feb 14, 2023•9 min
After covering the week's news, we talk about upgrading our apps to Phoenix 1.7.0 and what the experience is like. We include tips and resources that we found helpful and talk about the backward compatibility of the project and what that means for both personal projects and working teams. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/137 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee/pull/107 – Coming soon - Whisper model and speech-to-text serving https://twitter.com/sean_...
Feb 07, 2023•37 min
The "fediverse" has become a hot topic of late. Fortunately, Mayel de Boniol joined to explain what federated means, what ActivityPub is, and more. Mayel is more than just knowledgeable in this area, he created Bonfire Networks as well! It's written in Elixir and is a framework people can use to build their own federated servers to meet their specific needs, be that for tweet-like messages, meetup coordination, collaborative task lists or your own custom extensions. Being written in Elixir and O...
Jan 31, 2023•50 min
News-only episode covers some overlooked new Livebook features, Mint support added to Elixir GRPC, Phoenix Live Storybook is getting visual comparisons between versions, LiveView Native progress updates, the Circle CI breach and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/135 Elixir Community News https://news.livebook.dev/whats-new-in-livebook-0.8-4gQiEE – The Livebook v0.8 release was overshadowed by Bumblebee, but there's a lot to take note of in Livebook itself. https://twitt...
Jan 24, 2023•20 min
We get a glimpse into the EEF's Security Working Group with Bram Verburg. We learn about existing resources available to the community and we get hints of work underway for the future. Bram shares some cool security tips and insights as well! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/134 Elixir Community News http://example.com/ – Example website https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – New release candidate for Phoenix! 1.7.0-rc.1 https://github.com/pho...
Jan 17, 2023•54 min
We talk with Philip Brown who started Prise in Jan 2022 using Elixir, Axon and Nx to apply machine learning to project management. He shares what he's accomplished as a one-person dev team and how Elixir enabled him to develop more rapidly. He shares how, with no ML academic training, he learned as he went and developed and trained his own models that classify and prioritize people's tasks spread across multiple systems! A fun and empowering discussion! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkin...
Jan 10, 2023•44 min
LiveView isn't always the right answer. Chris Nelson created LiveState to enable embedding custom HTML components in other websites and connect over Phoenix channels to keep UI state on the server! LiveState takes an interesting approach that tries to keep many of the benefits of LiveView but apply it to situations like custom components in static sites hosted by other people. Chris explains how it works and what problems it solves. Check it out! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir...
Jan 03, 2023•45 min
Securing our apps is our responsibility as developers. We are the custodians and the guardians of our user's data. We met up again with Michael Lubas to discuss some lesser known community security resources and helpful tips to get us started with securing our Elixir and Phoenix applications! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/131 Elixir Community News https://erlangforums.com/t/otp-25-2-released/2166 – Erlang/OTP 25.2 is the second maintenance patch package for OTP 25, with m...
Dec 27, 2022•38 min
The Elixir community is buzzing with excitement around Bumblebee! Bumblebee makes it easy to use a variety of pre-trained neural network models in Elixir. José Valim, Paulo Valente, and Jonatan Kłosko join us to talk about this latest advancement. We learn how Bumblebee works, the abilities that are supported today, where things are going next and the longer term visions of what's possible. We cover the new Livebook smart cells that create an easy playground for playing with Bumblebee, a single-...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Tracking, analyzing and visualizing time series data can add a lot of business value to a project! We met up with Dave Lucia to learn more about Timescale DB, a PostgreSQL extension that adds time series tools to our regular database. Dave also created a timescale hex package to make it easier to work with hypertables and hyperfunctions. We learn why Timescale DB makes sense over other options, how to get started with it, example use cases, helpful resources and more! Show Notes online - http://...
Dec 13, 2022•54 min
The Phoenix 1.7 announcement blog post mentioned the ability to swap out Cowboy for another webserver like Bandit. We talked with Mat Trudel to learn more about his pure-Elixir webserver and find out how it works with Phoenix. We learn Bandit can be up to 5x faster by narrowly focusing on turning a request into a Plug connection and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/128 Elixir Community News https://github.com/features/security/ – Github's Dependabot now supports p...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr
We talked with Spawnfest competitors Filipe Cabaço & Joel Carlbark about their entry “Lively”. Lively was all about doing cool things with Ecto in Livebook. The project, later renamed to KinoEcto does 4 cool things around Ecto in Livebook. It builds Entity Relationship diagrams from the Ecto Schemas in your Elixir project. It can visualize the dense Postgres explain output and highlight a problem like when a full table scan is performed. It includes a ChangesetValidator SmartCell, and a Quer...
Nov 29, 2022•53 min
As software developers, there are many different types of companies we can work at. We met up with the Elixir Wizards crew to learn more about working at a Software Agency like SmartLogic. We compare what this is like vs working at a product company. Of course, we take the opportunity to learn more about Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford, their journeys to Elixir and the work they are doing now. Sundi shares how becoming an Engineering Manager presented new growth opportunities and Owen goes deeper ...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min
While hearing how Elixir is being used in the Royal Bank of Canada's Capital Markets, we learned a lot of extra things we didn't expect! Thanos Vassilakis, head of R&D in the CM group, explained how middle managers talk about “scaling” to mean hiring staff with the goal of using all of their budgets. Not the kind of scaling we typically think about! Thanos identified the biggest problem limiting Elixir's adoption at large financial institutions and it wasn't what we expected. He also shared ...
Nov 15, 2022•59 min
We wanted to go deeper on the caching library Nebulex, so we visited with the creator, Carlos Bolaños, to learn what prompted its creation. Nebulex takes a couple unique approaches to things. It supports a decorator pattern to indicate that a function should be cached without having to write the boilerplate code for reading and writing to the cache. Nebulex was inspired by Ecto, in that it supports multiple adapters to different backends like Redis, Cachex and even Horde! It also supports multip...
Nov 08, 2022•58 min
Creator of the Ash Framework, Zach Daniel, shares how he feels Ecto is such a good tool, that people haven't built a modeling layer above it and end up using Ecto directly. Ash models a resource above Ecto, making it more expressive while supporting LiveView, REST, and GraphQL interfaces on top. While cutting boilerplate, a major goal builds in escape hatches to keep from being boxed in. Ash Framework recently celebrated a 2.0 release, accompanied by the release of the Ash HQ website. A fun look...
Nov 01, 2022•55 min
It’s important to learn safe coding practices. As developers, we want people to love our products and happily pay to use them. We also want to protect our services and users from hackers and information leaks. However, sometimes we unknowingly create vulnerabilities in our systems. One of the best ways to prevent problems is to train the team working on the project. To help do this, Holden Oullette started an OpenSource project called Elixir Secure Coding Training for teams. Livebook based, the ...
Oct 25, 2022•46 min
She started at the very beginning of her self-directed, non-traditional route to coding. She first had to learn to code. She worked, studied, and leaned on mentors and others until she reached the point of being hired for a full time job. What language did she tackle as that very first one? Elixir! We talked with Kimberly Johnson about how she did it. She shared her story at ElixirConf which we found inspiring. We wanted to go deeper on how she kept going when things got hard and how she built u...
Oct 18, 2022•55 min
Localizing and personalizing an application is separate from the language used in the interface. Kip Cole explains how the mismatch of computers with the culture of our audience creates friction we may not even be aware of. In fact, our benign app may be unintentionally offensive to millions of people! Kip created the libraries ex_cldr, money and tempo to help Elixir developers localize applications in a culture aware way. What does that mean? It means using minimal information we can infer how ...
Oct 11, 2022•56 min
Kat Marchán was the maintainer of NPM CLI for 5 years but now works at Microsoft on the VisualStudio product. Kat is passionate about Rust and uses Elixir and Phoenix to build a new Banchan Art site to serve artists. It helps connect artists with clients who want to commission custom artwork. The goal is to create a platform that does not exploit artists like many of the existing options. Amazingly, the Banchan Art Elixir project is OpenSource as well! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinking...
Oct 04, 2022•51 min
Honoring a user's “right to be forgotten” is not only respectful, but it may be a legal requirement. Clément Quaresma joins us to share how their ecto_anon library helps us make a user anonymous. A naive approach at removing a user's data may corrupt our own database! We dig into how this library works, the problems it solves, and how it might be used for even more than GDPR compliance. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/118 Elixir Community News https://elixir-nx.github.io/ax...
Sep 27, 2022•40 min
