We cover the news then talk with Hugo Baraúna, the guy behind Elixir Radar, to get the inside scoop. Would you like to increase the chances of your blog post being featured by Elixir Radar? Hugo shares how! We also discuss his observations of Elixir adoption in companies, better understanding our own community, sustainability in OpenSource, his efforts to fund his time on Elixir Radar, and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/015-inside-elixir-radar-with-hugo-barauna/

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Huge batch of new then we talk with Ricardo Garcia Vega about how he paired a Phoenix application with no database Repo to an Airtable backend to quickly solve a problem but without compromising on speed or reliability. Includes great discussion of ETS tables, GenServers for syncing a caching, LiveView for live updates, links to great resources, a github repo for doing it yourself and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/014-liveview-and-airtable-with-ricardo-garcia-vega/

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We talk with Jesse Herrick about creating a video chat app using WebRTC and Phoenix LiveView. We cover the WebRTC protocol, how Phoenix helps, JS hooks, pushing events from the server and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/013-video-chat-using-liveview-with-jesse-herrick/

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We catch up with Connor Rigby and learn about his recent Flutter work for Nerves. We take this opportunity to get his perspective on when to choose NIFs or Ports for native integrations, how to make NIFs more portable, get a recommendation for multimedia processing and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/012-all-a-flutter-over-nifs-and-ports-with-connor-rigby/

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Learning about some new features coming in Ecto 3.5 from Mike Binns. Mike explains Ecto.Enum, what a ParameterizedType is, the new “redact” option on fields and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/011-new-ecto-features-in-3-5-with-mike-binns/

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News and discussion about why the talk of “Frontend vs Backend” is wrong, Single Page Apps, seeing the business value of LiveView, and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/010-frontend-vs-backend-and-business-value-of-liveview/

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Decomposing models based on lifecycle with Maciej Kaszubowski. He shares tips on finding the lines, how DDD can help, ideas for modular designs, simple ways to start a PubSub architecture, avoiding “donkey code” and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/009-decomposing-models-with-maciej-kaszubowski/

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We discuss career development as programmers, how COVID may change things, our dev setups including editors, resources, asdf, docker, and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/008-careers-and-dev-environments/

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We talk with Miguel Palhas about lessons learned while working with background jobs in production systems. He shares some tips he’s learned through experience. We share other mistakes made and what we learn from them. We cover background job options, choosing tech based on the team you have, IEx tips to remind yourself you’re on…

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FontAwesome, the internet’s most popular icon toolkit, uses Elixir behind the scenes. We talk with Rob Madole to learn how they got there and Rob shares insights to what goes on behind-the-scenes. We cover how they teach Elixir to their team, Rob shares helpful resources, tips on giving good code reviews, pairing, how to find…

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