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.…

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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…

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We talk with Ricardo Trindade about learning Elixir and GraphQL. We discuss learning on personal interest projects, GraphQL vs REST, executing Ruby or Python from Elixir, helpful learning resources and much more!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/005-learning-elixir-with-ricardo-trindade/

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ElixirConf US 2020 was announced! This will be our first virtual one. We talk with the organizer Dr. Jim Freeze to get the behind the scenes information on how it will work. We cover the…

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Elixir 1.11 is shaping up to be a huge release with a number of “big deal” features. We are joined by Wojtek Mach to help us understand the significance of some of the new features.…

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REST Controllers vs GraphQL. You’ve probably heard of GraphQL but maybe you haven’t played with it yet. We talk with Ben Wilson, co-creator of Absinthe, a GraphQL library for Elixir and the book Craft GraphQL…

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Welcome to the Thinking Elixir Podcast! My name is Mark Ericksen. This is our first official episode together. We cover the community news and introduce ourselves. Subscribe in your favorite podcast player and join us!…

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Welcome to the Thinking Elixir Podcast! My name is Mark Ericksen. This is just to announce the launching of the new show. The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it.

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