Episode 226 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the ongoing Elixir Stream Week featuring José Valim’s insights on Elixir 1.18, the announcement of refactoring capabilities in Igniter, two groundbreaking Elixir-related papers at the Brazilian Symposium including Hok for GPU kernels, Dave Lucia’s contribution to support multiple DNS queries in dns_cluster, the latest updates in the Tucan plotting library, and more!

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/226

This two-part series explores working with Phoenix in a distributed setup. In part one, we’ll look at GenServers: https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/10/29/managing-distributed-state-with-genservers-in-phoenix-and-elixir.html

Josep and Ellie join me in episode 5 of Elixir Friends!

We talk about meeting at ElixirConf (one of the highlights of my ElixirConf), their amazing job at presenting a keynote, preparing for public speaking, running daily (even if you don’t like it), preparing for a marathon, writing their Engineering Elixir Applications book, and more!

If you don’t know Spanish, skip minutes 23-33. If you know Spanish, you might really enjoy that part! 😉

https://elixirfriends.transistor.fm/episodes/friends-5-josep-and-ellie

A talk from Code BEAM America 2024: https://youtu.be/Hnpt2zv0rVw?si=EfMXnJKZjYrkNk6M

Ticket sale for Code BEAM America 2025 starts on 6 Nov!

📞 Today in The Creator’s Lab, Bryan Green joins Elixir Wizards Dan and Charles to share how he transformed a 1930s rotary phone into a functional cell phone with Elixir, Nerves, PCBs, and GenStateMachine.

📹 https://smr.tl/3A7ifPh 🎧 https://smr.tl/40hVTW2

Check our new blog post “Bringing SOLID to Elixir”. Read how to apply it to create more maintainable, scalable, and adaptable software systems.

https://curiosum.com/sl/1j9izisz

Episode 225 of Thinking Elixir. News includes coming info on new features in Elixir v1.18, the release of Beacon CMS v0.1 with new tools for developers, German Velasco’s insightful video on the origins of Phoenix contexts, Alex Koutmos sharing his sql_fmt tool for cleaner SQL code in Ecto, an exciting new tool for the Mastodon community called MastodonBotEx, and more!

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/225

Andrew Ek joins me in the 4th episode of Elixir Friends!

I discover his past as poet and professor (and I think we should get his published works), and his present past-time: tennis. We also talk about software consulting being more than just writing code, and we even dive into cognitive load theory!

🎙️ https://elixirfriends.transistor.fm/episodes/friend-4-andrew-ek

ErrorTracker has just reached 10k downloads on hex.pm. To celebrate we have just released a new version with a much requested feature:

• Support for sanitizing and filtering out sensible information from the context. The error context may include some sensible information and now you can filter it out just before an error is tracked.

Take a look at the GitHub repository and the Hex.pm package for the detailed release notes and documentation.

mix test.interactive allows you to re-run your tests every time something changes while interactively controlling the arguments passed to mix test. See the recent blog post or check out the library on hex.pm.

Episode 224 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the latest release of ElixirLS v0.24.0 and the unveiling of Expert, the upcoming Elixir Language Server. We dive into the details of NervesHub v2.0’s improvements for IoT device management and introduce the exciting Elixir Stream Week with José Valim among other top experts. We also look at the exciting updates in Elixir’s core Machine Learning libraries and more!

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/224

Tyler joins me to chat about the pain of marketing, subscription fatigue, buying music, using Cursor, doing house projects, and more!

🎙️ https://elixirfriends.transistor.fm/episodes/friend-3-tyler-young

David joins me in the second episode of Elixir Friends to chat about life, Elixir podcasts, wordpress drama, creating an RTF Phoenix engine, and more!

🎙️ https://elixirfriends.transistor.fm/episodes/friend-2-david-bernheisel

I attended the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, where two papers related to Elixir were presented. One of them, the one about Hok, won the Best Paper award. Congrats to the authors!

Read more at https://dev.to/adolfont/two-new-elixir-related-papers-at-the-28th-brazilian-symposium-on-programming-languages-2c1h

For new devs just jump to Elixir world, configuration is quite confused. I wrote a topic about configuration in Elixir for newbies can understand how it works in basic. Hope it can help you, thanks! https://dev.to/manhvanvu/elixir-configuration-environment-variables-4j1f

A writeup on building a distributed PubSub in Elixir. From local-only broadcasts to clustered nodes.

https://vin.cy/distributed-pubsub-in-elixir?ref=ew

Implemented Quick Sort Algorithm in Elixir, staying in line with Elixir’s functional programming paradigm. Do read. https://www.virinchi.me/portfolios/datastructures-in-elixir/quick-sort/

Check our latest blog article about insights from companies using Nix in production, and a guide on integrating Nix with Elixir apps. https://curiosum.com/blog/packaging-elixir-application-with-nix

Episode 223 of Thinking Elixir. News includes José Valim and Chris McCord’s collaboration on AI GPU clusters with Fly.io, Nx being selected for Mozilla’s Builders Accelerator with a $100,000 award, Parker Selbert’s highlights on PostgreSQL 17’s improvements for the Oban project, a major update to the Cachex library, and an extension of the call for talks deadline for Alchemy Conf 2025, and more!

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/223

We’ll dive into how N+1 queries happen, their impact on performance, and some strategies to detect and fix them with AppSignal: https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/10/08/find-and-fix-n-plus-1-queries-using-appsignal-for-a-phoenix-app-in-elixir.html