Best ThinkingElixir.com Podcasts (2025)

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277: Searching Across the Hexiverse 26:09

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2d ago26:09

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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's interactive Elixir Language Tour that runs in the browser via WebASM, Paulo Valente's breakthrough getting Stable Diffusion running on Mac GPUs through EMLX, lessons learned from the AWS…

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276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed 42:18

10d ago42:18

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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 bringing more transparency to the BEAM ecosystem. We also cover the Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library update for Tailwind 4 support, visual i…

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275: From Slop to Success? 29:02

17d ago29:02

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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 "mix help app:phoenix" command for building AI Agent context, gRPC library v0.11.0 with client load balancing, ReqCassette for recording test requests, Germa…

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274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance 31:32

24d ago31:32

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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 agents, an update on LiveView Native's uncertain future, major improvements to the MDex Markdown library including streaming support and Quill delta conversio…

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273: Does the Language Really Matter? 39:29

1M ago39:29

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272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto 30:57

1M ago30:57

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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-DSA cryptographic support and enhanced DNS resolver capabilities, Tidewave Teams launching and Tidewave's new TODO support, AshTypescript for automatic Ty…

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271: Testing, Searching, and Funding 17:29

2M ago17:29

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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 functionality, ReqLLM - a new unified library for LLM interactions built on Req, Hologram v0.6.0 bringing production-ready features to the pure Elixir f…

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270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar 23:21

2M ago23:21

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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 accessing multiple LLM models, Phoenix 1.8.1 release fixing AGENTS.md generation issues, ElixirConf US 2025 videos being slowly released on YouTube incl…

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269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives 29:43

2M ago29:43

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News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that's already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente's handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fas…

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268: Got your Popcorn here! 41:50

2M ago41:50

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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 an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project, which enables Elixir to run in WebAssembly (WASM) in the browser courtesy of AtomVM. We dig in…

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267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim 1:08:05

2M ago1:08:05

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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 modify your Phoenix and Rails applications. José Valim joins us for a deeper dive into Tidewave as well! We also cover a comprehensive new ElixirLang blog pos…

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266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features 32:10

3M ago32:10

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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. ElixirLS v0.29.2 with call hierarchy provider and MCP server integration, the new Torus library for seamless PostgreSQL search with Ecto, ThinkingElixi…

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265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results 42:33

3M ago42:33

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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 Overflow Survey 2025 results showing Elixir as the third most admired language and Phoenix as the most admired web framework for the third year running, P…

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264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks 40:06

3M ago40:06

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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 required, LiveVue v0.6.0 with 90% payload size reduction through JSON Patch operations, an awesome LiveView development tip for hot-reloading code changes …

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263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big 30:27

3M ago30:27

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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's pull-based design delivering 50% performance improvements, a new PDF data extraction library that leverages Python through PythonX, AppSignal's guide to deploying Phoenix with Kamal, an E…

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262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime 27:03

4M ago27:03

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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's announcement of managed Postgres, an incredible conference talk about Waterpark - a healthcare system built on the BEAM that achieved 100% uptime for 5 years and …

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261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill? 29:30

4M ago29:30

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News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates featuring change tracking in comprehensions by default and TypeScript annotations, José Valim's inspiring DevLabs interview about building authentic tools and fostering healthy ecosystems, Matthew Sinclair's comprehensive post outlining 9 compelling reasons to choose Elixir, Peter Solnica's ex…

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260: Cheaper testing with AI? 22:04

4M ago22:04

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News includes LiveDebugger v0.3.0 with enhanced debugging capabilities for Phoenix LiveView including redirect following and dead process state browsing, Oban 1.6 featuring sub-workflows and cascading workflows, YOLO v0.2.0 bringing YOLOX support for faster image detection in Elixir, a discussion on the importance of testing and how AI tools are ma…

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259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new 1:13:14

4M ago1:13:14

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News includes the public launch of Phoenix.new - Chris McCord's revolutionary AI-powered Phoenix development service with full browser IDE and remote runtime capabilities, Ecto v3.13 release featuring the new transact/1 function and built-in JSON support, Nx v0.10 with improved documentation and NumPy comparisons, Phoenix 1.8 getting official secur…

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258: CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams 31:48

5M ago31:48

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News includes the first CVE released under EEF's new CNA program for an Erlang zip traversal vulnerability, Phoenix MacroComponents being delayed for greater potential, Supabase announcing Multigres - a Vitess-like proxy for scaling Postgres to petabyte scale, a surge of new MCP server implementations for Phoenix and Plug including Phantom, HermesM…

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257: Runtime Intelligence and MCP Servers 27:07

5M ago27:07

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News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 with significant type checking improvements and faster compile times, Gleam v1.11.0 delivering 30% faster JavaScript performance, the new Elixir Outreach stipend program providing funding for speakers to present at non-Elixir conferences, a batch of ElixirConf US 2024 videos featuring talks were published, the open…

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256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging 23:42

5M ago23:42

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News includes the Elixir 1.19 RC release featuring up to 4x faster compilation and significant types system improvements, more ElixirConfEU videos including José Valim's keynote on type system updates, the look at the Backpex admin panel for Phoenix LiveView applications, Ash AI's impressive AI integration using the Elixir LangChain library, an inf…

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255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps 32:02

5M ago32:02

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News includes the major OTP 28 release with priority messages functionality, ElixirConf EU 2025 videos starting to appear including Chris McCord's keynote on his new phoenix.new service and James Arthur's introduction of Phoenix Sync for real-time database synchronization, the EEF board election results and their new role as a CVE Numbering Authori…

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254: Lua Scripting and Tidewave on Zed 31:22

6M ago31:22

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News includes Hex 2.2.0 with the new :warn_if_outdated option for keeping dependencies updated, Honeybadger's APM with built-in Elixir traces for major components, José Valim demonstrating Tidewave with Zed's AI coding agents, LiveDebugger v0.2.0 with DevTools integration and component highlighting, Dave Lucia's new Elixir "Lua" library for embeddi…

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253: Tidewave Triumphs and App Store Rebellions 23:32

6M ago23:32

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News includes growing excitement around Tidewave for Elixir with users sharing success stories and integration tips, preparation for Elixir 1.19's deprecation of regex in module attributes, LiveViewNative launching a new "OTP Interop" organization focused on enabling offline functionality, and a major U.S. court ruling against Apple's App Store pol…