
Beam Radio
A packed panel of Elixir experts and experienced developers who make the complicated interesting and fun. We talk about Elixir, Erlang and all things related to the BEAM virtual machine ecosystem.
Featuring a panel of hosts including Alex Koutmos, Andrew Ek, Bruce Tate, Lars Wikman, and Meryl Dakin.
Edited by Maggie Tate
Sponsored by Grox.io and Underjord
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Oct 26, 2022 • 50min
Episode 38: BeamRadio Team Reflects on Chris McCord's LiveView Keynote
Show Notes:
Chris McCord's Keynote on LiveVeiw from ElixirConf 2022: https://youtu.be/9-rqBLjr5Eo
CodeBeam discount code for 20% off tickets (both in-person and virtual) podcast listeners. The code is BEAMRADIO20.
Ticket Link
And don't forget to join hosts @smdebenedetto + @_StevenNunez at their virtual Mastering LiveView training Tuesday before the conference https://codebeamamerica.com/trainings/mastering-liveview/
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.Logger.html
Lars' video reflecting on the keynote: https://youtu.be/QwuBi57ySoM
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@_StevenNunez
@akoutmos
@lawik
@RedRapids
@sm_debenedetto
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Oct 12, 2022 • 46min
Episode 37: Beam Radio: Talk Radio with Steven and Lars
Show Notes
https://github.com/message-db/message-db
https://github.com/octosteve/estola
https://github.com/octosteve/estola
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Sep 21, 2022 • 49min
Episode 36: Curiosity as a Superpower
Show Notes:
https://www.elixirnewbie.com/
https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/
https://github.com/DockYard-Academy/beta_curriculum
Email brooklin.myers@dockyard.com to get involved or learn about joining the cohort!
If you want to write a book, message Sophie on twitter! @sm_debenedetto
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Aug 31, 2022 • 43min
Episode 35: eqWAlizer with Ilya Klyuchnikov
This week the BeamRadio Panel talks about eqWAlizer Ilya Klyuchnikov.
Show Notes:
Ilya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/lambdamix
Project Github: https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer
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Aug 22, 2022 • 44min
Episode 34: Catching Up with the Beam Radio Team
The panel discusses MJML EEX, Rust, Surface and LiveView and more!
Show Notes:
https://hex.pm/packages/mjml_eex
What Other Languages Can Learn From BEAM: A Ruby Case Study | Steven Nunez |Code BEAM V America 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcvijP2QIx0&feature=emb_logo
Elixir Conf 2022 Training: https://2022.elixirconf.com/training#training
Build a Weather Station: https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/
Programming Phoenix LiveView https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/
Bruce's Currently the Boat Blog: www.currentlytheboat.com
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Jun 8, 2022 • 44min
Episode 33: Beam Radio Talks Elixir with Bowery Farms
https://twitter.com/kevmacaroni
kmcnamee@boweryfarming.com
nsanford@boweryfarming.com
https://twitter.com/sanford_nick
https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-america-2022/#call-for-talks
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May 5, 2022 • 51min
Episode 32: Most Excellent and Important Wisdom for Professional Developers
Communication?
Productivity?
Managing pressure or stress?
Making impressions?
Teamwork or collaboration?
Practicing and learning?
The Beam Radio Panel tackles the question "What is the most important advice or learnings you've had in your career as professional developers?"
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Apr 14, 2022 • 44min
Episode 31: Upping Your Game - Elixir Resources
The BeamRadio panel talks about the best resources for learning Elixir and upping your game! Show notes below link to conference talks and other resources.
17:01:12 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj9-aOL2v_2AhVIJEQIHScwBXsQwqsBegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJvBT4XBdoUE&usg=AOvVaw2sTWyTLEZv_2GrxjhIpPs6
17:02:17 chris mccord: https://www.conferencecast.tv/talk-18301-elixirconf-2017-closing-keynote-chris-mccord
17:02:59 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjropq-2v_2AhUNDkQIHbSjBPwQwqsBegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdZzM-rLu-zo&usg=AOvVaw1OJjawLXmviQmXltB89-cQ
17:03:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPlXNUXmcgE
17:03:42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9hpl7xbWM
17:03:43 jose valim: lambda days talk genstage https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjK-rvR2v_2AhWoIUQIHb-dCiYQwqsBegQIAhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXPlXNUXmcgE&usg=AOvVaw0AKF7ySdVUETJuDGHzJIsU
17:09:11 https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321
17:09:54 https://dataintensive.net/
17:14:16 https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/
17:15:28 https://pragprog.com/titles/thnerves/build-a-binary-clock-with-elixir-and-nerves/
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Apr 5, 2022 • 38min
Episode 30: LiveView JS and LiveBeats
The release of LiveVIew JS commands is unlocking a lot of sophisticated client-side functionality with very little overhead. Just like you'd expect from LiveView, the new JS command interface, combined with JS hooks, makes it possible to implement advanced JS interactions in a way that is sane and elegant. This is something that I think many people considered to be the missing piece of LiveView--I.e. do I need to abandon LiveView if I need fancy JS? Now, the answer is "no".
Looking through Chris's LiveBeats project https://fly.io/blog/livebeats/ really illustrates how far you can take this kind of functionality. I'm really interested to see what others will do with this capability and I'd love to hear about/find some other projects that are starting to take advantage of it.
In this episode, Sophie introduce's the topic with the above, talk about how LiveBeats uses these features and what we think others might be able to do with the same functionality.
https://github.com/fly-apps/live_beats Code for LiveBeats
https://github.com/octosteve/e_dux and the corresponding post https://hostiledeveloper.com/2017/04/18/something-useless-redux-implemented-in-elixir.html
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/restore-liveview-state-on-startup/ https://fly.io/phoenix-files/saving-and-restoring-liveview-state/
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Mar 23, 2022 • 54min
Episode 29: LiveBook and Other Fun Projects
Show Notes:
Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox to win tickets to Empex!! Details in the podcast!
Launching a new book https://elixirpatterns.dev/
PromEx 1.7.1 release https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex (Shout out to Parker and Shannon for funding the GrafanaAgent work)
Litestream 0.1.0 release https://github.com/akoutmos/litestream
ExServer 0.2.0 release https://github.com/akoutmos/ex_server
Experiment with DynamicSupervisor+Registry+Dynamic Ecto Repos for SQLite https://github.com/akoutmos/sqlite_scale
Lars' website: https://underjord.io
Alex, Frank and Bruce's Build a Weather Station book: https://pragprog.com/titles/passweather/build-a-weather-station-with-elixir-and-nerves/
Sophie's Empex Training: https://www.empex.co/mtn#training Use SOPHIE to get 25% off the price of the ticket!
We want to connect with you!
Twitter: @BeamRadio1
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