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The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more.
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Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more.
Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process.
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Dec 30, 2025 • 32min
285: From Popcorn to Robots
News includes Software Mansion pushing the boundaries of Popcorn by running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly, the Programming Nerves book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna launching in beta, a new minimalist Stripe integration library called PinStripe, Beam Bots announced for resilient robotics on the BEAM, Saša Jurić’s thought-provoking Goatmire talk now available online, Tidewave.ai adding Vue.js support with impressive performance improvements, LiveTable v0.4.0 released with powerful data table features, Supabase announcing Multigres for horizontally scalable Postgres, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/285
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https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/2001673272706945157 – Software Mansion announces running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly with Popcorn
https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/tree/main/examples/local_form_demo – Example demo of a LiveView running in WASM in the browser
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/local-forms/ – Interactive example of a local LiveView running a form with Ecto schema validations in the browser
https://nitter.net/davydog187/status/2001666856243933662 – Dave Lucia announces JQL library for working with Jira Query Language
https://github.com/tv-labs/jql – JQL - An Ecto-like DSL for writing Jira Query Language to automate Jira tasks
https://bsky.app/profile/hugobarauna.com/post/3ma74jhrid22u – Hugo Baraúna announces the Programming Nerves book beta launch
https://www.programmingnerves.dev – Programming Nerves book website - learn to build production ready embedded systems with Elixir and Nerves
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eileen-noonan-72a2856_tinyelixirstripe-activity-7407602470325022720-aWql/ – Eileen Noonan announces PinStripe library for Stripe integration
https://dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with-req-stripe – Dashbit article on SDKs with Req for Stripe by Wojtek Mach that inspired PinStripe
https://github.com/enoonan/pin_stripe/ – PinStripe GitHub repository - A minimalist Stripe integration for Elixir
https://hexdocs.pm/pin_stripe/readme.html – PinStripe documentation on HexDocs
https://harton.nz/blog/announcing-beam-bots/ – Announcement blog post for Beam Bots - Resilient Robotics on the BEAM
https://beambots.dev/ – Beam Bots website
https://github.com/beam-bots/bb – Beam Bots GitHub repository with Spark DSL for declarative robot definitions
https://nitter.net/sasajuric/status/2003049285739290645 – Saša Jurić announces his Goatmire talk is now online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrKfCs-mr0 – "Tell me a Story" talk by Saša Jurić - musings on software development in collaborative environments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE – The Soul of Erlang talk from 2019 referenced in the discussion
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2003485910399348757 – José Valim shares Tidewave.ai updates including Vue.js support
https://tidewave.ai/blog/depth-based-inspector – Tidewave's new depth-based inspector for selecting elements behind other elements
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp – Claude's Chrome Extension for agentic browsing
https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/blob/main/reports/claude-in-chrome-v-chrome-devtools-mcp.md – Comparison of Claude Code using Chrome extension vs Chrome's dev tool for token usage
https://nitter.net/virinchi_cv/status/2000786463206858819 – Announcement of LiveTable v0.4.0 release
https://livetable.gurujada.com/ – LiveTable website - Phoenix LiveView library for feature-rich data tables
https://github.com/gurujada/live_table – LiveTable GitHub repository
https://nitter.net/kiwicopple/status/2002071541237100828 – Supabase announces Multigres - horizontally scalable Postgres architecture
https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository
https://multigres.com/ – Multigres website - Vitess adaptation for Postgres
https://vitess.io/ – Vitess - cloud-native database that extends MySQL with sharding and high availability
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Dec 23, 2025 • 25min
284: ‘Tis the Season for a Type System
News includes José Valim announcing that Elixir v1.20 is well underway with full-type inference possibly landing before the end of the year, Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 with fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for creating beautiful email templates, Dashbit's new nimble_zta library for zero trust authentication extracted from Livebook, Björn Gustavsson's ElixirConf EU talk on BEAM history and internals with insights on a potential BEAM v2 runtime 5-10 years away, GoatMire conference videos being published, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/284
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Show update - podcast is now also on YouTube with images of blog posts, projects, and articles displayed during discussions
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2000540145645162507 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.20 is well underway in active development
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#complete-typing-of-maps-keys – Changelog showing complete typing of maps keys in Elixir v1.20
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases – Elixir releases page - current latest version is 1.19.4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_theory – Set theory reference for understanding Elixir's type system approach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_topology – Set-theoretic topology reference
https://bsky.app/profile/gleam.run/post/3ma3u7ta2sk2c – Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 announcement
https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/blob/v1.14.0-rc1/CHANGELOG.md – Gleam v1.14.0-rc1 changelog with updates including fault tolerant type inference and language server improvements
https://bsky.app/profile/akoutmos.bsky.social/post/3ma2rsncqtc25 – mjml_eex v0.13.0 release announcement
https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex – mjml_eex library for formatting emails using MJML and EEx
https://github.com/akoutmos/mjml_eex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – mjml_eex changelog showing upgrade to MJML 5.3 and comment support
https://mjml.io/ – MJML website for responsive email templates
https://github.com/mjmlio/mjml – MJML GitHub repository
https://mjmlio.github.io/mjml-app/ – MJML app for building email templates
https://dashbit.co/blog/zero-trust-for-plug-phoenix – Dashbit blog post announcing nimble_zta for zero trust authentication
https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_zta – nimble_zta library with zero trust strategies for CloudFlare, Google Cloud Platform IAP, and Tailscale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine) – BEAM virtual machine Wikipedia reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrYdkHRCJqM – My BEAM History - Björn Gustavsson ElixirConf EU 2025 talk covering BEAM internals
https://goatmire.bold.video/ – GoatMire conference website with published videos
https://www.youtube.com/@goatmireinternational – GoatMire YouTube channel
https://www.yellowduck.be/posts/detecting-and-listing-duplicate-records-with-phoenix-ecto – Blog post with tips on detecting duplicate records using Ecto queries
https://pixabay.com/music/christmas-christmas-show-438871/ – Credit for Christmas themed intro music
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Dec 16, 2025 • 43min
283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk
News includes celebrating Erlang's 27th birthday as open source, results from the Elixir Hub 2025 survey showing strong community growth with over 1000 participants, a fun Govee Lights control library, a new data_migration package for LiveDashboard, Tidewave.ai's impressive accessibility testing and fixing capabilities showing 2x better performance than Claude Code standalone, critical React Server Components remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Next.js, and Zig's dramatic departure from GitHub citing Microsoft's AI obsession and declining service quality, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/283
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Happy Birthday to Erlang - celebrating 27 years as Open Source
https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1808898170673639547 – EEF vote on when to celebrate the Erlang Anniversary (July 2024)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language) – Wikipedia article noting Erlang was released as free and open-source in 1998
https://web.archive.org/19991009002753/http://www.erlang.se/onlinenews/ErlangOTpos.shtml – Archive of the original Erlang open source release announcement
https://api.github.com/repos/erlang/otp – Erlang OTP GitHub repository information showing it was created in 2009
https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/LICENSE.txt – Erlang OTP license changed to Apache License 2.0 in June 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar – Critical writings that extolled the values of open source
https://elixir-hub.com/surveys/2025 – Elixir Hub 2025 survey with over 1000 participants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition – Dreyfus model of skill acquisition referenced in survey analysis
https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1pa3y3x/elixir_package_for_govee_lights_device_control – Reddit posting about Govee Lights Elixir control package
https://github.com/adia-dev/govee-lights-ex – GitHub project for Govee Lights Elixir package
https://hexdocs.pm/govee_lights – HexDocs documentation for Govee Lights package
https://hex.pm/packages/data_migration – Published data_migration package for viewing and running Ecto Data Migrations from LiveDashboard
https://github.com/tv-labs/data-migration – GitHub repository for data_migration package
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfsigp5qadbh2vzs4h7vprvs/post/3m7iaqk37tk2q – Bluesky post announcing data_migration
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995891610568073650 – José Valim's post about Tidewave.ai finding and fixing accessibility issues
https://tidewave.ai/blog/improving-web-accessibility-with-trace-augmented-generation – Tidewave blog post detailing their accessibility improvement process
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1998066738865569930 – José Valim's post about Tidewave recent updates including file references and viewport presets
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession – Article about Zig programming language leaving GitHub due to Microsoft's AI obsession
https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792 – GitHub issue demonstrating GitHub Actions quality decline
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-has-a-problem-nobody-wants-its-poor-ai-products/ar-AA1RWB7f – Article about Microsoft's struggles with AI product adoption
https://threatprotect.qualys.com/2025/12/04/react-server-components-rsc-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/ – Critical remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (CVE-2025-55182)
https://snyk.io/blog/security-advisory-critical-rce-vulnerabilities-react-server-components/ – Snyk security advisory about critical RCE vulnerabilities in React Server Components
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Dec 9, 2025 • 35min
282: Type Systems and View Transitions
News includes cutting-edge research from José Valim and Guillaume Duboc on the data structures powering Elixir's type system that made v1.19 both stronger and faster than v1.18, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with new conveniences including view transition API support, LiveDebugger's biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection and resource monitoring, a new Nx feature enabling Python-Elixir model integration, LangChain library updates, Hologram's creator seeking sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time development, WebGPU now supported in all major browsers bringing desktop-class GPU performance to the web, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/282
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https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/12/02/lazier-bdds-for-set-theoretic-types/ – Blog post by Guillaume Duboc and José Valim about "Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types" - documenting the data structures powering Elixir's type system and optimizations in v1.19
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1995862601113501791 – José Valim's tweet about the BDD blog post
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.19.4 – Elixir v1.19.4 release with bug fixes and new mix xref feature
https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Xref.html – Documentation for mix xref task including new --min-cycle-label option
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE Index - programming language popularity rankings
https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ – Article critiquing TIOBE's methodology as fundamentally flawed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234633 – Hacker News discussion where José shares how Elixir disappeared from TIOBE top 100 due to having too many books on Amazon
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/changelog.html#v1-1-18-2025-11-25 – Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 release with new conveniences including function passing in assign, onDocumentPatch callback, and phx-viewport-overrun-target attribute
https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/cf7cdb91ba037b08cdc583763e4ffc69 – Example gist for using the new onDocumentPatch callback with view transition APIs
https://gist.github.com/SteffenDE/613125993362e30443e58558aa3c8ba0 – Example gist for phx-viewport-overrun-target for infinite table scrolling
https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/1995511897651806624 – Software Mansion announcement of LiveDebugger 0.5.0 release
https://docs.swmansion.com/live-debugger/ – LiveDebugger documentation - their biggest release yet with improved assigns inspection, async loading, dead LiveViews tracking, and resource monitoring
https://nitter.net/davydog187/status/1994960093511905305 – Dave Lucia's tweet about new Nx feature by Paulo Valente
New Nx feature allows models written in Python to talk to Elixir and vice versa, breaking down integration barriers
https://bsky.app/profile/brainlid.bsky.social/post/3m6z4xoglls24 – Bluesky announcement of Elixir LangChain v0.4.1 release
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – LangChain library for Elixir - GitHub repository
https://github.com/brainlid/langchain/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – LangChain changelog with enhancements for DeepSeek, OpenAI and Anthropic
https://nitter.net/bart_blast/status/1994150917420056651 – Bart Blast's tweet requesting sponsorship for Hologram development
https://hologram.page/blog/seeking-sustainable-sponsorship – Blog post explaining the need for sustainable sponsorship after 3 years of full-time Hologram development
https://github.com/bartblast/hologram – Hologram GitHub repository - transpiles pure Elixir to JS for the browser
https://web.dev/blog/webgpu-supported-major-browsers – Article announcing WebGPU is now supported in major browsers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGPU_API – MDN documentation for WebGPU API - successor to WebGL providing better GPU compatibility and advanced features
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Dec 2, 2025 • 29min
281: Planning for the Unexpected
News includes Erlang OTP 28.2 release with improvements across the runtime and standard library, a significant update to the Elixir "whois" library for querying domain registration information, Tidewave Web adding Figma support for designer integration, a new KQL (Kibana Query Language) parser library from TvLabs, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation now publishing vulnerability data directly to OSV.dev, and more! We also have an in-depth discussion about the difference between handling errors and designing for failure, exploring how Elixir and the BEAM give you the ability to plan for system recovery from unexpected exceptions using primitives like supervisors.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/281
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https://nitter.net/erlangforums/status/1992988094522384681 – Erlang OTP 28.2 release announcement
https://erlangforums.com/t/patch-package-otp-28-2-released/5279 – Details on OTP 28.2 release including fixes to Compiler, Erts/JIT, Kernel, public_key, SSH, SSL (better TLS 1.3 support), and syntax_tools
https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3m67zxzzdjs25 – Tyler Young announces significant update to the Elixir "whois" library
https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/whois.ex – Pure Elixir WHOIS client and parser for querying domain registration information
The date_time_parser library was updated to 1.3.0 to help support the whois library update
https://hexdocs.pm/tidewave/figma.html – Tidewave Web adds Figma support documentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXPC2KbkIeQ – YouTube video demonstrating how the Figma integration works with Tidewave
https://hex.pm/packages/kql – TvLabs releases library that parses KQL (Kibana Query Language)
https://github.com/tv-labs/kql – GitHub repository for the KQL parser library
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/kusto/query – Microsoft Kusto query language documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/lucene-query-syntax – Lucene query syntax documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/query-filter/languages/esql-kibana – ElasticQL documentation (similar but different from Kibana QL)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qt3c3wtm4y63hc7qftg2erdp/post/3m63azgtbds2t – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation CNA now publishes vulnerability data directly to OSV.dev
https://security.erlef.org/aegis/ – Information about the EEF ÆGIS Initiative, now covering Nerves project and OpenRiak
https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1991140574540251590 – José Valim's post about CloudFlare outage discussing the difference between handling errors vs designing for failure and how Erlang/Elixir's approach provides system-level mechanics for resilience
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Nov 25, 2025 • 42min
280: Dark Matter Developers
Discover the exciting enhancements in Elixir 1.19.3, including regex support and improved mix help. Learn how Tidewave Web has integrated Claude Code and OpenAI Codex agents for better performance. Explore Hologram's initiative to port Erlang functions to JavaScript, alongside the challenges of building one-language frontends. Dive into the new pg_large_objects library for managing large binaries with Postgres and the innovative Playwright_EX for browser automation. Finally, ponder the TIOBE Index findings and the intriguing concept of 'dark matter' developers.

Nov 18, 2025 • 47min
279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes
Discover how FlyDeploy enables zero-downtime hot code upgrades for Elixir applications. Unpack the significance of hot code upgrades for seamless connections. Explore the latest Elixir gRPC update featuring interactive Livebook documentation. Hear about ErrorTracker's enhancements and the innovative exterm_ai terminal with AI assistance. Delve into case studies on real-time air quality monitoring using Elixir and insights from GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report revealing TypeScript's rise. Plus, learn about an AI-driven workflow that compresses extensive tasks into days!

Nov 11, 2025 • 32min
278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes
This discussion dives into the latest Curiosum Elixir survey and insights on how Elixir Hub will share the results. They introduce ReqLLM 1.0, highlighting its standardized support for LLM APIs. The Codicil library is unveiled, showcasing its ability to semantically analyze Elixir code. Exciting news about Tidewave Web's expansion to popular frameworks is covered. Plus, they reveal Phoenix Test Playwright's improvements in browser testing. Lastly, a deep insight into using Postgres WAL for scalable database change notifications takes center stage!

Nov 4, 2025 • 26min
277: Searching Across the Hexiverse
Discover the new HexDocs search engine, enabling smooth cross-package searches for dependencies. Dive into the Elixir Language Tour, offering interactive lessons via WebAssembly. Learn how EMLX makes Stable Diffusion possible on Mac GPUs. Reflect on lessons from the recent AWS outage, highlighting the importance of resilience in service design. Explore Google's Model Context Protocol and its potential to enhance AI tooling in the browser. The hosts unpack these exciting developments, sharing insights for the Elixir community.

Oct 28, 2025 • 42min
276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed
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 improvements coming to ExDocs admonition blocks, Anthropic's new ClaudeCode Web that lets you code directly in the browser with GitHub integration, a critical Redis security vulnerability with a perfect 10.0 severity score affecting hundreds of thousands of servers, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/276
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https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/1978729853349196170 – José Valim announces Elixir v1.19 release on social media
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/10/16/elixir-v1-19-0-released/ – Official blog announcement for Elixir v1.19 release
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.19/changelog.html – Detailed changelog documentation for Elixir v1.19
https://nitter.net/theerlef/status/1978896262473662539 – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation announces OpenChain certification for Elixir v1.19
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02/26/elixir-openchain-certification/ – Details about Elixir's OpenChain certification bringing transparency and trust to the BEAM ecosystem
https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/issues/2149#issuecomment-3394340806 – ExDocs visual adjustments to admonition blocks for better consistency across light and dark modes
https://bsky.app/profile/yellowduck.be/post/3m3htzs4qyg2a – Announcement of Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library v0.0.8 update
https://mishka.tools/blog/introducing-mishka-chelekom-v0.0.8-with-tailwind-4-support-and-custom-configuration – Details about Mishka Chelekom v0.0.8 with Tailwind 4 support and Phoenix 1.8 compatibility
https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/21/1942240/amazons-dns-problem-knocked-out-half-the-web-likely-costing-billions – Report on AWS outage on October 20, 2025 that affected half the web
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status – AWS health status dashboard
GitHub announced plans to move infrastructure to Azure over 1-2 years
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-code-on-the-web – Anthropic announces ClaudeCode Web
https://claude.ai/code – ClaudeCode Web interface
https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg – Video demonstration of ClaudeCode Web
https://redis.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2025-49844/ – Redis security advisory for CVE-2025-49844 with a 10.0 severity score allowing remote code execution
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