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Thinking Elixir Podcast 294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My!
Thinking Elixir Podcast 294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My! YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Expert LSP releasing its first RC, Elixir v1.20 compile time improvements up to 20% faster, #Livebook Desktop moving to Tauri with #Linux support, a new erlang-python library for ML/AI integration, and more! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang #AI #ML www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed83...

03.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 293: The BEAM as the Universal Runtime
Thinking Elixir Podcast 293: The BEAM as the Universal Runtime YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Hackney v3.1.0 with pure #Erlang HTTP/3 support, Hornbeam running #Python apps on the BEAM, the Easel Canvas 2D drawing library for #LiveView, Hologram v0.7.0 reaching 96% Erlang runtime coverage, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuH...

24.02.2026 13:22 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sagents: Build AI Agents in Elixir with Human Oversight, SubAgents, and Real-Time Debugging
Sagents: Build AI Agents in Elixir with Human Oversight, SubAgents, and Real-Time Debugging YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

Introducing Sagents -- an open-source #ElixirLang framework for building #AI agents with human oversight, composable middleware, and real-time Phoenix LiveView integration.

Built on OTP. Each agent is a supervised GenServer.

Watch the full demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-14...

12.02.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 291: From 2x Compilation to Junior Comprehension
Thinking Elixir Podcast 291: From 2x Compilation to Junior Comprehension YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes @elixir-lang.org v1.20 achieving 2x compilation speedup, Telelang alternative #Erlang syntax, Membrane’s #AI-powered YOLO plugin, @josevalim.bsky.social PR Quiz tool for interactive code review learning, and the #ElixirConfEU speaker lineup! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Makf...

10.02.2026 13:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 290: Postgres Finally Gets Real Search
Thinking Elixir Podcast 290: Postgres Finally Gets Real Search YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes @elixir-lang.org v1.20.0-rc.1, 2 new Elixir-native Bash interpreters, zero-boilerplate component storybooks, #DurableObject library for persistent actors, @postgresql.org search extension, a new #RAG approach skips vector DBs, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzOk...

03.02.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 289: Erlang Drives into QNX Territory
Thinking Elixir Podcast 289: Erlang Drives into QNX Territory YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes porting Erlang to QNX for automotive systems, ExDoc 0.40.0 with LLM features, Oban Pro for #Python, new #AI evaluation tools Tribunal and Beamlens, Tidewave hits 100k ARR, PhD thesis on typing Elixir, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=a967...

27.01.2026 13:45 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference
Thinking Elixir Podcast 288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

Elixir’s 15th anniversary brings v1.20 RC with full type inference, Chris McCord launches Sprites(dot)dev, LiveVue v1.0 goes stable, Gust #workflow engine debuts, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org #VueJS www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJA9...

20.01.2026 13:50 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 287: From RAGs to Rich Workflows
Thinking Elixir Podcast 287: From RAGs to Rich Workflows YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Arcana #RAG library for Phoenix, MquickjsEx embedding #JavaScript in #ElixirLang, LiveDebugger adds Streams support, Durable workflow engine, @josevalim.bsky.social teasing type improvements, Hologram receiving EEF support, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cULP...

13.01.2026 13:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review
Thinking Elixir Podcast 286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes #NextJS to Phoenix migration story, massive Credo performance improvements, Torchx on Apple Metal, DNSimple’s #Erlang case study, first #GleamLang conference announced, and more! Plus a 2025 retrospective. #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0R...

06.01.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 285: From Popcorn to Robots
Thinking Elixir Podcast 285: From Popcorn to Robots YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes running #LiveView in the browser with #WebAssembly, New Nerves book launches in beta, PinStripe for Stripe integration, Beam Bots for robotics, @sasajuric.bsky.social's #Goatmire talk, Tidewave updates, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-f3...

30.12.2025 13:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 284: β€˜Tis the Season for a Type System
Thinking Elixir Podcast 284: β€˜Tis the Season for a Type System YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

Elixir v1.20 with full-type inference coming soon, @gleam.run v1.14.0-rc1, mjml_eex v0.13.0 for email templates, Dashbit’s nimble_zta library for zero trust auth, BjΓΆrn Gustavsson’s #BEAM history talk, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjb...

23.12.2025 13:08 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Thinking Elixir Podcast 283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk
Thinking Elixir Podcast 283: Erlang Turns 27 and React at Risk YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

Celebrating #Erlang’s 27th birthday as #OpenSource, Elixir Hub 2025 survey results, new data_migration LiveDashboard package, critical #React RCE vuln, and Zig leaves #GitHub, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FWy...

16.12.2025 12:53 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trying something new in the YouTube video of the episode! We’re showing the articles or projects as we talk about them. Is that helpful? Do you want me to continue doing it? Or do you prefer the audio only approach?

09.12.2025 13:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 282: Type Systems and View Transitions
Thinking Elixir Podcast 282: Type Systems and View Transitions YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes cutting-edge type system research from @josevalim.bsky.social, Phoenix LiveView v1.1.18 with view transition support, LiveDebugger’s biggest release, Nx #Python-Elixir integration, and more! #ElixirLang @elixir-lang.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvG...

09.12.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Thinking Elixir Podcast 281: Planning for the Unexpected
Thinking Elixir Podcast 281: Planning for the Unexpected YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes OTP 28.2 release, significant update to the "whois" library, Tidewave adds Figma support, KQL parser library, EEF vulnerability data on OSV-dev, and more! Plus: designing for failure vs handling errors. #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1z...

02.12.2025 13:45 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 280: Dark Matter Developers
Thinking Elixir Podcast 280: Dark Matter Developers YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Elixir 1.19.3 release, Tidewave Web adding Claude Code and Codex support, Hologram’s #JavaScript porting initiative, new pg_large_objects and playwright_ex libraries, TIOBE language index rankings, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a48...

25.11.2025 12:51 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes
Thinking Elixir Podcast 279: Hot Code Upgrades and Hotter AI Takes YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

FlyDeploy for hot code upgrades, #GRPC library with Livebook docs, ErrorTracker v0.7.0, GitHub’s Octoverse shows #TypeScript on top, and Mark’s #AI workflow that turns 2 weeks into 2 days! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TZ...

18.11.2025 13:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes
Thinking Elixir Podcast 278: WAL-ing Through Database Changes YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes ReqLLM 1.0 with standardized LLM APIs, Codicil bringing semantic code understanding to #AI assistants, Tidewave Web expanding to #Python and more, playwright browser pooling, and #PostgreSQL WAL for DB notifications! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXp8...

11.11.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 277: Searching Across the Hexiverse
Thinking Elixir Podcast 277: Searching Across the Hexiverse YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes a new HexDocs search engine built in Gleam, Software Mansion's interactive Elixir Language Tour running in #WebASM, Stable Diffusion on Mac GPUs through EMLX, #AWS outage lessons, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMA...

04.11.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed
Thinking Elixir Podcast 276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Elixir v1.19 release, #OpenChain certification for the BEAM ecosystem, #TailwindCSS 4 update for a LiveView component library, ClaudeCode Web with #GitHub integration, a critical #Redis CVE, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3m...

28.10.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 275: From Slop to Success?
Thinking Elixir Podcast 275: From Slop to Success? YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 is the last stop to 1.19, typed structs timeline update, new "mix help app:phoenix" command, gRPC v0.11.0, ReqCassette library, #AI coding insights, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCDs...

21.10.2025 12:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance
Thinking Elixir Podcast 274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 with 2.3x faster dep compiles, LiveView Native's uncertain future, MDex library upgrades, Permit authorization library, Aether AT Protocol for @bsky.app, Supabase's $100M raise, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox1Y...

14.10.2025 12:14 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 273: Does the Language Really Matter?
Thinking Elixir Podcast 273: Does the Language Really Matter? YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Chris McCord's LLM web browser tool, Zoi schema validation library, AshDiagram for visualizing Ash applications, EEF’s progress on EU Cyber Resilience Act readiness, PostgreSQL 18 release, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb7y...

07.10.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto
Thinking Elixir Podcast 272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Vault library for process-scoped storage, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant crypto, #Tidewave Teams launch, AshTypescript for type-safe frontends, major Elixir 1.19-rc.0 deps compile speed up, and conference updates! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hK_...

30.09.2025 12:10 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 271: Testing, Searching, and Funding
Thinking Elixir Podcast 271: Testing, Searching, and Funding YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes interactive #ExUnit testing with mix_test_interactive, TrieHard Rust-powered search library, ReqLLM for unified #LLM interactions, Hologram v0.6.0 production features, funded Rebar4 project, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf9n...

23.09.2025 12:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar
Thinking Elixir Podcast 270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes #Rebar 4 #Kickstarter campaign, #Tidewave Web adding #React support and @openrouter.bsky.social integration, Phoenix 1.8.1 release, @elixirconf.bsky.social US videos, AshFramework security advisory, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cir2...

16.09.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives
Thinking Elixir Podcast 269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Expert, the new official Elixir LSP, Tidewave Web’s first major update, handoff library for distributed graph execution, Elixir’s exceptional performance in LLM benchmarks, #ElixirConf US heads to Chicago, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IhS...

09.09.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
ElixirConf 2025 - YouTube ElixirConf US 2025 held in Orlando, FL at the Renassaince Seaworld, August 27-29, 2025.

The ElixirConf 2025 videos are already published to YouTube! πŸ”₯ #ElixirLang #ElixirConf #MyElixirStatus youtube.com/playlist?lis...

03.09.2025 03:10 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 268: Got your Popcorn here!
Thinking Elixir Podcast 268: Got your Popcorn here! YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes a new SQL #analytics library called Lotus, plus an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project enabling Elixir to run in #WebAssembly in the browser! #ElxirLang @ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85K...

02.09.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with JosΓ© Valim
Thinking Elixir Podcast 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with JosΓ© Valim YouTube video by Mark Ericksen

News includes Tidewave Web’s #AI-powered development assistant with JosΓ© Valim joining to go deeper, a comprehensive #ElixirLang blog post on 2025 interoperability options, Livebook Teams launching out of beta, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlw...

26.08.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0