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Thinking Elixir Podcast

by ThinkingElixir.com · English · Tech & Science

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 31 min
Latest: 23 Jun 2026
Language: English

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23 Jun 2026 · 45 min

309: The Final Episode

The final episode of Thinking Elixir after six incredible years of weekly episodes! We send things off in style with a packed news segment covering Phoenix LiveView 1.2's new colocated CSS powered by the @scope at-rule, the retirement of the long-standing Earmark Markdown library and why you should migrate to MDEx, a major Sagents v0.8.0 release bringing durable interrupts, and structured extraction, PostgreSQL 19's exciting new features including graph queries, SpaceX's jaw-dropping $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, and more! Finally, David shares his new role on the Erlang Ecosystem…

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16 Jun 2026 · 33 min

308: Elixir Goes Gradually Typed

Elixir v1.20 has officially landed, marking a huge milestone as the language is now officially a gradually typed language, type checking every single line of code without requiring developer annotations, and even prompting some developers to drop Dialyzer entirely. HexDocs is rolling out per-package subdomains for improved browser security isolation, the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation has launched an Ecosystem Registry to help answer "who uses this?" for Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam companies, and the Lua library for Elixir is approaching its v1.0 release with a brand new pure-Elixir Lua 5.3 VM.…
9 Jun 2026 · 24 min

307: Trust Nothing, Sort Everything

Mark shares a bittersweet housekeeping update — the Thinking Elixir Podcast is winding down, with the final episode airing June 23rd, 2026, closing the book on over six years of weekly shows. On the news front, Ecto 3.14 lands with long-awaited UUIDv7 support (time-sortable UUIDs for better index performance) along with a host of other improvements, Oban Pro adds a “human approval” workflow step that lets jobs pause mid-execution and resume on a signal without holding a database connection open, Hologram v0.9 arrives with a new Realtime feature enabling pure-Elixir WebSocket push from server…
2 Jun 2026 · 27 min

306: Don't Exhaust Your Atoms

Security takes center stage this week as the EEF's Jonatan Männchen highlights that atom exhaustion accounts for roughly one tenth of all CVEs in the BEAM ecosystem and Sobelow can help catch it before it hits production. Hackney users get an urgent nudge to upgrade to v4.0.3, which patches 9 CVEs including high-severity issues and fixes missing HTTP/3 certificate verification, thanks in part to Peter Ullrich's AI-assisted vulnerability research. On the exciting side, the new Elixir 1.20-rc.6 type system is proving its worth in the real world, with Tyler Young reporting it caught ~500…
26 May 2026 · 33 min

305: Eleven Minutes to Mayhem

News includes Elixir 1.20.0-rc.6 arriving as likely the final release candidate before v1.20.0 ships, completing a ~15-week roadmap and delivering full type inference across applications and dependencies. The EEF 2026 election results are in with 3 returning and 1 new board member, LiveStash v0.3.0 lands with a Redis adapter and auto-stashing for Phoenix LiveView state recovery on WebSocket reconnects, a call goes out for BEAM ecosystem companies to step up and support the EEF’s critical security work, and GitHub suffered a significant breach when a hijacked VS Code extension quietly…
19 May 2026 · 28 min

304: Types, CVEs, and Hot Reloads

News includes a major milestone for Elixir's set-theoretic types as inference of all language constructs is completed and merged with Elixir v1.20.0-rc.5 hot on its heels, OTP 29.0 drops as a major release with secure-by-default SSH, post-quantum SSL key exchange, Erlang doctests, and more, a wave of high-severity CVEs hits the Elixir and Phoenix stack prompting the EEF CNA to take on a larger work load as AI-driven vulnerability reports surge, string processing in Elixir gets a serious speed boost via SWAR (SIMD Within A Register) optimizations with 1.5–5x improvements across Base and…
12 May 2026 · 31 min

303: The Taming of the Slop

News includes the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation publishing its 2026 board election candidates with voting now open, a new GitHub organization called Elixir-Vibe launching with tools to detect and fix AI-generated Elixir “slop” — including ExSlop and the related semantic linter Credence, erlang_python 3.0.0 arriving with true parallelism by embedding CPython into the BEAM as a first-class citizen, ElixirConf EU 2026 videos beginning to drop including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/303 Elixir Community News…
5 May 2026 · 29 min

302: BEAM in Your Pocket

News includes Mob, an exciting new framework that brings BEAM-on-device mobile development to Elixir with OTP running natively inside iOS and Android apps, Folio a new library for generating print-quality PDFs and SVGs from Elixir data powered by Typst via Rustler NIF, both Oban v2.22 and Oban Pro v1.7.0 were released with a host of improvements including job querying, unique workflows, and a rate limiting overhaul, LiveVue v1.1 arrives with Node-less SSR via QuickBeam and persistent layouts, erlang_quic v1.3.0 brings a production-ready pure-Erlang QUIC and HTTP/3 stack to OTP 27, and more!…
28 Apr 2026 · 18 min

301: Testing, Debugging, and Departures

News includes Phoenix LiveDebugger hitting v1.0 with an interactive tour to go along with it, LiveStash v0.2.0 shipping with API improvements and a tease of Redis & Mnesia adapters on the horizon, German Velasco making his TestingLiveView.com course completely free for the Elixir community, Volt reaching v0.8.0 as an Elixir-native frontend build tool that eliminates the need for Node.js, and Francesco Cesarini announcing his departure from Erlang Solutions while pledging to remain active in the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/301…
21 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

300: Celebrating 300 with José Valim

It's Episode 300 — a milestone just under 6 years in the making! To celebrate, we kick things off with a fun song, then dive into the news: the Localize library v0.15.0 brings locale-aware formatting and Unicode CLDR data to Elixir without any compile-time code generation, a new library called Reach builds program dependence graphs for Elixir and Erlang to help coding agents and static analysis tools understand your codebase, Tidewave gets exciting updates including voice input with click-to-add context and the ability to install it as a PWA, the ErlEF has opened its 2026 board elections…
14 Apr 2026 · 42 min

299: Don't Paste That Into Your Terminal

The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is seeking community support for a major grant to fund the Ægis security project and the deadline is April 17th to show support, Hex.pm published the results of its first-ever comprehensive third-party security audit revealing three high-severity findings that have since been fixed, José Valim unveils a massive Tidewave update including UI Variants and a new "vision" mode that lets your coding agent take screenshots and record videos of your web app, Hex.pm gains the ability to serve llms.txt files for Elixir and Erlang packages, Remote releases a new Elixir…
7 Apr 2026 · 20 min

298: Hex Gets a Glow Up

News includes the hex.pm website getting a fresh new redesign, the Hex 2.4 package manager upgrading to OAuth device flow authentication with two-factor authentication support for improved security, the official Elixir Expert LSP hitting its v0.1 release milestone, a new LiveStash library from SoftwareMansion that prevents state loss on LiveView reconnects, and José Valim himself stopping by to remind everyone that the ElixirConf US Call for Talks deadline is fast approaching, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/298 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ –…
31 Mar 2026 · 36 min

297: JavaScript Joins the BEAM?

News includes Quickbeam, an exciting new research project that brings a full JavaScript runtime inside the BEAM with OTP supervision, native DOM access, and a built-in TypeScript toolchain, plus a companion Volt asset pipeline for Elixir; José Valim highlights how Elixir’s type system work is already inspiring optimizations in Python’s Ruff project, and shares a new blog post on the latest BDD performance improvements coming in Elixir v1.20; LiveView Debugger v0.7 arrives with source code links, nested live view tree structure, and a closer path to v1.0; a new browser-based Elixir Language…
24 Mar 2026 · 47 min

296: OpenAI Chose Elixir and A VM Inside a VMV

Elixir v1.20.0-rc.2 and rc.3 arrive with a faster compiler, better type inference, and improved incremental compilation; José Valim drops a low-key bombshell with Distributed Python running on top of the Erlang distribution with full Livebook integration; Chris McCord wows the community with fly_deploy, enabling zero-downtime hot code upgrades on Fly.io using the BEAM's ability to boot a peer VM inside a running VM; Discord shares a deep dive into how they added distributed tracing to their Elixir systems without melting everything; Popcorn v0.2 brings Elixir to the browser as a proper npm…
10 Mar 2026 · 27 min

295: Is Your Type System Leaking?

News includes José Valim publishing a deep technical post on Elixir's type system shift from DNFs to Lazy BDDs with eager literal intersections — cutting worst-case type checking from 10 seconds to 25ms — alongside a more approachable Dashbit post on type systems as leaky abstractions, Zach Daniel's new usage_rules feature for shipping versioned AI skills inside Hex packages, Oban Pro teasing a major Workflow + Web UI overhaul with graph views and progress tracking, MDEx v0.11.6 landing with a new :codefence_renderers option, Livebook Desktop adding Linux support, Flame On hitting v1.0.0…
3 Mar 2026 · 31 min

294: Compile Times, Language Servers, and Python, Oh My!

News includes the long-awaited Expert LSP releasing its first release candidate — the unified Elixir Language Server merging Lexical and Next LS — with monorepo support and early adopter feedback already glowing, José Valim shares exciting Elixir v1.20 compile time improvements bringing up to 20% faster compilation on OTP 29 and up to 5x faster with a new interpreted mode, Livebook Desktop makes the move to Tauri bringing Linux support and plans for a reusable Tauri+Elixir package, a new erlang-python library arrives for running Python ML/AI code from Elixir with true parallelism, Nx v0.11…
24 Feb 2026 · 29 min

293: The BEAM as the Universal Runtime

News includes Hackney v3.1.0 dropping ~1.3 million lines of C code in favor of a pure Erlang QUIC implementation for HTTP/3 support, Benoît Chesneau's Hornbeam 1.0.0 bringing Erlang-powered hosting to Python web apps with performance that puts Gunicorn to shame, the Easel library offering a Canvas 2D drawing API for Elixir that works with Phoenix LiveView and native WX windows, Hologram v0.7.0 hitting a major milestone with client-side Erlang runtime coverage jumping from 34% to 96%, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/293 Elixir Community News…
17 Feb 2026 · 42 min

292: Sage Advice for AI Agents

TNews includes Mark announcing his new Sagents library for building AI agents with human-in-the-loop oversight and real-time debugging capabilities, José Valim's blog post on why Elixir is the best language for AI based on recent completion rate studies, LiveDebugger v0.6.0 with custom events and enhanced exception handling, an analysis of Elixir developer salaries showing US senior remote positions at ~$163k median, Peter Ullrich's new MCP server implementation for Elixir, a revamp of Lua for Elixir with improved tooling, Elixir Hub's new events section for finding conferences and meetups,…
10 Feb 2026 · 33 min

291: From 2x Compilation to Junior Comprehension

News includes José Valim announcing another major compilation time improvement coming to Elixir v1.20 achieving 2x speedup while adding the type checker, a new alternative Erlang syntax called Telelang, Membrane's YOLO plugin bringing AI-powered object detection to video pipelines, Christian Alexander's Claude Skill for automating dependency updates through AI conversation, José Valim's experimental PR Quiz tool that transforms code reviews into interactive learning experiences inspired by Anthropic research on AI coding skills, legal changes to US SBOM requirements, AshPartition for…
3 Feb 2026 · 34 min

290: Postgres Finally Gets Real Search

News includes Elixir v1.20.0-rc.1 with important type system improvements, not one but two new Elixir-native Bash interpreters for seamless interop, LiveCapture bringing zero-boilerplate storybooks to LiveView components, Christian Alexander's DurableObject library for persistent actors inspired by Cloudflare, Postgres getting a game-changing BM25 text search extension that rivals Elasticsearch, a breakthrough RAG approach that eliminates vector databases entirely while achieving 98.7% accuracy, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/290 Elixir Community News…
27 Jan 2026 · 27 min

289: Erlang Drives into QNX Territory

News includes a groundbreaking effort to port Erlang to QNX for automotive systems, ExDoc 0.40.0 adding LLM-friendly features, Permit.Phoenix v0.4.0 improving authorization workflows, Oban Pro launching for Python with Elixir interop, new LLM evaluation tools Tribunal and Beamlens that bring AI-powered testing and self-diagnosing supervision trees to the BEAM, Tidewave crossing 100k ARR just 5 months after launch, Guillaume Duboc defending his PhD thesis on typing Elixir with set-theoretic types, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/289 Elixir Community News…
20 Jan 2026 · 26 min

288: 15 Years of Elixir and Full Type Inference

News includes Elixir's 15th anniversary celebrated with an early v1.20 release candidate featuring type inference for all constructs, Chris McCord's launch of Sprites.dev for hardware-isolated execution environments at Fly.io, MDEx v0.11.0 with a new website and Phoenix Components support, Ex_cldr 3.0 announced as Localize with runtime-only configuration, Gust workflow engine as an Airflow alternative built in Elixir, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with Dead LiveViews debugging, LiveVue v1.0 stable release bringing Vue.js integration to Phoenix LiveView, Goatmire conference returning in 2026, and more!…
13 Jan 2026 · 22 min

287: From RAGs to Rich Workflows

News includes Arcana, a new RAG library for Phoenix that adds vector search and AI Q&A using Postgres and pgvector, a JavaScript embedding library called MquickjsEx that brings MicroQuickJS to Elixir processes, LiveDebugger v0.5.0 with support for LiveView Streams, DaisyUI officially supporting Phoenix in their commercial dashboard templates, Durable - a new workflow engine similar to Temporal, José Valim teasing beautiful type system improvements, the Hologram project receiving an EEF stipend, Jido 2.0 demonstrating swarms of 1,575 agents indexing code in 7 seconds, ElixirConf EU 2026…
6 Jan 2026 · 41 min

286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review

News includes a compelling story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix and Ash in just two weeks, Credo 1.7.15 with massive performance improvements dropping runtime from 33 to 9 seconds on large codebases, Soothsayer library updates for time series forecasting, Torchx now running on Apple Metal, an EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries monthly, the first ever GleamLang conference announced for 2026, and more! After the news, we take a retrospective look at 2025, reviewing notable events and trends throughout the year. Show Notes online -…
30 Dec 2025 · 32 min

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…
23 Dec 2025 · 25 min

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 -…
16 Dec 2025 · 43 min

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…

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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. Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process. Subscribe to join us on this journey!

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