August 29, 2023

Exploring Flop for Elixir Data Handling

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The Thinking Elixir Podcast episode covers an interview with Mathias Polligkeit, the creator of the Flop library for Elixir. The library aims to provide developers with a standard way to perform filtering, ordering, and pagination of data in their applications. Flop integrates with Ecto, allowing easy manipulation of datasets. Additionally, Mathias developed flop_phoenix, which includes heex components to assist with building Elixir-powered web applications that require such data management features. The hosts, Mark Ericksen, David Bernheisel, and Cade Ward, delve into Mathias's motivations for creating the library, its core functionalities, how it stacks up against personal solutions the hosts have used and the possibility of it offering a better solution. The episode also touches upon community news, discussing upcoming Elixir features, various libraries, and tooling updates, which showcase continual growth and improvement within the Elixir ecosystem.

ElixirConf 2023 Behind the Scenes Episode 59

Beam Radio presents the final ElixirConf bonus episode featuring interviews with speakers and attendees, including Greg Vaughn, Jenny Bramble, Desmond Bowe, José Valim, Ryan Schneck, Razvan Draghici, Sam McDavid, and more.

Sep 11, 2023

Elixir Community Update and News Discussion

News includes a new 'async' feature being added to LiveView, a new translation library called Kanta was announced, formatted logging, improved keyboard navigation in ExDocs, the Membrane framework released a pure Elixir H264 video plugin, and more!

Sep 12, 2023

Summary of Elixir News from Thinking Elixir Podcast Episode 169

News covers the conclusion of ElixirConf US 2023 with key highlights being Chris McCord's keynote on improved Phoenix debugging tools, and Jose Valim's keynote introducing the "Strong Arrows" concept for handling dynamic types.

Sep 19, 2023