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Keeping an open mind, sharing what's on my mind. ThinkingElixir.com, podcast.ThinkingElixir.com, #ElixirLang
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Nov 19
I'm looking for a remote, fulltime Elixir position! I've got lots of experience with Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, mentoring, and AI. I'd love to work with you! Please reach out! #ai #llm #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus #work #LiveView #ElixirPhoenix
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · 12d
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_...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · 19d
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...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 271: Testing, Searching, and Funding
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · 26d
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...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Sep 9
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...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Sep 3
The ElixirConf 2025 videos are already published to YouTube! 🔥 #ElixirLang #ElixirConf #MyElixirStatus youtube.com/playlist?lis...
ElixirConf 2025 - YouTube
ElixirConf US 2025 held in Orlando, FL at the Renassaince Seaworld, August 27-29, 2025.
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Sep 3
Congrats Zach! That’s exciting! Best of luck.
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Sep 2
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...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 268: Got your Popcorn here!
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Aug 29
It’s beautiful! Thanks for sharing with me. I must enjoy it from afar today.
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Aug 26
I've most heard Elixirist. I don't like alchemist because it doesn't include the name of the language at all.
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Aug 26
News includes Tidewave Web’s #AI-powered development assistant with José 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...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Aug 19
Phoenix 1.8.0 is officially released with dark mode, magic links, and #LLM tools! Plus ElixirLS updates, new Torus search library, free ThinkingElixir courses, and more! #ElixirPhoenix #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnz...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Aug 18
My ThinkingElixir programming courses are now 100% free and open to the public! I converted a WordPress site with courses into a static website. The project downloads are now published on GitHub. Enjoy! #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang #ProgrammingCourse #TDD thinkingelixir.com/available-co...
Courses - Thinking Elixir
Available Courses FREE Pattern Matching Course Pattern matching is a powerful language feature. It is built in to almost every corner or Elixir. In order for you to even read Elixir code and follow al...
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Aug 12
News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 with colocated #JavaScript and portals, StackOverflow Survey showing #ElixirLang as 3rd most admired language, The Primeagen switching to Elixir, Global Elixir Meetups in Sept 2025, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sq...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Aug 5
News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with AGENTS support, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser via #WebAssembly, LiveVue v0.6.0 with major performance improvements, and more! #ElixirLang #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hMc...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Jul 30
See one AI orchestrate a separate specialized AI task. Watch it gather info then execute targeted marketing campaigns. Same brand voice, completely different messaging for each audience. When AI works for you. #AI #agentic #ElixirLang #marketing #business www.youtube.com/watch?v=piS1...
How to Build AI Systems That Actually Run Your Business (Not Just Chat)
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Jul 29
News includes BEAM fitting into 16MB, #BBC using Elixir for 6 years, how GenStage improves performance, PDF extraction library, Phoenix deployment with Kamal, and more! #ElixirLang #Erlang www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SH...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Jul 22
News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4, new libraries deps_changelog and Hog, an amazing Elixir system achieving 100% #uptime for 5+ years, ElixirConf 2025 schedule, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuuY...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Jul 16
Thanks! I’m glad you found it. Interesting. The demo I have planned next shows another more powerful usage.
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Jul 16
We're living through an #AI revolution, but most are missing the real opportunity. I built an AI system that completely automates part of my podcast workflow - turning tedious show notes work into automated perfection. See it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2I...
I Built an AI Tool That Saves Me Hours Every Week (Demo)
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Jul 15
News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates, @josevalim.bsky.social's DevLabs interview on building authentic tools, 9 reasons to choose Elixir, Fgma's $300K daily AWS costs, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-4...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Jul 8
News includes LiveDebugger v0.3.0 with enhanced LiveView debugging, Oban 1.6 featuring sub-workflows, YOLO v0.2.0 bringing faster image detection, testing insights with AI tools, and progress on the new Expert LSP project, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD-y...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 260: Cheaper testing with AI?
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Mark Ericksen @brainlid.bsky.social · Jul 1
It's coming!!!
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expert-lsp.org @expert-lsp.org · Jun 29
👀 😏
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Jul 1
We talk with Chris McCord about his revolutionary phoenix.new AI-powered dev service and in the news cover Ecto v3.13, official Phoenix security docs, Zach Daniel's AI evaluation tool, and more! #ElixirLang #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpD...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new
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ThinkingElixir @thinkingelixir.com · Jun 24
News includes EEF's first #CVE release, Supabase's Multigres for scaling #Postgres, new #MCP servers for Phoenix, Erlang surviving extreme load tests, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 preview, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVy...
Thinking Elixir Podcast 258: CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams
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Paraxial.io @paraxialio.bsky.social · Jun 18
Phoenix 1.8 Gets Official Security Documentation

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Phoenix 1.8 Gets Official Security Documentation
Protect your application from hackers
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