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Thinking Elixir Podcast244: Running Python in Elixir?News includes the release of Elixir 1.18.2 with various enhancements and bug fixes, a new experimental SQL sigil for Ecto that brings automatic parameterized queries, a recent GOTO 2025 talk featuring Saša Jurić on code reviews. We talked with Jonatan Kłosko about his work on PythonX, a new library for executing Python code inside Elixir, the Fine library for working with C++ NIFs, and much more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244
Elixir Community News
https://gigalixir.com/thinking – Visit Gigalixir.com to sign up and get 20% off your first year. Or use t...2025-03-1158 minThinking Elixir Podcast217: One Language Server to Rule Them AllNews includes the announcement of an official Elixir Language Server team, the release of Oban v2.18.1 featuring automatic transaction retries with backoff, a new macro-inspired video from German Velasco, the upcoming "Elixir Patterns" book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna, the forthcoming CodeBEAM Lite conference in NYC, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/217
Elixir Community News
https://x.com/josevalim/status/1824121405996482977 – Announcement of the new official Elixir Language Server team.
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/15/welcome-elixir-language-server-team/ – Elixir blog post detailing the new Language Server team and plans.
Team members include Jonat...2024-08-2719 minThinking Elixir Podcast210: A Bloom'n Fancy UIIn this episode, we dive into the launch of Bloom UI with its creator, Chris Gregori. Chris shares his motivations behind Bloom, an opinionated extension of Phoenix core components, aimed at simplifying UI development for Elixir and LiveView projects. We discuss its command-line utility for generating components, current features like avatars and marketing layouts, and potential future directions including expanded components and web component integration. Highlights include Chris's journey with Elixir, contributions from the community, and a strong emphasis on accessibility. Plus, we cover news on Livebook 0.13.x release, the viral "2 Million Checkboxes" project by Peter Ullrich, Tyler Young's...2024-07-091h 07
Elixir MixElixir, LiveBook, and NX: Innovations in Machine Learning Training and GPU Integration - EMx 246Jonatan Kłosko is an open-source developer. They delve into the world of machine learning, numerical computation, and innovative tools shaking up the landscape. They understand the intricacies of training in machine learning and the challenges of running GPU operations on macOS. They also share their experiments with different tools for their machine learning and cloud services project, touching on the topics of reproducibility in notebooks, LiveBook features, and the use of NX for numerical calculations in Elixir. Join them as they navigate the complexities of machine learning, explore the possibilities of innovative technologies, and unearth valuable resources for beginners i...2024-04-2451 minThinking Elixir Podcast194: Operational Elixir: Knowing When to Grow UpIn the final installment of our series, we sit down with the creator of the Ash framework, Zach Daniel, to move beyond his expertise in Ash and explore his experiences with the other systems we use to support our Elixir applications. Zach shares his journey from the dynamic environment of startups to the structured world of midsize companies, giving us a glimpse into the strategic timing for scaling monitoring and data collection tools. He emphasizes the value of fostering a blame-free culture and sheds light on his hands-on encounters with deployments, Kubernetes, and more!
Show Notes online...2024-03-1952 minThinking Elixir Podcast167: Customizing mix phx.new?We've all run "mix phx.new", but have you ever thought to customize what that does? We talk with Victor Björklund who explains how we can create customized Phoenix project generators and why we might want to. We also discuss customizing the phoenix generators for our already generated projects. We explore the idea of supporting 3rd-party maintained generators and what that might look like. A fun discussion sure to “generate” ideas for your project!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/167
Elixir Community News
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.5 – Elixir...2023-09-0552 minThinking Elixir Podcast164: Thinking Elixir NewsNews roundup includes the ElixirConf schedule being published, Bumblebee gets streaming text support, Oban Web is getting a big update, Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons blog post brings broader positive attention, and Elixir Nx being successfully used to follow along with high profile AI examples.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/164
Elixir Community News
https://2023.elixirconf.com/schedule – ElixirConf US schedule is up.
https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee/pull/232 – Merged PR on Bumblebee by Jonatan Kłosko adds support for streaming text generation results.
https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1687123146787233792 – Sean Moriarity drew attenti...2023-08-1507 minThinking Elixir Podcast155: Thinking Elixir NewsOpenSource contributions recognition for Jonatan Kłosko, more from Sean Moriarity on AI with Elixir, the latest update on LLaMa running locally, Stephen Bussey is helping people move from OO languages like Ruby to Elixir with a new book, unraveling recent Arrow related contributions, a security fix to apply and conferences requesting speakers!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/155
Elixir Community News
https://twitter.com/michalslaski/status/1664237603728551936 – Jonatan Kłosko won an award for opensource contributions to Livebook.
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/151 – Previous interview with Jonatan Kłosko about Livebook
https://dockyard.com/blo...2023-06-1309 minThinking Elixir Podcast151: Peeking inside the LivebookRecently Livebook had its first launch week. We met with Jonatan Kłosko, the developer behind most of the exciting new features, to learn what some of these additions are, how they actually work and what's coming with the new Teams feature. Jonatan shares some of his favorite unsung features and where the new apps ability may go in the future. Livebook is an important community project and it's fun getting a deeper look inside!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/151
Elixir Community News
https://changelog.com/podcast/538 – José Valim was on the...2023-05-1643 minThinking Elixir Podcast130: Bumblebee Buzz with José ValimThe Elixir community is buzzing with excitement around Bumblebee! Bumblebee makes it easy to use a variety of pre-trained neural network models in Elixir. José Valim, Paulo Valente, and Jonatan Kłosko join us to talk about this latest advancement. We learn how Bumblebee works, the abilities that are supported today, where things are going next and the longer term visions of what's possible. We cover the new Livebook smart cells that create an easy playground for playing with Bumblebee, a single-file Phoenix example that does image classification, and much more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.th...2022-12-201h 15
Elixir WizardsSpeedcubing and Building Livebook with Jonatan KłoskoIt is important to us that the Elixir community keeps thriving, and one of the best ways to ensure this is by lowering the barrier to entry as much as possible. Livebook is helping to achieve this aim, and today we are lucky enough to be joined by its developer, Jonatan Kłosko. Jonatan is a young prodigy because while he is still at college, he is working closely with José Valim at Dashbit, and he can solve a Rubik’s cube in under five seconds! After hearing about his college thesis on evolutionary algorithms using Numerical Elixir, we jump...2021-12-0945 minThinking Elixir Podcast52: IOList and Postgres with Nathan LongWe take a deeper dive with Nathan Long into IOLists in Elixir. We cover what they are, how they work, the power they have when concatenating strings, and how they are used in Phoenix and Logger. We even talk about improper lists and why they exist. And no, it isn’t a bug. We then talk about PostgreSQL features like materialized views, triggers, and using denormalized tables for solving complicated caching situations. Nathan shares some tips for when to use them and provides some cautions worth hearing.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/52
El...2021-06-1549 minThinking Elixir Podcast46: Livebook with Jonatan KłoskoWe talk with Jonatan Kłosko, the coder behind Livebook, to learn how it works, how the collaborative feature was done, what you can do with it, what you shouldn't do with it, some unusual ways people are using it, and more! We can’t help but talk about all the fun and cool ways it can be abused and how it's finding exciting uses outside of machine learning. A great discussion with lots of insights.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/46
Elixir Community News
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blo...2021-05-0447 min