Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

As we ramp back up on recording Elixir Mix, our new panel dives into the resources available for learning and keeping current in Elixir. Resources include books, courses, forums, email newsletters, and more.

Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.

Julien Maisonneuve—blogger extraordinaire—joins the Elixir Mix panel to discuss the ways he’s bent Elixir to his will and found the edges of how it works and what you can do with its syntax. He talks about currying and about taking Elixir syntax to extremes. He’s also worked on the Megaparsec Elixir parser and explains some of the oddities that come with working with Elixir’s AST(Abstract Syntax Tree.)

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

If you've been wondering what's up with Elixir Mix and how it's going to shape up for the future, stay tuned…

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask.

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills.

José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir.

Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.

We talk with Meryl Dakin, an Elixir engineer at Frame.io, about why they rebuilt their legacy application in Elixir, why they brought in GraphQL and what it’s like to work with the Absinthe Elixir library for GraphQL. We wrap up the episode with a very special Tarot reading using the deck that Meryl gave Sophie last Christmas.

Adam Mokan joins the Mix to discuss crawling the web with Elixir. He starts out by explaining he rather unconventional path to Elixir. At ElixirConf he spoke about crawling the web. He admits that his talk was more about architecture of a highly parallelized app with a restrictive SLA. He talks about managing web crawls and not knowing what your clients will send in.

We talk with Engineering Manager and Elixirist Catalina Astengo about using gRPC, Protobuf and Elixir to standardize communication between microservices, why and when to reach for gRPC and why Elixir lends itself so well to this pattern of communication.

We discuss how to learn and love Elixir and other functional languages, the importance of people and community in learning, the perfect autumnal cocktail and so much more with Randall Thomas—drinker, hacker and bon vivant!