Hosts

Adi Iyengar

Allen Wyma

Sascha Wolf

Charles Max Wood

Eric Bolikowski

Mark Ericksen

Michael Ries

Alex Koutmos

Lars Wikman

Sophie DeBenedetto

Steven Nunez

Bruce Tate

Mika Kalathil

Josh Adams

Eric Oestrich

Nate Hopkins

Eric Berry

Justin Bean

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Episodes

Apr 07, 2021

BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood’s Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer?

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.

Apr 02, 2021

BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

Mar 31, 2021

BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

Mar 26, 2021

BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer

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.

Mar 26, 2021

BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer

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.

Mar 23, 2021

EMx 124: Learning Resources for Elixir

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.

Mar 16, 2021

BONUS: How Senior Developers Can Enjoy Learning Like They Were Juniors

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.

Mar 09, 2021

Emx 123: Curry in a Megaparsec - Unconvention Elixir Explorations with Julien Maisonneuve

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.)

Mar 02, 2021

BONUS: How to get Freelance Clients to Come to You

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.

Feb 16, 2021

Emx 122: The Future of Elixir Mix

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

Feb 05, 2021

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with 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.

Feb 05, 2021

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with 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.

Feb 03, 2021

Emx 121: What is a Top 5% Developer?

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.

Jan 12, 2021

EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim

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.

Jan 01, 2021

BONUS: How to Crush Your Biggest Goals in 2021

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

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Mani Vaya
Dec 29, 2020

EMx 120: Exploring GraphQL with Elixir

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.

Dec 23, 2020

EMx 119: Crawling The Web With Elixir with Adam Mokan

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.

Dec 08, 2020

EMx 118: gRPC + Elixir, A Love Story with Catalina Astengo

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.

Dec 01, 2020

EMx 117: Learning and Loving Elixir with Randall Thomas

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!

Nov 27, 2020

BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working

Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

Guests:
Mani Vaya
Nov 24, 2020

EMx 116: Where Should We Take Elixir with Saša Jurić

This guest barely needs an introduction and we roll quickly forward from his one-punch knockout book Elixir in Action and onward. Saša makes the panel consider what we could and maybe should be doing with Elixir in the future. We talk about his talks, his libraries and his overall vision for what the future could and possibly should hold. Rather than reading this, you should be listening because the erlangelist is talking and it serves us all to pay attention.

Nov 17, 2020

EMx 115: LiveView for React Developers with Feather Knee

In this episode of Elixir Mix, Feather Knee joins us to discuss her recent ElixirConf2020 talk on LiveView components, what its like learning LiveView with a React background and where LiveView really shines as a framework. We also chat about fall foliage, pumpkin recipes and ghosts, since it’s that time of year.

Nov 03, 2020

EMx 114: Just-in-time for OTP 24 with Lukas Larsson and John Högberg

In this episode of ElixirMix, we talk with Lukas Larsson and John Högberg about the JIT compiler that will be landing in OTP 24, the performance implications that come along with it and the inside scoop on the Erlang core team.

Oct 27, 2020

EMx 113: Lumen with Luke Imhoff

In this episode of Elixir Mix, we are joined by inimitable Luke Imhoff who takes us on a wild journey through his background from low-level, to high-level and straight back into compiler land as we work our way towards talking about Lumen. And what a conversation that is. WebAssembly, working group politics, sneaking binaries into the enterprise and so much more. The big take-away is that the Lumen project is a very cool effort to give us more options for running Erlang, Elixir and friends that are suitable for entirely different use-cases. Also, clearly, that the Lumen team is carrying the torch for all functional languages in the WASM Working Group. If you are curious about Lumen or WebAssembly this one is for you.

Oct 20, 2020

EMx 112: Phoenix Live Heron with Connor Rigby

Connor Rigby of Nerves fame joins our motley crew to talk about the new Blue Heron library that brings Bluetooth Low-Energy/BLE to Nerves. He goes deep, he goes wide. We learn a lot. And beyond that we cover the Spawnfest darling we know as Bakeware that creates single static binaries from Elixir projects and some Flutter. We almost fall into car talk but mostly steer clear. This is a wild one!