Elixir Outlaws is an informal discussion about interesting things happening in Elixir. Our goal is to capture the spirit of a conference hallway discussion in a podcast.
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Episode 29: Hour-long pair switching
This week Amos is looking for a new client and visiting lots of museums. The discussion turns to common libraries and methods when starting new projects. This leads to the topic of how to do effective handoff with clients through pairing and creating psychological safety in teams.
Episode 28: Devoid of joy
4th wall break Hey y’all it’s Chris. Just wanted you to know that we had a bunch of technical issues with this call. Both mine and Anna’s recordings were corrupted somehow. We’re still looking into why. Because of this the audio quality changes at around the 20 minute mark. We fell back to using the zoom call audio which we typically only use as a reference for lining up all of the other tracks. I just wanted you to know in case you’re sensitive to that kinda thing. Notes This week kicks off with a discussion of the holidays, the plight of climate change, and the impending loss of Florida. Amos steers the conversation back towards elixir and his experience building a shell for his current client. Chris describe’s his current experience writing Rust. While he acknowledges that Rust is a good language he doesn’t feel like Rust elevates the paradigm of programming enough. Amos asks the other hosts what they look for in packages or libraries. This leads to a discussion of how to design deeper apis while leveraging stateless operations. Chris explains how they’re using stateless patterns in vapor. Elixir cards are available by tweeting at @elixiroutlaws (https://twitter.com/ElixirOutlaws) and @elixircards (https://twitter.com/elixircards) on twitter with the hashtag #vapor. You can explain to Chris why he's wrong about rust or whatever. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.
Episode 27: Give me a squiggly
This week kicks off with a discussion on the merits of being punctual and valuing people’s time. The conversation takes a detour into Chris and Amos’s experiences working at the big blue rectangle known as Walmart. This leads into the main topic for this week which is unit testing. Amos starts off with some definitions and Chris explains why if you’re gunna write a unit test you should actually be writing property based tests. The hosts wrap up the discussion by weighing the tradeoffs of different styles of testing. The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5332239). If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.
Episode 26: Lonely child operator
This week kicks off with a discussion of the holidays and the drama of having kids. There's a lot of shucking and jiving before leading into the main topic of this week: Interesting things that could be added to elixir. They discuss features for the IO and Enum modules, wacky ideas for functional composition and hopes for the community in the coming year.
Episode 25: Shift-Reduce Warning
This week the hosts talk with Andrew Summers about the recent improvements to dialyixir and how to incorporate it into elixir applications. Special Guest: Andrew Summers.
Episode 24: Dad Jokes with José
This week Jose Valim joins the outlaws to answer questions from the community. The conversation starts with a discussion about the current state of dialyzer and future plans to add a type system to elixir. Jose laments some of the decisions to include dialyzer types directly into Elixir. This leads to a discussion of new tools being built for deployment and for metrics gathering. Chris asks about efforts to make it easier to use elixir libraries in erlang and ways that we might be able to share more libraries across ecosystems. Jose discusses plans for extending the functionality of GenStage and Flow in order to help people build more robust data pipelines. Finally, Jose describes his recent adventures into livestreaming and tries to convince the hosts to livestream the podcast. Special Guest: Jose Valim.
Episode 23: Reaching Understanding
This week Anna and Chris decompress from GigCity Elixir. They discuss several of the talks including a talk by Stu Halloway about what open source maintainers owe to communities. This leads to a discussion on how to have productive conversations about open source projects. Chris laments some of the ways that he's interacted with the community and Anna pushes for ways to facilitate constructive communication. This leads to a discussion about good ways to build modules and libraries that can be easily taught to newcomers. A copy of this episode is available to read as a blog, here: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-23-reaching-understanding/
Episode 22: Live From Gig City Elixir - Amos Gets Paid
Special Guest: Dave Thomas.
Episode 21: Deconstructing This Mountain of Doom
This week the hosts are joined by special guest and Friend of The Show :tm: James Edward Gray II. After introducing themselves for the first time in the shows history, James presents several questions for the guests. This leads into a discussion about dependencies, when we should rely on them, and how we should evaluate them. James turns the conversation to a discussion about Anna and Chris's talks at GigCityElixir. Special Guest: James Edward Gray II.
Episode 20: The World Famous Sponge Display
This week starts off with a discussion about Amos and Chris’s recent trip to Strangeloop and the great talks they saw there. There’s a brief interlude into airports and the World Famous sponge display in the Chattanooga airport. The main topic this week: How do we handle complexity when designing software. Chris, excited after reading Philosophy of Software Design, gets exceptionally fired up about software design and the tradeoffs that programmers make. The hosts discuss the nature of software developers and the ways that programmer culture influences those decisions. The hosts turn to discussing the recent changes in Ecto which is mostly Chris ranting for 15 minutes because he doesn’t get it (those who dislike rants will want to turn off their podcast players).
Episode 19: Elixir in Real Life
foot marbles moving ElixirConf
Episode 18: Big Families Pt-2
Special Guest: Paul Schoenfelder.
Episode 17: Big Families Pt-1
Distillery 2.0 Open source life Special Guest: Paul Schoenfelder.
Episode 16: That's my internet voice
This week Amos and Chris discuss a fun absinthe bug and try to determine how to pronounce "leex". Chris describes his frustrations with REST and why building clients for REST apis is probably the worst thing ever. In the main topic this week, Amos expresses his frustration with Purely Functional Data Structures and understanding amortized time analysis. Chris attempts to provide some clarity by describing the physicists method.
Episode 15: Nervestendo
This week Anna and Amos are joined by Nerves core team member Connor Rigby. They discuss nintendo hacking, robotic farming and how to get started with nerves development. Special Guest: Connor Rigby.