Best Lars Wikman Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 76: I put my money on Elixir with Chris Grainger 56:43

2h ago56:43

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Chris, Lars and Alex discuss Chris's journey into Elixir and using machine learning and AI in Elixir to build a product and a business. They also touch on the process of training models and the benefits of using Livebook. Chris Grainger https://www.amplified.ai We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @Be…

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Kodsnack 593 - Into the view hierarchy, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski 1:55:50

2h ago1:55:50

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Fredrik is again joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a review of attending this year’s WWDC, working with “AI”, and more. The experience of attending - a lot about the great community.News from the conference - a Snow leopard year, in a good way. Lots of nice fixes and additions - Swiftui, fun widgets, and of course lots of question mar…

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About Non-CRUD 29:49

5d ago29:49

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CRUD - a classic term among supposedly simple web apps. But, not always the right move? Not always all that mappable to the actual problem? Discussed: picking spicy architectures, non-CRUD data storage needs, slovely solutions, dirty refunds, and doing the OAuth dance. Hey, thing happened! Finally: a story where pubsub was reasonable, and some tele…

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About Embedded 37:06

21d ago37:06

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Embedded is a weird thing. Lars is all Nerves and tries to explain and report from a world where people know part numbers off the top of their heads. The physical device missing is rarely a thing that happens in web development. Embedded-style work can sneak into other areas as well. Without a root file system, everything is a lot more secure. Secu…

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Episode 75: Derrick Reimer of SavvyCal talks SaaS product and Elixir 51:11

24d ago51:11

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In this episode, the panel chats with Derrick Reimer, co-founder of SavvyCal. They discuss the advantages of using Elixir for bootstrapped SaaS businesses and how Elixir's functional programming paradigm aligns with modern development practices. Derrick shares his journey from Rails to Elixir and explains why he prefers the clarity and explicitness…

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About Interviewing 31:10

2M ago31:10

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Andreas is a man of many hobbies. Interviewing for example. But sometimes, you get strange questions from strange people, end up feeling scared, or start lying just a bit. Then, perhaps, you tell the story of a bug. Perhaps we shouldn't work during the winter? Lars doesn't have interviews. More like sales calls. H§e shares his experiences of how to…

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Episode 74: Live from GigCityElixir 2024! 47:47

2M ago47:47

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Bruce and Lars are live on stage (and mostly unedited) at GigCityElixir in Chattanooga Tennessee hosting a great conversation of GCE folks on stage for some "hot takes." Please note, this episode contains some explicit language. We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up …

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Kodsnack 584 - A free deadline in September, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski 1:47:05

2M ago1:47:05

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Fredrik is joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a quick chat about the Deep dish Swift conference, the past and present of Mercury weather, their next app project, and what might happen at Apple’s WWDC in June. The first big topic is the developer conference Deep dish Swift. Malin and Kai not only participated in the conference itself, b…

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Episode 73: The BeamRadio panel talks with Benjamin Milde aka @lostkobrakai 53:15

3M ago53:15

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Join the panel for a fabulous talk with the one and only @lostkobrakai! We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @meryldakin @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto @_StevenNunez and on Mastodon @akoutmos@fosstodon.org @lawik@fossto…

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About Ranting at Ecto 36:43

4M ago36:43

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Stories about Ecto quickly redeeming itself, and of what it takes to introduce foreign keys. Some of us are super comfortable referencing the ID. Lars dislikes that Ecto needs to be more complicated because of SQL, but the abstractions do hold. Also: the biggest reason to ever use a ORM! It can be reallynice to come back to one after a tour of plai…

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Episode 72: Gleam's Core Team in the House! 52:55

4M ago52:55

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The BeamRadio panel chats all things Gleam with the core team Louis Pilford and Hayleigh Thompson! Gleam's approach to concurrency and its focus on type safety make it an interesting choice for Erlang/Elixir developers looking to leverage the benefits of static typing while maintaining the performance and concurrency model of the BEAM VM. The langu…

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Kodsnack 573 - This is not a toy project, with Leandro Ostera and Emil Privér 1:04:35

4M ago1:04:35

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Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot. First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from other languages? The OCaml community is nice, interested in getting new people in, and pragmatic. And it has a nic…

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About Long-Lived Code 42:08

5M ago42:08

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Fredrik wants to think about long-lived code. Lars is offended, Andreas only a little bit so. Are there other good software development practices out there? Other than the ones focusing on building something quickly? Practices for building software which lives on and is maintained for much longer than we seem to care to admit? Should we remove depe…

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Episode 71: Erlang and OTP with Ingela Anderton Andin and Kiko Fernandez-Reyes 53:38

5M ago53:38

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This is the second time that we've managed to reach deep into Ericsson and pull out some of the developers that work on the runtime and the language and the standard libraries that we all rely on. We have two members from the Erlang OTP team with us today! We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRad…

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Kodsnack 570 - Debug your ideas, with Eric Normand 40:56

5M ago40:56

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Fredrik is joined by Eric Normand for a discussion of debugging your ideas through domain modeling, using Eric’s concept of lenses to find more good questions to ask. Eric is writing a book about domain modeling and has developed the concept of lenses - ways to look at various aspects of your domain, model, and code in order to better consider vari…

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About Fat Tuesday Buns 31:08

5M ago31:08

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The Saint Valentine's peak passed without issue. Andreas had time for semlor. Lars has opinions on semlor, and can imagine many possible improvements. Like having an apple. Or a pizza. Lars has had a nice influx of work, including hardware work using Nerves. Testing and very hackish hot code reloading are both included. Finally, some thoughts on Li…

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Episode 70: Brian Cardarella and LiveView Native 59:29

5M ago59:29

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The Beam Radio panel has a lively discussion with Brian Cardarella, CEO of DockYard about LiveView Native! DockYard: https://dockyard.com, @DockYard Brian Cardarella: Twitter @bcardarella We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutm…

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Ep. 37 - Building A (Digital) Nuclear Reactor using Elixir w/ John Darrington 53:12

5M ago53:12

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John Darrington works as Lead Digital Architect of Digital Engineering for the Idaho National Laboratory. He is responsible for the decision to adopt Elixir for the development of a nuclear reactor digital twin. In this episode, John will give advice to new developers, and will share his unorthodox path into the software development space. John als…

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About things you built long ago that start doing weird things 28:21

6M ago28:21

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Andreas tells the story of a old system which suddenly exhibited a new and frightening bug. Lars shares similar experiences of things going wrong in new and novel ways. When things do go wrong, it is so nice to have supervision trees or other things which allow you to hear about problems, not to mention recover from them. Also covered are some stor…

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Episode 69: No Downtime with Brent Anderson 46:53

6M ago46:53

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In this episode, Brent Anderson shares his Elixir journey and discusses a major migration project he undertook at Knock. The team successfully upgraded their Postgres database from version 11.9 to 15.3 without any downtime. Brent highlights the advantages of using the Beam and Elixir in managing concurrent systems and the flexibility it provides. @…

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Kodsnack 567 - Arrow straight through, with Matt Topol and Lars Wikman 1:23:02

6M ago1:23:02

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Fredrik has Matt Topol and Lars Wikman over for a deep and wide chat about Apache Arrow and many, many topics in the orbit of the language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. What does that even mean? What is the point? And why does Arrow only feel more and more interesting and useful the more you think about deeply i…

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Episode 68: Katelynn Burns and Apprenticeship 46:56

6M ago46:56

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Show Notes: The panel talks about apprenticeship, curiosity and problem solving with Katelynn Burns! Email: katelynnburns655@gmail.com Github: k-burns ElixirConf 2023 Keynote: Motion Commotion: Motion Tracking with Bumblebee and LiveView https://youtu.be/zztzvQ1sNuU?si=8lCdyfbQ4MbXLqXp https://launchscout.com We want to connect with you! Twitter: @…

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Episode 67: Brian Cardarella - Elixir and Racing Sailboats 59:55

7M ago59:55

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The BeamRadio panel has a fascinating conversation about Elixir and sailboat racing with Brian Cardarella, CEO of DockYard. In this episode, Brian discusses his journey to Elixir and the innovative work happening at Dockyard. He shares the origin of the company's name, which is inspired by his passion for sailing. Brian explains the challenges and …

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About Data Pipelines 43:36

7M ago43:36

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Lars dove into data pipelines, and emerged bearing arrows and wishing for a lot fewer copies. What is there to think about regarding data pipelines, what is interesting about them? Which tools are out there, and why might you want to use them? Why all this talk about making fewer copies of data? What does Lars' current ideal pipeline look like, and…

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Episode 66: Chris McCord and Flame 56:24

7M ago56:24

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Show Notes: In this episode, Lars, Sophie, Steven, and special guest Chris McCord discuss the concepts of LiveView and Flame. They explore the problem with serverless architectures and how Flame aims to provide a solution. "Imagine if we could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a tem…

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Episode 65: Live From CodeBEAM in Berlin! 28:14

7M ago28:14

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Lars takes the stage with Saša Jurić and José Valim for a live recording of the pod at CodeBeam! CodeBEAM America March 7-8 2024 | San Francisco, CA & Virtual Tutorials: March 5-6 CodeBEAM Europe 2024 We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Tw…

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Kodsnack 560 - Starting with courage, with Diana Larsen 29:38

7M ago29:38

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Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Diana Larsen about leadership and building good teams. How to get into leaderhip? Often it’s more about picking up expectations than getting a formal onboarding Learning to not do things yourself when you start leading - everything you do is one less thing the team learns to …

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Kodsnack 559 - Non-fungible plants, with Cyrus Clarke 26:47

7M ago26:47

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Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after his keynote, Fredrik chats to Cyrus Clarke about plants, imagining things, exploring, and building. And not presenting speculative things as possible here right now. Daring to not be useful right now. How to bridge the gap between theory and academia on one side and practice and industry wanting to build …

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Kodsnack 558 - Software outlives you, with Na'Tosha Bard 21:15

7M ago21:15

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Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Na’Tosha Bard about picking good building blocks, getting products done, and code outliving you. Software outlives you. How early is it meaningful to consider that fact? Will we get better at handling long-lived software? Make tradeoffs with open eyes. Na’Tosha has worked on …

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Kodsnack 557 - All I had was science fiction, with Galit Ariel 38:44

7M ago38:44

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Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Galit Ariel about being inspired by the right science fiction, uninspired futures, and much more. It’s all thanks to Star Trek - a vision of the future which is actually positive and thoughtful What science fiction can teach us about what we think of as the other Uninspired f…

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Kodsnack 556 - Informed hope, with Monika Bielskyte 37:12

7M ago37:12

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Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Monika Bielskyte about finding, building, and approaching better visions for the future. We discuss things such as: Disabilities for innovation and better design More inclusion in design for people on edges improves the world for precisely everyone Why does a concept like pro…

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Episode 64: Nerves and Elixir with Frank Hunleth 49:28

8M ago49:28

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The Beam Radio Panel talks Nerves Project and more with creator Frank Hunleth Connect with Frank @fhunleth@genserver.social Books: Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves Build a Binary Clock with Elixir and Nerves We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date…

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About Fun With GenServers 1:06:17

8M ago1:06:17

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GenServers are fun! Andreas gives all the context. Things were learned, knowledge was aquired. You can do so much with GenServers, but make sure you have a good reason. If you don't watch out, this is where concurrency goes to die. Dynamic supervisors, and their children, are thoroughly considered. Also delved into is the mess other ecosystems make…

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Ep. 36 - LiveView Native with Brian Cardarella 1:06:09

8M ago1:06:09

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Today, we feature a very special and juicy episode. On the one hand, we have a long overdue guest: Brian Cardarella, CEO of DockYard. Also, we will be talking fresh news and insider knowledge about one of DockYard's big projects: LiveView Native. We will discuss the philosophy of open-source software development, the importance of facilitating earl…

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Episode 63: Jonatan Männchen and OpenID 49:28

8M ago49:28

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Jonatan Männchen leads technology @ Sustema and is a member @ ErlEF security working group Look at oidcc on GitHub. Catch him at CodeBEAM in SF Find him on LinkedIn We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @meryldakin @…

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Kodsnack 550 - This beautiful abomination, with Natalia Tepluhina 34:51

9M ago34:51

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Recorded at Øredev 2022, Fredrik chats with Natalia Tepluhina about perhaps the most complicated part of frontend development: state management. Why is state management so tricky, and what can we do about it? Natalia tells a fascinating story of a beautiful abomination of state management libraries in a single application. Don’t be the bottleneck. …

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Episode 62: Jenny Bramble Talks Testing 52:17

9M ago52:17

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The panel has an enlightening discussion with Jenny Bramble about testers and developers and how to make code better! Find Jenny Bramble at @jennydoesthings on Twitter See Jenny's ElixirConf 2023 talk: Black Box Techniques for Unit Tests We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox…

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About What Every Web App Needs But Your Developer Does Not Want You To Know About 30:31

9M ago30:31

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Every web app starts out fine, the tabula rasa of an unwritten BODY. But sooner or later you need users. And a million other things which live in trees. Also: email. And that layer between the controller and the database where things like fine-grained access control goes. I'd like to have an admin, please. Eventually, web apps grows up. And while a…

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About Code Nerds 36:11

10M ago36:11

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The software development industry is very much built for code nerds. It shouldn’t be. Many of us know many people who are really into coding. Not every working developer can, or even should, be though. Doesn't that create kind of a weird gap between professionals who live and breathe code both on and off work, and those who have a more balanced lif…

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Episode 61: Zach Daniel and the Ash Framework 57:28

10M ago57:28

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Welcome back to the panel Alex Koutmos! Alex, Lars and Zach have a lively discussion about the Ash Framework. Zach's ElixirConf23 talk: https://youtu.be/c4iou77kOFc?si=oHPKBv0x60VQXY6R Ash Framwork: https://www.ash-hq.org Ash Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/elixir-framework-forums/ash-framework-forum/123 Zach on Twitter: @ZachSDaniel1 Ash Framewor…

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Episode 60: Guillaume Duboc and Types in Elixir 46:55

10M ago46:55

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Welcome to season 3 of BeamRadio! Kicking it off is a very exciting chat with Guillaume Duboc and the panel about types in Elixir. Bringing Types to Elixir by Giuseppe Castagna and Guillaume Duboc | ElixirConf EU 2023 https://youtu.be/gJJH7a2J9O8?si=sfEBGG27s0-0N3cd Guillaume's Website and contact info: https://www.irif.fr/users/gduboc/index We wan…

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About Databases 42:31

10M ago42:31

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Data has moved to a real database. Next, there may be brave attempts to add actual structure. Working with a real database is nice, as is not losing data, and being able to restore. Not everything is ephemeral, after all. Database service providers and cool stuff they do are discussed. The deal with Elastic is clarified. Finally, it is revealed whe…

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Kodsnack 542 - The whole software is in your hand, with Daniel Eke 1:36:37

10M ago1:36:37

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Fredrik chats with Daniel Eke about creative visual coding, learning through side projects, and a lot more. The discussion revolves around Daniel’s apps: the visualizer Ferromagnetic, polygon drawing tool Handstract, and photo polygonizer Centroid. Code lets you create art which is interactive and immersive in a way many other art forms can’t. Deve…

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Episode 59: ElixirConf 2023 BTS #3 38:34

10M ago38:34

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The final ElixirConf bonus episode! Interviews with speakers and attendees. Featuring: Greg Vaughn Jenny Bramble Desmond Bowe José Valim Ryan Schneck Razvan Draghici Sam McDavid @json_do German Velasco Brian Cardarella Katelynn Burns Andrew Moore Chris Nelson We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @Beam…

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About Mingling 37:48

11M ago37:48

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It seems a mingle is a thing, and not just in Swedish! But what do we want to get out of them, how do we go into them, and how do we create good ones? Do you want resonance or hole-poking when you tell people about your plan to arm toddlers with nuclear weapons? Do you want to successfully mingle nerds, or just hit the snacks hard? The foood, the c…

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Episode 58: ElixirConf 2023 BTS #2 21:46

11M ago21:46

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Tune in to hear behind the scenes #ElixirConf2023 interviews with: Zach Daniel Savannah Manning Joshua Plique Tyler Young Wojtek Mach Sean Moriarity Miki Rezentes Kate Rezentes We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @…

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Episode 57: Elixir Conf Preview 4:55

11M ago4:55

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We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @akoutmos @lawik @meryldakin @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto @_StevenNunez and on Mastodon @akoutmos@fosstodon.org @lawik@fosstodon.org @redrapids@genserver.social @steven@genserver.social Sponsored b…

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About Performance 37:26

11M ago37:26

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Performance: we wish the incentives were there to focus on it more often. Lars would like more opportunities and incentives to focus on making things fast, rather than just making them not slow. Unfortunately, things tend to line up so that fast enough and more features are in focus. Plus, performance and optimization can be very context sensitive …

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Ep 35. Development, burnout, being human and living a good life w/ Sascha Wolf 50:06

11M ago50:06

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Today we talk about mental health, burnout, therapy, productivity, relationships, and the big topics that make a life worth living. Everything to do with software and nothing to do with software. What is the point of being productive if we lose ourselves and hurt our relationships in the process? Sascha takes us through his journey from burnt-out s…

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Ep 34 Elixir Game Development using ECSx w/ Andrew Berrien 1:09:21

11M ago1:09:21

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Today, we're stepping into the not-too-common world of game creation in Elixir with a special guest, a friend and a colleague. Andrew Berrien is a developer at DockYard. He is also the brain behind the Entity-Component-System (ECSX) Framework for Elixir. He tells is about his journey building the framework and how you can get started with Game Deve…

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