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Episode 46: I'm Probably Saying His Name Wrong47:16

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Starting with wordsmithing and home improvement. Chris and Amos hit the Elixir talk with a discussion of Norm. They follow up with exception handling and when to use exceptions or tagged tuples. Norm - Specify data shape for validation and generation The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon. If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwin ...…

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Episode 45: Infinity is just a concept38:35

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This week kicks off with a discussion about San Francisco's iconoclastic - but also incorrect - name for a specific coffee drink. Amos is, as they say, coming in hot and launches full bore into a discussion about the elixir forum’s moderation policies. Chris is primarily concerned about the angry letters they’re going to receive. The hosts disc ...…

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Episode 44: Put a Paxos on it48:09

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This week kicks off with an explanation of Chris’s so called grooming habits. Amos explains how to properly cook fried eggs. The guys remember the early days of the show and comment on how their audio quality was somehow even worse back then. Amos is trying to figure out the best way to give back to the community. The discussion moves towards t ...…

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Episode 43: The longest monday43:23

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The hosts this week are coming in cold. Amos and Chris are drinking Starbucks, although Amos seems much more upset about it than Chris. Anna has finally returned from her vacation in Japan only to find that her microphone stand no longer works correctly. Anna describes her longest Monday ever and Amos explains why he can’t sleep on planes. Chri ...…

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Episode 42: Carriage Return Line Feed50:50

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This week Elixir has been uninstalled from Amos’s laptop and Chris is reading books and writing C. Chris explains why he still chooses to write C and why most people don’t need to manually manage memory. During the main topic Amos describes a problem he’s having with Tesla and Hackney. This leads to a discussion about how to build systems that ...…

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Episode 41: Write code and read books and stuff50:41

2M ago50:41

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This week Amos is back from his yearly vision quest and Chris faces the problem of being interested in too many things at once. Amos discusses some experiences using Broadway and GenStage which gives Chris an excuse to bring up Little’s Law (as if he needed one). The main topic this week is observability. This topic is motivated by Amos’s lates ...…

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Episode 40: Diversity30:26

2M ago30:26

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Episode 39: The Cuteness Factor has Worn Off38:26

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As nerds we like to systematize the things we do. What do we do to think through our problems? The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon. 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. Support Elixir OutlawsBy Elixir Outlaws.

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Episode 38: Break it down like a fraction45:00

3M ago45:00

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4th wall break Hey everyone, we're still wrestling with audio gremlins. This week is based on the raw audio from our call so you'll hear some artifacts in there. I just wanted you to be aware in case you're sensitive to that kind of thing. We've solved this problem so going forward this shouldn't happen again. -Keathley Notes This week starts w ...…

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Episode 37: Why is it called an everything bagel?1:02:41

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This week kicks off with Chris chastising Amos about always being late. The hosts discuss the value of time and recent conference trips. The discussion shifts towards talk preparation techniques, the value of speaking at conferences, and some tips for new speakers. Chris takes control of the show and does a hard pivot towards the main topic thi ...…

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Episode 36: Please Tuck your Van Der Graaf Generator Under the Seat in Front of You1:09:36

3M ago1:09:36

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The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon. 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. Special Guest: Bruce Tate. Support Elixir OutlawsBy Elixir Outlaws.

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Episode 35: An Easy Baby40:10

4M ago40:10

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The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon. 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. Conference rundown and teaching distributed systems with Chris and Anna. Support Elixir OutlawsBy Elixir Outlaws.

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Episode 34: American problem solving40:31

4M ago40:31

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4th wall break: Hey y'all audio from this week is a little worse then usual. We needed to use the backup audio file for technical reasons. Just wanted to provide a heads up. -keathley Show notes This weeks starts with a discussion of how to have meaningful conversations about design decisions. Chris asks whether programming best practices are f ...…

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Episode 33: Highfalutin design techniques56:28

5M ago56:28

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This week kicks off with some standard dad-cast about kids, eye glasses, and problems with being dizzy. Chris tries to steer the conversation towards the main topic of the week: Umbrella apps. Chris and Amos provide some context for umbrella apps and explain the ways that people tend to use them. Chris talks about his experience building phoeni ...…

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Episode 32: The First Friend of the Show1:04:11

5M ago1:04:11

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This week the original friend of the show, Fred Hebert, joins the hosts for a wandering discussion, ostensibly about his fantastic new book Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: Find Bugs Before Your Users Do by Fred Hebert | The Pragmatic Bookshelf Fred discusses his motivations for writing, maven plugins, and how to write be ...…

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Episode 31: There's too much yaml in the world45:24

5M ago45:24

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This week the hosts are joined by special guest, friend of the show, and author of Elixir in Action Saša Jurić. The conversation kicks off with a discussion of protein poisoning before quickly turning to Elixir in Action. Saša explains his motivation and process for writing. After this the conversation moves towards Saša’s custom CI service he’ ...…

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Episode 30: Does this forum bring me joy?51:13

6M ago51:13

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This week we dive into Amos’s frustrations with emacs. Chris talks about the nature of optimizers and how addictive micro-optimizing can be. There's a lot of bird trailing before the main topic kicks off around 18:25. The main topic this week is Private Modules. Chris doesn’t think his opinion matters but Amos wants to talk about it anyway. Amo ...…

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Episode 29: Hour-long pair switching34:42

6M ago34:42

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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. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Dialyxir Recon Trace mix test.watc ...…

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Episode 28: Devoid of joy32:43

6M ago32:43

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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 a ...…

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Episode 27: Give me a squiggly41:51

7M ago41:51

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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 ...…

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Episode 26: Lonely child operator49:27

7M ago49:27

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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 c ...…

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Episode 25: Shift-Reduce Warning50:48

7M ago50:48

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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. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Dialyxir Dialyzer paper erlex Opaque Types Leex and Yecc Nimble Parsec DNSimple - PLT Caching done right…

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Episode 24: Dad Jokes with José40:22

8M ago40:22

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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 d ...…

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Episode 23: Reaching Understanding33:48

8M ago33:48

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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 a ...…

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Episode 22: Live From Gig City Elixir - Amos Gets Paid40:16

8M ago40:16

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Episode 21: Deconstructing This Mountain of Doom1:08:12

9M ago1:08:12

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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 co ...…

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Episode 20: The World Famous Sponge Display48:34

9M ago48:34

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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 Philosoph ...…

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Episode 19: Elixir in Real Life52:39

10M ago52:39

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foot marbles moving ElixirConf Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Typing the Wild in Erlang — Developing a static type system suitable for Erlang has been of ongoing interest for almost two decades now. Understanding Formal Specifications through Good Examples — Formal specifications of software applications are hard to understand, even for domain e ...…

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Episode 18: Big Families Pt-239:49

11M ago39:49

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Episode 17: Big Families Pt-140:49

11M ago40:49

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Distillery 2.0 Open source life Special Guest: Paul Schoenfelder. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Health Checks and Graceful Degradation in Distributed Systems Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying Runtime Configuration - Distillery Documentation bitwalker/distillery-aws-example: An example application to go with the AWS guid ...…

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Episode 16: That's my internet voice51:05

11M ago51:05

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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 ...…

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Episode 15: Nervestendo45:46

12M ago45:46

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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. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir — Nerves Project Nintendo Switch™ - Official site – Nintend ...…

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Episode 14: Little's Law All The Way Down43:25

12M ago43:25

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This week starts with Amos describing the new features elixir 1.7 and Chris explaining some queueing theory. Afterwards Anna describes her experience solving a bug in her crypto-currency exchange. This leads to a discussion on how to find bugs in distributed systems, the dangers of generating data based on types and how to guide generators so t ...…

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Episode 13: Coming in hot45:31

1y ago45:31

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Anna, Amos, and Chris start this week by discussing the recently released elixir documentary. Amos brings up the virus that was discovered in eslint-scope which detours into a conversation about reading through library dependencies. The hosts eventually make their way to the main topic for this week: How to find the correct restart intensity fo ...…

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Episode 12: Ready to mute37:50

1y ago37:50

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This week Amos kicks off the show by talking about his memory issues and Anna discusses her work on building a crypto currency exchange. The hosts then dive in to the main topic of this week: is Erlang "the most object oriented language" and if so is that a good thing. Support Elixir OutlawsBy Elixir Outlaws.

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Episode 11: Smarter then your parents44:03

1y ago44:03

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Amos kicks off the show by lamenting how old he is. Afterwards Anna, Amos, and Chris discuss the new features coming to erlang/OTP 21. Chris proceeds to bum everyone out by talking about how burnt out and unethusiastic he is about his open source projects. Anna and Amos help to provide perspective and encouragement. Support Elixir Outlaws…

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Episode 10: A list of controversial topics1:09:46

1y ago1:09:46

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This week the outlaws are joined by Jose Valim and Chris McCord. After working out the confusion of having two Chris's and giving Keathley a timebox for controversial topics Jose and Chris provide some insight into the projects that they're currently pursuing. Afterwards they discuss ways that the elixir community can continue to grow, things t ...…

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Episode 9: Happiness Lamp58:44

1y ago58:44

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Aos and Chris talk about: Parenting Broken Arms How do you add typespecs to a new project? The importanct of tests are your code. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0094HBU6I/ref=sspa_dk_detail_0?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B0094HBU6I&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=1713835751726239774&pf_rd_r=AZRD1VWZSKCF9YSHE5MV&pd_rd_wg=bO4rK&pf_rd_s=d ...…

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Episode 8: That became very cheesy51:02

1y ago51:02

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This week Anna, Amos, and Chris are joined by special guest and newly appointed Friend of the Show: Michal Muskala. After Michal teaches everyone how to correctly say his name they discuss the recent CodeBEAMSTO and optimizing elixir code for the BEAM. Chris attempts to avoid talking about config but the other hosts are wise to his schemes. Mic ...…

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Episode 7: A rat-king of problems1:06:23

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Anna, Amos, and Chris discuss the current state of configuration and the new proposals for making configuration behave in less surprising ways. Chris lays out the context and then claims he's going to stop talking. His silence lasts just long enough for Anna and Amos to provide their own opinions on the situation. Chris jumps back in and provid ...…

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Episode 6: Blocking and Tackling36:27

1y ago36:27

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This week the outlaws are joined by Friend of The Show, Ben Marx. In between name dropping and sports idioms they discuss OpenTracing, OpenCensus, purely functional data structures, distributed systems, and Amos's experiences with living in the desert. Special Guest: Ben Marx. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: OpenTracing OpenCensus Dapper Paper Zi ...…

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Episode 5: I'm perfectly fine throwing my time into a ditch51:58

1y ago51:58

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This week Anna and Chris discuss Chris's job change, how Elixir is marketed to developers, the elixir communities ruby heritage, and some discussions on elixir conferences. They finish up with some resources for first time conference speakers. Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix Erlang in Anger ...…

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Episode 4: A simple matter of FTP42:18

1y ago42:18

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Amos kicks off this episode by exposing the joys of symbolic variables in proper's state machine tests. Chris laments the lack of elixir work in his life and his future plans to correct the situation. The Outlaws then discuss the ramifications of Proper's GPL licensing. Not wanting to bore everyone with yet another open source licensing debate ...…

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Episode 3: The Elixir Track of the Hallway Community - Teaching and Community52:47

1y ago52:47

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Links https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6486585449644032/#4978058864361472 https://ferd.ca/it-s-about-the-guarantees.html https://www.evanmiller.org/four-days-of-go.html https://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-program-in-erlang.html Support Elixir Outlaws Links: Elixir Contest from Plataformatec - Elixir Chat - Elixir Forum — Designed ...…

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Episode 2: Is this the show? - Property Testing47:19

1y ago47:19

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This week we talk about the benefits of property testing and discuss different tools and techniques available in the elixir community. Links Proper Testing StreamData QuickCheck Propcheck StreamData Proposal for model checking Support Elixir OutlawsBy Elixir Outlaws.

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Episode 1: Vanity - Library Guidelines1:04:39

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Links: bamboo_config_adapter Library Guidelines Dialyxir Success Types paper Dynamic Supervisor Propcheck Chris's issue on stream data Chris's talk on property testing Picks: Chris - ProperTesting - http://propertesting.com Amos - Recon - http://ferd.github.io/recon/ Support Elixir OutlawsBy Elixir Outlaws.

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