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 wil...

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 Nativ...

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 produc...

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) Fra...

Today we talk with Adi Iyengar, author of Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir, and host of the

Are you writing code or are you looking into the very fabric of reality?Are you creating a solution or participating in a Great Story that needs to be told?Einar believes that coding may be fulfilling a shamanistic function in t...

Many of us arrive at coding from other professional fields. This is the case of Alena, an accomplished psychologist who encountered challenges in the administrative side of her profession that deserved solving. What is coding if not pro...

Yusef Nathanson is one of the students of the first cohort of DockYard Academy. At the moment he is finishing his capstone project, using AI with databases filled with personal data. In between lines of code he supports his fellow students, and...

Lars Wikman is the CEO of Underjord. He lectures frequently and he plays with libraries like an artist plays with colors and strokes. His approach to code and his use of libraries reminds us of the spirit we have with LEGOs.In this epis...

A long time in the making, this is one we have been looking forward to. Elixir Newbie is honored to host the first ever podcast appearance of Hayden Evans, founder and CEO of BeamIT, a recruitment agency that specializes in Erlang and E...

In today's episode we talk with none other than Bruce Tate. Bruce is one of the main voices, if not the main voice, in the Elixir education space. Bruce is the head of Grox.io, an education platform focused on Elixir, and he has also wr...

In this episode, Elixir Newbie and co-host Jon Valdivia talks with Michał Śledź, who is one of the main developers of Membrane in Software Mansion.Membrane is a (or shall we say the) audio and video library for Elixir. They p...

Today I am joined by Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi.If you do not know Sonic Pi you are in for a treat. Sam Aaron is a visionary developer who decided to solve one of the most problematic issues in education: getting children to focus. ...

Our guest host Jon Valdivia speaks with fellow DockYard Academy student Jeff Helman about mapping out the Elixir Job Industry.Links- Jeff Helman-

Today I'm joined by two of my amazing students in the beta testing program of DockYard Academy.Links- Jon Valdivia's Blog-

Today I’m joined by Michael Frew, a passionate Developer, and Acquisition Entrepreneur. He’s also the new co-owner of Gigalixir, a cloud hosting platform specifically for Elixir. We talk about Deployment with Elixir and what it's like being an ...

Researcher/Teacher at UC Leuven-Limburg Wannes Fransen shares his knowledge on effective teaching, distributed systems, and academic research.

Kurt Steigleder shares his UI/UX + Accessibility knowledge to help us improve our applications' design and experience.Links:https://www.oreill...

Matthew Moody sits with me to help demystify DDD (Domain Driven Design), CQRS/ES (Command Query Responsibility Segregation / Event Sourcing), and how we can architect Elixir applications with the CELP (Commanded, Elixir, LiveView, Phoenix) stac...

My long-time friend Jonathan Stiansen and I discuss meta-learning, mentoring, and the awesome power of friendship.Links- @JonoCodes- Better Up

Jack Gray author of the Phoenix Deployment Handbook sits down with me to discuss how to deploy phoenix applications, and improve your deployment process. We also talk about what we've learned creating educational content.Links-

It's the start of season 2! My sincere apologies for the large gap. I've had a full schedule working on DockYard Academy, an academy for learning Elixir.  The curriculum is completely open-source, so you can see how I'm leveraging Livebook...

I'm joined by Jeffrey Mathias, Co-Author of Testing Elixir, Effective and Robust Testing for Elixir and its Ecosystem. Jeffrey was one of the first figures to make me feel welcomed in the Elixir community and has been a tremendous source of per...

Struggling to find Elixir jobs? Here's the advice I give first-time developers. Stop using online job boards instead build relationships by seeking out companies and future coworkers directly.

Elixir enables fast onboarding. At least, that's what I had heard. That's why when I received an offer to interview for Elixir, I accepted, betting that I could learn enough in time.Through the story of how I transitioned from JavaScrip...