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Mark Ericksen

@brainlid.bsky.social

Keeping an open mind, sharing what's on my mind. ThinkingElixir.com, podcast.ThinkingElixir.com, #ElixirLang

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Thinking Elixir Podcast 272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 272: Process Vaults and Quantum Crypto

News includes Vault library for process-scoped storage, OTP 28.1 with quantum-resistant crypto, #Tidewave Teams launch, AshTypescript for type-safe frontends, major Elixir 1.19-rc.0 deps compile speed up, and conference updates! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hK_...

30.09.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 271: Testing, Searching, and Funding
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 271: Testing, Searching, and Funding

News includes interactive #ExUnit testing with mix_test_interactive, TrieHard Rust-powered search library, ReqLLM for unified #LLM interactions, Hologram v0.6.0 production features, funded Rebar4 project, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf9n...

23.09.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar

News includes #Rebar 4 #Kickstarter campaign, #Tidewave Web adding #React support and @openrouter.bsky.social integration, Phoenix 1.8.1 release, @elixirconf.bsky.social US videos, AshFramework security advisory, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cir2...

16.09.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives

News includes Expert, the new official Elixir LSP, Tidewave Web’s first major update, handoff library for distributed graph execution, Elixir’s exceptional performance in LLM benchmarks, #ElixirConf US heads to Chicago, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IhS...

09.09.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ElixirConf 2025 - YouTube ElixirConf US 2025 held in Orlando, FL at the Renassaince Seaworld, August 27-29, 2025.

The ElixirConf 2025 videos are already published to YouTube! πŸ”₯ #ElixirLang #ElixirConf #MyElixirStatus youtube.com/playlist?lis...

03.09.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats Zach! That’s exciting! Best of luck.

03.09.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 268: Got your Popcorn here!
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 268: Got your Popcorn here!

News includes a new SQL #analytics library called Lotus, plus an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project enabling Elixir to run in #WebAssembly in the browser! #ElxirLang @ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85K...

02.09.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s beautiful! Thanks for sharing with me. I must enjoy it from afar today.

29.08.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've most heard Elixirist. I don't like alchemist because it doesn't include the name of the language at all.

26.08.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with JosΓ© Valim
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with JosΓ© Valim

News includes Tidewave Web’s #AI-powered development assistant with JosΓ© Valim joining to go deeper, a comprehensive #ElixirLang blog post on 2025 interoperability options, Livebook Teams launching out of beta, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKlw...

26.08.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 266: Phoenix 1.8.0 Brings Fresh Features

Phoenix 1.8.0 is officially released with dark mode, magic links, and #LLM tools! Plus ElixirLS updates, new Torus search library, free ThinkingElixir courses, and more! #ElixirPhoenix #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnz...

19.08.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Courses - Thinking Elixir Available Courses FREE Pattern Matching Course Pattern matching is a powerful language feature. It is built in to almost every corner or Elixir. In order for you to even read Elixir code and follow al...

My ThinkingElixir programming courses are now 100% free and open to the public! I converted a WordPress site with courses into a static website. The project downloads are now published on GitHub. Enjoy! #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang #ProgrammingCourse #TDD thinkingelixir.com/available-co...

18.08.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 265: LiveView 1.1 Goes Live and Stack Overflow Results

News includes Phoenix LiveView v1.1 with colocated #JavaScript and portals, StackOverflow Survey showing #ElixirLang as 3rd most admired language, The Primeagen switching to Elixir, Global Elixir Meetups in Sept 2025, and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sq...

12.08.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 264: Hot Reload In Dev and QA Bottlenecks

News includes Phoenix v1.8 shipping with AGENTS support, Popcorn bringing Elixir to the browser via #WebAssembly, LiveVue v0.6.0 with major performance improvements, and more! #ElixirLang #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hMc...

05.08.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
How to Build AI Systems That Actually Run Your Business (Not Just Chat)
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen How to Build AI Systems That Actually Run Your Business (Not Just Chat)

See one AI orchestrate a separate specialized AI task. Watch it gather info then execute targeted marketing campaigns. Same brand voice, completely different messaging for each audience. When AI works for you. #AI #agentic #ElixirLang #marketing #business www.youtube.com/watch?v=piS1...

30.07.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

News includes BEAM fitting into 16MB, #BBC using Elixir for 6 years, how GenStage improves performance, PDF extraction library, Phoenix deployment with Kamal, and more! #ElixirLang #Erlang www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SH...

29.07.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4, new libraries deps_changelog and Hog, an amazing Elixir system achieving 100% #uptime for 5+ years, ElixirConf 2025 schedule, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuuY...

22.07.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! I’m glad you found it. Interesting. The demo I have planned next shows another more powerful usage.

16.07.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I Built an AI Tool That Saves Me Hours Every Week (Demo)
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen I Built an AI Tool That Saves Me Hours Every Week (Demo)

We're living through an #AI revolution, but most are missing the real opportunity. I built an AI system that completely automates part of my podcast workflow - turning tedious show notes work into automated perfection. See it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM2I...

16.07.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?

News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates, @josevalim.bsky.social's DevLabs interview on building authentic tools, 9 reasons to choose Elixir, Fgma's $300K daily AWS costs, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-4...

15.07.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 260: Cheaper testing with AI?
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 260: Cheaper testing with AI?

News includes LiveDebugger v0.3.0 with enhanced LiveView debugging, Oban 1.6 featuring sub-workflows, YOLO v0.2.0 bringing faster image detection, testing insights with AI tools, and progress on the new Expert LSP project, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD-y...

08.07.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's coming!!!

01.07.2025 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 259: Chris McCord on phoenix.new

We talk with Chris McCord about his revolutionary phoenix.new AI-powered dev service and in the news cover Ecto v3.13, official Phoenix security docs, Zach Daniel's AI evaluation tool, and more! #ElixirLang #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBpD...

01.07.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Thinking Elixir Podcast 258: CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 258: CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams

News includes EEF's first #CVE release, Supabase's Multigres for scaling #Postgres, new #MCP servers for Phoenix, Erlang surviving extreme load tests, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 preview, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVy...

24.06.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Phoenix 1.8 Gets Official Security Documentation Protect your application from hackers

Phoenix 1.8 Gets Official Security Documentation

paraxial.io/blog/phoenix...

18.06.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 257: Runtime Intelligence and MCP Servers
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 257: Runtime Intelligence and MCP Servers

News includes Elixir v1.19.0-rc.0 improvements, the Elixir Outreach stipend program, ElixirConf videos, Noora design system for LiveView, and @josevalim.bsky.social's Tidewave MCP server for AI runtime intelligence, and more! @elixir-lang.org #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJm...

17.06.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LangChain LLM Integration for Elixir Applications | S14E03 Elixir Wizards Podcast by SmartLogic
YouTube video by SmartLogic LangChain LLM Integration for Elixir Applications | S14E03 Elixir Wizards Podcast by SmartLogic

I was a guest on the @smartlogic.io Elixir Wizards podcast! We talked about my Elixir LangChain library for letting Elixir apps work easily with LLMs! Thanks guys! I had a blast! #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang
video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwFa...
lib: github.com/brainlid/lan...

12.06.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging

News includes Elixir 1.19 RC with 4x faster compilation, ElixirConfEU videos featuring @JoseValim's keynote, the admin panel Backpex, Ash AI integration, Quokka formatter, browser-based Elixir with Popcorn, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUUJ...

10.06.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ€–Just merged support for non-OpenAI models in prompt-backed-actions (structured outputs) via adapters. The adapter is inferred from the model, and supplied via an option otherwise. Thanks to @brainlid.bsky.social for LangChain, it's been very useful for Ash AI.
#AshFramework #ElixirLang

04.06.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thinking Elixir Podcast 255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps
YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 255: OTP 28 and Vibe Coding Phoenix Apps

News includes OTP 28 release, #ElixirConfEU videos with Chris McCord's "phoenix.new" keynote, Phoenix Sync for real-time database sync, EEF board elections and #CVE authority status, LiveView macro components, and more! #ElixirLang www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfn5...

03.06.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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