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Episode 24: Dad Jokes with José Nov 29, 2018

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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 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.

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Episode 23: Reaching Understanding Nov 15, 2018

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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 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/

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The Hard Parts of Open Source - Evan Czaplicki

Episode 22: Live From Gig City Elixir - Amos Gets Paid Nov 11, 2018

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Gig City Elixir

Episode 21: Deconstructing This Mountain of Doom Oct 19, 2018

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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 conversation to a discussion about Anna and Chris's talks at GigCityElixir.

Special Guest: James Edward Gray II.

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Episode 20: The World Famous Sponge Display Oct 11, 2018

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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 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).

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Strangeloop 2018
Automatic Detection of Core Erlang Message Passing Errors — Erlang’s powerful communication model allows us to build high-level concurrent systems. These can, however, harbour subtle communication errors less severe than global dead- lock or crashes: messages never received can degrade per- formance and consume swaths of memory.
Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
Rich Hickey - Simplicity matters
Split ecto into ecto and ecto_sql

Episode 19: Elixir in Real Life Sep 21, 2018

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foot marbles
moving
ElixirConf

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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 experts. Because a formal spec- ification is abstract, reading it does not immediately convey the expected behaviour of the software.

Episode 18: Big Families Pt-2 Aug 30, 2018

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Episode 17: Big Families Pt-1 Aug 24, 2018

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Distillery 2.0
Open source life

Special Guest: Paul Schoenfelder.

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Episode 16: That's my internet voice Aug 09, 2018

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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 analysis. Chris attempts to provide some clarity by describing the physicists method.

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Leex
The Morning Paper
Purely Functional Data Structures
Amortized Analysis
Ideal Hash Trees
Hash array mapped trie
Absinthe Issue — When running with attributes that have escape characters and on the same line the order of the attributes matters for the outcome.

Episode 15: Nervestendo Aug 02, 2018

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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.

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