141: Network Programming with Elixir and Andrea Leopardi

We talk with Andrea Leopardi, Elixir core team member, author, and recent Protohacker celebrity! We wanted to learn more about his dbg work that outputs boolean expression info and about his experience using Elixir to solve the Protohacker networking challenges. He shares how that work parlayed into creating an Elixir networking book for PragProg. He teases what he might be working next and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/141

Elixir Community News

• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.7-final-released – Phoenix 1.7.0 "final" released!
• https://gist.github.com/chrismccord/00a6ea2a96bc57df0cce526bd20af8a7 – Step-by-step upgrade guide
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/A93EFEDC8E8E71E5F1490CF31042679E – Diffs from 1.6.16 to 1.7.0 with live phx.gen.auth
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/018C3724F7E9A04683EA80F8A5657694 – Diffs from 1.6.16 to 1.7.0 with non-live phx.gen.auth
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/F175E36352E8C1378CB3F913EBBAD6A0 – Diffs from 1.7.0 non-live to live
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/639AD8C21FD8CB22B72797EE5597118A – Diffs from 1.7.0-rc0 to final
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/FFCC88CB3B539BA68F30ADB69E4832BF – Diffs from 1.7.0-rc1 to final
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/3007D95E4C49619702C5E550E0BBA5DD – Diffs from 1.7.0-rc2 to final
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/5BF0D673DB427053F70DC9DC9F10DD09 – Diffs from 1.7.0-rc3 to final
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_html/Phoenix.HTML.FormData.html#to_form/4 – We noticed the new to_form function and data structure being used by the new generators
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/phoenix-dev-blog-streams/ – Chris McCord wrote a "Dev blog" article introducing the new “Streams” feature in LiveView
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1629115591565971458 – German Valesco created a short screencast about streams that migrates from temporary_assigns to streams.
• https://blog.voltone.net/post/31 – Bram Verburg wrote a nice "Client-Side Enforcement of LiveView Security" blog post
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/134 – Interview with Bram Verburg
• https://twitter.com/cblavier/status/1630210369561014278 – Phoenix Storybook 0.5.0 was released.
• https://github.com/phenixdigital/phoenix_storybook/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v050-2023-02-27 – Phoenix Storybook changelog
• https://twitter.com/sasajuric/status/1628855249527099394 – Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić 3rd edition available in Manning's Early Access Program (MEAP).
• https://twitter.com/ManningBooks/status/1628823200585973764 – Tweet with 45% off coupon code shared
• 45% off with code "mljuric3" till Mar 9
• https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1628778103903334400 – LiveView Native update - they've passed the 80% mark of SwiftUI views
• https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1628778539242618882 – The next milestones for LiveView Native
• https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/235 – Swift UI modifiers tracking list
• https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/238 – SwiftUI animations tracking list

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12358 – PR for dbg/2 that outputs boolean expression breakout
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd7I3U4fDsULTLqbRAkWzA002-IzMe8fl – Playlist of youtube videos
• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1617521132529389568 – Shared that you are writing a book
• https://protohackers.com/
• https://learnyousomeerlang.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd7I3U4fDsULTLqbRAkWzA002-IzMe8fl – List of Andrea's Protohacker videos in Elixir
• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1617521132529389568 – Andrea shared that he is writing a book
• https://pragprog.com/titles/lmelixir/testing-elixir/ – Testing Elixir book by Andrea Leopardi and Jeffrey Matthias
• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1629781415251279874 – Andrea playing with creating videos for a series of distributed systems challenges.
• https://fly.io/dist-sys/ – “A series of distributed systems challenges”
• https://codebeammexico.com/ – CodeBeam Mexico - Andrea gave a keynote
• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1629063077680365568 – Concurrent Data Processing In Elixir - training at ElixirConf EU - 2023-04-19

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide – on Twitter
• https://github.com/whatyouhide/ – on Github
• https://mas.to/@whatyouhide – on Fediverse - @[email protected]
• https://andrealeopardi.com/ – Blog

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