September 13, 2022

116: Remote Development and Elixir

1 hour 5 minutes

In episode 110, we talked about, and rejected, the argument for the “End of Localhost Development”. Carter Bryden joins us to share a perspective from the other side, one in favor of remote development. We learn about the benefits to contractors, PR reviews, giving demos, and how containerizing our development environment even improves local development. We learn about the tools, services, and techniques that make it possible. An interesting look into a different way of developing our favorite language!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/116

Elixir Community News

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/elixir-programming-pragmatic-programmers-books – Elixir Programming Book bundle - Humble Bundle

https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1566774954393305088 – Upcoming Elixir features

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12109 – PR adding diffs for "mix format --check-formatted"

https://twitter.com/scenicframework/status/1566720982412173312 – Scenic v0.11.0 was released

https://hexdocs.pm/scenic/upgrading_to_v0-11.html – Scenic upgrade guide

https://twitter.com/dockyard/status/1565769297393135617 – DockYard ElixirConf keynote talked about 4 major R&D projects.

https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/08/29/dockyard-r-d-beacon-brings-phoenix-speeds-to-your-cms – DockYard's Beacon CMS project

https://twitter.com/amnicd/status/1563253296101756929 – Another example of a mobile app written in Elixir.

https://gitlab.com/Nicd/geo-therminator – Gitlab project of the Android Elixir app

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/98 – Interview with Dominic Letz about Elixir Desktop project

https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1565997307031703553 – Elixir track on Exercism.io is now running Elixir 1.14.

https://surface-ui.org/blog/what-s-new-in-surface-0-8 – Surface 0.8.0 was released during the conference

https://github.com/surface-ui/surface/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v080-2022-09-01 – Surface changelog includes "Scoped CSS styles"

https://twitter.com/livebookdev/status/1565434195324936194 – José Valim tweeted demonstration of Livebook's ability to manipulate pipelines using dbg feature

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

Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/110 – End of Localhost Development?

https://twitter.com/CarterBryden/status/1555299999952486401 – Twitter response to episode prompting interview

https://quantifiedcitizen.com

https://approximated.app

https://github.com/features/codespaces – Github CodeSpaces

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/ – Amazon Cloud9

https://www.gitpod.io/ – Gitpod.io

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containers

https://mosh.org/

https://rails.new/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/carterbryden – on Twitter

https://approximated.app/ – Solo app Carter mentioned

http://quantifiedcitizen.com/ – Carter's day job

http://indielixir.com – Carter's hobby Elixir podcast

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward