October 18, 2022

121: Self Taught Coder to First Elixir Job

54 minutes

She started at the very beginning of her self-directed, non-traditional route to coding. She first had to learn to code. She worked, studied, and leaned on mentors and others until she reached the point of being hired for a full time job. What language did she tackle as that very first one? Elixir! We talked with Kimberly Johnson about how she did it. She shared her story at ElixirConf which we found inspiring. We wanted to go deeper on how she kept going when things got hard and how she built up a network of mentors and resources to help along the way. A great story and potential roadmap for others who want to follow a non-traditional path to a software development career!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/121

Elixir Community News

https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-1-3-1-4-1-5-and-1-6-security-releases-for-wildcard-check-origin-vulnerability/50902 – Phoenix Security Releases for versions 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.1 – Elixir 1.14.1 released

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView 0.18.3 bug fix release

https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/10/11/phoenix-liveview-018-new-special-html-attributes.html – Sophie DeBennedetto wrote an article that covers the new :let, :if, and :for special forms

https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_client – AbsintheClient - new library that is a GraphQL client for Absinthe with built-in support for subscriptions

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/99 – Episode 99 with Michael Davis to learn more about Slipstream

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v390-2022-09-27 – EctoSQL v3.9.0 released

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – Safe Ecto Migrations guide

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1578411348404228096 – Livebook v0.7 released

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixir-set-theoretic-types/ – New blog post from José Valim on Elixir's future with set-theoretic types

https://codebeamamerica.com/ – Code Beam America conference. Held November 3-4 in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. & online

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/ – Cloudflare created a new captcha replacement called Turnstile

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

Discussion Resources

https://www.travelpassgroup.com/

https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-elixir-and-phoenix-bootcamp-and-tutorial/

https://pragmaticstudio.com/phoenix-liveview

https://pragmaticstudio.com/elixir

https://grox.io/about

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/grit – Grit on Psychology Today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/

https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition

Guest Information

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

https://github.com/siestakimberly/ – on Github

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-johnson-716869142/ – LinkedIn

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward