September 21, 2021

65: Meet Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev

47 minutes

We talk with Elixir Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev about how he got involved in Elixir, what it’s like being on the Core Team, some of his contributions, areas in Elixir that interest him, and his tips for learning a new programming language! He also shares some of his interests outside of computing. Meet Aleksei!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/65

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/1617 – Initial proposal to bring slots to LiveView components.

https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub/status/1437034456037068804 – Book Club started "Elixir in Action"

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/ – Supabase, which uses Elixir in their "realtime" project raised $30m

https://github.com/supabase/realtime – Realtime project on github

https://twitter.com/BrooklinJMyers/status/1436744292391923714 – New Podcast "Elixir Newbie"

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1436386868539662338 – Fly.io is now a sponsor of the Livebook project!

https://github.com/elixir-desktop/android-example-app/ – Android Application that embeds Elixir, uses a Webview to connect locally to the server, and renders using LiveView!

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11246 – Mix Formatter Plugins PR

ElixirConf EU has happened!

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.3 – Elixir 1.12.3 released

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

Discussion Resources

https://forzafootball.com/

https://tech.forzafootball.com/blog/binary-parsing-optimizations-in-elixir – Blog post by Aleksei Magusev on the Forza Football site

https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid

https://racket-lang.org/

https://www.rubinius.com/about/

https://web.archive.org/web/20130422214345/http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ – The Matasano Crypto Challenge isn't online anymore - this is from the Wayback Machine

https://hexdocs.pm/ex_unit/ExUnit.CaptureLog.html

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/3390 – Early version of the capture_log work which was later simplified

https://github.com/kraftjectory/forgery

https://hex.pm/packages/forgery

https://hex.pm/packages/mint

https://hex.pm/packages/finch

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

https://github.com/lexmag/cashmere – Caching library Aleksei created and open sourced

https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html

https://andrealeopardi.com/

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/4430 – PR adding difference highlighting to ExUnit output

https://github.com/lexmag/elixir-style-guide – He wrote the very early version of Elixir Style Guide

Guest Information

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

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

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