November 23, 2021

74: New to Elixir and Women in Tech with Miki and Kate Rezentes

1 hour 3 minutes

We talk with mother/daughter team Miki and Kate Rezentes about their experiences learning and working with Elixir and as women in the tech industry. Miki presented “Greasing the Wheel of Adoption” at ElixirConf. Her focus was on the people aspect of adoption and we had a great time going deeper on that topic here. Kate, who is just starting her career as a developer, talks about ways we can share tech with the young people around us. We get their ideas and suggestions for ways to support women in tech, young people learning tech, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/74

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.13/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.13's final RC?

https://twitter.com/tylerayoung/status/1458075015098814477 – Tyler Young drew our attention to some new Elixir 1.13 features that went largely unnoticed

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.0-rc.0/Map.html#map/2 – Map.map/2

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.0-rc.0/Map.html#filter/2 – Map.filter/2

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.0-rc.0/Map.html#reject/2 – Map.reject/2

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1458888727980388360 – Mac M1 Max chips and anecdotal speed improvements for Elixir

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/4869 – Erlang OTP 25 PR for JIT optimizations for ARM chips

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/11/10/embracing-open-data-with-elixir-at-the-ministry-of-ecological-transition-in-france/ – New Case Study on the Elixir Lang website

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/utahs-podium-raises-pre-ipo-round-boosting-its-valuation-to-3-billion/ – Podium, a Utah-based company that heavily uses Elixir, was highlighted in TechCrunch recently

https://twitter.com/elixirmembrane/status/1458109629985013761 – Membrane Framework updated to 0.8.0

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/043-membrane-with-marcin-lewandowski/ – Previous discussion about Membrane Framework

https://twitter.com/chriskeathley/status/1458215357433454596 – Chris Keathley to continue Elixir usage but stepping back from public contributions

https://sonic-pi.net/ – Sonic Pi project

https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/commit/ed04519d38e1c0be90915f1c4ee5c1534ccec3cb – Sonic Pi gets Phoenix support merged into project

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves/releases/tag/v1.7.12 – Nerves v1.7.12 released. Elixir 1.13.0-rc.0 now can be used to build projects.

https://github.com/livebook-dev/nerves_livebook/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v032---2021-11-13 – Nerves Livebook v0.3.2 includes Livebook v0.3.2 release and adds support for Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc#rendering-mermaid-graphs – Mermaid Graphs are supported in ExDoc

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1747 – Declarative API for LiveView Components

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

Discussion Resources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxS8VLhuKGY&list=PLqj39LCvnOWZna91xJ_i44g3rx4Brbpnv&index=32&t=42s – Kate Rezentes lighting talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVI_8V2ULXM – Miki Rezentes talk “Greasing the Wheel of Adoption”

https://pragprog.com/titles/elixir16/programming-elixir-1-6/

https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/

https://www.shift5.io/

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzuDXZwZtI – Incubus - Pardon Me

https://www.playpiper.com/products/piper-computer-kit-3

[Probably the same company https://www.amazon.com/Piper-Computer-Kit-Minecraft-Raspberry/dp/B07HPFF3KC](Probably the same company https://www.amazon.com/Piper-Computer-Kit-Minecraft-Raspberry/dp/B07HPFF3KC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuPe81bc2w – Binary Numbers and Base Systems as Fast as Possible

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/mikirez – Miki Rezentes on Twitter

https://github.com/mrezentes – Miki on Github

https://www.linkedin.com/in/miki-rezentes-823ba02a/ – Miki on LinkedIn

https://twitter.com/RezKate – Kate Rezentes on Twitter

https://github.com/KateRezentes – Kate on Github

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kfrezent/ – Kate on LinkedIn

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