This week, the hosts are hanging out at ElixirConf Africa. They discuss improvements to Elixir, community building, and ways that the Elixir community can continue to improve.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-95-elixir-conf-africa-2021/

Special Guests: Collins Mucheru, Shuaib Afegubua, and Sigu Magwa.

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This week, the Elixir Wizards take over the show. Justus does his best Chris Keathley impression and desperately wants to talk about Elixir. Unfortunately for him, the rest of the group continues to shuck and or jive. The topic eventually winds its way to LiveBook and Nx, or "Neex" if your Amos. Justus makes the bold claim that Data Scientists are just smarter than the rest of us, a notion that is quickly put down by everyone else. As the show closes, some future developments are teased and Chris claims that contexts "aren't a thing".

A transcript is available for this episode. The one on this site is in plain text, and a more aesthetically pleasing version is available here: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-94-crossover-math-isode/

Special Guests: Eric Oestrich, Justus Eapen, and Sundi Myint.

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Chris has started a new job at frame.io, and he's just getting settled in. Amos has questions and Chris describes his process for learning the history of a code base as quickly as possible.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-93-the-story-of-the-code/

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This week the outlaws are live at CodeBeam and are shucking, jiving, and some combination of the two. They're also answering questions from the community.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-92-outlaws-live-at-code-beam-v/

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Amos, Anna, and Chris start off the show discussing the morality of making promises you can't keep, then spend the rest of the episode discussing the ups and downs of past conference talks.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-91-i-promise-not-to-take-your-cows/

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After confirming that there is indeed a Kansas City, Missouri, the Outlaws discuss Amos's new projects using Phoenix and some LiveView, then opine about CSS, Wallaby, and testing, before closing with brief commentary on Nyx.

Shout outs to Friends of The Show : Frank Herbert and Mitch Hanberg.

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A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-90-ad-hoc-ly-specified/

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Chris skipped his normal pre-podcast prep and is trying to make up for it. Amos wants to know more about what Chris does to prep; a topic which is interesting to literally no one. Quotes are missatributed as the hosts turn to the main topic of the week: What makes for good design.

Chris claims to have a specific design sense but has no idea if its a good sense or not. Both he and Amos agree that consistency is important and that software developers should always be working to making the design of a system a little bit better. But, that work also seems hard and its way more fun to play around with Istio or whatever.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-89-the-new-new-architecture/

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Chris has recently become the owner of a 3D printer and he agrees with everyone else; 3D printing is really cool. The main topic this week is Mnesia and all of the ways that its possible to "break it". Chris and Amos discuss why Mnesia has a bad reputation, where it is a good fit, and how to mitigate some of the issues.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-88-make-it-pop/

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This week kicks off with a discussion of Amos’s reading list. Around the 30 minute mark, the topic shifts to some idle speculation about the benchmarks Jose has been teasing. Towards the end of the discussion, Chris explains his frustration with "modern infrastructure" and programmers chosing complex solutions that they don't need.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-87-all-benefits-and-no-tradeoffs/

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Chris has been drawing maps for his DnD game and he's pretty proud of them. Amos is trying to order events and has questions about hybrid logical clocks. This leads to a discussion of what ordering even is and why its such a problem in distributed systems.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-86-time-is-problematic/

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• Hybrid Logical Clock overview
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