Elixir Fountain was the first podcast focused on the Elixir language. The first episode was published on June 9, 2015 and the latest on 09 Aug 2019. In the past, I wrote “Top 9 episodes of the Elixir Fountain podcast”. The host and creator of Elixir Fountain is Johnny Winn…

I have a podcast in Portuguese. It is called “Podcast do Professor Adolfo Neto” (Professor Adolfo Neto’s Podcast). In the most recent episode I interviewed Alexandre Villares. Alexandre Villares is a professor, visual artist and consultant in new media. He has a major in Architecture from the University…

In the video above I experimented with Brujo Benavides’s description of TDD in Erlang. His post is below: Simple TDD in Erlang Or how to use Pattern-Matching for Testsmedium.com The tweet he mentioned is this one: What is the right way to say/write? Simple TDD in Erlang or Simple TDD with Erlang?

Alert! Elixir Brasil will be postponed. Whenever we have new dates, I will publish them here. So here we go again. This will be the third edition of Elixir Brasil, the only Elixir conference in Brazil. The first two editions of this event were: Elixir Brasil 2018, a one…

Excerpts from Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Skin in the Game, which is part of Incerto. Read the book! These are just a reminder for me. (…) one (now “resigned”) department head one day came to me and emitted the warning: “Just as, when a businessman and author you are judged by…

As far as I know, there are currently five active newsletters related to Elixir, Erlang or the BEAM: Elixir Radar (now at https://elixir-radar.com/), a weekly newsletter by Plataformatec (the company was acquihired by Nubank). Latest issue, as I write, was issue 213. Elixir Digest — “One email per week, 5…

My students from the “Introduction to Functional Programming” course are studying Chapter 8 of Dave Thomas’ Programming Elixir 1.6, which is about Maps, Keyword Lists, Sets, and Structs. These are the exercises they will have to do today: 1) Let kl be a keyword list defined as following: kl =…

I am a professor and I teach Introduction to Logic for Computing. One of the subjects I teach is Classical Propositional Logic. I use a Brazilian book as my main reference but this book is also quite good. In Classical Propositional Logic there are two truth-values: true and false. …

I went to Elixir Brazil 2019, an event dedicated to the Elixir programming language, created by José Valim, co-founder of Plataformatec. During the event, in addition to giving a lecture, I talked to several members of the Elixir community. It is a very inclusive community. One of the initiatives was…