50: Exercism.io and Elixir with Angelika Tyborska

We talk with Angelika Tyborska about the history of exercism.io, her involvement, the issues addressed in v2 and what's new and cool in the soon to be released v3. We cover the Elixir track, her work as a maintainer, the journey of a student and how people can help as mentors. We also hear about the "fun" she had creating a maze generator and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/50 Elixir Community News https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-released/ – Elixir 1.12 was released! https://thinkingelixir.com/elixir-1-12-and-your-first-mix-install-script/ – Mix.install/2 intro post with example. Setup Elixir 1.12 through asdf https://twitter.com/hauleth/status/1394575966463315970 – Global logger metadata as part of OTP 24 https://angelika.me/elixir-enum-cheatsheet – Angelika Tyborska updated her nice Enum visual cheatsheet https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/10637 – Registry module supports the :compressed option https://twitter.com/dashbit/status/1395138662850048003 – Livebook is on Hex.pm using mix escript.install hex livebook https://erlef.org/blog/machine-learning/machine-learning-updates-may-2021 – The Machine Learning group in the EEF outlines their progress https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/4869 – Erlang JIT is coming to AArch64 platforms such as Apple's new M1-based Macs https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook/pull/287 – Livebook gets support for graphing through VegaLite https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/ https://smartlogic.io/about/community/elixir-wizards-conference/ – SmartLogic/Elixir Wizards is hosting an Elixir conference! https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1396600570614632451 – Chris McCord's script to simulate poor network for websocket connections on osx Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://exercism.io/ https://exercism.io/tracks/elixir https://steadyhq.com/en https://steadyhq.com/en/product https://exercism.io/about https://adventofcode.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWEEPt8VvmU http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ https://github.com/angelikatyborska/mazes https://angelika.me/elixir-enum-cheatsheet/ https://github.com/angelikatyborska/vnu-elixir https://github.com/neenjaw/ – Other Elixir track maintainer - Tim Austin https://angelika.me/ https://mazes.angelika.me/ – Cool LiveView maze generator Guest Information https://twitter.com/atyborska93 – on Twitter https://github.com/angelikatyborska/ – on Github https://angelika.me/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward