Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now…

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn’t a job working as…

Chuck outlines how he’s used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck’s experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer…

As we ramp back up on recording Elixir Mix, our new panel dives into the resources available for learning and keeping current in Elixir. Resources include books, courses, forums, email newsletters, and more. Panel Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic…

Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It’s easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren’t roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points…

Julien Maisonneuve—blogger extraordinaire—joins the Elixir Mix panel to discuss the ways he’s bent Elixir to his will and found the edges of how it works and what you can do with its syntax. He talks about currying and about taking Elixir syntax to extremes. He’s also worked on the Megaparsec Elixir parser and explains some…

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and…

If you’ve been wondering what’s up with Elixir Mix and how it’s going to shape up for the future, stay tuned… Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they’re doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors…

This is a repeat of Elixir Mix Episode 050. Here is the link: https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-050-elixir-origin-story-with-jose-valim/

We talk with Meryl Dakin, an Elixir engineer at Frame.io, about why they rebuilt their legacy application in Elixir, why they brought in GraphQL and what it’s like to work with the Absinthe Elixir library for GraphQL. We wrap up the episode with a very special Tarot reading using the deck that Meryl gave Sophie…

Adam Mokan joins the Mix to discuss crawling the web with Elixir. He starts out by explaining he rather unconventional path to Elixir. At ElixirConf he spoke about crawling the web. He admits that his talk was more about architecture of a highly parallelized app with a restrictive SLA. He talks about managing web crawls…