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Elixir Mentor

by Jacob Luetzow
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  • Nathan Hessler on ExMex and Conferences

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    Nathan Hessler, organizer of ExMex and RBQ Conf, is back four weeks out from ExMex 2026 in Austin. We cover MCing Rails World, how he picks speakers and keynotes for a single track, what running a Ruby conference taught him, and the free…

  • Alex Koutmos on Nerves and Finance

    October 10, 2026 · 1 hr 38 min

    Alex Koutmos, CTO of EagleMMS and author of Elixir Patterns, is back with two books in beta: Programming Nerves, which gets web developers building hardware from Livebook, and Elixir For Finance, written with his brother Dimitri on real…

  • Mike Hostetler on Jido v3

    October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Mike Hostetler, creator of Jido and ReqLLM, is back for round three. Jido 2.0 hit the top of Hacker News and took his docs server down with it, and Jido v3 betas are already on Hex. We get into agentic back pressure, why models write…

  • Michael Lubas on the State of Security

    September 25, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Michael Lubas, CEO of Paraxial.io and the first guest ever on this podcast, is back to check in on the state of security. We get into Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday, why AI keeps lowering the bar for attackers, the OpenAI sandbox escape…

  • Adam Gusky on Getting Recommended by AI

    September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

    Adam Gusky, solo founder of Blawgy, on how businesses get recommended by ChatGPT and other AI tools, and what technical founders get wrong about marketing. Adam went from a college wrestling meme page and 30 side projects to quitting his…

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  • Brice Ayres on Fractional Engineering

    September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 44 min

    Brice Ayres, founder of Axio Intelligence, on fractional engineering and what changes when one senior engineer can run a team of AI agents. Brice went from the Army and a 3.7 million follower Facebook cause to finding Elixir at Topgolf…

  • Francesco Ciulla on Winning Developer Adoption

    June 27, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

    In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I step a little outside the BEAM to talk with Francesco Ciulla, Head of DevRel at Zerops. Francesco came up as a Rust developer and content creator with a 300,000-subscriber YouTube channel…

  • Jason Allum on Beadwork

    June 20, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

    Jason Allum returns to the Elixir Mentor Podcast to talk about Beadwork, his filesystem-native, git-synced issue tracker built for AI coding agents. With 40 years of building software and cleaning up other people's messes, Jason has a…

  • Tjaco Oostdijk on Drums to Elixir

    June 7, 2026 · 1 hr 31 min

    In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I talk with Tjaco Oostdijk, a drummer turned Elixir developer now working at DPG Media, one of the largest media companies in the Netherlands. Tjaco played drums professionally from the age of…

  • Peter Ullrich on Hunting CVEs

    May 30, 2026 · 1 hr 50 min

    Peter Ullrich returns to talk about a CVE hunt across the most-downloaded Hex packages, run with Claude Code on Opus 4.7. After ElixirConf EU pulled him into AI security, he started pointing Opus at popular libraries day and night, and…

  • Jason Allum on Bedrock

    May 24, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I sit down with Jason Allum, creator of Bedrock and Beadwork and a 40-year veteran of computing, to talk about Bedrock: an embedded, distributed key-value store for Elixir with guarantees that…

  • Michael Lubas on AI, Attack, and Defense

    May 16, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

    Michael Lubas, CEO of Paraxial.io and my first-ever guest, returns to talk about AI's dual role in cybersecurity: finding vulnerabilities and writing the code that creates them. We open with the Hex package manager penetration test…

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About the show

Welcome to the Elixir Mentor Podcast, your go-to source for All Things Elixir. This show digs into the heart of the Elixir community, featuring interviews with enthusiasts and pioneers who share their stories and innovative projects that define our ecosystem. Each episode explores groundbreaking libraries and boundary-pushing applications shaping Elixir's future. We discuss best practices, emerging trends, and the latest tools and techniques. Perfect for developers at any stage of their Elixir journey, providing insights and inspiration. Join me as we explore the world of Elixir together.