65: Meet Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev

We talk with Elixir Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev about how he got involved in Elixir, what it’s like being on the Core Team, some of his contributions, areas in Elixir that interest him, and his tips for learning a new programming language! He also shares some of his interests outside of computing. Meet Aleksei! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/65 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/1617 – Initial proposal to bring slots to LiveView components. https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub/status/1437034456037068804 – Book Club started "Elixir in Action" https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/ – Supabase, which uses Elixir in their "realtime" project raised $30m https://github.com/supabase/realtime – Realtime project on github https://twitter.com/BrooklinJMyers/status/1436744292391923714 – New Podcast "Elixir Newbie" https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1436386868539662338 – Fly.io is now a sponsor of the Livebook project! https://github.com/elixir-desktop/android-example-app/ – Android Application that embeds Elixir, uses a Webview to connect locally to the server, and renders using LiveView! https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11246 – Mix Formatter Plugins PR ElixirConf EU has happened! https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.3 – Elixir 1.12.3 released Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://forzafootball.com/ https://tech.forzafootball.com/blog/binary-parsing-optimizations-in-elixir – Blog post by Aleksei Magusev on the Forza Football site https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid https://racket-lang.org/ https://www.rubinius.com/about/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130422214345/http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ – The Matasano Crypto Challenge isn't online anymore - this is from the Wayback Machine https://hexdocs.pm/ex_unit/ExUnit.CaptureLog.html https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/3390 – Early version of the capture_log work which was later simplified https://github.com/kraftjectory/forgery https://hex.pm/packages/forgery https://hex.pm/packages/mint https://hex.pm/packages/finch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_stampede https://github.com/lexmag/cashmere – Caching library Aleksei created and open sourced https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html https://andrealeopardi.com/ https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/4430 – PR adding difference highlighting to ExUnit output https://github.com/lexmag/elixir-style-guide – He wrote the very early version of Elixir Style Guide Guest Information https://twitter.com/lexmag – on Twitter https://github.com/lexmag/ – on Github Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward