74: New to Elixir and Women in Tech with Miki and Kate Rezentes

We talk with mother/daughter team Miki and Kate Rezentes about their experiences learning and working with Elixir and as women in the tech industry. Miki presented “Greasing the Wheel of Adoption” at ElixirConf. Her focus was on the people aspect of adoption and we had a great time going deeper on that topic here. Kate, who is just starting her career as a developer, talks about ways we can share tech with the young people around us. We get their ideas and suggestions for ways to support women in tech, young people learning tech, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/74 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.13/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.13's final RC? https://twitter.com/tylerayoung/status/1458075015098814477 – Tyler Young drew our attention to some new Elixir 1.13 features that went largely unnoticed https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.0-rc.0/Map.html#map/2 – Map.map/2 https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.0-rc.0/Map.html#filter/2 – Map.filter/2 https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.13.0-rc.0/Map.html#reject/2 – Map.reject/2 https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1458888727980388360 – Mac M1 Max chips and anecdotal speed improvements for Elixir https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/4869 – Erlang OTP 25 PR for JIT optimizations for ARM chips https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/11/10/embracing-open-data-with-elixir-at-the-ministry-of-ecological-transition-in-france/ – New Case Study on the Elixir Lang website https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/15/utahs-podium-raises-pre-ipo-round-boosting-its-valuation-to-3-billion/ – Podium, a Utah-based company that heavily uses Elixir, was highlighted in TechCrunch recently https://twitter.com/elixirmembrane/status/1458109629985013761 – Membrane Framework updated to 0.8.0 https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/043-membrane-with-marcin-lewandowski/ – Previous discussion about Membrane Framework https://twitter.com/chriskeathley/status/1458215357433454596 – Chris Keathley to continue Elixir usage but stepping back from public contributions https://sonic-pi.net/ – Sonic Pi project https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/commit/ed04519d38e1c0be90915f1c4ee5c1534ccec3cb – Sonic Pi gets Phoenix support merged into project https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves/releases/tag/v1.7.12 – Nerves v1.7.12 released. Elixir 1.13.0-rc.0 now can be used to build projects. https://github.com/livebook-dev/nerves_livebook/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v032---2021-11-13 – Nerves Livebook v0.3.2 includes Livebook v0.3.2 release and adds support for Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc#rendering-mermaid-graphs – Mermaid Graphs are supported in ExDoc https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1747 – Declarative API for LiveView Components Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxS8VLhuKGY&list=PLqj39LCvnOWZna91xJ_i44g3rx4Brbpnv&index=32&t=42s – Kate Rezentes lighting talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVI_8V2ULXM – Miki Rezentes talk “Greasing the Wheel of Adoption” https://pragprog.com/titles/elixir16/programming-elixir-1-6/ https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/ https://www.shift5.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXzuDXZwZtI – Incubus - Pardon Me https://www.playpiper.com/products/piper-computer-kit-3 [Probably the same company https://www.amazon.com/Piper-Computer-Kit-Minecraft-Raspberry/dp/B07HPFF3KC](Probably the same company https://www.amazon.com/Piper-Computer-Kit-Minecraft-Raspberry/dp/B07HPFF3KC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuPe81bc2w – Binary Numbers and Base Systems as Fast as Possible Guest Information https://twitter.com/mikirez – Miki Rezentes on Twitter https://github.com/mrezentes – Miki on Github https://www.linkedin.com/in/miki-rezentes-823ba02a/ – Miki on LinkedIn https://twitter.com/RezKate – Kate Rezentes on Twitter https://github.com/KateRezentes – Kate on Github https://www.linkedin.com/in/kfrezent/ – Kate on LinkedIn Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!