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Jason Axelson

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Welcome back to the Elixir Wizards podcast! In this episode, we will be continuing our conversation on the theme of adopting elixir, and our great guest for today is Jason Axelson! Jason is a back-end developer for a mixed reality studio called Animal Repair Shop and has also made some significant contributions to the Elixir Language Server project. We kick off our conversation with Jason hearing about his programming journey and then dive into the event chat service app he helped build using Elixir while he was working at Hobnob. From there, we talk about some of his aha moments while learning Elixir and some of his favorite features about the language which he is putting to use building out the back end for Animal Repair Shop. Next, we turn our attention to Elixir Language Server and Jason weighs in on the IDE type features it offers, why he got started as a collaborator on the project, and some of their challenges in the field of shared governance. Wrapping up for today, Jason makes a few suggestions for how devs who love Elixir can convince their teams to adopt it as a more mainstream option. Tune in for a great chat on the topic of adopting Elixir! Key Points From This Episode:  An introduction to Jason Axelson and the story of how he got into programming. Some of the books our hosts and guests read as kids and how they relate to programming. How Jason got into Elixir while working on a chat service for events app at Hobnob. Jason’s current project using Elixir to build the back end for Animal Repair Shop. What caused Hobnob to switch to Elixir for their chat app and Jason’s aha moments learning it. The TLDR version of the project that birthed ‘Road to 2 Million WebSocket Connections’. What Jason loves about Elixir — pattern matching, immutability, explicitness. Why Jason and his team at Animal Repair Shop are building their back end in Elixir. The features provided by the Elixir Language Server for giving IDEs Elixir type support. Jason’s involvement with GitHub/ElixirLSP; why he got involved, the project’s architecture, etc. Some of the most challenging aspects of working on ElixirLS for Jason. Jason’s talk on ElixirLS at ElixirConf – its content, doing it virtually, and more. New features in the pipeline for ElixirLS; formatting speed improvements and more. The role that good tooling plays in being able to learn a language more easily. What needs to happen for Elixir to become a more mainstream back end option. Advice from Jason regarding ways to convince your firm to adopt Elixir.  Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ Jason Axelson on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaxelson Jason Axelson on GitHub — https://github.com/axelson Jason Axelson on Twitter — https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter?lang=en Priv_check by Jason Axelson — https://github.com/axelson/priv_check Jason Axelson ElixirConf ElixirLS Talk — https://2020.elixirconf.com/speakers/126/talk A Definitive Guide to JavaScript  — https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-definitive/9781491952016/ Hobnob — https://hobnob.app/ Elixir for Programmers by Dave Thomas — https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-programmers Animal Repair Shop — https://www.animalrepairshop.com/about/ ‘Road to 2 Million WebSocket Connections’ — https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections Elixir Getting Started Guide — https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html GitHub/ElixirLP — https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls Adopting Elixir — https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/adopting-elixir/ Elixir Slack — https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/ elixir-lsp/elixir-ls: Issue #274 — https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/274 elixir-lsp/elixir-ls: Issue #381 — https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/381Special Guest: Jason Axelson.

Welcome back to the Elixir Wizards podcast! In this episode, we will be continuing our conversation on the theme of adopting elixir, and our great guest for today is Jason Axelson! Jason is a back-end developer for a mixed reality studio called Animal Repair Shop and has also made some significant contributions to the Elixir Language Server project. We kick off our conversation with Jason hearing about his programming journey and then dive into the event chat service app he helped build using Elixir while he was working at Hobnob. From there, we talk about some of his aha moments while learning Elixir and some of his favorite features about the language which he is putting to use building out the back end for Animal Repair Shop. Next, we turn our attention to Elixir Language Server and Jason weighs in on the IDE type features it offers, why he got started as a collaborator on the project, and some of their challenges in the field of shared governance. Wrapping up for today, Jason makes a few suggestions for how devs who love Elixir can convince their teams to adopt it as a more mainstream option. Tune in for a great chat on the topic of adopting Elixir! Key Points From This Episode: <ul> <li>An introduction to Jason Axelson and the story of how he got into programming.</li> <li>Some of the books our hosts and guests read as kids and how they relate to programming.</li> <li>How Jason got into Elixir while working on a chat service for events app at Hobnob.</li> <li>Jason’s current project using Elixir to build the back end for Animal Repair Shop.</li> <li>What caused Hobnob to switch to Elixir for their chat app and Jason’s aha moments learning it.</li> <li>The TLDR version of the project that birthed ‘Road to 2 Million WebSocket Connections’.</li> <li>What Jason loves about Elixir — pattern matching, immutability, explicitness.</li> <li>Why Jason and his team at Animal Repair Shop are building their back end in Elixir.</li> <li>The features provided by the Elixir Language Server for giving IDEs Elixir type support.</li> <li>Jason’s involvement with GitHub/ElixirLSP; why he got involved, the project’s architecture, etc.</li> <li>Some of the most challenging aspects of working on ElixirLS for Jason.</li> <li>Jason’s talk on ElixirLS at ElixirConf – its content, doing it virtually, and more.</li> <li>New features in the pipeline for ElixirLS; formatting speed improvements and more.</li> <li>The role that good tooling plays in being able to learn a language more easily.</li> <li>What needs to happen for Elixir to become a more mainstream back end option.</li> <li>Advice from Jason regarding ways to convince your firm to adopt Elixir.</li> </ul> Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: SmartLogic — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/</a> Jason Axelson on LinkedIn — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaxelson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaxelson</a> Jason Axelson on GitHub — <a href="https://github.com/axelson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/axelson</a> Jason Axelson on Twitter — <a href="https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter?lang=en</a> Priv_check by Jason Axelson — <a href="https://github.com/axelson/priv_check" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/axelson/priv_check</a> Jason Axelson ElixirConf ElixirLS Talk — <a href="https://2020.elixirconf.com/speakers/126/talk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://2020.elixirconf.com/speakers/126/talk</a> A Definitive Guide to JavaScript — <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-definitive/9781491952016/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/javascript-the-definitive/9781491952016/</a> Hobnob — <a href="https://hobnob.app/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hobnob.app/</a> Elixir for Programmers by Dave Thomas — <a href="https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-programmers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-programmers</a> Animal Repair Shop — <a href="https://www.animalrepairshop.com/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.animalrepairshop.com/about/</a> ‘Road to 2 Million WebSocket Connections’ — <a href="https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections</a> Elixir Getting Started Guide — <a href="https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html</a> GitHub/ElixirLP — <a href="https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls</a> Adopting Elixir — <a href="https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/adopting-elixir/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/adopting-elixir/</a> Elixir Slack — <a href="https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/</a> elixir-lsp/elixir-ls: Issue #274 — <a href="https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/274" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/274</a> elixir-lsp/elixir-ls: Issue #381 — <a href="https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/381" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls/issues/381</a>Special Guest: Jason Axelson.

Jason Axelson on the Elixir Language Server

We talk with Jason Axelson. He created the DepViz tool that can help improve your Elixir compile-time experience. Jason explains how to use the tool to identify where compile time dependencies may be causing issues in your project and provides tips on what to do about it. We also cover recent improvements in Elixir 1.11 and coming improvements in 1.12 and what those will mean for you! Jason is also a member of the Elixir-LSP github organization and explains the history of the Elixir-LS project and how it has grown and developed. Jason shares some tips with how to fix Elixir-LS issues when it stops working for you. He also shares some glimpses of where things may go in the future, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/28 Elixir Community News  https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/supabase-raises-6m-for-its-open-source-firebase-alternative/ – Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative https://news.crunchbase.com/news/a-new-corporate-card-ramp-secures-30m-for-money-saving-company-credit-programs/ – Ramp Secures $30M For Money-saving Company Credit Programs https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spiff-8d22 – Spiff raised 10M this summer for it's Elixir powered product https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/1287#issuecomment-749069482 – Maybe in the future we can use do blocks in live view? https://dockyard.com/blog/2020/12/21kkjc/optimizing-user-experience-with-liveview – Chris McCord's blog post on using Alpine.js with LiveView https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/024-liveview-uploads-with-chris-mccord/ – Previous interview with Chris McCord https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1280 – LiveView test helper open_browser gets css support https://github.com/evadne/etso – Highlighting the Etso Library https://semaphoreci.com/blog/elixir-creator-jose-valim – Jose Valim was a guest on the SemaphoreCI podcast https://www.veracode.com/state-of-software-security-report – Covers some common security problems that Elixir is not immune to  Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources  https://github.com/axelson/dep_viz https://elixirforum.com/t/depviz-a-visual-tool-to-understand-inter-file-dependencies/35408 https://dep-viz.herokuapp.com/ http://viz.hawaiicampaignspending.com/ – His previous project that made extensive use of d3 http://animalrepairshop.com/#home-section https://graphviz.org/ mix xref graph --format dot https://www.d3indepth.com/force-layout/ https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary#warning https://github.com/elixir-lsp – The Elixir Language Server Protocol github organization https://thinkingelixir.com/elixir-in-vs-code/ – Using VS Code for Elixir development https://thinkingelixir.com/vs-code-broken-for-elixir/ – Fixing Elixir-LS issues for VS Code https://github.com/falood/exsync/ https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls/pull/182 – PR that added an explicit license to Elixir-LS  Guest Information  https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter – on Twitter https://github.com/axelson/ – on Github https://jasonaxelson.com – Blog  Find us online  Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Jason Axelson. He created the DepViz tool that can help improve your Elixir compile-time experience. Jason explains how to use the tool to identify where compile time dependencies may be causing issues in your project and provides tips on what to do about it. We also cover recent improvements in Elixir 1.11 and coming improvements in 1.12 and what those will mean for you! Jason is also a member of the Elixir-LSP github organization and explains the history of the Elixir-LS project and how it has grown and developed. Jason shares some tips with how to fix Elixir-LS issues when it stops working for you. He also shares some glimpses of where things may go in the future, and more! Show Notes online - <a href="http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/28" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/28</a> Elixir Community News <ul> <li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/supabase-raises-6m-for-its-open-source-firebase-alternative/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/15/supabase-raises-6m-for-its-open-source-firebase-alternative/</a> – Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative</li> <li><a href="https://news.crunchbase.com/news/a-new-corporate-card-ramp-secures-30m-for-money-saving-company-credit-programs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://news.crunchbase.com/news/a-new-corporate-card-ramp-secures-30m-for-money-saving-company-credit-programs/</a> – Ramp Secures $30M For Money-saving Company Credit Programs</li> <li><a href="https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spiff-8d22" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spiff-8d22</a> – Spiff raised 10M this summer for it's Elixir powered product</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/1287#issuecomment-749069482" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/1287#issuecomment-749069482</a> – Maybe in the future we can use do blocks in live view?</li> <li><a href="https://dockyard.com/blog/2020/12/21kkjc/optimizing-user-experience-with-liveview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://dockyard.com/blog/2020/12/21kkjc/optimizing-user-experience-with-liveview</a> – Chris McCord's blog post on using Alpine.js with LiveView</li> <li><a href="https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/024-liveview-uploads-with-chris-mccord/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/024-liveview-uploads-with-chris-mccord/</a> – Previous interview with Chris McCord</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1280" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1280</a> – LiveView test helper open_browser gets css support</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/evadne/etso" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/evadne/etso</a> – Highlighting the Etso Library</li> <li><a href="https://semaphoreci.com/blog/elixir-creator-jose-valim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://semaphoreci.com/blog/elixir-creator-jose-valim</a> – Jose Valim was a guest on the SemaphoreCI podcast</li> <li><a href="https://www.veracode.com/state-of-software-security-report" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.veracode.com/state-of-software-security-report</a> – Covers some common security problems that Elixir is not immune to</li> </ul> Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ThinkingElixir</a> or email at <a href="mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com" rel="nofollow">show@thinkingelixir.com</a> Discussion Resources <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/axelson/dep_viz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/axelson/dep_viz</a></li> <li><a href="https://elixirforum.com/t/depviz-a-visual-tool-to-understand-inter-file-dependencies/35408" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://elixirforum.com/t/depviz-a-visual-tool-to-understand-inter-file-dependencies/35408</a></li> <li><a href="https://dep-viz.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://dep-viz.herokuapp.com/</a></li> <li><a href="http://viz.hawaiicampaignspending.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://viz.hawaiicampaignspending.com/</a> – His previous project that made extensive use of d3</li> <li><a href="http://animalrepairshop.com/#home-section" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://animalrepairshop.com/#home-section</a></li> <li><a href="https://graphviz.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://graphviz.org/</a></li> <li>mix xref graph --format dot</li> <li><a href="https://www.d3indepth.com/force-layout/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.d3indepth.com/force-layout/</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary#warning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary#warning</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/elixir-lsp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/elixir-lsp</a> – The Elixir Language Server Protocol github organization</li> <li><a href="https://thinkingelixir.com/elixir-in-vs-code/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thinkingelixir.com/elixir-in-vs-code/</a> – Using VS Code for Elixir development</li> <li><a href="https://thinkingelixir.com/vs-code-broken-for-elixir/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://thinkingelixir.com/vs-code-broken-for-elixir/</a> – Fixing Elixir-LS issues for VS Code</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/falood/exsync/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/falood/exsync/</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls/pull/182" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/JakeBecker/elixir-ls/pull/182</a> – PR that added an explicit license to Elixir-LS</li> </ul> Guest Information <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter</a> – on Twitter</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/axelson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/axelson/</a> – on Github</li> <li><a href="https://jasonaxelson.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jasonaxelson.com</a> – Blog</li> </ul> Find us online <ul> <li>Message the show - <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ThinkingElixir</a></li> <li>Email the show - <a href="mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com" rel="nofollow">show@thinkingelixir.com</a></li> <li>Mark Ericksen - <a href="https://twitter.com/brainlid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@brainlid</a></li> <li>David Bernheisel - <a href="https://twitter.com/bernheisel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bernheisel</a></li> <li>Cade Ward - <a href="https://twitter.com/cadebward" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@cadebward</a></li></ul>

28: DepViz and ElixirLS with Jason Axelson