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Lars Wikman

A packed panel of Elixir experts and experienced developers who make the complicated interesting and fun. We talk about Elixir, Erlang and all things related to the BEAM virtual machine ecos...

Episodes

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Episode 97: Gleam! A Chat with Peter Saxton

In this episode of Beam Radio, Lars and Andrew welcome Peter Saxton, a key figure in the Gleam programming language community. They discuss...

48:21Dec 11, 2025

Episode 96: Take the Elixir Survey and Other Topics with Lars Wikman and Michał Buszkiewicz of Curiosum

This episode of Beam Radio features a conversation between Lars Wikman and Michał Buszkiewicz, discussing the adoption and impact of the Eli...

58:29Oct 30, 2025

Episode 95: Erik Stenman and The BEAM Book

Erik Stenman joins the BeamRadio pod to discuss The BEAM Book (you can read it for free!). Erik started programming in 1980 and has a rich h...

55:12Sep 18, 2025

Episode 94: Mike Hostetler and Jido: The Future of Elixir Agents

In this episode Mike Hostetler shares his journey into the Elixir ecosystem and the development of Jido, the Elixir autonomous agent framewo...

57:10Jul 23, 2025

Episode 93: Chris Nelson and a Riveting Convo on Elixir

In this episode, Lars, Andrew, and Chris discuss various aspects of Elixir development, including the journey of transitioning to Elixir (yo...

1:02:47Jul 10, 2025

Episode 92: German Velasco and the Advantages of Elixir

In this episode of BeamRadio, hosts Andrew Ek and Alex Koutmos are joined by German Velasco. They chat about the complexities and advantages...

1:13:59Jun 27, 2025

Episode 91: BeamRadio Talks Igniter with Zach Daniel

In this episode of Beam Radio, Andrew Ek and Bruce Tate welcome Zach Daniel to discuss his journey with Elixir, the impact of the Ash framew...

53:26Jun 2, 2025

Episode 89: BeamRadio talks AtomVM - the Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices

A fabulous converstation with Davide Bettio and Paul Guyot about AtomVM - the Erlang virtual machine for IoT devices. https://www.atomvm.net...

1:02:43Apr 22, 2025

Episode 90: Josh Price: Ash and the Greater Elixir Community

In this episode of Beam Radio, hosts Andrew Ek and Lars Wikman welcome Josh Price from Alembic. They discuss the recent AlchemyConf, the val...

1:02:29Apr 22, 2025

Episode 88: Unlocking the Power of NX with Paulo Valente

NX provides a powerful framework for machine learning in Elixir and Lars, Andrew and Paulo Valente take a deep dive into it! Connect with Pa...

1:01:07Mar 7, 2025

Episode 87: Chris Grainger talks Data Science and Engineering and Elixir

In this conversation, Lars and Chris delve into the intersection of Elixir, data engineering, and data science. They explore the significanc...

1:06:41Feb 21, 2025

Episode 86: The Future of Gleam: Innovations and Insights with Giacomo Cavalieri

Jak and Lars have a delightful conversation about Gleam, the language's type safety, adoption and ecosystem growth. Find Jak: giacomocavalie...

48:34Feb 5, 2025

Episode 85: James Gray II and Innovative Education

In this conversation, Bruce, Andrew, and James discuss their experiences with Elixir programming, the importance of exploring and modeling i...

58:59Jan 22, 2025

Episode 84: Peter Ullrich: Making Elixir Easy to Learn

The panel chats about making Elixir easy to learn for devs from other languages and how to talk about Elixir in the greater development comm...

56:45Jan 8, 2025

Episode 82: The B in Beam - A Chat with Björn Gustavsson

How it started and how it's going - an enlightening chat with Björn Gustavsson about Erlang/Elixir history. Read the Erlang/OTP blog (https:...

53:07Dec 11, 2024

Episode 83: Brian Underwood and EctoWatch

Lars talks with Brian Underwood about EctoWatch, his library. "EctoWatch allows you to easily get notifications about database changes direc...

57:30Dec 3, 2024

Episode 81: The Power and Control of the Ash Framework with Zach Daniel and Rebecca Le

In this conversation, Lars, Zach, and Rebecca discuss the Ash framework and their upcoming book. They also touch on the Igniter tool. The bo...

1:00:36Nov 13, 2024

Episode 80: Bryan Hunter - Poka Yoke, Safety and Reliability

The panel explores Poka Yoke with Bryan Hunter - the concept of mistake-proofing and its application in Erlang and Elixir. Bryan Hunter [Gig...

48:37Oct 14, 2024

Episode 79: Marcel Fahle - Supporting the Good Stuff

Lars and Bruce have a fabulous chat with Marcel Fahle creator of Bold Video and Pidro, a classic multiplayer card game for iOS and Android....

53:38Sep 26, 2024

Episode 78: The Perfect Broth for Cooking the Book with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste.

Sophie DeBenedetto and Steven Nunez chat with Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste, authors of Engineering Elixir Applications. https:/...

45:48Aug 21, 2024