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In addition to trying to teach myself as much about machine learning as I could in 2023, I also tried to do the same with Elixir. If you are not familiar with Elixir, then it is best described as:

… a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, known for creating low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. These capabilities and Elixir tooling allow developers to be productive in several domains, such as web development, embedded software, machine learning, data pipelines, and multimedia processing, across a wide range of industries. Source: elixir-lang.com

As an ex-Ruby programmer, the syntax of Elixir comes naturally, and as someone who tinkered with Lisp (many, many years ago in Uni), its pure functional nature has a lot of appeal. Whole classes of bugs typical with object-oriented code just disappear with immutable data types and functional data pipelines.

I have been building software for almost 30 years, but the last 10 years or so have been more remote as I have spent most of my time in management and leadership positions. What follows does not contain a great deal of commentary on the posts but rather is designed to serve more as a record of what I read and what I learned as I taught myself the language from scratch. My hope is that it might be useful to anyone starting out who might need a reading list to get going.

The links are divided into months (of 2023) and are here more or less chronologically in the order that I found them. Some months have a few more posts than others, some have tags, and a few have #todos to remind me of things to think about in the future.

Enjoy!

202312

Phoenix Component guide - reusable building blocks of modern web application

Setting Up a Multi-tenant Phoenix App for Elixir

202311

How to - Phoenix LiveView

Comparing Elixir and Python when working with Simple Neural Networks - A. Neto & L. C. Tavano

Phoenix LiveView and E-Commerce

Setting Up a Multi-tenant Phoenix App for Elixir

Principles of Functional Programming

Adding Dialyzer without the Pain

Work with Files in Livebook

ElixirConf 2023

Three Years of Nx: Growing the Elixir Machine Learning Ecosystem

Functional Arrays in Elixir and Erlang

Introducing Elixir Drops

Traditional Machine Learning with Scholar

Audio Speech Recognition in Elixir with Whisper Bumblebee

Building your own distributed CLI ChatGPT in Elixir with GenServer

The Comprehensive Guide to Elixir’s List Comprehension

Functional domain modeling in Elixir

Tag Images with Elixir and Yolov8

Elixir Desktop

202310

Taming Complexity - Structuring Phoenix Contexts

The Road Toward LiveView Native v0.2 (Part 1)

An entire blog full of posts on Elixir

Fine tune Mistral 7B with the RTX 4090 and serve it with Nx

Using Decision Tables in Elixir Applications - Part 1

Open-Source Elixir Alternatives to ChatGPT

Created my Personal AI Fitness Trainer in 2 Days

LiveView 0.20 HEEX Debug Annotations

ElixirConf 2023

DIY Lambda

Elixir LiveBook File Integration

End-to-End Machine Learning in Elixir

Strong Arrows

A quick SFTP server in Elixir

BEAM Machine

Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal

Elixir and Machine Learning: Q3 2023 roundup

Announcing LangChain for Elixir

Elixir + Phoenix Liveview + Ash implementation of RealWorld Example App

RealWorld Example Apps (Medium Clone) built in a variety of front-end and back-end technologies

The elixir-tools Update Vol. 3

202309

Ash for Elixir

Jax Ex: Model Your Domain, Derive the Rest (0/2) #video
Ash Primer: Migration Generation (1/2) #video
Ash Primer: Calculations (2/2) #video
Ash Forum on Elixir Forums

A better way to prompt LLMs in Elixir

Elixir Conf 2023

Understanding the Elixir Machine Learning Ecosystem - An introduction to Machine Learning in Elixir through a glossary of libraries

Implementing Nearest-Neighbour Recommendations in Ruby

Gigalixir

Elixir Phoenix Storybooks

Kaffy Admin

Beacon CMS

Add full-text search to an Elixir Phoenix application

Understanding Elixir: Real-Time and Latency

Understanding Elixir: Syntax

IEx is Awesome!

StorybookJS

STAPLE Stack - Surface, Tailwind, Ash, Phoenix, LiveView and Elixir

Elixir Conf Chat

Adding a table of contents to Nimble Publisher

Ash Double-Entry

Flop

Secure Coding and Deployment Hardening Guidelines

202308

Digging into the Ash Framework

Creating Note taking app using LiveView and GenServer - Part 1

Understanding the Elixir Machine Learning Ecosystem

From Python to Elixir Machine Learning

Publishing user Elixir, Phoenix, and Nimble Publisher

Elixir Saves Pinterest $2 Million a Year In Server Costs

plaid-elixir

Oban Job Processing for Elixir

Elixir Machine Learning Explained

A Beginner’s Introduction to Phoenix Framework and LiveView | John Christopher

Grox.io

Join the Elixir FashionMNIST Challenge

Building Self-referential Associations in Elixir/Phoenix

Elixir for Fun

How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir’s Req HTTP client?

Req – a batteries-included HTTP client for Elixir

Tailwind

Build AI Powered Celebrity Instagram - ZERO JavaScript! Using Phoenix LiveView

TIL: 3 different ways to build a list with conditional elements in Elixir

Crafting Your Own Static Site Generator Using Phoenix

Building a full-text search engine in Elixir

Phoenix with GitHub OAuth Authentication

Building a Chat App with LiveView Streams

Generating Data Functions in Your Elixir App

Hans Elias B. Josephsen - Object detection in Elixir with Axon

Using the power of macros for consistent authorization

Functional Arrays in Elixir and Erlang

Numerator

John Elm Labs (Elixir Courses) #training #howto #learn

Let’s build GPT from scratch w/ Nx and Axon #howto #learn #ai #gpt #ai #gen-ai

The Phoenix LiveView LifeCycle Illustrated #phoenix #front-end

How to Add daisyUI to Your Elixir + Phoenix Project (And Why You Should!) #phoenix #tailwind #css #front-end

ElixirForCynicalCurmudgeons #opinion

202307

Exercism

What does AI dream about? Stable Diffusion in Elixir

Joy of Elixir

Walkthrough of Elixir’s Adapter Pattern

From Python to Elixir Machine Learning

Simple Configuration Setup for Elixir Projects

Elixir with

Elixir in VS Code

ElixirCasts

An Introduction to Absinthe

The Comprehensive Guide to Elixir’s List Comprehension

The Lazy Programmer’s Intro to LiveView: Chapter 1

LangchainEx #llm #langchain

Thinking loops in Elixir

Create and Open A Modal in Phoenix 1.7

Some Elixir Testing Tricks

Elixir Streams

Build your own lazy operation evaluator in Elixir

Building a ChatGPT Chatbot with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView

Elixir Sigils

Ash Framework

202306

A list of LLM-based projects to build as side-projects for your developer portfolio #llm #gpt #ai #machine #learning Note: this list is not Elixir-specific, but it would be good to do Elixir-specific versions of each idea

202305

The Ash Framework #framework #back-end

202304

Learning Elixir #learn #howto

202303

Pathex #lib #data #structure

202302

GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy #code #howto #learn #numpy #python #ai #machine #learning #numpy #TODO take this and make an Elixir version

202301

Elixir School #howto #code

Alchemist Elixir Camp (videos) #howrto #code #video

Adding a Table of Contents to Nimble Publisher #howto #code #blog

Flowbit Admin Dashboard #ui #frontend #dashboard

LiveView Native Yearly Update #frontend #native

Building a remote control car from scratch using Elixir #code #edge #howto

Elixir Contexts in Action

Goodbye IO.Inspect. Hello dbg

Let me know if you find the list useful in any way. I’d love to hear about your experience, whether or not you are new to Elixir or, like me, you are coming back to programming after spending some time away from the front line.

Originally published by M@ on Medium.

Blog #163: Elixir Reading List (2023)