143: Thinking Elixir News

A new minor LiveView release, a new Nerves focused Elixir case study was published, a post about audio transcriptions using Bumblebee and another about using Tailscale to cluster Elixir apps across cloud providers. ElixirConf US was announced, nimble_options reaches 1.0 and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/143 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.18.17/CHANGELOG.md#01817-2023-03-09 – Phoenix LiveView minor update 0.18.17 released https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/03/09/embedded-and-cloud-elixir-at-sparkmeter/ – New Case Study was added to the ElixirLang website. https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1633795075217006597 – Tweet sharing the SparkMeter case study. Includes brief summary. https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages – Discord, another company using Elixir, wrote a blog post titled “How Discord stores trillions of messages” https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/03/07/audio-speech-recognition-in-elixir-with-whisper-bumblebee – Blog post from Sean Moriarity on using Elixir with the Whisper ML model and Bumblebee to do audio speech recognition https://www.richardtaylor.dev/articles/globally-distributed-elixir-over-tailscale – Richard Taylor shared his experiments with clustering Elixir applications across cloud providers. https://twitter.com/tylerayoung/status/1633477705332031488 – Tyler Young shared a PSA of sorts about using module attributes in Elixir. https://hexdocs.pm/nimble_publisher/NimblePublisher.html#module-examples – Nimble Publisher example that stresses how to safely use module attributes https://github.com/dashbitco/nimble_options – Andrea Leopardi released v1.0 of nimble_options. https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1633844179888640001 – Tweet thread where Andrea talks about the 1.0 considerations. https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1633884901681295367 – Brian Cardarella shared a tweet teasing the ability to have a single Phoenix app serve MacOS, WatchOS and iOS interfaces using LiveView Native. https://www.meetup.com/dc-elixir/events/292140179/ – Sundi Myint is organizing a meetup to try your conferences talk pitch out and get feedback. https://2023.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US was announced and will be Sep 5-8 in Orlando, FL at the JW Marriott Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort & Spa https://twitter.com/ElixirConfAfric/status/1633046390732455936 – ElixirConf Africa - May 26-27 - online only. Call for speakers is open. https://sessionize.com/elixir-conf-africa-2023 – Submit your talk for ElixirConf Africa Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Cade Ward - @cadebward Cade Ward on Fediverse - @cadebward@genserver.social Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!

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