October 11, 2022

120: Localize and Personalize Your Elixir Apps

56 minutes

Localizing and personalizing an application is separate from the language used in the interface. Kip Cole explains how the mismatch of computers with the culture of our audience creates friction we may not even be aware of. In fact, our benign app may be unintentionally offensive to millions of people! Kip created the libraries ex_cldr, money and tempo to help Elixir developers localize applications in a culture aware way. What does that mean? It means using minimal information we can infer how names should appear, how numbers are represented, the assumed numeric rounding rules, first day of the week, the calendar being used, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/120

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view – LiveView v0.18.1 and 0.18.2 were released

https://twitter.com/mcrumm/status/1575571809470070784 – PhoenixProfiler plugin updated for LiveView 0.18

https://github.com/mcrumm/phoenix_profiler

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/88 – Previous interview with Michael Crumm about PhoenixProfiler

https://news.livebook.dev/how-to-query-and-visualize-data-from-amazon-athena-using-livebook-4dfQ5y – Livebook blog tutorial post showing how to use Amazon Athena

https://aws.amazon.com/athena/ – Amazon Athena service page

https://github.com/phenixdigital/phx_live_storybook – PhxLiveStorybook released v.0.4

https://github.com/phenixdigital/phx_live_storybook/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/117 – Previous interview about PhxLiveStorybook

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm – Supabase open-sources PostgreSQL on WASM

https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/10/01/liveview-native-weekly-update-4 – LiveView Native - weekly update 4

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/wiebemarten/status/1557852447414132739

https://github.com/kipcole9

https://2022.elixirconf.com/speakers/kip-cole – Time algebra - a new way to think about and work with time

https://github.com/kipcole9/tempo – Tempo library

https://github.com/kipcole9/money

https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr – ex_cldr - Elixir implementation of CLDR/ICU

https://www.amazon.com/Astronomical-Algorithms-Jean-Meeus/dp/0943396611

https://github.com/kimlai/tz_world

https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-a-leap-second-and-why-do-amazon-facebook-and-google-want-to-scrap-it-64625

https://github.com/kipcole9/money

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/kipcole9 – on Twitter

https://github.com/kipcole9/ – on Github

https://elixirforum.com/u/kip/summary – ElixirForum

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward