January 31, 2023

136: Elixir around the Bonfire

49 minutes

The "fediverse" has become a hot topic of late. Fortunately, Mayel de Boniol joined to explain what federated means, what ActivityPub is, and more. Mayel is more than just knowledgeable in this area, he created Bonfire Networks as well! It's written in Elixir and is a framework people can use to build their own federated servers to meet their specific needs, be that for tweet-like messages, meetup coordination, collaborative task lists or your own custom extensions. Being written in Elixir and OpenSource, he explains a number of libraries that can help those of us not even building a social app at all!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/136

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1615869044665597952 – Interesting benchmark about Elixir/Erlang startup times

https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1615433573301121025 – Livebook Desktop is getting the internals completely revamped

https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook#desktop-app

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/113 – Interview with Wojtek about Livebook Desktop in greater detail.

https://twitter.com/livebookdev/status/1616508498212229123 – Basile Nouvellet created a Discord integration for Livebook

https://github.com/basilenouvellet/kino_discord – Kino Discord library for integrating Discord with Livebook

https://changelog.com/posts/id3vx-a-library-for-parsing-and-encoding-id3-tags – Lars Wikman helped the Changelog podcast add chapters to their MP3 recordings and wrote about how to do it.

https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1617815721592950784 – Andrea Leopardi updated Elixir dbg to print out boolean expression results.

https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1617521132529389568 – Andrea Leopardi is writing an Elixir book about network programming

https://twitter.com/clarkware/status/1616504190171287565 – Mike Clark with PragProg shared that they are working on a new LiveView video series

https://tw.com/elixir_temple/status/1616766786971516929 – Temple updated to work well with HEEx templates

https://github.com/mhanberg/temple – Temple is an Elixir DSL for writing HTML and SVG

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/92 – Temple interview with Mitchell Hanberg

https://alembic.com.au/blog/announcing-ash-authentication – Ash Framework announced Ash Authentication

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/123 – Ash Framework Models Resources

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

Discussion Resources

https://bonfirenetworks.org/

https://bonfirenetworks.org/faq/

https://github.com/bonfire-networks

https://twitter.com/SwitchToBonfire

https://doc.bonfirenetworks.org/architecture.html

https://app.element.io/#/room/#bonfire-networks:matrix.org

https://bonfirenetworks.org/faq/ – Question 2 - Federated? What does that mean?

https://pleroma.social/

https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma

https://akkoma.social/

https://genserver.social

https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

https://github.com/bonfire-networks/activity_pub

https://embedded-elixir.com/post/2017-05-19-poncho-projects/

https://github.com/bonfire-networks/pointers – Ecto's missing universal foreign key

https://doc.bonfirenetworks.org/database.html

https://github.com/bonfire-networks/flexto – config-based extending of Ecto schemas

https://github.com/bonfire-networks/ecto_sparkles – Various helpers for Ecto

https://doc.bonfirenetworks.org/bonfire-flavoured-elixir.html – Arrows and Untangle

https://doc.bonfirenetworks.org/boundaries.html – Circles and Boundaries

https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire_epics – Epics

https://bonfirenetworks.org/extensions/ – some of the extensions

Guest Information

https://github.com/mayel/ – on Github

https://mayel.space/ – Blog

https://sunbeam.city/@mayel – on Fediverse

https://indieweb.social/@bonfire – Bonfire on Fediverse

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Message the show on Fediverse - @[email protected]

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[email protected]

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[email protected]

Cade Ward - @cadebward

Cade Ward on Fediverse - @[email protected]