December 30, 2025

285: From Popcorn to Robots

31 minutes

News includes Software Mansion pushing the boundaries of Popcorn by running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly, the Programming Nerves book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna launching in beta, a new minimalist Stripe integration library called PinStripe, Beam Bots announced for resilient robotics on the BEAM, Saša Jurić’s thought-provoking Goatmire talk now available online, Tidewave.ai adding Vue.js support with impressive performance improvements, LiveTable v0.4.0 released with powerful data table features, Supabase announcing Multigres for horizontally scalable Postgres, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/285

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https://nitter.net/swmansionelixir/status/2001673272706945157 – Software Mansion announces running LiveView locally in the browser using WebAssembly with Popcorn

https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn/tree/main/examples/local_form_demo – Example demo of a LiveView running in WASM in the browser

https://popcorn.swmansion.com/demos/local-forms/ – Interactive example of a local LiveView running a form with Ecto schema validations in the browser

https://nitter.net/davydog187/status/2001666856243933662 – Dave Lucia announces JQL library for working with Jira Query Language

https://github.com/tv-labs/jql – JQL - An Ecto-like DSL for writing Jira Query Language to automate Jira tasks

https://bsky.app/profile/hugobarauna.com/post/3ma74jhrid22u – Hugo Baraúna announces the Programming Nerves book beta launch

https://www.programmingnerves.dev – Programming Nerves book website - learn to build production ready embedded systems with Elixir and Nerves

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eileen-noonan-72a2856_tinyelixirstripe-activity-7407602470325022720-aWql/ – Eileen Noonan announces PinStripe library for Stripe integration

https://dashbit.co/blog/sdks-with-req-stripe – Dashbit article on SDKs with Req for Stripe by Wojtek Mach that inspired PinStripe

https://github.com/enoonan/pin_stripe/ – PinStripe GitHub repository - A minimalist Stripe integration for Elixir

https://hexdocs.pm/pin_stripe/readme.html – PinStripe documentation on HexDocs

https://harton.nz/blog/announcing-beam-bots/ – Announcement blog post for Beam Bots - Resilient Robotics on the BEAM

https://beambots.dev/ – Beam Bots website

https://github.com/beam-bots/bb – Beam Bots GitHub repository with Spark DSL for declarative robot definitions

https://nitter.net/sasajuric/status/2003049285739290645 – Saša Jurić announces his Goatmire talk is now online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrKfCs-mr0 – "Tell me a Story" talk by Saša Jurić - musings on software development in collaborative environments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE – The Soul of Erlang talk from 2019 referenced in the discussion

https://nitter.net/josevalim/status/2003485910399348757 – José Valim shares Tidewave.ai updates including Vue.js support

https://tidewave.ai/blog/depth-based-inspector – Tidewave's new depth-based inspector for selecting elements behind other elements

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-devtools-mcp – Claude's Chrome Extension for agentic browsing

https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/blob/main/reports/claude-in-chrome-v-chrome-devtools-mcp.md – Comparison of Claude Code using Chrome extension vs Chrome's dev tool for token usage

https://nitter.net/virinchi_cv/status/2000786463206858819 – Announcement of LiveTable v0.4.0 release

https://livetable.gurujada.com/ – LiveTable website - Phoenix LiveView library for feature-rich data tables

https://github.com/gurujada/live_table – LiveTable GitHub repository

https://nitter.net/kiwicopple/status/2002071541237100828 – Supabase announces Multigres - horizontally scalable Postgres architecture

https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository

https://multigres.com/ – Multigres website - Vitess adaptation for Postgres

https://vitess.io/ – Vitess - cloud-native database that extends MySQL with sharding and high availability

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