December 28, 2021

79: Collaborative Music in LiveView with Nathan Willson

44 minutes

We talk with Nathan Willson about GEMS, his collaborative music generator written in LiveView. He explains how it's built, the JS sound library integrations, what could be done by Phoenix and what is done in the browser. Nathan shares how he deployed it globally to 10 regions using Fly.io. We go over some of the challenges he overcame creating an audio focused web application. It's a fun open-source project that pushes the boundaries of what we think LiveView apps can do!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/79

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1472956310207533057 – José Valim concluded his Advent of Code live streaming.

https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim – Find them all on his Twitch Channel.

https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/jesGwAl8E1s – New Elixir proposal for "for" comprehensions

https://gist.github.com/josevalim/fe6b0bcc728539a5adf9b2821bd4a0f5 – Github gist showing proposed change

https://twitter.com/guieevc/status/1002494428748140544 – Presentation picture about ~90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang-controlled nodes, with Cisco alone shipping 2 million devices a year that use Erlang.

https://erlef.org/wg/machine-learning – The Machine Learning working group has worked on many projects this year. You can get involved.

https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1473017611994734593 – Dockyard sponsoring Sean Moriarity's work on Nx and Axon

https://twitter.com/importantshock/status/1471585318658793485 – GitHub's syntax highlighting now uses the Tree-sitter grammar for Elixir

https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn/status/1471803799064887300 – Quinn Wilton's explanation on significance

https://github.com/michalmuskala/jason/releases/tag/v1.3.0 – Jason 1.3 released with new features

https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/ – Lambda Days conference will be Feb 10-11, 2022 and will be a hybrid conference

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

Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1466389153503866892

https://gems.nathanwillson.com/ – Play with it online

https://github.com/nbw/gems – Source code

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto

https://tonejs.github.io/

https://webassembly.org/ – WASM

https://www.ableton.com/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI

https://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-human-ear-half-millisecond.html – The human ear detects a half-millisecond delay in sound

https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/ – The set of global regions that Fly.io supports

https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster

https://twitter.com/gotbones – Bitwalker on Twitter

https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pg.html

Guest Information

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

https://github.com/nbw/ – on Github

https://nathanwillson.com – Blog

https://gems.nathanwillson.com – GEMS project running online

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

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