79: Collaborative Music in LiveView with Nathan Willson

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 Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!