Listen "106: Coding Music Live in SonicPi with Sam Aaron"
Episode Synopsis
The SonicPi project has been letting people live code musical performances for years. Sam Aaron joins us to talk about the project and how Elixir is playing an increased role. The project uses multiple languages and frameworks, in fact, Joe Armstrong created the Erlang portion for handling the concurrent IO needs. We talk about where the project is, what's new in the upcoming release, and more about the future of Elixir with the project. LiveView as a UI for jamming with your friends in a distributed musical performance tool? Cool! We also talk about SonicPi being used in the education space and introducing kids to coding and much more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/106 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/106)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.blog/2022-06-27-github-advisory-database-now-supports-erlang-and-elixir-packages/ (https://github.blog/2022-06-27-github-advisory-database-now-supports-erlang-and-elixir-packages/) – GitHub launched support for Hex in tracking and reporting security advisories for projects
- https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/) – StackOverflow released their Developer Survey results
- Elixir is no.2 most loved language
- Phoenix is no.1 most loved web framework
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1540252711626706944 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1540252711626706944) – José Valim's thoughts on the results
- https://elixirpatterns.dev (https://elixirpatterns.dev) – Elixir Patterns book is a project by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna
- https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1541078170383835136 (https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1541078170383835136) – Alex created Kino PR for rendering supervision tree in Livebook
- https://hex.pm/packages/nervessystemmangopimqpro (https://hex.pm/packages/nerves_system_mangopi_mq_pro) – Frank Hunleth announced that Nerves now has support for the RISC-V MangoPi
- https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1541116329553428480 (https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1541116329553428480) – Frank's announcement
- https://mangopi.cc/ (https://mangopi.cc/) – MangoPi site
- https://lpil.uk/blog/deploying-gleam-on-fly-io/ (https://lpil.uk/blog/deploying-gleam-on-fly-io/) – Louis Pilfold use new v0.22 Gleam deployment feature for deploying to Fly.io
- https://twitter.com/cigrainger/status/1539538577344045057 (https://twitter.com/cigrainger/status/1539538577344045057) – Explorer v0.2.0 was released
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/104 (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/104) – Recently interview with Chris Grainger in episode 104 about Explorer.
- https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.19.0 (https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.19.0) – Rebar 3.19.0
- http://pesquisecomelixir.com.br (http://pesquisecomelixir.com.br) – José Valim announced a new initiative called "Research with Elixir"
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1541775306767450114 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1541775306767450114) – Announcement post from José that includes more information
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://sonic-pi.net/ (https://sonic-pi.net/)
- https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi (https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi)
- https://github.com/samaaron (https://github.com/samaaron)
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1519377962063249409 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1519377962063249409)
- https://twitter.com/matschaffer/status/1520914785625280512 (https://twitter.com/matschaffer/status/1520914785625280512)
- https://supercollider.github.io/ (https://supercollider.github.io/)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi) – Fixing broken pottery with gold
- https://www.patreon.com/samaaron (https://www.patreon.com/samaaron)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/samaaron (https://twitter.com/samaaron) – Sam Aaron on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/Sonic_Pi (https://twitter.com/Sonic_Pi) – Sonic Pi on Twitter
- https://github.com/samaaron (https://github.com/samaaron) – on Github
- https://www.instagram.com/samaaron/ (https://www.instagram.com/samaaron/) – Instagram
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/samaaron/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samaaron/) – LinkedIn
- https://www.patreon.com/samaaron (https://www.patreon.com/samaaron) – Patreon
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/106 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/106)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.blog/2022-06-27-github-advisory-database-now-supports-erlang-and-elixir-packages/ (https://github.blog/2022-06-27-github-advisory-database-now-supports-erlang-and-elixir-packages/) – GitHub launched support for Hex in tracking and reporting security advisories for projects
- https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/) – StackOverflow released their Developer Survey results
- Elixir is no.2 most loved language
- Phoenix is no.1 most loved web framework
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1540252711626706944 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1540252711626706944) – José Valim's thoughts on the results
- https://elixirpatterns.dev (https://elixirpatterns.dev) – Elixir Patterns book is a project by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna
- https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1541078170383835136 (https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1541078170383835136) – Alex created Kino PR for rendering supervision tree in Livebook
- https://hex.pm/packages/nervessystemmangopimqpro (https://hex.pm/packages/nerves_system_mangopi_mq_pro) – Frank Hunleth announced that Nerves now has support for the RISC-V MangoPi
- https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1541116329553428480 (https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1541116329553428480) – Frank's announcement
- https://mangopi.cc/ (https://mangopi.cc/) – MangoPi site
- https://lpil.uk/blog/deploying-gleam-on-fly-io/ (https://lpil.uk/blog/deploying-gleam-on-fly-io/) – Louis Pilfold use new v0.22 Gleam deployment feature for deploying to Fly.io
- https://twitter.com/cigrainger/status/1539538577344045057 (https://twitter.com/cigrainger/status/1539538577344045057) – Explorer v0.2.0 was released
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/104 (https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/104) – Recently interview with Chris Grainger in episode 104 about Explorer.
- https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.19.0 (https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.19.0) – Rebar 3.19.0
- http://pesquisecomelixir.com.br (http://pesquisecomelixir.com.br) – José Valim announced a new initiative called "Research with Elixir"
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1541775306767450114 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1541775306767450114) – Announcement post from José that includes more information
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://sonic-pi.net/ (https://sonic-pi.net/)
- https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi (https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi)
- https://github.com/samaaron (https://github.com/samaaron)
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1519377962063249409 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1519377962063249409)
- https://twitter.com/matschaffer/status/1520914785625280512 (https://twitter.com/matschaffer/status/1520914785625280512)
- https://supercollider.github.io/ (https://supercollider.github.io/)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi) – Fixing broken pottery with gold
- https://www.patreon.com/samaaron (https://www.patreon.com/samaaron)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/samaaron (https://twitter.com/samaaron) – Sam Aaron on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/Sonic_Pi (https://twitter.com/Sonic_Pi) – Sonic Pi on Twitter
- https://github.com/samaaron (https://github.com/samaaron) – on Github
- https://www.instagram.com/samaaron/ (https://www.instagram.com/samaaron/) – Instagram
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/samaaron/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/samaaron/) – LinkedIn
- https://www.patreon.com/samaaron (https://www.patreon.com/samaaron) – Patreon
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)
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