Episode 285
From Popcorn to Robots
December 30th, 2025
31 mins 47 secs
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About this Episode
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
Elixir Community News
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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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