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Bodging GenServers Together

What feels like forever ago but what was probably a year and a half I gave a talk about Lively LiveView with Membrane. Video is available for the curious. It was a stunt talk but also a talk about creativity and how Elixir let's me plug things together and try things that feel magical. That feeling has never left me.

If you spend a lot of time in the browser you are used to the platform papering over the difficulty of opening a microphone in a cross-platform manner or playing video. Something I want to do in the near term is finish up my tech demo of the Seeed Studio ReTerminal DM and that includes making it do some unexpected stuff, all from Elixir. It is a relatively small and cheap-to-run model that will save you a lot of performance where you don’t need to bother to process things not identified as speech.

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