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Nathan Willson

Elixir Wizards

Thinking Elixir Podcast

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Joining us in conversation today is Nathan Willson all the way from Tokyo, Japan. Listeners will learn about the polyglot landscape he works in from Japan, why he believes knowing a language, and mastering it, are two different things, and what his first foray into coding looked like. We touch on the necessary evil of MIDI plugins, and Nathan introduces listeners to GEMS, how you can use it, and what he has done to make it accessible across the globe. We talk latency issues, curbing the potential for abuse, and choosing to make an app open source, before delving into Nathan’s other projects outside of GEMS, including the Elixir app, Biddy, that he built with five friends, When to Chat, and much more. Thanks for tuning in to hear from today’s inspiring guest.  Key Points From This Episode:  An introduction to today’s guest, Nathan Willson, his Canadian-Japanese history, his obsession with Elixir, and his musical experimental app, GEMS.  The polyglot environment in which he works which is Japanese and English. Why knowing a language and mastering a language are such different things. His first foray into coding via Reaper’s plugins. Why he considers MIDI to be a necessary evil.  What GEMS, or Globally Editable Matrix Sequencer, is, and how it works. How Phoenix or Elixir can facilitate the use of GEMS anywhere in the world, at the same time. How he has approached the problem of the potential for abuse. Relative and absolute latency and how that impacts user experience between countries. Nathan’s other projects outside of GEMS, including the Elixir app, Biddy, and TreeLib. The app, When to Chat, that Nathan has built. Where he picked up his design skills with a background in back-end engineering. Why he prefers BandCamp to Spotify as a music listener. How his knowledge of Elixir has helped him to code Ruby better. An invitation from Nathan to reach out with what you are working on.  Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Tone.js — https://tonejs.github.io/ BandCamp — https://bandcamp.com/ Nathan Wilson — https://nathanwillson.com/ Nathan Willson on Twitter — https://twitter.com/nathanwillson Nathan Willson on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/nahtanw/ GEMS — https://gems.nathanwillson.com/ What is Max? | Cycling ‘74 — https://cycling74.com/products/max When to Chat —https://whentochat.co/ SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ Special Guest: Nathan Willson.

Joining us in conversation today is Nathan Willson all the way from Tokyo, Japan. Listeners will learn about the polyglot landscape he works in from Japan, why he believes knowing a language, and mastering it, are two different things, and what his first foray into coding looked like. We touch on the necessary evil of MIDI plugins, and Nathan introduces listeners to GEMS, how you can use it, and what he has done to make it accessible across the globe. We talk latency issues, curbing the potential for abuse, and choosing to make an app open source, before delving into Nathan’s other projects outside of GEMS, including the Elixir app, Biddy, that he built with five friends, When to Chat, and much more. Thanks for tuning in to hear from today’s inspiring guest. Key Points From This Episode: <ul> <li>An introduction to today’s guest, Nathan Willson, his Canadian-Japanese history, his obsession with Elixir, and his musical experimental app, GEMS. </li> <li>The polyglot environment in which he works which is Japanese and English.</li> <li>Why knowing a language and mastering a language are such different things.</li> <li>His first foray into coding via Reaper’s plugins.</li> <li>Why he considers MIDI to be a necessary evil. </li> <li>What GEMS, or Globally Editable Matrix Sequencer, is, and how it works.</li> <li>How Phoenix or Elixir can facilitate the use of GEMS anywhere in the world, at the same time.</li> <li>How he has approached the problem of the potential for abuse.</li> <li>Relative and absolute latency and how that impacts user experience between countries.</li> <li>Nathan’s other projects outside of GEMS, including the Elixir app, Biddy, and TreeLib.</li> <li>The app, When to Chat, that Nathan has built.</li> <li>Where he picked up his design skills with a background in back-end engineering.</li> <li>Why he prefers BandCamp to Spotify as a music listener.</li> <li>How his knowledge of Elixir has helped him to code Ruby better.</li> <li>An invitation from Nathan to reach out with what you are working on.</li> </ul> Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Tone.js — <a href="https://tonejs.github.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tonejs.github.io/</a> BandCamp — <a href="https://bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bandcamp.com/</a> Nathan Wilson — <a href="https://nathanwillson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nathanwillson.com/</a> Nathan Willson on Twitter — <a href="https://twitter.com/nathanwillson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/nathanwillson</a> Nathan Willson on Instagram — <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nahtanw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/nahtanw/</a> GEMS — <a href="https://gems.nathanwillson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gems.nathanwillson.com/</a> What is Max? | Cycling ‘74 — <a href="https://cycling74.com/products/max" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cycling74.com/products/max</a> When to Chat —<a href="https://whentochat.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://whentochat.co/</a> SmartLogic — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/</a> Special Guest: Nathan Willson.

Nathan Willson on the Polyglot Landscape in Japan

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 show@thinkingelixir.com 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 - show@thinkingelixir.com 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!

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 <a href="http://Fly.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fly.io</a>. 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 - <a href="http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/79" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/79</a> Elixir Community News <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1472956310207533057" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1472956310207533057</a> – José Valim concluded his Advent of Code live streaming.</li> <li><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim</a> – Find them all on his Twitch Channel.</li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/jesGwAl8E1s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/jesGwAl8E1s</a> – New Elixir proposal for "for" comprehensions</li> <li><a href="https://gist.github.com/josevalim/fe6b0bcc728539a5adf9b2821bd4a0f5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/josevalim/fe6b0bcc728539a5adf9b2821bd4a0f5</a> – Github gist showing proposed change</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/guieevc/status/1002494428748140544" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/guieevc/status/1002494428748140544</a> – 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.</li> <li><a href="https://erlef.org/wg/machine-learning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://erlef.org/wg/machine-learning</a> – The Machine Learning working group has worked on many projects this year. You can get involved.</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1473017611994734593" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1473017611994734593</a> – Dockyard sponsoring Sean Moriarity's work on Nx and Axon</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/importantshock/status/1471585318658793485" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/importantshock/status/1471585318658793485</a> – GitHub's syntax highlighting now uses the Tree-sitter grammar for Elixir</li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn/status/1471803799064887300" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn/status/1471803799064887300</a> – Quinn Wilton's explanation on significance</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/michalmuskala/jason/releases/tag/v1.3.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/michalmuskala/jason/releases/tag/v1.3.0</a> – Jason 1.3 released with new features</li> <li><a href="https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2022/</a> – Lambda Days conference will be Feb 10-11, 2022 and will be a hybrid conference</li> </ul> Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ThinkingElixir</a> or email at <a href="mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com" rel="nofollow">show@thinkingelixir.com</a> Discussion Resources <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1466389153503866892" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1466389153503866892</a></li> <li><a href="https://gems.nathanwillson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gems.nathanwillson.com/</a> – Play with it online</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/nbw/gems" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/nbw/gems</a> – Source code</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto</a></li> <li><a href="https://tonejs.github.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tonejs.github.io/</a></li> <li><a href="https://webassembly.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://webassembly.org/</a> – WASM</li> <li><a href="https://www.ableton.com/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ableton.com/en/</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI</a></li> <li><a href="https://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://webaudio.github.io/web-midi-api/</a></li> <li><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-human-ear-half-millisecond.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-human-ear-half-millisecond.html</a> – The human ear detects a half-millisecond delay in sound</li> <li><a href="https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/</a> – The set of global regions that <a href="http://Fly.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fly.io</a> supports</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/gotbones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/gotbones</a> – Bitwalker on Twitter</li> <li><a href="https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pg.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pg.html</a></li> </ul> Guest Information <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/nathanwillson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/nathanwillson</a> – on Twitter</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/nbw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/nbw/</a> – on Github</li> <li><a href="https://nathanwillson.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://nathanwillson.com</a> – Blog</li> <li><a href="https://gems.nathanwillson.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://gems.nathanwillson.com</a> – GEMS project running online</li> </ul> Find us online <ul> <li>Message the show - <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@ThinkingElixir</a></li> <li>Email the show - <a href="mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com" rel="nofollow">show@thinkingelixir.com</a></li> <li>Mark Ericksen - <a href="https://twitter.com/brainlid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@brainlid</a></li> <li>David Bernheisel - <a href="https://twitter.com/bernheisel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@bernheisel</a></li> <li>Cade Ward - <a href="https://twitter.com/cadebward" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@cadebward</a></li> </ul>Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="https://fly.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fly.io</a>: <a href="https://fly.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!</a></li></ul>