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2024-11-22 09:30:01

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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.

Some of the magic is a goddamn pain. Take the Membrane framework. I really like what it enables me to do but it is also a bit messy. Setting up pipelines is not trivial, writing custom elements is a bit finicky and requires some practice. But more centrally the dependencies, build requirements and underlying nastiness of video formats is really what makes everything harder than you want it to be. Membrane gives you a lot of capability to do live things, within Elixir, but you are playing with media and media as a domain is terrible.

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.