If you want to send videos or images to the Google Gemini API, eg for video summarization, you need to upload the video to a separate endpoint and wait for it to get processed. This is described in the Gemini docs, and it's fairly straightforward to translate into…
In Elixir, once you have clustering set up, it's ridiculously easy to run some code on another node in your cluster: Node.spawn(:"another_beam_instance@10.0.1.2", fn -> # This runs on a different node send(self(), node()) end) receive do response…
I started reading up on Erlang's pg module(pg = "process groups", it's not related to Postgres!) recently and kept seeing references to pg2. This is quite confusing because pg is the newer module that replaces pg2. From pg.erl's initial commit message:…
I just released a small Elixir package: flame_dashboard(Hex.pm package). It adds a page to Phoenix LiveDashboard that lets you monitor your FLAME pools. Here's a video showing the dashboard in action: 0:00 /0:13 1×…
I've been experimenting with Kamal for deploying an Elixir application. The application was previously deployed on Fly.io and relies on the Erlang VM's clustering capabilities, so I had to get this working on the Hetzner deployment I'd spun up using Kamal. It took…
In OctoCut, I have to perform a few tasks that are CPU or memory intensive. Instead of performing them on the machine serving web requests, I want to perform them on a different machine. FLAME is perfect for this. (If you're not familiar with FLAME, I highly recommend…
In a LiveView project I'm working on, I had to add a web worker. I was a bit unsure of how to do this, and was worried I'd have to do some esbuild config manipulation, but it turned out to be quite simple. For readers reading…
In a Phoenix Liveview app, I recently had to do some work in an assign_async(export a video). In terms of UI, I wanted to: * show a toast(or flash message) at the beginning indicating the work has started. * show toast once the work is completed, or if it…