63: SMS Texting in Nerves with Peter Ullrich

We talk with Peter Ullrich about his experience sending SMS messages from a Raspberry Pi Zero using Nerves. We cover what went well, what didn’t and get a glimpse into the current state of Nerves for a newbie when dealing with hardware. Peter also tried Livebook for Nerves and had a great experience with that. We discuss the challenges of hardware systems dealing with the “real world” but see how Elixir makes the process easier to model and think about.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/63

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/pull/1386#issuecomment-905623723 – LiveBook support in ExDocs
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/1.6.0-rc.0/fly.html#goals – Fly.io deployment guide in Phoenix documentation
• https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main/oban.exs – Wojtek Mach's Mix.install script using the Oban library and database tables
• https://github.com/smartlogic/augur – SmartLogic open sourced Augur library for helping Elixir systems that send SMS messages
• https://elixir-broadway.org/ – Broadway library has it's own website
• https://twitter.com/mcrumm/status/1431316375893467137 – Michael Crumm shares how live_session/3 are 2x-4x faster for him
• https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1431670143483060230 – Angelika Tyborska shares that Exercism v3 is up with a new Elixir track
• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/050-exercism-io-and-elixir-with-angelika-tyborska/ – Previous interview with Angelika Tyborska about the Elixir track in Exercism v3
• https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/ – Excercism.io's Elixir track
• https://twitter.com/voltonez/status/1432208014103220224 – Erlang updates needed for expiring root CA certificate support
• https://blog.voltone.net/post/30 – Bram Verburg's detailed write up on the needed updates
• https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html – Elixir getting started docs
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html – Elixir's docs in HexDocs
• https://elixirschool.com/en/ – Elixir School, good free resource for learning Elixir
• https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/pattern-matching/ – ThinkingElixir free Pattern Matching course for learning Elixir

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Discussion Resources

• https://www.peterullrich.com/sending-text-messages-with-nerves
• https://www.peterullrich.com/using-livebook-with-nerves
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explain-blockchain/id1326636335
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyjSW46TDg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrpQHZcy3CI&ab_channel=CraftHubEvents
• https://nerves.group/
• https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook/releases
• https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/PJUllrich – on Twitter
• https://github.com/PJUllrich/ – on Github
• http://peterullrich.com/ – Blog

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