120: Localize and Personalize Your Elixir Apps

Localizing and personalizing an application is separate from the language used in the interface. Kip Cole explains how the mismatch of computers with the culture of our audience creates friction we may not even be aware of. In fact, our benign app may be unintentionally offensive to millions of people! Kip created the libraries ex_cldr, money and tempo to help Elixir developers localize applications in a culture aware way. What does that mean? It means using minimal information we can infer how names should appear, how numbers are represented, the assumed numeric rounding rules, first day of the week, the calendar being used, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/120 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view – LiveView v0.18.1 and 0.18.2 were released https://twitter.com/mcrumm/status/1575571809470070784 – PhoenixProfiler plugin updated for LiveView 0.18 https://github.com/mcrumm/phoenix_profiler https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/88 – Previous interview with Michael Crumm about PhoenixProfiler https://news.livebook.dev/how-to-query-and-visualize-data-from-amazon-athena-using-livebook-4dfQ5y – Livebook blog tutorial post showing how to use Amazon Athena https://aws.amazon.com/athena/ – Amazon Athena service page https://github.com/phenixdigital/phx_live_storybook – PhxLiveStorybook released v.0.4 https://github.com/phenixdigital/phx_live_storybook/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/117 – Previous interview about PhxLiveStorybook https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm – Supabase open-sources PostgreSQL on WASM https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/10/01/liveview-native-weekly-update-4 – LiveView Native - weekly update 4 Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://twitter.com/wiebemarten/status/1557852447414132739 https://github.com/kipcole9 https://2022.elixirconf.com/speakers/kip-cole – Time algebra - a new way to think about and work with time https://github.com/kipcole9/tempo – Tempo library https://github.com/kipcole9/money https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr – ex_cldr - Elixir implementation of CLDR/ICU https://www.amazon.com/Astronomical-Algorithms-Jean-Meeus/dp/0943396611 https://github.com/kimlai/tz_world https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-a-leap-second-and-why-do-amazon-facebook-and-google-want-to-scrap-it-64625 https://github.com/kipcole9/money Guest Information https://twitter.com/kipcole9 – on Twitter https://github.com/kipcole9/ – on Github https://elixirforum.com/u/kip/summary – ElixirForum Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] 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!