Membrane S3 sink

The membrane_s3_plugin(as of version 0.1.2) has gotten outdated with changes in membrane_core. Here's an S3 sink implementation that works with the latest Membrane: defmodule Membrane.S3.Sink do @moduledoc """ Element that uploads incoming buffers to an S3 bucket. Pipeline…

[Video] Testing Google Gemini Audio Capabilities

Gemini with audio Video Code Mix.install([ {:req, "~> 0.4.14"}, {:kino, "~> 0.12.0"} ]) Form form = Kino.Control.form( [ prompt: Kino.Input.textarea("Prompt"), audio: Kino.Input.audio("Audio", format: :wav) ], submit: "Submit" ) frame = Kino.Frame.new(…

TIL: Sum Types With `instructor_ex`

The Instructor Elixir library lets you retrieve structured output from LLMs like the OpenAI GPT models. But I found that having it return structs that are sum types is not that straightforward. Simple Instructor responses For this post, let’s looks at survey questions as an example. You can define…

TIL: Running `cargo-flamegraph` With Tauri Apps

A Tauri app is just a Rust-compiled binary. But because the Tauri workflow also involves some frontend development you normally develop your app using something like: pnpm tauri dev So when I had to profile my app, it wasn’t immediately obvious how to invoke flamegraph, but it’s really…

TIL: Base64 Encoding an ImageBuffer as PNG(in Rust)

Recently, I had to base64-encode an image::ImageBuffer to send it as a data URL like data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEU... Initially, I tried this: // Cargo.toml image = "0.24.7" base64 = "0.21.5" use base64::{engine::general_purpose, Engine as _}; use image::ImageBuffer; // WRONG:…

TIL: File Uploads Using the Req Elixir Library

The Req Elixir library doesn’t support file uploads(as of version 0.4.5). Instead, you need to use multipart to construct the HTTP request before you send it. Here is an example sending an mp3 file to the OpenAI audio transcription API(aka Whisper): def transcribe_audio(file_…

Project: Try DALLE-3

Recently, I wanted to use OpenAI’s DALLE-3 to generate some images. Surprisingly, I didn’t find an easy way to do this(have OpenAI API set up but no ChatGPT Plus). At least as of right now, OpenAI’s playground doesn’t let you play with DALLE-3. So I…