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title: "FYI: Livebook 0.2 with Kino"
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# FYI: Livebook 0.2 with Kino

[Livebook 0.2 was released](https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1405586165315604486). The big news here was the announcement of “Kino” (meaning “cinema”). It’s a client-side focused feature that animates data changes. José Valim created a [video demonstrating](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOTEgF-wIEI) some of the new Livebook features. Use [this link](https://youtu.be/MOTEgF-wIEI?t=1132) to jump to the part of the video, it’s 18:52 in, that shows Kino in action.

Another big change is the addition of inputs! [Accessing an input’s data](https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook/pull/328) in your Elixir cell looks like this: `IO.gets("input name: ")` Input values come in as a string so it may need to parsed or processed for your particular use.

The other big [Kino feature is called `data_table`](https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1407084358750572548). With this, you can easily show any data as a table with pagination and sorting.

Livebook is actually a big deal. It lowers the bar on a lot things for Elixir. It can be used to:

- Teach the Elixir language itself
- Document how a library works
- Play with Nerves and embedded hardware interactively
- Connect to a live production system!

I’m bullish on Livebook and what I think it can do for the entire Elixir community. Livebook is definitely something to watch!

## Other Elixir News

In other Elixir news, conferences are returning! Many have been only virtual by necessity. While this has been nice because I could attend virtually without the need to travel. I have missed seeing people and meeting new people the way I did at physical conferences.

Two significant conferences were announced that are hybrid (physical and virtual) or physical for 2 days and virtual for 2 days. Some interesting experiments going on here!

In order of their dates:

- [ElixirConfEU](https://www.elixirconf.eu/) - A hybrid conference being held in Warsaw, Poland and virtual as well. The dates are September 9-10.
  - Sasa Juric, author of Elixir in Action, [will keynote](https://twitter.com/ElixirConfEU/status/1407316169313374216).
  - José Valim, creator of Elixir, [will be interviewing Chris McCord](https://twitter.com/ElixirConfEU/status/1406955500512612355), creator of Phoenix Framework, at the conference. That could be fun!
- [ElixirConf US 2021](https://2021.elixirconf.com/) is being held physically in Austin, TX October 12-13 and online, October 14-15. This is an interesting experiment. A 4-day conference where the physical and virtual talks aren’t the same!

## Livebook works awesome on Fly

Livebook supports collaborative editing. When you host your own instance you can invite people to join you!

[Boot up a Livebook! →](https://fly.io/docs/speedrun/)