Elm Town
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Elm Town
A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.
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Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard
Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a start...
Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville
Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.
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Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025
In a short break from the Wonder series, John Pavlick, Wolfgang Schuster, and Tristan Pendergrass join Jared to report on the Elm Camp 2025 unconferen...
Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin
Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming environments (S...
Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell
Kicking off the Wonder series, Ryan Haskell shares his approach to teaching Elm, his gap year adventures, and his current work at Brilliant. He gives...
Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen
In the final episode of the Inspired series, Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels wax philosophically with Jared about what it means to be inspired by Elm...
Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
Christian Rocha shares his experience building the TUI framework Bubble Tea based on The Elm Architecture. We talk about Impostor Syndrome, mentors, a...
Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to have pers...
Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh
Hayleigh talks about how Elm has inspired her work, from tools built in Elm such as elm-web-audio and the Ren language compiler, to contributing to th...
Elm Town 78 – Elm Camp 2024 with Katja Mordaunt and Wolfgang Schuster
Katja Mordaunt & Wolfgang Schuster return to share their experiences at Elm Camp 2024.
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Elm Town 77 – Breaking your brain with Andrey Kuzmin
From translating imperative physics into Elm and building 3D interactive tools at work to adding Elm support to Zed and animating the Elm Town logo, A...
Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards
Andrew Lenards illuminates the liminal spaces of his mind, from lo-fi, DIY, punk rock, meditation, & coaching to Joël's Triangle & The Mental Side of...
Elm Town 75 – The Great Wall of Code with Taylor Troesh
Taylor Troesh recounts his trip across the stack, from the front to the back and back again. Along the way, he divulges his custom operator confession...
Elm Town 74 – The road to town with Jared M. Smith
Mario Rogic comes back to interview Jared about his road to Elm, from the Tandy to JavaScript fatigue, and the inevitable, relieving discovery of Elm....
Elm Town 73 – It actually fits in my brain with Nduati Kuria
Nduati Kuria shares his journey from studying AI to why Matthew Griffith's elm-ui makes the web approachable. He explains how an innocuous issue on Te...
Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person
Erik Person shares how he joined Corvus Insurance as the first engineer building the system from scratch with Elm and Elixir. We talk about onboarding...
Elm Town 71 – Embracing wins with Lindsay Wardell
Lindsay Wardell tells how she persevered to write her own story as a programmer and shares her views on JavaScript frameworks & fatigue.
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Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson
Jim Carlson shares his discoveries in software development through the people he's met in the community and the projects he's building. We also discus...
Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell
Simon Lydell tells his origin story from Firefox power user to full-time Elm engineer. Then we talk about his work in the community building tools & c...
Elm Town 68 – Shared joy with Mario Rogic
Mario Rogic shares his journeys, both physically around the world and strategically, as he built & rebuilt Lamdera.
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Elm Town 67 – Breaking things down with Gingko Writer
Adriano Ferrari talks about how Elm allows him to solely support Gingko Writer and make progress on new projects while also homeschooling.
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Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research
Chris Martin shares how he grew Elm wings while building Exosphere, a user-friendly, open-source tool to help scientists do research.
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Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it
We review Jeroen Engels' journey with Elm from ESLint to elm-review. Jeroen even gives tips on how to introduce rules to a team.
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Elm Town 64 – The network effect
Martin Stewart comes back to share his experience using Elm and Lamdera to make all the things, from games to professional apps.
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Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming
Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.
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Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land
Ryan Haskell-Glatz talks about making Elm mainstream, learning through iterations of elm-spa, and how experiences at Vendr shaped Elm Land.
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Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns
Dillon Kearns turns the pages of his journey with Elm, from applying meta-learning techniques as a classical piano player & agile coach to building a...
Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower
Wolfgang Schuster shares his journey with Elm, describes writing & deleting Elm code at Vendr, and explains the productivity gains in an ecosystem tha...
Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt
Katja Mordaunt talks about Elm vibes versus other programming communities and gives us the low-down on Elm Camp.
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Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software
Tessa Kelly shares her experience unblocking users while building quality software, explains how to avoid the "accessibility dongle" using the Elm phi...
Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm
Aaron Strick shares what it was like learning Elm at NoRedInk, and explains some of the "zany" (delightful) ways Elm is used at Brilliant.
Thank...
Elm Town 56 – Why don’t you do it in Elm?
Théophile Kalumbu comes by to talk about how Elm makes developing a frontend fun, building a design system explorer, iterating quickly, and getting El...
Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app
Dwayne Crooks stops in to share his appreciation of algorithms, experience learning Elm, challenges building Elm 2048, and how he uses Elm at work to...
Elm Town 54 – Aloha with Kevin Yank
Kevin Yank shares the challenges Culture Amp faced when scaling Elm & React with a Design System team in the middle, and how an acquisition tipped the...
Elm Town 53 – Something to do on the side while watching TV
Kolja Lampe takes us on a deep dive into the internals of the Elm Language Server that powers a growing number of editors' Elm support, and explains w...
Elm Town 51 – You went down the well? That’s the cheat way!
Joseph Ni (aka Mordrax) shares the twisting tale of how an obscure 90s video game got him his first job with Elm, and how it brought him face to face...
Elm Town 50 – My favorite thing is when they don't even notice
Aaron VonderHaar shares the origin, history and plans for the future of elm-format and a new, related tool!
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Elm Town 49 – Sixteen 3D Spinners Should Be Enough For Most People
Ian Mackenzie shares the history of elm-geometry, elm-units and elm-3d-scene, and how he hopes to one day see them used to design a world-championship...
Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents
Martin Stewart tells the behind-the-scenes story of how his game Circuit Breaker (built entirely in Elm, of course) came to be, starting with an ambit...
Elm Town 47 - A Cool, Easy Way To Start Learning Haskell
Stöffel talks about Jetpack, a simplified build tool that NoRedInk built to replace webpack, and how it started his journey to learn Haskell and event...