Elm Town

Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger May 19, 2026 01:52:59 Ari Schlesinger illuminates a unique path of social responsibility carved through the tech world, using feminism as a guide while bearing attacks, criticism, and contortion. That trail led Ari to ask how programming languages shape society and, eventually, to research Elm—the compiler, error messages, and community. Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com. Music by

Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026 Mar 24, 2026 01:00:56 Elm Camp organizers Katja Mordaunt and Tomáš Látal share details about the June 15th-18th, 2026 event in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and extend an open invitation to Elm-curious folks in the broader community. Tickets on sale as of publishing! Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com. Music by Jesse Moore. Edited by Toni Cañete. Recording date: 2026.01.28 Guests Katj

Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans Dec 16, 2025 01:44:56 Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing The Programmer's Brain, uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, and building the multilingual, gradual-syntax programming language Hedy. We even dip into AI (trigger warning) and dumb phones.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date: 2025

Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard Sep 23, 2025 00:48:59 Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2025.02.24GuestSophie CollardShow notes[00:00:29] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:50] Introducing SophieLondon Air UI using E

Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville Sep 2, 2025 00:56:16 Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2025.01.30GuestJoël QuennevilleShow notes[00:00:19] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:39] Introducing JoëlSome blog posts by Joël"Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard""The

Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025 Jul 22, 2025 01:00:51 In a short break from the Wonder series, John Pavlick, Wolfgang Schuster, and Tristan Pendergrass join Jared to report on the Elm Camp 2025 unconference experience in Michigan, USA.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2025.07.07GuestsJohn PavlickWolfgang SchusterTristan PendergrassShow notes[00:00:14] Sponsored by Logistically

Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin Jun 3, 2025 00:55:46 Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming environments (Sketch-n-Sketch) to graduate work at UC Berkeley with Sarah E. Chasins, focusing on programming language theory, researching how statically-typed functional programmers write code, and beyond, to helping domain experts.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistica

Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell Apr 15, 2025 00:44:03 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 insights into creating accessible learning materials, building games, and finding inspiration outside the Elm ecosystem.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date:

Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen Dec 17, 2024 01:20:37 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 within the context of tools. We chat about feedback, guarantees, and contracts as lenses for building tools.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date: 2024.08.29G

Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha Oct 31, 2024 00:41:57 Christian Rocha shares his experience building the TUI framework Bubble Tea based on The Elm Architecture. We talk about Impostor Syndrome, mentors, and how he incorporates his background in design at Charm.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date: 2024.10.10GuestChristian RochaShow notes[00:00:23] Sponsored b

Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman Sep 17, 2024 01:03:13 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 persistent data structures. Later, he shares how his experience teaching Elm informed Roc's design. We even learn about the power of platforms.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 20

Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh Sep 3, 2024 00:49:19 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 the Gleam language and making the Lustre web framework.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.04.10GuestHayleighShow notes[00:00:50] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:19] Introduc

Elm Town 78 – Elm Camp 2024 with Katja Mordaunt and Wolfgang Schuster Jul 9, 2024 00:34:13 Katja Mordaunt & Wolfgang Schuster return to share their experiences at Elm Camp 2024.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.06.26GuestsKatja MordauntWolfgang SchusterShow notes[00:00:34] Setting the sceneElm CampElm Camp 2024: Reflections by Wolfgang Schuster[00:08:03] Sessions[00:13:36] Talking outside the boxNotes from E

Elm Town 77 – Breaking your brain with Andrey Kuzmin Jun 25, 2024 01:02:40 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, Andrey Kuzmin never fails to break your brain.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.05.16GuestAndrey KuzminShow notes[00:00:19] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:42] Introducing

Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards Jun 11, 2024 01:10:15 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 Programming.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.03.05.GuestAndrew LenardsShow notes[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:58] Introducing Andrew"Is This the Way?" with

Elm Town 75 – The Great Wall of Code with Taylor Troesh May 28, 2024 01:02:41 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. He currently works at Replenysh using Elm for sustainability.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.02.08GuestTaylor TroeshShow notes[00:00:30] Sponsored by Logistically[00:

Elm Town 74 – The road to town with Jared M. Smith May 14, 2024 00:56:45 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. The love for Elm never stops.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.02.05GuestJared M. SmithShow notes[00:00:28] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:54] The exclusive wrapElm Tow

Elm Town 73 – It actually fits in my brain with Nduati Kuria Mar 19, 2024 01:02:52 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 Tereza Sokol's elm-charts led to a new job.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.11.10GuestNduati KuriaShow notes[00:00:20] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:52] Introducing Ndua

Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person Jan 16, 2024 00:53:50 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, culture, and growing the team. He exclaims his excitement for the next phase of acquisition by Travelers.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.12.05GuestErik PersonShow not

Elm Town 71 – Embracing wins with Lindsay Wardell Dec 12, 2023 01:05:56 Lindsay Wardell tells how she persevered to write her own story as a programmer and shares her views on JavaScript frameworks & fatigue.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.11.06GuestLindsay WardellShow notes[00:00:20] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:49] Introducing LindsayHuman Side of DevElm and Vite on Elm Radio, hoste

Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson Nov 28, 2023 00:57:48 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 discuss how a history in mathematics shapes his work.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.10.13GuestJim CarlsonShow notes[00:00:16] Sponsored By Logistically[00:00:45] Introducing

Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell Nov 14, 2023 01:09:44 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 & contributing to core.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.10.09GuestSimon LydellShow notes[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:56] Introducing SimonElm node-test-runner

Elm Town 68 – Shared joy with Mario Rogic Oct 31, 2023 01:11:11 Mario Rogic shares his journeys, both physically around the world and strategically, as he built & rebuilt Lamdera.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.09.08GuestMario RogicShow notes[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:00] Introducing MarioLocomoteLamderaElm OnlineLondon meetupsElmcraftElm CampElm Town 59 – Elm Cam

Elm Town 67 – Breaking things down with Gingko Writer Oct 17, 2023 00:51:05 Adriano Ferrari talks about how Elm allows him to solely support Gingko Writer and make progress on new projects while also homeschooling.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.09.08GuestAdriano FerrariShow notes[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:00] Introducing AdrianoGingko Writer, open-source on GitHub at gingko/

Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research Oct 3, 2023 01:03:59 Chris Martin shares how he grew Elm wings while building Exosphere, a user-friendly, open-source tool to help scientists do research.Note: Jared's audio quality isn't great.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.08.02GuestChris Martin (https://cmart.blog)Show notes[00:00:56] Introducing Chris Martinhttps://gitlab.com/cmarth

Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it Sep 19, 2023 01:33:52 We review Jeroen Engels' journey with Elm from ESLint to elm-review. Jeroen even gives tips on how to introduce rules to a team.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.08.01GuestJeroen EngelsShow notes[00:00:21] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:58] Introducing Jeroen Engelselm-reviewElm RadioElm Town 61 – Turning the pages wi

Elm Town 64 – The network effect Sep 5, 2023 01:22:02 Martin Stewart comes back to share his experience using Elm and Lamdera to make all the things, from games to professional apps.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.07.10GuestMartin StewartShow notes[00:00:14] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:01] Introducing Martin Stewarthttps://ascii-collab.appCircuit breakerMeetdownStat

Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming Aug 22, 2023 01:10:56 Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.06.08GuestMika NaylorShow notes[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:04] Introducing Mika NaylorNix and NixOS"Behind The Lambda",at Python Pizza Hamburg 2021"Leading Beyond

Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land Aug 8, 2023 00:53:36 Ryan Haskell-Glatz talks about making Elm mainstream, learning through iterations of elm-spa, and how experiences at Vendr shaped Elm Land.Note: the quality of Jared's recording is off and there are technical difficulties with the video at the end.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.06.05GuestRyan Haskell-GlatzShow notes

Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns Jul 25, 2023 01:29:59 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 full-stack Elm framework (elm-pages).Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.05.04GuestDillon Kearns (https://incrementalelm.com/)Show notes[00:00:32] Introducing Dillon Kearns

Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower Jul 11, 2023 01:14:25 Wolfgang Schuster shares his journey with Elm, describes writing & deleting Elm code at Vendr, and explains the productivity gains in an ecosystem that values building things for the end user.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.05.02GuestWolfgang Schuster (https://wolfgangschuster.wordpress.com/)Show notes[00:00:22] Spon

Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt Jun 27, 2023 01:05:51 Katja Mordaunt talks about Elm vibes versus other programming communities and gives us the low-down on Elm Camp.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.04.14GuestKatja Mordaunt (https://katj.am/)Show notes[00:01:00] Introducing Katja Mordauntcodereading.club"Growing an Elm Project with the Whole Team" at elm-conf 2019Functio

Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software Jun 13, 2023 00:58:05 Tessa Kelly shares her experience unblocking users while building quality software, explains how to avoid the "accessibility dongle" using the Elm philosophy, and considers some tesk9/accessible-html design changes.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.04.04GuestTessa Kelly (https://github.com/tesk9)Show notes[00:00:13] Sp

Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm May 30, 2023 01:07:40 Aaron Strick shares what it was like learning Elm at NoRedInk, and explains some of the "zany" (delightful) ways Elm is used at Brilliant.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Intro music by Jesse Moore.Outro music (The Elm Song) by Matt Farley. (Commissioned by Michael Glass for elm-conf 2019.)Recording date: 2023.03.10GuestAaron Strick (https://aaronstrick.com/)

Elm Town 56 – Why don’t you do it in Elm? May 16, 2023 00:50:01 Théophile Kalumbu comes by to talk about how Elm makes developing a frontend fun, building a design system explorer, iterating quickly, and getting Elm to production.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.03.06GuestThéophile Kalumbu (@kalu_theo)Show notes[00:00:56] Some of Théophile's contributions to Elmkalutheo/ elm-ui-ex

Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app May 2, 2023 01:08:01 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 build things like the decentralized finance app, Qoda.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.03.07GuestDwayne Crooks (https://dev.to/dwayne)Show notes[00:00:56] Some of Dwayne

Elm Town 54 – Aloha with Kevin Yank Apr 18, 2023 01:09:06 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 ultimate decision to move Elm from “adopt” to “contain” at the company.Oh yeah, and there’s a new host, Jared M. Smith...stay tuned for more episodes!Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Record

Elm Town 53 – Something to do on the side while watching TV May 26, 2020 00:52:35 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 what motivates him to continue to spend more time building tooling for his favourite front end language than he does using the language itself! Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production

Elm Town 52 – It's not like I have a stoplight on my desk May 12, 2020 00:58:15 Aaron VonderHaar returns to the show for a deep dive on automated tests, test-driven development, and elm-program-test, a new high-level test framework for Elm. Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2 April 2020 Guest Aaron VonderHaar (@avh4) Show Notes 00:00:00 Intro Elm Town 50 – My favorite

Elm Town 51 – You went down the well? That’s the cheat way! May 4, 2020 00:29:08 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 with 10,000 lines of legacy code. Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 1 April 2020 Guest Joseph Ni (aka Mordrax) (GitHub: mordrax) Show Notes 00

Elm Town 50 – My favorite thing is when they don't even notice Apr 17, 2020 00:54:26 Aaron VonderHaar shares the origin, history and plans for the future of elm-format and a new, related tool! Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 19 Mar 2020 Guest Aaron VonderHaar (@avh4) Show Notes 00:00:00 Intro and sponsors Using Elm in Production at Pivotal Tracker (article) Elm San Franci

Elm Town 49 – Sixteen 3D Spinners Should Be Enough For Most People Apr 2, 2020 00:56:36 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-winning robot – or a skyscraper. Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 18 Mar 2020 Guest Ian Mackenzie (@ianemackenzie) Show Notes 00:00:00 Intro

Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents Jan 11, 2020 01:04:29 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 ambitious plan to surprise his sister on her birthday. Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 5 Jan 2020 Guest Martin Stewart (https://tretton37.com/meet

Elm Town 47 - A Cool, Easy Way To Start Learning Haskell Sep 21, 2019 00:49:34 Stöffel talks about Jetpack, a simplified build tool that NoRedInk built to replace webpack, and how it started his journey to learn Haskell and eventually end up on the team behind NoRedInk's next-generation, Haskell-based server-side architecture. Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recordi

Elm Town 46 - You Get All Of The Chapters Sep 5, 2019 00:47:19 Richard Feldman joins us to mark the content completion of his book, Elm in Action. Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 31 Aug 2019 Guests Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman) Show Notes 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:05 Sponsors Culture Amp Joel Clermont 00:02:06 Richard intro NoRe

Elm Town 45 - It Started Off As A Morning Book May 22, 2019 00:43:48 Jeremy Fairbank, the author of “Programming Elm” (Pragmatic Programmers), visits Elm Town to talk about his new book and how it teaches Elm, and about writing tech books in general. Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 4 May 2019 Guests Jeremy Fairbank (@elpapapollo) S

Elm Town 44 - More Of A Statement Than A Question Apr 19, 2019 00:56:06 Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, the lessons they've learned along the way, and what we can expect at their next conference! Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for e

Elm Town 43 - It Just Goes On and On Feb 28, 2019 00:41:20 Keith Lazuka and AJ Alt from Microsoft share their experience writing the amazing Elm language support package for the IntelliJ family of integrated development environments. Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 23 February 2019 Guests Keith Lazuka (@klazuka) AJ Alt (@a

Elm Town 42 – It's Just Darth Vader Feb 7, 2019 00:36:10 Erkal Selman shares the story behind Kite, a web application for drawing and exploring directed graphs written entirely in Elm. Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 25 January 2019 Guests Erkal Selman (@AzizErkalSelman) Show Notes 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:34 Guest i

Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls Jan 30, 2019 00:34:07 Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens! Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2019-01-19 Guests Brian Hicks (@brianhicks) Show Notes 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:32 Gue

Elm Town 40 – A Game Boy Emulator in Elm Nov 21, 2018 00:42:39 Manuel Fuchs shares what he learned by taking on a very unusual Elm project: a Nintendo Game Boy emulator! Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2018-11-10 Guests Manuel Fuchs (@malax) Show Notes 00:00 Show opening 01:58 Manuel's journey to Elm 07:09 Why a Game Boy emul

Elm Town 39 - I Used Elm And It Cost Me My Job Nov 1, 2018 00:46:26 Annaia Berry and Ossi Hanhinen share previously unreleased details of an important client project, and why their choice of Elm cost Annaia her job. Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont. Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2018-09-30 Guests Annaia Berry (@ann_arcana) Ossi Hanhinen (@ohanhi) Show Notes 00:0

Elm Town 38 - Elm 0.19's Improved Collections with Robin Heggelund Hansen Oct 10, 2018 00:44:18 Robin Heggelund Hansen (Bekk Consulting) shares the very personal story that led to him contributing improvements to List, Dict and Array in Elm 0.19. Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and Ellie! Recording date: 2018-09-30 Guests: Robin Heggelund Hansen (@robheghan) 1:55 article: Elm 0.19 Brings Better Collections 28:15 package: Elm Benchmark by Brian Hicks 32:08 package: AnyDict

Elm Town 37 - Upgrading to Elm 0.19 with Luke Westby & Richard Feldman Aug 25, 2018 00:48:14 Richard Feldman (No Red Ink) and Luke Westby (Ellie, No Red Ink) visit Elm Town to celebrate the just-released Elm 0.19, talk through No Red Ink's plan to upgrade its 250K lines of Elm to the new release, and revisit Luke and Richard's talks from Elm Europe on web components and data structures, respectively. Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and elm-conf 2018! Recording date: 2018-08-25 Gues

Elm Town 36 - The Risk of Elm with Dhruv Dang Aug 21, 2018 00:42:29 Dhruv Dang visits Elm Town to share his experience learning from and ultimately adoption Elm at Project6. We discuss issues of team leadership, risk management, and hiring, and Dhruv explains Project6’s elegant solution to SEO with Elm. Recording date: 2018-08-16 Guests: Dhruv Dang (hi@dhruv.io) 02:05 About Project6 02:05 Project6 website 04:47 Doing your best work with Elm 04:47 Elm Blog: A Fa

Elm Town 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo Aug 6, 2018 00:25:27 Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo Francesco Orsenigo visits Elm Town to share a behind-the-scenes look at his game Herzog Drei. It’s written entirely in Elm with 60fps SVG graphics and gamepad support. Recording date: 2018-07-22 Guests: Francesco Orsenigo (@xarvh) Stax.io Sebastian Porto Haifisch elm-gamepad Herzog Drei Dijkstra's algorithm John Carmack Quakec

Elm Town 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho Jul 24, 2018 00:35:34 Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho Xavier Ho visits Elm Town to talk about creating (and pen-plotting!) generative art with Elm. Recording date: 2018-07-20 Guests: Xavier Ho 00:00 Intro 01:32 website: Data61 01:49 Elm at Data61 06:14 reference: Html.Keyed 08:10 Generative Art 08:10 slides: WDYK Melbourne - From Chaos to Order 10:38 video: YOW! Lambda Jam 20

Elm Town 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle Jul 4, 2018 00:48:39 Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle Murphy welcomes Kevin Yank as the new host of Elm Town, then revisits his elm-conf 2017 talk with some fresh thoughts about ports. Recording date: 2018-06-27 Guests: Murphy Randle (0:02:21) conference: Framework Summit (0:13:25) podcast: Reason Town (0:14:18) video: “What’s not to love about Reason?”, Keira Hodgkison at ReasonConf

Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar May 20, 2018 00:35:52 Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 32 - On Randomness with Chandrika Achar Murphy and Chandrika talk about how she got started programming, and her perspectives on Randomness in Elm. Recording date: 2018-04-03 Guests: splodingsocks, Chandrika (0:06:31) Hackbright Academy (0:31:34) Elm's core random package (0:31:49) mgold's random package (0:33:07) Chandrika on Twitter (0:33:22) elm-bridge twitter acc

Elm Town 31 - Line Charts with Tereza Sokol May 18, 2018 00:32:06 Elm Town Episode 31 - line-charts with Tereza Sokol Murphy and Tereza talk about Tereza's new charting library, Line Charts, and her previous project, Elm Plot. Recording date: 2018-04-03 Voices: Murphy Randle, Tereza Sokol (0:08:03) elm-plot (0:10:03) ElmConf 2017 talk by Tereza (0:11:27) Line Charts (0:15:59) Edward Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (0:22:34) Opaque Types (

Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly Apr 6, 2018 00:28:19 Voices: Murphy Randle and Tessa Kelly Thanks to Martin Feineis for the outro music! Tessa and Murphy talk about accessibility, why it's important, and what Tessa is doing with her Elm libraries (accessible-html) to help people write accessible HTML more easily. (00:04:32) bridge-troll (00:04:46) elm-bridge twitter account @elmlangbridge (00:11:12) tesk9/accessible-html (00:11:54) Web Accessibilit

Elm Town 29 - Knode.io with Jim Carlson Mar 20, 2018 00:29:10 Elm Town Episode 29 Jim Carlson and Murphy Randle talk about Jim's career as a math academic, and then Jim's side-projects made using Elm. (00:08:02) Murphy's Elm Conf Talk "The Importance of Ports" (00:08:50) www.knode.io (00:19:39) Evan's talk at Elm Europe, The Life of a File (00:24:55) Matt's talk about Style Elements (00:25:30) HexDocs in elixir (00:26:15) Style Elements (00:27:01)

Elm Town 28 - elm-paginate with Jeff Schomay Mar 7, 2018 00:38:54 Murphy and Jeff talk about Jeff's library, elm-paginate, and pick up some programming wisdom from him along the way. (00:00:16) Queens and Brooklyn Elm Meetups (00:02:45) the Elm Narrative Engine (00:09:26) elm-bounded-numbers (00:32:02) Paginating infinite streams (00:34:16) Jeff's article on pagination (00:35:52) Select list (zipper list) (00:37:44) Our patreon (00:37:44) Reason Town

Elm Town 27 - Murphy Randle's Story Feb 7, 2018 00:42:39 Surprise! Mario Rogic is your host for this episode, because he's interviewing the normal host of the podcast, Murphy Randle. Listen to hear about Murphy's background in Animation, and how Murphy came to the world of Web development, and eventually started Elm Town! Links (00:25:50) Climbing Into Elm Picks (00:39:15) Scalyr (00:40:19) Our Patreon (00:40:37) Reason Town

Elm Town 26 - Swedish and Norwegian News with Noah Hall Feb 2, 2018 00:36:37 Murphy and Noah talk about Omni, MinE24, and server-side rendering with Elm. (00:04:53) Omni (00:06:46) e24 (00:07:33) MinE24 (00:08:13) Omni Ekonomi (00:15:31) elm-static-html-lib (00:32:29) Picks (00:32:36) elm-discourse (00:33:49) typescript (00:35:03) ReasonML (00:35:49) elm-css

Elm Town 25 - The Evolution of an API, Part 2, with Richard Feldman Jan 19, 2018 01:24:40 This is an extra long episode, so get ready! (00:03:42) elm in action (00:03:49) front-end masters (00:07:00) elm-css (00:07:07) elm-test (00:07:28) decode-pipeline (00:41:02) @vjeux (00:45:23) css-modules (00:48:11) abadi199/elm-creditcard (00:52:09) blog post about performant css and animations by Oleg Slobodskoi (01:09:39) style-elements

Elm Town 24 - Wonktonk with Jonathan Fishbein Jan 12, 2018 00:36:45 Murphy chats with Jonathan Fishbein about choosing Elm, getting started, and using Elm for the startup company Wonktonk.*(0:0:45) Codepen Radio(0:4:54) Wonktonk(0:16:38) Underscore(0:16:39) Lodash(0:16:42) Ramda(0:22:37) Webpack(0:25:10) Egghead Videos(0:26:53) Richard's Front-End Masters(0:27:20) style-elements(0:30:02) elm-comment(0:32:58) Lamda Cast(0:33:20) Becoming Steve Jobs(0:34:32) ReasonM

Elm Town 23 - The Evolution of an API Dec 17, 2017 00:56:25 Voices Murphy Randle Matthew Griffith Links (0:05:57) elm-style-animation (0:06:12) style-elements (0:12:03) Elm Town Episode 8 with Max Goldstien (0:16:10) elm-format (0:19:24) elm-discuss (0:44:20) elm-plot (0:45:53) Teaching Elm to Beginners (0:46:32) Book: If you Give a Mouse a Cookie (0:48:56) Matt : Base CS Podcast (0:49:41) [Matt : Sarah Drasner's assorted works](eg: "SVG Can Do Tha

Elm Town 22 - How Do I Write JS in Elm? Nov 21, 2017 01:03:05 Voices Murphy Randle Evan Czaplicki Links (0:11:15) MLton - Language (1:00:28) Murphy: Elm Seeds (1:00:58) Evan: Murphy's elm-conf talk: The Importance of Ports (1:01:46) Evan: Adam Curtis documentaries (century of self & hyper-normalization) Sponsors Day One Daily Drip Futurice Ellie App

Elm Town 21 - Ellie! Sep 25, 2017 00:50:43 Voices Murphy Randle Luke Westby Links (0:21:00) Luke: Elm-Basic-Compile (0:44:16) Luke: Glitch (0:46:08) Luke: The Mask of Anarchy (Poem, content warning, historic and artistic descriptions of violence (0:46:29) Luke: Operational Transformations (0:47:23) Murphy: Elm in Action (0:47:52) Murphy: Egghead.io lesson, Making an HTTP Request in Elm

Elm Town 20 - Spotlight on Ossi Hanhinen Sep 19, 2017 00:51:37 Voices Murphy Randle (on elm-slack as @splodingsocks) Ossi Hanhinen (on elm-slack as @ohanhi) Links (0:00:53) Elm Remote Meetup. (#remote-meetup on the Elm Slack) (0:32:17) Ossi's Elm Conf US Talk (0:44:45) Ossi: Watch Evan's conf talks, every one of them (0:45:11) Ossi: Learning by Teaching (0:46:59) Tradenomiitti (0:47:09) Mothers in business (0:49:27) Ossi: Foraging! Picking mushrooms

Elm Town 19 - Learning with Josh Robertson Sep 11, 2017 00:45:14 Guests Murphy Randle Josh Robertson Links (0:13:08) Elm front-end masters (0:30:16) JSON Survival Kit (0:38:00) Remote Data (0:40:28) Evan's React Rally Talk (0:40:50) Elm front-end masters (0:41:13) Nanobox (0:43:24) Josh twitter - @Hossman333 (0:44:09) @splodingsocks (0:44:20) elm-conf US 2017

Elm Town 18 - Spotlight on Mario Rogic Aug 28, 2017 01:04:49 Voices Murphy Randle Mario Rogic Links (0:54:42) Making Impossible States Impossible (0:57:18) #conferences (0:57:39) Mario is @supermario on Elm slack (0:57:50) The elm-export package (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/elm-export) (0:58:57) mdgriffith/style-elements (0:59:24) Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell (0:00:43) Thinking Fast & Slow (1:01:58) How to draw almost everyt

Elm Town 17 - elm-style-elements with Matthew Griffith Jul 31, 2017 00:49:27 Voices Murphy Randle Matthew Griffith Links (0:45:34) Matt: We like it here by Snarky Puppy (0:46:49) Scala Underscore.io Elm Europe talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb2GDWMIm0

Elm Town 16 - Elm Conf US with Brian Hicks and Luke Westby Jul 7, 2017 00:47:24 Voices Murphy Randle Brian Hicks Luke Westby Links (0:10:58) elm-conf.us (0:14:09) STL Tech Slack (0:14:13) Utah JS Slack (0:14:24) Chicago Slack (0:36:12) Ravi Chugh (0:42:20) Calendar for Elm Conf US (0:43:07) Luke: October - The story of the Russian Revolution (0:43:28) Luke: Noah Hall (0:44:04) Brian: Revolutions Podcast (0:44:12) Brian: mdgriffith/style-elements (0:45:33) Monapt & Type

Elm Town 15 - Spotlight on Hardy Jones Jun 15, 2017 01:03:58 Voices Murphy Randle Hardy Jones Links (0:04:01) Fantasyland (0:08:12) Magic Read Along (0:13:24) Internet History Podcast (0:42:17) Ramda (0:42:30) Sanctuary (0:42:36) Fantasyland (0:44:33) Forward.js (1:01:35) Hardy: Magic Read Along - Like a Parent at a Beauty Pageant (1:03:09) Murphy : Elm Conf US

Elm Town 15 - Preroll and Correction Jun 15, 2017 00:01:30 Hi, everyone! Elm Town 15 will be released in a few minutes. I wanted to apologize for the accidentally horrid sound quality on my microphone, and to let you know that the coupon code for Daily Drip is now "elmtown-2017". Enjoy!

Elm Town 14 - Spotlight on Kevin Yank Jun 5, 2017 01:02:44 Voices Murphy Randle Kevin Yank Links (59:15:05) Developer Happiness on the Front End with Elm (1:00:03) Putting the fun in functional with Elm - Tereza Sokol

Elm Town 13 - History of Ports May 9, 2017 01:06:02 Voices Murphy Randle Evan Czaplicki Links (0:02:04) Futurice app (0:35:52) Lucid Synchron (1:00:06) MLton (1:04:06) Noodle salad with a peanut sauce (1:04:25) The Coup (1:04:56) HTC Vive Stories from the C++ Creator

Elm Town 12 - History of Records Apr 26, 2017 01:15:06 Voices Murphy Randle Evan Czaplicki Links (0:00:15) Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (0:00:50) Oslo Elm Day & Elm Conf Europe (0:01:21) Elm Conf USA (0:02:13) Ellie (0:12:52) Extensible records with scoped labels by Daan Leijen (0:46:36) Simple made easy (1:00:11) Public Opinion - Lipman (1:01:06) Body weight exercise (1:06:13) Kinesis Advantage Keyboard - use coupon code elmtown (1:11:50) j

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