Elm Town

Dec 17 2024 84 ep. 54 mins 828

Elm Town Podcast artwork

A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen

Dec 17 2024 80 mins

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.

Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha

Oct 31 2024 41 mins

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.

Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman

Sep 17 2024 63 mins

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.

Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh

Sep 03 2024 49 mins

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.

Elm Town 78 – Elm Camp 2024 with Katja Mordaunt and Wolfgang Schuster

Jul 09 2024 34 mins

Katja Mordaunt & Wolfgang Schuster return to share their experiences at Elm Camp 2024.

Elm Town 77 – Breaking your brain with Andrey Kuzmin

Jun 25 2024 62 mins

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.

Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards

Jun 11 2024 70 mins

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.

Elm Town 75 – The Great Wall of Code with Taylor Troesh

May 28 2024 62 mins

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.

Elm Town 74 – The road to town with Jared M. Smith

May 14 2024 56 mins

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.

Elm Town 73 – It actually fits in my brain with Nduati Kuria

Mar 19 2024 62 mins

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.