Elm Town Elm Town 45 - It Started Off As A Morning Book
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)
Show Notes
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:51 Sponsors
00:02:16 How Jeremy got started in Elm and writing books
- Solving the Boolean Identity Crisis (elm-conf 2017)
- Toward a Better Front End Architecture: Elm (Codemash 2017)
00:05:55 Elm as a hobby, writing things polished enough for yourself
00:07:46 Using Elm in Production and client stories
00:10:55 Experience as a technical book writer
00:13:16 Teaching patterns progressively
00:16:00 Writing hard chapters as Elm 0.19 comes out
00:17:53 Writing books assuming reader has no Internet
00:20:25 Test driven development and type systems
00:24:40 Writing is lonely / thank you Emily
00:27:27 Editor relationship and learning from them
00:29:18 Deciding where the end goal should be for a beginner's book
00:31:34 Sequel or cookbook for the Elm community
00:34:01 Modelling transition states
00:35:13 Ports and subscriptions / web sockets chapter
00:39:46 Fuzzing and testing
00:42:25 Thank you, good bye and how to get the book