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: 2023.05.02

Guest

Wolfgang Schuster (https://wolfgangschuster.wordpress.com/)

Show notes

[00:00:22] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:01:02] Introducing Wolfgang Schuster

[00:02:55] Seeing Elm everywhere

Elm × Haskell Intersection from heyakyra

[00:04:45] Going all-in on programming

[00:10:23] "Just make it work"

[00:13:18] Discovering Elm

[00:25:27] Helping to build stuff with Elm while at Square

Farmers' market civic hacking by Dillon Kearns
Jeroen Engels' elm-review

[00:28:39] Strategies for introducing Elm

[00:35:09] Productivity & "the culture of moving a little bit slower"

Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app

[00:41:09] Introducing elm-review rules

"Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki
Ducks by Wolfgang Schuster

[00:54:20] Elm at Vendr

[00:58:09] Using Elm at scale

Bring Your Own DOM – Part 1 – Portals by Wolfgang Schuster, as promised

[01:03:43] Strategies for adding web components

Wolfgang's Fluent-Web internationalization web components

[01:07:29] Roc

Roc

[01:10:49] Picks

Wolfgang's picks

Stacy London on Front End Happy Hour
A Life Well Wasted by Robert Ashley

Jared's picks

Matthew Griffith's elm-codegen
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Sally Hubbard

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