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Feb 7, 2019 • 36min

Elm Town 42 – It's Just Darth Vader

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 intro Kite Thread: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Graph Theory 00:04:59 Graph theory 00:07:08 Origins of Kite 00:10:13 Elm benefits 00:12:15 Inspirations Talk: The Life of a File, Evan Czaplicki Talk: Make Data Structures, Richard Feldman 00:13:24 D3.js via JavaScript interop 00:18:42 Replacing D3.js with elm-visualisation 00:20:37 It's Darth Vader!!! 00:21:05 Ian MacKenzie's elm-geometry Talk: Now You're Thinking in Functions, Ian Mackenzie 00:23:17 Matthew Griffith's elm-ui 00:25:41 Performance bottlenecks 00:27:09 Importing Elm dependency graphs Code: Support for private repos 00:29:44 Multiple centers of gravity 00:30:54 Planned features, welcomed contributions 00:34:20 Erkal wants a job! 00:35:03 Outro and the Sublime Text Editor Integration Package: Elm Language Support for Sublime Text
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Jan 30, 2019 • 34min

Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls

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 Guest intro 00:02:12 Project origin Elm-particle 1.0.1: create visual flourishes in SVG 00:06:13 Particle Physics 00:08:20 Library Overview 00:11:21 Getting started with the API 00:12:36 Normal distribution of random numbers Random.Float.normal in Random.Extra 00:14:37 Opaque types and 'with' functions 00:17:21 SVG vs WebGL 00:21:39 Weighted randomness and Markov chains 00:24:25 Dynamic generators via subscription function 00:28:42 Generating GitHub site with make 00:30:56 Future work 00:33:17 Oslo Elm Day 00:33:51 Thank You
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Nov 21, 2018 • 43min

Elm Town 40 – A Game Boy Emulator in Elm

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 emulator Tetris Effect video: Writing a Game Boy Emulator in Ruby 12:19 False assumptions and unexpected difficulties 18:37 Loading Game Boy ROM images as binary data 19:59 Breaking out of the Elm Architecture 22:30 Implementing a CPU instruction set in Elm Elmboy source code 25:46 Debugging and profiling 27:03 Throwing out types 31:49 Adding Pokemon compatibility 33:30 Readability, teaching and welcoming contributors 34:57 More performance optimisations 41:05 Elm + Game Boy = fun Try Elmboy
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Nov 1, 2018 • 46min

Elm Town 39 - I Used Elm And It Cost Me My Job

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 00:00 Show opening article: Prevent Impossible States with JSON Decoders in Elm, Julio Feijo 1:58 Guest Intros video: I Used Elm In Production and It Cost Me My Job 02:50 Annaia Berry The Heresy programming language 03:24 Ossi Hanhinen video: Beyond Hello World & Todo Lists 04:14 Futurice 5:03 The Project: Ferrari Sanoma Group Helsingin Sanomat (English) Ilta-Sanomat (English) 14:00 Ossi’s “Space Invaders” prototype article: Base for a game in Elm 0.17 14:36 Choosing and Learning Elm 32:02 Porting Ferrari to Elm 0.19 Elm Analyse Glitch slides: I used Elm in production and it cost me my job (source code) video: When and how to use Web Components with elm 44:26 Elm cost Anna her job
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Oct 10, 2018 • 44min

Elm Town 38 - Elm 0.19's Improved Collections with Robin Heggelund Hansen

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
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Aug 25, 2018 • 48min

Elm Town 37 - Upgrading to Elm 0.19 with Luke Westby & Richard Feldman

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 Guests: Luke Westby (@blurrythoughts@mastodon.technology), Richard Feldman (@rtfeldman@mastodon.technology) 01:37 Elm 0.19 is out! 03:59 Guest introductions 05:24 Elm Europe talks 05:27 video: Make Data Structures, Richard Feldman @ Elm Europe 2018 07:49 video: When and how to use Web Components with elm, Luke Westby @ Elm Europe 2018 15:43 Ellie and Elm 0.19 16:54 audio: Elm Town 21 - Ellie! 17:32 Porting No Red Ink to Elm 0.19 40:57 Picks 41:31 article: Elm 0.19 brings better collections, Robin Heggelund Hansen 42:09 Mastodon 43:01 book: Capital in the 21st Century 43:30 Elm Language Support for Sublime Text 44:15 Frontend Masters 45:13 Dhall
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Aug 21, 2018 • 42min

Elm Town 36 - The Risk of Elm with Dhruv Dang

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 Farewell to FRP 09:53 Elm Architecture in JavaScript 11:48 Adopting Elm (the Tech) 17:01 Adopting Elm (the Team) 22:09 Convincing Your Company 33:07 Elm and SEO 38:24 Blog post: SEO for Single-Page Apps 39:32 Elm and Hiring
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Aug 6, 2018 • 25min

Elm Town 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo

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 Quakecon 2013 talk Herzog Drei game state guide Elm Discourse thread #gamedev on Elm Slack
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Jul 24, 2018 • 36min

Elm Town 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho

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 2018 - Let's Make Functional Generative Art 10:38 slides: YOW! Lambda Jam 2018 - Let's Make Functional Generative Art 11:55 gallery: Functional Generative Art 13:35 Shepherding Random Numbers 14:25 episode: Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar 15:16 website: Inconvergent 18:20 Keeiping the Seed Around 18:20 code: Kevin's elm-canvas generative art experiments 22:52 Daisy Smith’s talk on Creative Coding at LevelsConf is not online yet, but her Twitter stream is full of interesting experiments 23:17 video: CSSConf AU 2018 - Generative Art Speedrun by Tim Holman 23:35 ebook: On Generative Algorithms by Inconvergent 23:45 video: C◦mp◦se :: Conference 2017 - Sound Synthesis in the Computational Crucible with Andrew Sorensen 24:58 Driving a Pen Plotter 25:02 website: AxiDraw Pen Plotter 31:41 The Next Step: Animation 33:22 package: LSystem 34:02 Outro 34:37 @Xavier_Ho on Twitter 34:54 #plottertwitter 34:57 #generative
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Jul 4, 2018 • 49min

Elm Town 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle

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 2018 (0:20:23) video: “The Importance of Ports”, Murphy Randle at elm-conf 2017 (0:20:52) audio: “Elm Town 13 - History of Ports” with Evan Czaplicki (0:28:55) video: “Actors in Ruby! Why let Elixir have all the fun?”, Marcos Matos at RubyConf AU 2017 (0:42:10) article: “Why do I have to write JSON decoders in Elm? A vision for data interchange in Elm” by Evan Czaplicki (0:45:20) e-book: “The JSON Survival Kit”, Brian Hicks

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