Elm Town

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

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

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

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

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

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 account @elmlangbridge (0:33:36) elm-cafe (0:33:55) Elm Bridge (0:34:00) Bridge Troll

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 (0:25:27) Evan's Elm tutorial (0:25:33) Richard Feldman's Talks (impossible states) (0:26:00) Opaque types blog post (0:26:56) Learn You a Haskell (0:29:57) @terezk_a (0:31:17) @elmtownpodcast

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 Accessibility Initiative (00:14:59) Tessa's elm-conf talk (00:26:01) accessible-html-with-css (00:27:29) Black Odyssey (00:27:35) The Penelopiad (00:27:39) Lavinia

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) Firebase Cloud Functions (00:27:52) {future} ReasonML show on firebase cloud functions (00:28:35) Patreon

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