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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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May 20, 2018 • 36min

Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar

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
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May 18, 2018 • 32min

Elm Town 31 - Line Charts with Tereza Sokol

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
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Apr 6, 2018 • 28min

Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly

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
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Mar 20, 2018 • 29min

Elm Town 29 - Knode.io with Jim Carlson

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
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Mar 7, 2018 • 39min

Elm Town 28 - elm-paginate with Jeff Schomay

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
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Feb 7, 2018 • 43min

Elm Town 27 - Murphy Randle's Story

Surprise! Mario Rogic is your host for this episode, because he's interviewing the normal host of the podcast, Murphy Randle. Listen to hear about Murphy's background in Animation, and how Murphy came to the world of Web development, and eventually started Elm Town! Links (00:25:50) Climbing Into Elm Picks (00:39:15) Scalyr (00:40:19) Our Patreon (00:40:37) Reason Town
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Feb 2, 2018 • 37min

Elm Town 26 - Swedish and Norwegian News with Noah Hall

Murphy and Noah talk about Omni, MinE24, and server-side rendering with Elm. (00:04:53) Omni (00:06:46) e24 (00:07:33) MinE24 (00:08:13) Omni Ekonomi (00:15:31) elm-static-html-lib (00:32:29) Picks (00:32:36) elm-discourse (00:33:49) typescript (00:35:03) ReasonML (00:35:49) elm-css
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Jan 19, 2018 • 1h 25min

Elm Town 25 - The Evolution of an API, Part 2, with Richard Feldman

This is an extra long episode, so get ready! (00:03:42) elm in action (00:03:49) front-end masters (00:07:00) elm-css (00:07:07) elm-test (00:07:28) decode-pipeline (00:41:02) @vjeux (00:45:23) css-modules (00:48:11) abadi199/elm-creditcard (00:52:09) blog post about performant css and animations by Oleg Slobodskoi (01:09:39) style-elements

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