
Elm Town
A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.
Latest episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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