Nduati Kuria shares his journey from studying AI to why Matthew Griffith's elm-ui makes the web approachable. He explains how an innocuous issue on Tereza Sokol's elm-charts led to a new job.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@l

Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person

Jan 16th, 2024 53m 50s

Erik Person shares how he joined Corvus Insurance as the first engineer building the system from scratch with Elm and Elixir. We talk about onboarding, culture, and growing the team. He exclaims his excitement for the next phase of acquisition

Elm Town 71 – Embracing wins with Lindsay Wardell

Dec 12th, 2023 1h 5m

Lindsay Wardell tells how she persevered to write her own story as a programmer and shares her views on JavaScript frameworks & fatigue.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date:

Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson

Nov 28th, 2023 57m 48s

Jim Carlson shares his discoveries in software development through the people he's met in the community and the projects he's building. We also discuss how a history in mathematics shapes his work.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elm

Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell

Nov 14th, 2023 1h 9m

Simon Lydell tells his origin story from Firefox power user to full-time Elm engineer. Then we talk about his work in the community building tools & contributing to core.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected]

Elm Town 68 – Shared joy with Mario Rogic

Oct 31st, 2023 1h 11m

Mario Rogic shares his journeys, both physically around the world and strategically, as he built & rebuilt Lamdera.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.09.08GuestMario

Elm Town 67 – Breaking things down with Gingko Writer

Oct 17th, 2023 51m 5s

Adriano Ferrari talks about how Elm allows him to solely support Gingko Writer and make progress on new projects while also homeschooling.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording dat

Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research

Oct 3rd, 2023 1h 3m

Chris Martin shares how he grew Elm wings while building Exosphere, a user-friendly, open-source tool to help scientists do research.Note: Jared's audio quality isn't great.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected]

Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it

Sep 19th, 2023 1h 33m

We review Jeroen Engels' journey with Elm from ESLint to elm-review. Jeroen even gives tips on how to introduce rules to a team.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.08

Elm Town 64 – The network effect

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 22m

Martin Stewart comes back to share his experience using Elm and Lamdera to make all the things, from games to professional apps.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.07

Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming

Aug 22nd, 2023 1h 10m

Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.06.08GuestMika NaylorS

Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land

Aug 8th, 2023 53m 36s

Ryan Haskell-Glatz talks about making Elm mainstream, learning through iterations of elm-spa, and how experiences at Vendr shaped Elm Land.Note: the quality of Jared's recording is off and there are technical difficulties with the video at the

Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns

Jul 25th, 2023 1h 29m

Dillon Kearns turns the pages of his journey with Elm, from applying meta-learning techniques as a classical piano player & agile coach to building a full-stack Elm framework (elm-pages).Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logis

Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns

Jul 25th, 2023 1h 29m

Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower

Jul 11th, 2023 1h 14m

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@

Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt

Jun 27th, 2023 1h 5m

Katja Mordaunt talks about Elm vibes versus other programming communities and gives us the low-down on Elm Camp.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2023.04.14GuestKatja Mo

Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software

Jun 13th, 2023 58m 5s

Tessa Kelly shares her experience unblocking users while building quality software, explains how to avoid the "accessibility dongle" using the Elm philosophy, and considers some tesk9/accessible-html design changes.Thanks to our sponsor, Logist

Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm

May 30th, 2023 1h 7m

Aaron Strick shares what it was like learning Elm at NoRedInk, and explains some of the "zany" (delightful) ways Elm is used at Brilliant.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] music by Jesse Moore.Outro m

Elm Town 56 – Why don’t you do it in Elm?

May 16th, 2023 50m 1s

Théophile Kalumbu comes by to talk about how Elm makes developing a frontend fun, building a design system explorer, iterating quickly, and getting Elm to production.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected]

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

May 2nd, 2023 1h 8m

Dwayne Crooks stops in to share his appreciation of algorithms, experience learning Elm, challenges building Elm 2048, and how he uses Elm at work to build things like the decentralized finance app, Qoda.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Ema

Elm Town 54 – Aloha with Kevin Yank

Apr 18th, 2023 1h 9m

Kevin Yank shares the challenges Culture Amp faced when scaling Elm & React with a Design System team in the middle, and how an acquisition tipped the ultimate decision to move Elm from “adopt” to “contain” at the company.Oh yeah, and there’s a

Elm Town 53 – Something to do on the side while watching TV

May 26th, 2020 52m 35s

Kolja Lampe takes us on a deep dive into the internals of the Elm Language Server that powers a growing number of editors' Elm support, and explains what motivates him to continue to spend more time building tooling for his favourite front end

Elm Town 52 – It's not like I have a stoplight on my desk

May 12th, 2020 58m 15s

Aaron VonderHaar returns to the show for a deep dive on automated tests, test-driven development, and elm-program-test, a new high-level test framework for Elm.Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp.Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for

Elm Town 51 – You went down the well? That’s the cheat way!

May 4th, 2020 29m 8s

Joseph Ni (aka Mordrax) shares the twisting tale of how an obscure 90s video game got him his first job with Elm, and how it brought him face to face with 10,000 lines of legacy code.Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp.Special thanks to Xav

Elm Town 50 – My favorite thing is when they don't even notice

Apr 17th, 2020 54m 26s

Aaron VonderHaar shares the origin, history and plans for the future of elm-format and a new, related tool!Thank you to our sponsor, Culture Amp.Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!Recording da