Elm Town 74 – The road to town with Jared M. Smith

Elm Town

Mario Rogic comes back to interview Jared about his road to Elm, from the Tandy to JavaScript fatigue, and the inevitable, relieving discovery of Elm. The love for Elm never stops.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [e-mail].

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2024.02.05

Guest

• Jared M. Smith

Show notes

[00:00:28] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:54] The exclusive wrap

• Elm Town 68 – Shared joy with Mario Rogic

[00:01:55] Getting started in computing & programming

• Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it with Jeroen Engles
• Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research with Chris Martin

[00:08:09] Informing the path to Elm

• "Solving the Boolean Identity Crisis" by Jeremy Fairbank
• "Mogee or how we fit Elm in a 64×64 grid" by Andrey Kuzmin
• Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns

[00:15:39] JavaScript fatigue

[00:21:24] elm-pool

• https://github.com/w0rm/elm-pool
• https://jaredmsmith.com/dev/elm-pool-collaboration

[00:25:34] Why did you choose to introduce Elm at work?

[00:30:13] Failing to introduce functional programming at work

• "How to Use Elm at Work" by Evan Czaplicki

[00:34:31] Elm at Logistically

• Simon Lydell's elm-watch
• Matthew Griffith's elm-codegen
• Wolfgang Schuster's elm-open-api

[00:37:42] Meta Elm Town

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

[00:43:26] Hit record vibe shift

• Elm Radio
• Zed (May 2024 Jared's daily driver)

[00:48:01] Picks

Jared's pick

• MDN

Mario's picks

• Nix
• Lamdera