Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns

Elm Town

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: [e-mail].

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.05.04

Guest

• Dillon Kearns (https://incrementalelm.com/)

Show notes

[00:00:32] Introducing Dillon Kearns

• Elm Radio
• incrementalelm.com
• dillonkearns/elm-graphql (Elm Radio episode)
• dillonkearns/elm-markdown
• elm-ts-interop (Elm Radio episode)
• https://html-to-elm.com/
• elm-pages 🎉

[00:01:54] Links between experiences as an agile coach and piano player and how that relates to programming?

[00:04:20] Do you really want to do what it takes to do that thing?

• Elm Radio 71 - Deliberate Practice
• A Software Journey in Steps

[00:15:08] Getting into programming

[00:20:48] Defining moments

[00:23:25] Discovering Elm

• "Facilitating Technology Change Through Cultural Change" by Grant Maki
• "Make Reliable Web Apps Without JS Fatigue" by Jared M. Smith

[00:28:39] ADHD

• Elm Radio 68 - Elm and ADD
• "Work 2.0 - the interruptible programmer" by Steve Streeting

[00:32:08] Mentors

[00:33:39] Mobster and the Elm community

• Mobster

[00:42:36] Jamming on jazz improv

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

[00:52:55] Finding time for experimentation & learning

• Lean Startup by Eric Ries

[00:56:49] How to make an incremental learning path with elm-pages

[01:02:33] New features in elm-pages v3

• Elm Radio 75 - elm-pages scripts
• Elm Radio 86 - elm-pages v3
• Elm Radio 81 - elm-form

[01:12:48] Elm and AI

• Elm Radio 80 - Elm and AI
• "Assume ChatGPT is Lying" by Kevin Yank

[01:16:18] Sponsored by Logistically

[01:16:59] Seeing how other folks are using Elm

• Elm Radio 67 - Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Aaron White

[01:19:29] Picks

Dillon's picks

• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Things
• Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
• "Practical Refactoring - How to clean code in many small steps" by Llewellyn Falco and Woody Zuill

Jared's request

• If you work on addressing the climate crisis using Elm, I'd love to have you on the show. Please email me [e-mail].