Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming

Elm Town

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: [e-mail].

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.06.08

Guest

• Mika Naylor

Show notes

[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:01:04] Introducing Mika Naylor

• Nix and NixOS
• "Behind The Lambda",
  at Python Pizza Hamburg 2021
• "Leading Beyond Tools, Process & Structure" with Johannes Moser at Worker Conf 2022
• elm-spa
• Elm Land 🌈

[00:02:09] Fan sites and forums

[00:04:44] From Emily, "How did you first get excited about Elm?"

[00:11:17] Elm as a gateway drug to functional programming

[00:18:17] Not disempowering teams

[00:22:25] A community of makers

• r/elm
• Elm Discourse

[00:27:55] Experience using Elm Land

• Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land
• Wyrhta Ceramics (source
• Elm Town 6 - The Founding Story - Evan talks about inspiration for explicit imports ~32:00

[00:42:23] Dhall

• Dhall

[00:44:50] Fearless refactoring

• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

[00:52:46] Collaboration with machine learning models

• Wyrhta Ceramics - Fey Mood - Works made in collaboration with ML models, like GPT
• @[e-mail] - Mika's Mastodon

[01:01:48] Stoicism & Elm

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• 2023 Resolutions
• "Make Reliable Web Apps Without JS Fatigue" by Jared M. Smith at Detroit Tech Watch 2019

[01:05:20] Picks

Mika's Picks

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovača
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

Jared's Picks

• All things Mouse Reeve
• "Mapping Imaginary Cities" by Mouse Reeve at Strange Loop 2018
• "Minimalist Piano Forever" by Mouse Reeve at Strange Loop 2019 (listen at gnossiennes.mousereeve.com
• BookWyrm

Please contact me elmtown at jaredmsmith.com to recommend/share climate-related work using Elm.