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  • Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans

    Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans
    2025/12/16
    Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing The Programmer's Brain, uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, and building the multilingual, gradual-syntax programming language Hedy. We even dip into AI (trigger warning) and dumb phones.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.Music by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date: 2025.04.08GuestFelienne HermansShow notes[00:00:26] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:48] Introducing Felienne HermansHedy - Textual programming made easyThe Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans"How to teach programming (and other things)?" at Strange Loop 2019"A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design", co-authored with Ari SchlesingerElm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja MordauntCode Reading ClubThe Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman[00:04:09] The costs of misconceptionsScience Mike[00:09:51] Journey to computer science[00:14:33] Programming culture: challenges and creativityElm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents with Martin StewartElm Town 64 – The network effect with Martin StewartAdvent of Code[00:21:36] Bias and building a multi-lingual programming languageMark Guzdial's blog: Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take[00:28:35] Hedy's gradual syntaxAddressing Computing’s Discrimination Problem: A Framework for Anti-Discriminatory Computing by Ari SchlesingerThe Will to Change by bell hooks[00:38:12] Programming language community, learning, and valuing hard things[00:47:19] How language design choices affect cognitive load"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2019Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software with Tessa KellyEpisode 68: Elm and ADD with Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels[00:56:22] History of women in computing"Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing" by Myra ChengNathan Ensmenger[01:03:40] Kotodama (言霊): What's in a name?Feeling of Computing 75 • A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans[01:08:49] Switching to a dumb phone[01:16:48] AI"An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura PrestonIn Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe[01:30:10] PicksFelienne's picks"An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura PrestonDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara KneeseCrisis of Narration by Byung-Chul HanJared's pickThe End of This Day's Business by Katharine Burdekin
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  • Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard

    Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard
    2025/09/23

    Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.

    Recording date: 2025.02.24

    Guest
    • Sophie Collard
    Show notes[00:00:29] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:50] Introducing Sophie
    • London Air UI using Elm & Leafletjs
    • "Lessons learnt from writing 10k LOC in Elm" at Lambda Days 2024
    • sophiecollard/jsonpath
    [00:01:33] Journey to programming[00:10:35] Learning Elm[00:14:30] Questions from Monica McGuigan on learning[00:17:41] Mob programming
    • Mobster by Dillon Kearns
    • Zed channels for collaboration
    [00:23:47] London Air UI
    • Custom elements (Elm Guide chapter)
    [00:27:48] Railpackers
    • Railpackers
    • xkcd: Standards
    [00:33:51] The Jackson guitar project (Chushin Gakki)
    • Chushin Gakki Jacksons Directory (GitHub)
    • elm-pages
    • Elm Town
    [00:41:41] sophiecollard/jsonpath[00:44:51] PicksSophie's picks
    • Elm in Action by Richard Feldman
    • Programming Elm by Jeremy Fairbank
    Jared's pick
    • Future of Coding (a.k.a. Feeling of Comput(er)ing)
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  • Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville

    Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville
    2025/09/02

    Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.

    Recording date: 2025.01.30

    Guest
    • Joël Quenneville
    Show notes[00:00:19] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:39] Introducing Joël
    • Some blog posts by Joël
      • "Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard"
      • "The Mechanics of Maybe"
      • "Problem Solving with Maybe"
    • Sample Joël podcast appearances
      • Elm Radio 32 - "Elm's Universal Pattern"
      • Elm Radio 52 - "Category Theory in Elm with Joël Quenneville"
      • SW Unscripted - "Conditional Cardinality with Joël Quenneville"
    • Some of Joël's conference talks
      • "Rolling Random Romans" at elm-conf 2016
      • "A Number by Any Other Name" at Elm in the Spring 2019
      • "Inverting a binary tree with 1 line of Elm" from an Elm Online meetup in 2021
    [00:01:51] Getting started crafting software[00:09:37] Discovering Elm[00:11:50] JSON Decoders, and then...
    • Reasoning by Analogy by Joël Quenneville
    • Getting Unstuck with Elm JSON Decoders by Joël Quenneville
    • Elm’s Universal Pattern by Joël Quenneville
    [00:23:57] Inspiration, artifacts, and note-taking
    • Learning by helping out in the Elm Slack by Joël Quenneville
    • My Note Taking System Gives Me Constant Ideas by Joël Quenneville
    • Obsidian
    • The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read by Ryan Holiday
    • Gingko Writer
    [00:39:11] Active versus passive growth
    • Turning experience into growth by Joël Quenneville
    [00:49:47] Collect mental models and heuristics
    • Triangle of Separation by Joël Quenneville
    • Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards
    • Andrew's Arboriculture zine No. 001 – Joël's Triangle
    [00:54:18] PicksJoël's pick
    • How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
    Jared's pick
    • Jesse Welles
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  • Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025

    Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025
    2025/07/22

    In a short break from the Wonder series, John Pavlick, Wolfgang Schuster, and Tristan Pendergrass join Jared to report on the Elm Camp 2025 unconference experience in Michigan, USA.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.

    Recording date: 2025.07.07

    Guests
    • John Pavlick
    • Wolfgang Schuster
    • Tristan Pendergrass
    Show notes[00:00:14] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:35] Elm Camp sponsors
    • NoRedInk
    • Concentric
    [00:01:09] Introductions
    • Tony Bradley @abradley2 (GitHub)
    • Tony Bradley's elm-i18next-gen
    [00:06:27] Setting the scene
    • elm.camp
    • Ronora Lodge & Retreat Center
    [00:13:15] Unconference format
    • Feedback.one
    [00:26:48] Sessions
    • Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
    • Wolfgang's blog series on Elm virtual DOMs
      • Bring Your Own DOM – Part 1 – Portals
      • Bring Your Own DOM – Part 2 – TUIs
    • Wolfgang's elm-ink (GitHub) repo
    • elm-tooling/elm-language-server initially by Kolja (@razze)
    • Elm - Community
    • Elmcraft - Community
    • Elm Land
    • Lamdera
    • Simon Lydell's elm-safe-virtual-dom
    • React DOM issue - Dan Abramov's link to Chromium issue & hack
    [00:52:27] PicksJohn's picks
    • <| ("left pizza")
    • << ("left compose")
    • John's jmpavlick/q
    • Zokka
    • Michigan
    Wolfgang's picks
    • Summer Games Done Quick
    • The Last Phi Hunter
    • Richard Feldman's course on Frontend Masters Write a Compiler That Understands Types
    Tristan's pick
    • Vantage
    Jared's picks
    • Parks (1st edition)
    • Elmcraft.org
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  • Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin

    Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin
    2025/06/03

    Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming environments (Sketch-n-Sketch) to graduate work at UC Berkeley with Sarah E. Chasins, focusing on programming language theory, researching how statically-typed functional programmers write code, and beyond, to helping domain experts.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.

    Recording date: 2024.12.09

    Guest
    • Justin Lubin
    Show notes[00:00:44] Introducing Justin
    • Sketch-n-Sketch
    • "How statically-typed functional programmers write code" by Justin Lubin and Sarah E. Chasins
    [00:07:07] Elm all the way down[00:08:36] What is Sketch-n-Sketch?
    • Hazel
    [00:11:03] From Parker Ziegler: Getting started in a large Elm codebase[00:13:01] The  Sketch-n-Sketch cinematic universe
    • Maniposynth
    [00:22:21] Research on how  statically-typed functional programmers write code
    • Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell
    [00:35:11]  From Parker Ziegler: Ergonomics vs. hindrances[00:40:25] Fork of the Elm compiler
    • ravichugh/sketch-n-sketch (GitHub)
    [00:45:04] Cobbler
    • "Equivalence by Canonicalization for Synthesis-Backed Refactoring" by Justin Lubin, Jeremy Ferguson, Kevin Ye, Jacob Yim, and Sarah E. Chasins
    • Cobbler (GitHub)
    [00:47:36] Justin's current work[00:51:45] PicksJustin's pick
    • Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems by Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng
    Jared's pick
    • Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
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  • Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell

    Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell
    2025/04/15

    Kicking off the Wonder series, Ryan Haskell shares his approach to teaching Elm, his gap year adventures, and his current work at Brilliant. He gives insights into creating accessible learning materials, building games, and finding inspiration outside the Elm ecosystem.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.
    Edited by Toni Cañete.

    Recording date: 2024.11.27

    Guest
    • Ryan Haskell
    Show notes[00:00:21] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:43] Introduction
    • ryan.town
    • Welcome to Elm! YouTube series
    • Elm Town 62 – The Map to Elm Land
    • Elm Land
    • ryan-haskell/date-format
    [00:01:34] Gap Year[00:03:31] Building a game in Godot
    • Turbo Champ
    [00:11:01] Welcome to Elm YouTube Series
    • Richard Feldman's "Teaching Elm to Beginners" (elm-conf 2017)
    [00:17:06] Teaching style
    • "Parentheses are like hugs" - from Section 1.5 Advanced Functions
    [00:24:52] From Wolfgang: Finding inspiration
    • Inspiration for Vendr's elm-gql from watching Ben Awad's videos
    [00:29:07] Remaking Ryan's website[00:32:41] Working at Brilliant
    • Brilliant
    • Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm with Aaron Strick
    • Red Blob Games
    [00:39:15] PicksRyan's picks
    • Dracula by Bram Stoker
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
    • Vite 6.0
    • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
    • Horizon Zero Dawn
    • Satisfactory
    Jared's picks
    • Satisfactory Night Fever by Dan Bull
    • Richard Feldman's "Teaching Elm to Beginners" (elm-conf 2017)
    • Frontend Masters Elm courses by Richard Feldman
      • Introduction to Elm, v2
      • Advanced Elm
    • Elm in Action by Richard Feldman (Manning)
    • Welcome to Elm! YouTube series
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  • Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen

    Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen
    2024/12/17

    In the final episode of the Inspired series, Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels wax philosophically with Jared about what it means to be inspired by Elm within the context of tools. We chat about feedback, guarantees, and contracts as lenses for building tools.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.
    Edited by Toni Cañete.

    Recording date: 2024.08.29

    Guests
    • Jeroen Engels
    • Dillon Kearns
    Show notes[00:00:50] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:14] Introduction
    • Elm Radio
    • Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages
    • Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it
    • Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh
    • Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
    • Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
    [00:02:20] What does it mean to be inspired by Elm?[00:05:53] Elm philosophy
    • Evan's "Elm philosophy" thread
    • elm-review
    • elm-pages
    [00:25:44] Simplicity is not just for beginners[00:32:38] What are tools?[00:33:56] Feedback & guarantees[00:39:26] Tool as contract (not slicing hot dogs nor fingers)[00:45:18] Lobbying for tool as contract
    • Hayleigh's elm-web-audio
    [00:48:09] Tool as an expression of a point of view
    • Dillon's elm-graphql
    [00:50:37] Roc
    • Roc
    [00:53:04] Contracts & purity
    • Lamdera
    • Matthew Griffith's elm-ui
    [01:08:09] What's next for Elm?[01:13:38] PicksJeroen's picks
    • Elm Camp
    • Save the Earth 🌍
    • Elm Radio
    Dillon's picks
    • Be kind ❤
    • elm-pages scripts
    Jared's picks
    • elm-pages scripts spinners Pages.Script.Spinner
    • Alex Korban's Elm Catalog
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  • Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha

    Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
    2024/10/31

    Christian Rocha shares his experience building the TUI framework Bubble Tea based on The Elm Architecture. We talk about Impostor Syndrome, mentors, and how he incorporates his background in design at Charm.

    Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

    Music by Jesse Moore.
    Edited by Toni Cañete.

    Recording date: 2024.10.10

    Guest
    • Christian Rocha
    Show notes[00:00:23] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:41] Introducing Christian
    • Charm
    • Bubble Tea
    • Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh
    • Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
    • learning elm, so I don't need to use javascript by bashbunni
    [00:02:12] Origin story[00:08:17] Mentor John Weir[00:10:58] Taking The Elm Architecture to the command line[00:13:51] John Weir's question[00:15:48] Bubble Tea related tools
    • Glow
    • Bubbles
    • Lip Gloss
    • Gum
    • Soft Serve
    • Glamour
    [00:20:23] Background in design/branding[00:23:35] What is VHS?
    • VHS
    • asciinema
    [00:26:08] How has the architecture of Bubble Tea held up?[00:27:35] What are you excited about these days?
    • Mitchell Hashimoto's Ghostty
    • Roc
    [00:32:44] PicksChristian's picks
    • Go Mecha Ball
    • "The Great"
    • Tampopo
    • Brompton
    Jared's picks
    • Teardown
    • Dan Bull
    • Glass Animals
    • Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
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    42 分