Elm Town 55 – From algorithms&animation to building a decentralized finance app from 2023-11-29T10:33:10.038271

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 ...

Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land from 2023-11-29T10:33:10.006675

Ryan Haskell-Glatz talks about making Elm mainstream, learning through iterations of elm-spa, and how experiences at Vendr shaped Elm Land.

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Elm Town 64 – The network effect from 2023-11-29T10:33:10.001543

Martin Stewart comes back to share his experience using Elm and Lamdera to make all the things, from games to professional apps.

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Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research from 2023-11-29T10:33:09.995718

Chris Martin shares how he grew Elm wings while building Exosphere, a user-friendly, open-source tool to help scientists do research.

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Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson from 2023-11-28T10:00

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 wo...

Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell from 2023-11-14T10:00

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.

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Elm Town 68 – Shared joy with Mario Rogic from 2023-10-31T09:00

Mario Rogic shares his journeys, both physically around the world and strategically, as he built & rebuilt Lamdera.

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Elm Town 67 – Breaking things down with Gingko Writer from 2023-10-17T09:00

Adriano Ferrari talks about how Elm allows him to solely support Gingko Writer and make progress on new projects while also homeschooling.

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Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it from 2023-09-19T09:00

We review Jeroen Engels' journey with Elm from ESLint to elm-review. Jeroen even gives tips on how to introduce rules to a team.

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Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming from 2023-08-22T09:00

Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.

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Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns from 2023-07-25T09:00

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 (Listen

Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower from 2023-07-11T09:00

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. Listen

Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt from 2023-06-27T09:00

Katja Mordaunt talks about Elm vibes versus other programming communities and gives us the low-down on Elm Camp.

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Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software from 2023-06-13T09:00

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...

Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm from 2023-05-30T09:00

Aaron Strick shares what it was like learning Elm at NoRedInk, and explains some of the "zany" (delightful) ways Elm is used at Brilliant.

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Elm Town 56 – Why don’t you do it in Elm? from 2023-05-16T09:00

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.

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Episode 2 - The Update Function from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.259262

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Elm Town 4 - Javascript interoperability from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.256778

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Elm Town 8 - Testing from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.244363

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An Excerpt Cut from Episode 8 - Talking about Haskell from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.242934

We cut about 10 minutes of Episode 8 that were focused mostly on Haskell. Here are those 10 minutes to listen to, if you're interested.

Elm Town 11 - History of Signals from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.229160

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Elm Town 13 - History of Ports from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.225334

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Elm Town 14 - Spotlight on Kevin Yank from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.223755

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Elm Town 16 - Elm Conf US with Brian Hicks and Luke Westby from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.220916

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Elm Town 26 - Swedish and Norwegian News with Noah Hall from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.176970

Murphy and Noah talk about Omni, MinE24, and server-side rendering with Elm.

Elm Town 27 - Murphy Randle's Story from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.175363

Surprise! Mario Rogic is your host for this episode, because he's interviewing the normal host of the podcast, Murphy Randle.

Elm Town 28 - elm-paginate with Jeff Schomay from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.167629

Murphy and Jeff talk about Jeff's library, elm-paginate, and pick up some programming wisdom from him along the way.

Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.158278

Tessa and Murphy talk about accessibility, why it's important, and what Tessa is doing with her Elm libraries (accessible-html) to help people write accessible HTML more easily.

Elm Town 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.151005

Murphy welcomes Kevin Yank as the new host of Elm Town, then revisits his elm-conf 2017 talk with some fresh thoughts about ports.

Elm Town 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.145588

Francesco Orsenigo visits Elm Town to share a behind-the-scenes look at his game Herzog Drei. It’s written entirely in Elm with 60fps SVG graphics and gamepad support.

Elm Town 39 - I Used Elm And It Cost Me My Job from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.139590

Annaia Berry and Ossi Hanhinen share previously unreleased details of an important client project, and why their choice of Elm cost Annaia her job.

Elm Town 42 – It's Just Darth Vader from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.135611

Erkal Selman shares the story behind Kite, a web application for drawing and exploring directed graphs written entirely in Elm.

Elm Town 46 - You Get All Of The Chapters from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.131288

Richard Feldman joins us to mark the content completion of his book, “Elm in Action”.

Elm Town 49 – Sixteen 3D Spinners Should Be Enough For Most People from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.078748

Ian Mackenzie shares the history of elm-geometry, elm-units and elm-3d-scene, and how he hopes to one day see them used to design a world-championship-winning robot – or a skyscraper.

Elm Town 51 – You went down the well? That’s the cheat way! from 2022-02-22T11:01:10.067815

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.

Elm Town 6 - The Founding Story from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Elm Town 53 – Something to do on the side while watching TV from 2020-05-26T12:38

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 ...

Elm Town 53 – Something to do on the side while watching TV from 2020-05-26T12:38

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 ...

Elm Town 52 – It's not like I have a stoplight on my desk from 2020-05-12T22:45

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.

Elm Town 50 – My favorite thing is when they don't even notice from 2020-04-17T13:40

Aaron VonderHaar shares the origin, history and plans for the future of elm-format and a new, related tool!

Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents from 2020-01-11T02:15

Martin Stewart tells the behind-the-scenes story of how his game Circuit Breaker (built entirely in Elm, of course) came to be, starting with an ambitious plan to surprise his sister on her birthday.

Elm Town 47 - A Cool, Easy Way To Start Learning Haskell from 2019-09-21T07:08

Stöffel talks about Jetpack, a simplified build tool that NoRedInk built to replace webpack, and how it started his journey to learn Haskell and eventually end up on the team behind NoRedInk's next...

Elm Town 45 - It Started Off As A Morning Book from 2019-05-22T05:10

Jeremy Fairbank, the author of “Programming Elm” (Pragmatic Programmers), visits Elm Town to talk about his new book and how it teaches Elm, and about writing tech books in general.

Elm Town 44 - More Of A Statement Than A Question from 2019-04-19T06:52

Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, ...

Elm Town 43 - It Just Goes On and On from 2019-02-28T03:57

Keith Lazuka and AJ Alt from Microsoft share their experience writing the amazing Elm language support package for the IntelliJ family of integrated development environments.

Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls from 2019-01-30T09:55

Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens!

Elm Town 40 – A Game Boy Emulator in Elm from 2018-11-21T00:34

Manuel Fuchs shares what he learned by taking on a very unusual Elm project: a Nintendo Game Boy emulator!

Elm Town 38 - Elm 0.19's Improved Collections with Robin Heggelund Hansen from 2018-10-10T08:30

Robin Heggelund Hansen (Bekk Consulting) shares the very personal story that led to him contributing improvements to List, Dict and Array in Elm 0.19.

Elm Town 37 - Upgrading to Elm 0.19 with Luke Westby & Richard Feldman from 2018-08-25T01:07

Richard Feldman (No Red Ink) and Luke Westby (Ellie, No Red Ink) visit Elm Town to celebrate the just-released Elm 0.19, talk through No Red Ink's plan to upgrade its 250K lines of Elm to the new r...

Elm Town 36 - The Risk of Elm with Dhruv Dang from 2018-08-21T01:44

Dhruv Dang visits Elm Town to share his experience learning from and ultimately adoption Elm at Project6. We discuss issues of team leadership, risk management, and hiring, and Dhruv explains Proje...

Elm Town 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho from 2018-07-24T05:49

Xavier Ho visits Elm Town to talk about creating (and pen-plotting!) generative art with Elm.

Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar from 2018-05-20T09:00

Murphy and Chandrika talk about how she got started programming, and her perspectives on Randomness in Elm.

Elm Town 31 - Line Charts with Tereza Sokol from 2018-05-18T03:42

Murphy and Tereza talk about Tereza's new charting library, Line Charts, and her previous project, Elm Plot.

Elm Town 29 - Knode.io with Jim Carlson from 2018-03-20T02:23

Jim Carlson and Murphy Randle talk about Jim's career as a math academic, and then Jim's side-projects made using Elm.

Elm Town 25 - The Evolution of an API, Part 2, with Richard Feldman from 2018-01-19T04:52

Richard tells Murphy all about how the API for elm-css has grown and drastically changed over the years.

Elm Town 24 - Wonktonk with Jonathan Fishbein from 2018-01-12T04:56

Murphy chats with Jonathan Fishbein about choosing Elm, getting started, and using Elm for the startup company Wonktonk.

Elm Town 23 - The Evolution of an API from 2017-12-17T05:37

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Elm Town 22 - How Do I Write JS in Elm? from 2017-11-21T18:06

A conversation with Evan about how Elm is designed to interact with Javascript, and other topics.

Elm Town 21 - Ellie! from 2017-09-25T16:13

Murphy and Luke discuss Luke's community contribution, brilliant side-project, and our sponsor, Ellie.

Elm Town 20 - Spotlight on Ossi Hanhinen from 2017-09-19T17:01

An insight into Ossi H's life, his projects, and his contributions to the Elm community.

Elm Town 19 - Learning with Josh Robertson from 2017-09-11T16:28

Murphy and Josh Robertson talk about what it's like getting hired to an Elm job with no prior Elm knowledge.

Elm Town 18 - Spotlight on Mario Rogic from 2017-08-28T22:41

A personal chat with Mari Rogic about his work with Elm, and his path to becoming the developer he is today.

Elm Town 17 - elm-style-elements with Matthew Griffith from 2017-07-31T21:40

A chat with Matthew Griffith about his library, Elm Style Elements.

Elm Town 15 - Spotlight on Hardy Jones from 2017-06-15T19:33

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Elm Town 15 - Preroll and Correction from 2017-06-15T19:27

Hi, everyone! Elm Town 15 will be released in a few minutes. I wanted to apologize for the accidentally horrid sound quality on my microphone, and to let you know that the coupon code for Daily ...

Elm Town 12 - History of Records from 2017-04-26T18:05

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Elm Town 10 - About being "in production" from 2017-02-17T03:43

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Elm Town 9 - Getting Started from 2017-01-24T16:44

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• Murphy Randle


• Tessa Kelly


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Elm Town 7 - Remote Data with Kris A. Jenkins from 2016-12-19T17:39

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• Murphy Randle


• Luke Westby


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Elm Town 5 - Version 0.18 is released! from 2016-11-14T14:32

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Elm Town 3 - JSON decoders from 2016-10-21T11:02

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Elm Town 1 - Editors from 2016-09-24T14:00

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