Jared M. Smith

Elm Town

A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

Author

Jared M. Smith

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Technology

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elm.town

Latest episode

May 19, 2026

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Episodes

Elm Town 40 – A Game Boy Emulator in Elm 21.11.2018

Manuel Fuchs shares what he learned by taking on a very unusual Elm project: a Nintendo Game Boy emulator! Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie , Culture Amp and Joel Clermont . Special thanks to Xavier Ho ( @Xavier_Ho ) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2018-11-10 Guests Manuel Fuchs ( @malax ) Show Notes 00:00 Show opening 01:58 Manuel's journey to Elm 07:09 Why a Game Boy...

Elm Town 39 - I Used Elm And It Cost Me My Job 01.11.2018

Annaia Berry and Ossi Hanhinen share previously unreleased details of an important client project, and why their choice of Elm cost Annaia her job. Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie , Culture Amp and Joel Clermont . Special thanks to Xavier Ho ( @Xavier_Ho ) for editing and production of this episode! Recording date: 2018-09-30 Guests Annaia Berry ( @ann_arcana ) Ossi Hanhinen ( @ohanhi ) Show Note...

Elm Town 38 - Elm 0.19's Improved Collections with Robin Heggelund Hansen 10.10.2018

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. Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and Ellie ! Recording date: 2018-09-30 Guests: Robin Heggelund Hansen ( @robheghan ) 1:55 article: Elm 0.19 Brings Better Collections 28:15 package: Elm Benchmark by Brian Hicks 32:08 package: AnyDict

Elm Town 37 - Upgrading to Elm 0.19 with Luke Westby & Richard Feldman 25.08.2018

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 release, and revisit Luke and Richard's talks from Elm Europe on web components and data structures, respectively. Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and elm-conf 2018 ! Recording date: 2018-08-25 Gue...

Elm Town 36 - The Risk of Elm with Dhruv Dang 21.08.2018

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 Project6’s elegant solution to SEO with Elm. Recording date: 2018-08-16 Guests: Dhruv Dang (hi@dhruv.io) 02:05 About Project6 02:05 Project6 website 04:47 Doing your best work with Elm 04:47 Elm Blog: A Farew...

Elm Town 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo 06.08.2018

Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo 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. Recording date: 2018-07-22 Guests: Francesco Orsenigo ( @xarvh ) Stax.io Sebastian Porto Haifisch elm-gamepad Herzog Drei Dijkstra's algorithm John Carmack Quake...

Elm Town 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho 24.07.2018

Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho Xavier Ho visits Elm Town to talk about creating (and pen-plotting!) generative art with Elm. Recording date: 2018-07-20 Guests: Xavier Ho 00:00 Intro 01:32 website: Data61 01:49 Elm at Data61 06:14 reference: Html. Keyed 08:10 Generative Art 08:10 slides: WDYK Melbourne - From Chaos to Order 10:38 video: YOW! Lambda Jam 2018 - Let's...

Elm Town 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle 04.07.2018

Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle Murphy welcomes Kevin Yank as the new host of Elm Town, then revisits his elm-conf 2017 talk with some fresh thoughts about ports. Recording date: 2018-06-27 Guests: Murphy Randle (0:02:21) conference: Framework Summit (0:13:25) podcast: Reason Town (0:14:18) video: “What’s not to love about Reason?”, Keira Hodgkison at ReasonConf 2...

Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar 20.05.2018

Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 32 - On Randomness with Chandrika Achar Murphy and Chandrika talk about how she got started programming, and her perspectives on Randomness in Elm. Recording date: 2018-04-03 Guests: splodingsocks, Chandrika (0:06:31) Hackbright Academy (0:31:34) Elm's core random package (0:31:49) mgold's random package (0:33:07) Chandrika on Twitter (0:33:22) elm-bridge twitter acco...

Elm Town 31 - Line Charts with Tereza Sokol 18.05.2018

Elm Town Episode 31 - line-charts with Tereza Sokol Murphy and Tereza talk about Tereza's new charting library, Line Charts, and her previous project, Elm Plot. Recording date: 2018-04-03 Voices: Murphy Randle, Tereza Sokol (0:08:03) elm-plot (0:10:03) ElmConf 2017 talk by Tereza (0:11:27) Line Charts (0:15:59) Edward Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (0:22:34) Opaque Types (0...

Elm Town 30 - Accessibility with Tessa Kelly 06.04.2018

Voices: Murphy Randle and Tessa Kelly Thanks to Martin Feineis for the outro music! 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. (00:04:32) bridge-troll (00:04:46) elm-bridge twitter account @elmlangbridge (00:11:12) tesk9/accessible-html (00:11:54) Web Accessibility...

Elm Town 29 - Knode.io with Jim Carlson 20.03.2018

Elm Town Episode 29 Jim Carlson and Murphy Randle talk about Jim's career as a math academic, and then Jim's side-projects made using Elm. (00:08:02) Murphy's Elm Conf Talk "The Importance of Ports" (00:08:50) www.knode.io (00:19:39) Evan's talk at Elm Europe, The Life of a File (00:24:55) Matt's talk about Style Elements (00:25:30) HexDocs in elixir (00:26:15) Style Elements (00:27:01)...

Elm Town 28 - elm-paginate with Jeff Schomay 07.03.2018

Murphy and Jeff talk about Jeff's library, elm-paginate, and pick up some programming wisdom from him along the way. (00:00:16) Queens and Brooklyn Elm Meetups (00:02:45) the Elm Narrative Engine (00:09:26) elm-bounded-numbers (00:32:02) Paginating infinite streams (00:34:16) Jeff's article on pagination (00:35:52) Select list (zipper list) (00:37:44) Our patreon (00:37:44) Reason Town

Elm Town 27 - Murphy Randle's Story 07.02.2018

Surprise! Mario Rogic is your host for this episode, because he's interviewing the normal host of the podcast, Murphy Randle. Listen to hear about Murphy's background in Animation, and how Murphy came to the world of Web development, and eventually started Elm Town! Links (00:25:50) Climbing Into Elm Picks (00:39:15) Scalyr (00:40:19) Our Patreon (00:40:37) Reason Town

Elm Town 26 - Swedish and Norwegian News with Noah Hall 02.02.2018

Murphy and Noah talk about Omni, MinE24, and server-side rendering with Elm. (00:04:53) Omni (00:06:46) e24 (00:07:33) MinE24 (00:08:13) Omni Ekonomi (00:15:31) elm-static-html-lib (00:32:29) Picks (00:32:36) elm-discourse (00:33:49) typescript (00:35:03) ReasonML (00:35:49) elm-css

Elm Town 25 - The Evolution of an API, Part 2, with Richard Feldman 19.01.2018

This is an extra long episode, so get ready! (00:03:42) elm in action (00:03:49) front-end masters (00:07:00) elm-css (00:07:07) elm-test (00:07:28) decode-pipeline (00:41:02) @vjeux (00:45:23) css-modules (00:48:11) abadi199/elm-creditcard (00:52:09) blog post about performant css and animations by Oleg Slobodskoi (01:09:39) style-elements

Elm Town 24 - Wonktonk with Jonathan Fishbein 12.01.2018

Murphy chats with Jonathan Fishbein about choosing Elm, getting started, and using Elm for the startup company Wonktonk. * (0:0:45) Codepen Radio (0:4:54) Wonktonk (0:16:38) Underscore (0:16:39) Lodash (0:16:42) Ramda (0:22:37) Webpack (0:25:10) Egghead Videos (0:26:53) Richard's Front-End Masters (0:27:20) style-elements (0:30:02) elm-comment (0:32:58) Lamda Cast (0:33:20) Becoming Steve Jobs (0:...

Elm Town 23 - The Evolution of an API 17.12.2017

Voices Murphy Randle Matthew Griffith Links (0:05:57) elm-style-animation (0:06:12) style-elements (0:12:03) Elm Town Episode 8 with Max Goldstien (0:16:10) elm-format (0:19:24) elm-discuss (0:44:20) elm-plot (0:45:53) Teaching Elm to Beginners (0:46:32) Book: If you Give a Mouse a Cookie (0:48:56) Matt : Base CS Podcast (0:49:41) [Matt : Sarah Drasner's assorted works](eg: "SVG Can Do That&q...

Elm Town 22 - How Do I Write JS in Elm? 21.11.2017

Voices Murphy Randle Evan Czaplicki Links (0:11:15) MLton - Language (1:00:28) Murphy: Elm Seeds (1:00:58) Evan: Murphy's elm-conf talk: The Importance of Ports (1:01:46) Evan: Adam Curtis documentaries (century of self & hyper-normalization) Sponsors Day One Daily Drip Futurice Ellie App

Elm Town 21 - Ellie! 25.09.2017

Voices Murphy Randle Luke Westby Links (0:21:00) Luke: Elm-Basic-Compile (0:44:16) Luke: Glitch (0:46:08) Luke: The Mask of Anarchy (Poem, content warning, historic and artistic descriptions of violence (0:46:29) Luke: Operational Transformations (0:47:23) Murphy: Elm in Action (0:47:52) Murphy: Egghead.io lesson, Making an HTTP Request in Elm

Elm Town 20 - Spotlight on Ossi Hanhinen 19.09.2017

Voices Murphy Randle (on elm-slack as @splodingsocks) Ossi Hanhinen (on elm-slack as @ohanhi) Links (0:00:53) Elm Remote Meetup. (#remote-meetup on the Elm Slack) (0:32:17) Ossi's Elm Conf US Talk (0:44:45) Ossi: Watch Evan's conf talks, every one of them (0:45:11) Ossi: Learning by Teaching (0:46:59) Tradenomiitti (0:47:09) Mothers in business (0:49:27) Ossi: Foraging! Picking mushrooms

Elm Town 19 - Learning with Josh Robertson 11.09.2017

Guests Murphy Randle Josh Robertson Links (0:13:08) Elm front-end masters (0:30:16) JSON Survival Kit (0:38:00) Remote Data (0:40:28) Evan's React Rally Talk (0:40:50) Elm front-end masters (0:41:13) Nanobox (0:43:24) Josh twitter - @Hossman333 (0:44:09) @splodingsocks (0:44:20) elm-conf US 2017

Elm Town 18 - Spotlight on Mario Rogic 28.08.2017

Voices Murphy Randle Mario Rogic Links (0:54:42) Making Impossible States Impossible (0:57:18) #conferences (0:57:39) Mario is @supermario on Elm slack (0:57:50) The elm-export package (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/elm-export) (0:58:57) mdgriffith/style-elements (0:59:24) Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell (0:00:43) Thinking Fast & Slow (1:01:58) How to draw almost everythin...

Elm Town 17 - elm-style-elements with Matthew Griffith 31.07.2017

Voices Murphy Randle Matthew Griffith Links (0:45:34) Matt: We like it here by Snarky Puppy (0:46:49) Scala Underscore.io Elm Europe talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb2GDWMIm0

Elm Town 16 - Elm Conf US with Brian Hicks and Luke Westby 07.07.2017

Voices Murphy Randle Brian Hicks Luke Westby Links (0:10:58) elm-conf.us (0:14:09) STL Tech Slack (0:14:13) Utah JS Slack (0:14:24) Chicago Slack (0:36:12) Ravi Chugh (0:42:20) Calendar for Elm Conf US (0:43:07) Luke: October - The story of the Russian Revolution (0:43:28) Luke: Noah Hall (0:44:04) Brian: Revolutions Podcast (0:44:12) Brian: mdgriffith/style-elements (0:45:33) Monapt & Typescr...

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