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Elm Town

Jared M. Smith

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

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  • Avg 1 hr 2 min
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  • #90
    May 19 · 1 hr 52 min

    Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

    Ari Schlesinger illuminates a unique path of social responsibility carved through the tech world, using feminism as a guide while bearing attacks, criticism, and contortion. That trail led Ari to ask how programming languages shape society and, eventually, to research Elm—the compiler, error messages, and community.

  • #89
    March 24 · 1 hr

    Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026

    Elm Camp organizers Katja Mordaunt and Tomáš Látal share details about the June 15th-18th, 2026 event in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and extend an open invitation to Elm-curious folks in the broader community. Tickets on sale as of publishing!

  • #88
    Dec 16, 2025 · 1 hr 44 min

    Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans

    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.

  • #85
    Jul 22, 2025 · 1 hr

    Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025

    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.

  • #84
    Jun 3, 2025 · 55 min

    Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin

    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.

  • #83
    Apr 15, 2025 · 44 min

    Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell

    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.

  • #82
    Dec 17, 2024 · 1 hr 20 min

    Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen

    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.

  • #81
    Oct 31, 2024 · 41 min

    Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha

    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.

  • #80
    Sep 17, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min

    Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman

    Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to have persistent data structures. Later, he shares how his experience teaching Elm informed Roc's design. We even learn about the power of platforms.

  • #79
    Sep 3, 2024 · 49 min

    Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh

    Hayleigh talks about how Elm has inspired her work, from tools built in Elm such as elm-web-audio and the Ren language compiler, to contributing to the Gleam language and making the Lustre web framework.

  • #77
    Jun 25, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min

    Elm Town 77 – Breaking your brain with Andrey Kuzmin

    From translating imperative physics into Elm and building 3D interactive tools at work to adding Elm support to Zed and animating the Elm Town logo, Andrey Kuzmin never fails to break your brain.

  • #75
    May 28, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min

    Elm Town 75 – The Great Wall of Code with Taylor Troesh

    Taylor Troesh recounts his trip across the stack, from the front to the back and back again. Along the way, he divulges his custom operator confession. He currently works at Replenysh using Elm for sustainability.

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