Elm Town 45 - It Started Off As A Morning Book

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. 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: 4 May 2019 Guests Jeremy Fairbank (@elpapapollo) Show Notes 00:00:00 Introduction Programming Elm (website) Programming Elm (book) Test Double 00:00:51 Sponsors Ellie Culture Amp Joel Clermont 00:02:16 How Jeremy got started in Elm and writing books Solving the Boolean Identity Crisis (elm-conf 2017) Toward a Better Front End Architecture: Elm (Codemash 2017) 00:05:55 Elm as a hobby, writing things polished enough for yourself 00:07:46 Using Elm in Production and client stories Richard Feldman’s elm-spa-example 00:10:55 Experience as a technical book writer 00:13:16 Teaching patterns progressively 00:16:00 Writing hard chapters as Elm 0.19 comes out 00:17:53 Writing books assuming reader has no Internet 00:20:25 Test driven development and type systems 00:24:40 Writing is lonely / thank you Emily 00:27:27 Editor relationship and learning from them 00:29:18 Deciding where the end goal should be for a beginner's book 00:31:34 Sequel or cookbook for the Elm community elm-css elm-ui 00:34:01 Modelling transition states 00:35:13 Ports and subscriptions / web sockets chapter 00:39:46 Fuzzing and testing 00:42:25 Thank you, good bye and how to get the book