Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming
Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.
Episode 63 of the Elm Town podcast, hosted by Mika Naylor, Jared M. Smith, titled "Elm Town 63 – Opening the doors of functional programming" was published on August 22, 2023 and runs 70 minutes.
August 22, 2023 ·70m · Elm Town
Summary
Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.
Episode Description
Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.
Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected].
Music by Jesse Moore.
Recording date: 2023.06.08
Guest
Show notes
[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically
[00:01:04] Introducing Mika Naylor
- Nix and NixOS
- "Behind The Lambda",
at Python Pizza Hamburg 2021 - "Leading Beyond Tools, Process & Structure" with Johannes Moser at Worker Conf 2022
- elm-spa
- Elm Land 🌈
[00:02:09] Fan sites and forums
[00:04:44] From Emily, "How did you first get excited about Elm?"
[00:11:17] Elm as a gateway drug to functional programming
[00:18:17] Not disempowering teams
[00:22:25] A community of makers
[00:27:55] Experience using Elm Land
- Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land
- Wyrhta Ceramics (source
- Elm Town 6 - The Founding Story - Evan talks about inspiration for explicit imports ~32:00
[00:42:23] Dhall
[00:44:50] Fearless refactoring
[00:52:46] Collaboration with machine learning models
- Wyrhta Ceramics - Fey Mood - Works made in collaboration with ML models, like GPT
- @[email protected] - Mika's Mastodon
[01:01:48] Stoicism & Elm
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- 2023 Resolutions
- "Make Reliable Web Apps Without JS Fatigue" by Jared M. Smith at Detroit Tech Watch 2019
[01:05:20] Picks
Mika's Picks
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovača
- Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
Jared's Picks
- All things Mouse Reeve
- "Mapping Imaginary Cities" by Mouse Reeve at Strange Loop 2018
- "Minimalist Piano Forever" by Mouse Reeve at Strange Loop 2019 (listen at gnossiennes.mousereeve.com
- BookWyrm
Please contact me elmtown at jaredmsmith.com to recommend/share climate-related work using Elm.
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