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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.05.02

Guest

• Wolfgang Schuster (https://wolfgangschuster.wordpress.com/)

Show notes[00:00:22] Sponsored by Logistically[00:01:02] Introducing Wolfgang Schuster

• wolfadex/elm-ecs
• wolfadex/elm-text-adventure
• wolfadex/tiler
• wolfadex/elm-open-api

[00:02:55] Seeing Elm everywhere

• Elm × Haskell Intersection from heyakyra

[00:04:45] Going all-in on programming[00:10:23] "Just make it work"[00:13:18] Discovering Elm[00:25:27] Helping to build stuff with Elm while at Square

• Farmers' market civic hacking by Dillon Kearns
• Jeroen Engels' elm-review

[00:28:39] Strategies for introducing Elm[00:35:09] Productivity & "the culture of moving a little bit slower"

• Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app

[00:41:09] Introducing elm-review rules

• "Code is the Easy Part" by Evan Czaplicki
• Ducks by Wolfgang Schuster

[00:54:20] Elm at Vendr[00:58:09] Using Elm at scale

• Bring Your Own DOM – Part 1 – Portals by Wolfgang Schuster, as promised

[01:03:43] Strategies for adding web components

• Wolfgang's Fluent-Web internationalization web components

[01:07:29] Roc

• Roc

[01:10:49] PicksWolfgang's picks

• Stacy London on Front End Happy Hour
• A Life Well Wasted by Robert Ashley

Jared's picks

• Matthew Griffith's elm-codegen
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami