Nduati Kuria shares his journey from studying AI to why Matthew Griffith's elm-ui makes the web approachable. He explains how an innocuous issue on Tereza Sokol's elm-charts led to a new job.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.11.10

Guest

• Nduati Kuria

Show notes[00:00:20] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:52] Introducing Nduati

• Qoda
• Elm Town 36 – The Risk of Elm
• Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app
• ArtCulture
• Haruki Murakami Website UI
• WebGL Sculpture Animation site about Marcus Aurelius

[00:01:42] Getting started

• "How to teach programming (and other things)?" by Felienne Hermans at Strange Loop 2019

[00:05:58] Nduati's College Journey: Swift, Internships, and Elm Discovery[00:08:27] Learning Elm: It actually fits in my brain

• elm-ui

[00:13:03] Uber for school buses[00:16:59] How Elm drives you toward best practices

• Elm Town 67 – Breaking things down with Gingko Writer

[00:23:28] Introducing Elm at work[00:25:36] Master's & self-directed learning[00:28:09] From elm-charts to Qoda

• Tereza Sokol's elm-charts

[00:34:53] The rigour of programming with Elm at Qoda[00:39:55] Ports

• "The Importance of Ports" by Murphy Randle at Strange Loop 2017
• Elm Radio
• A demo of Qoda and an explanation of how we use ports by Dwayne Crooks

[00:47:14] Haruki Murakami site animation

• Haruki Murakami Website UI

[00:50:07] Not having to pay the cost of constant change

• Tereza Sokol's elm-charts

[00:54:33] PicksNduati's picks

• "Parse, don’t validate" by Alexis King
• "Drag & Drop without Draggables & Dropzones" by Jasper Woudenberg
• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

Jared's picks

• Elm Radio on opaque types
  • Intro to Opaque Types
  • Deliberate Practice
  • ...and in most other episodes 😊
• elm-doc-preview