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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.06.06

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!

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2026.01.28

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2025.04.08

• Felienne Hermans

• Hedy - Textual programming made easy
• The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
• "How to teach programming (and other things)?" at Strange Loop 2019
• "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design", co-authored with Ari Schlesinger
• Elm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja Mordaunt
• Code Reading Club
• The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

• Science Mike

• Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents with Martin Stewart
• Elm Town 64 – The network effect with Martin Stewart
• Advent of Code

• Mark Guzdial's blog: Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take

• Addressing Computing’s Discrimination Problem: A Framework for Anti-Discriminatory Computing by Ari Schlesinger
• The Will to Change by bell hooks

• "The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2019
• Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software with Tessa Kelly
• Episode 68: Elm and ADD with Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels

• "Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing" by Myra Cheng
• Nathan Ensmenger

• Feeling of Computing 75 • A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans

• "An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura Preston
• In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe

• "An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura Preston
• Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara Kneese
• Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han

• The End of This Day's Business by Katharine Burdekin

Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.02.24

• Sophie Collard

• London Air UI using Elm & Leafletjs
• "Lessons learnt from writing 10k LOC in Elm" at Lambda Days 2024
• sophiecollard/jsonpath

• Mobster by Dillon Kearns
• Zed channels for collaboration

• Custom elements (Elm Guide chapter)

• Railpackers
• xkcd: Standards

• Chushin Gakki Jacksons Directory (GitHub)
• elm-pages
• Elm Town

• Elm in Action by Richard Feldman
• Programming Elm by Jeremy Fairbank

• Future of Coding (a.k.a. Feeling of Comput(er)ing)

Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.01.30

• Joël Quenneville

• Some blog posts by Joël
  • "Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard"
  • "The Mechanics of Maybe"
  • "Problem Solving with Maybe"
• Sample Joël podcast appearances
  • Elm Radio 32 - "Elm's Universal Pattern"
  • Elm Radio 52 - "Category Theory in Elm with Joël Quenneville"
  • SW Unscripted - "Conditional Cardinality with Joël Quenneville"
• Some of Joël's conference talks
  • "Rolling Random Romans" at elm-conf 2016
  • "A Number by Any Other Name" at Elm in the Spring 2019
  • "Inverting a binary tree with 1 line of Elm" from an Elm Online meetup in 2021

• Reasoning by Analogy by Joël Quenneville
• Getting Unstuck with Elm JSON Decoders by Joël Quenneville
• Elm’s Universal Pattern by Joël Quenneville

• Learning by helping out in the Elm Slack by Joël Quenneville
• My Note Taking System Gives Me Constant Ideas by Joël Quenneville
• Obsidian
• The Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read by Ryan Holiday
• Gingko Writer 

• Turning experience into growth by Joël Quenneville

• Triangle of Separation by Joël Quenneville
• Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards
• Andrew's Arboriculture zine No. 001 – Joël's Triangle

• How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

• Jesse Welles

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.07.07

• John Pavlick
• Wolfgang Schuster
• Tristan Pendergrass

• NoRedInk
• Concentric

• Tony Bradley @abradley2 (GitHub)
• Tony Bradley's elm-i18next-gen

• elm.camp
• Ronora Lodge & Retreat Center

• Feedback.one

• Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
• Wolfgang's blog series on Elm virtual DOMs
  • Bring Your Own DOM – Part 1 – Portals
  • Bring Your Own DOM – Part 2 – TUIs
• Wolfgang's elm-ink (GitHub) repo
• elm-tooling/elm-language-server initially by Kolja (@razze)
• Elm - Community
• Elmcraft - Community
• Elm Land
• Lamdera
• Simon Lydell's elm-safe-virtual-dom
• React DOM issue - Dan Abramov's link to Chromium issue & hack

• <| ("left pizza")
• << ("left compose")
• John's jmpavlick/q
• Zokka
• Michigan

• Summer Games Done Quick
• The Last Phi Hunter
• Richard Feldman's course on Frontend Masters Write a Compiler That Understands Types

• Vantage

• Parks (1st edition)
• Elmcraft.org

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2024.12.09

• Justin Lubin

• Sketch-n-Sketch
• "How statically-typed functional programmers write code" by Justin Lubin and Sarah E. Chasins

• Hazel

• Maniposynth

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

• ravichugh/sketch-n-sketch (GitHub)

• "Equivalence by Canonicalization for Synthesis-Backed Refactoring" by Justin Lubin, Jeremy Ferguson, Kevin Ye, Jacob Yim, and Sarah E. Chasins
• Cobbler (GitHub)

• Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems by Joan Greenbaum and Morten Kyng

• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2024.11.27

• Ryan Haskell

• ryan.town
• Welcome to Elm! YouTube series
• Elm Town 62 – The Map to Elm Land
• Elm Land
• ryan-haskell/date-format

• Turbo Champ

• Richard Feldman's "Teaching Elm to Beginners" (elm-conf 2017)

• "Parentheses are like hugs" - from Section 1.5 Advanced Functions

• Inspiration for Vendr's elm-gql from watching Ben Awad's videos

• Brilliant
• Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm with Aaron Strick
• Red Blob Games

• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Vite 6.0
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Satisfactory

• Satisfactory Night Fever by Dan Bull
• Richard Feldman's "Teaching Elm to Beginners" (elm-conf 2017)
• Frontend Masters Elm courses by Richard Feldman
  • Introduction to Elm, v2
  • Advanced Elm
• Elm in Action by Richard Feldman (Manning)
• Welcome to Elm! YouTube series

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2024.08.29

• Jeroen Engels
• Dillon Kearns

• Elm Radio
• Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages
• Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it
• Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh
• Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
• Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha

• Evan's "Elm philosophy" thread
• elm-review
• elm-pages

• Hayleigh's elm-web-audio

• Dillon's elm-graphql

• Roc

• Lamdera
• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

• Elm Camp
• Save the Earth 🌍
• Elm Radio

• Be kind ❤
• elm-pages scripts

• elm-pages scripts spinners Pages.Script.Spinner
• Alex Korban's Elm Catalog

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2024.10.10

• Christian Rocha

• Charm
• Bubble Tea
• Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh
• Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
• learning elm, so I don't need to use javascript by bashbunni

• Glow
• Bubbles
• Lip Gloss
• Gum
• Soft Serve
• Glamour

• VHS
• asciinema

• Mitchell Hashimoto's Ghostty
• Roc

• Go Mecha Ball
• "The Great"
• Tampopo
• Brompton

• Teardown
• Dan Bull
• Glass Animals
• Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne