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Elm Town
By Jared M. SmithTechnology
Elm Town episodes
- Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls
Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens!
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: 2019-01-19
Guests- Brian Hicks (@brianhicks)
Show Notes00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:32 Guest intro
00:02:12 Project origin
- Elm-particle 1.0.1: create visual flourishes in SVG
00:06:13 Particle Physics
00:08:20 Library Overview
00:11:21 Getting started with the API
00:12:36 Normal distribution of random numbers
- Random.Float.normal in Random.Extra
00:14:37 Opaque types and 'with' functions
00:17:21 SVG vs WebGL
00:21:39 Weighted randomness and Markov chains
00:24:25 Dynamic generators via subscription function
00:28:42 Generating GitHub site with make
00:30:56 Future work
00:33:17 Oslo Elm Day
00:33:51 Thank You
35 min - Elm Town 40 – A Game Boy Emulator in Elm
Manuel Fuchs shares what he learned by taking on a very unusual Elm project: a Nintendo Game Boy emulator!
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: 2018-11-10
Guests- Manuel Fuchs (@malax)
Show Notes00:00 Show opening
01:58 Manuel's journey to Elm
07:09 Why a Game Boy emulator
- Tetris Effect
- video: Writing a Game Boy Emulator in Ruby
12:19 False assumptions and unexpected difficulties
18:37 Loading Game Boy ROM images as binary data
19:59 Breaking out of the Elm Architecture
22:30 Implementing a CPU instruction set in Elm
- Elmboy source code
25:46 Debugging and profiling
27:03 Throwing out types
31:49 Adding Pokemon compatibility
33:30 Readability, teaching and welcoming contributors
34:57 More performance optimisations
41:05 Elm + Game Boy = fun
- Try Elmboy
43 min - Elm Town 39 - I Used Elm And It Cost Me My Job
Annaia Berry and Ossi Hanhinen share previously unreleased details of an important client project, and why their choice of Elm cost Annaia her job.
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: 2018-09-30
Guests- Annaia Berry (@ann_arcana)
- Ossi Hanhinen (@ohanhi)
Show Notes00:00 Show opening
- article: Prevent Impossible States with JSON Decoders in Elm, Julio Feijo
1:58 Guest Intros
- video: I Used Elm In Production and It Cost Me My Job
02:50 Annaia Berry
- The Heresy programming language
03:24 Ossi Hanhinen
- video: Beyond Hello World & Todo Lists
04:14 Futurice
5:03 The Project: Ferrari
- Sanoma Group
- Helsingin Sanomat (English)
- Ilta-Sanomat (English)
14:00 Ossi’s “Space Invaders” prototype
- article: Base for a game in Elm 0.17
14:36 Choosing and Learning Elm
32:02 Porting Ferrari to Elm 0.19
- Elm Analyse
- Glitch
- slides: I used Elm in production and it cost me my job (source code)
- video: When and how to use Web Components with elm
44:26 Elm cost Anna her job
47 min - Elm Town 38 - Elm 0.19's Improved Collections with Robin Heggelund Hansen
Robin Heggelund Hansen (Bekk Consulting) shares the very personal story that led to him contributing improvements to List, Dict and Array in Elm 0.19.
Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and Ellie!
Recording date: 2018-09-30
Guests: Robin Heggelund Hansen (@robheghan)1:55 article: Elm 0.19 Brings Better Collections
28:15 package: Elm Benchmark by Brian Hicks
32:08 package: AnyDict
45 min - Elm Town 37 - Upgrading to Elm 0.19 with Luke Westby & Richard Feldman
Richard Feldman (No Red Ink) and Luke Westby (Ellie, No Red Ink) visit Elm Town to celebrate the just-released Elm 0.19, talk through No Red Ink's plan to upgrade its 250K lines of Elm to the new release, and revisit Luke and Richard's talks from Elm Europe on web components and data structures, respectively.
Thank you to our sponsors, Culture Amp and elm-conf 2018!
Recording date: 2018-08-25
Guests: Luke Westby (@[email protected]), Richard Feldman (@[email protected])01:37 Elm 0.19 is out!
03:59 Guest introductions
05:24 Elm Europe talks
- 05:27 video: Make Data Structures, Richard Feldman @ Elm Europe 2018
- 07:49 video: When and how to use Web Components with elm, Luke Westby @ Elm Europe 2018
15:43 Ellie and Elm 0.19
- 16:54 audio: Elm Town 21 - Ellie!
17:32 Porting No Red Ink to Elm 0.19
40:57 Picks
- 41:31 article: Elm 0.19 brings better collections, Robin Heggelund Hansen
- 42:09 Mastodon
- 43:01 book: Capital in the 21st Century
- 43:30 Elm Language Support for Sublime Text
- 44:15 Frontend Masters
- 45:13 Dhall
49 min - Elm Town 36 - The Risk of Elm with Dhruv Dang
Dhruv Dang visits Elm Town to share his experience learning from and ultimately adoption Elm at Project6. We discuss issues of team leadership, risk management, and hiring, and Dhruv explains Project6’s elegant solution to SEO with Elm.
Recording date: 2018-08-16
Guests: Dhruv Dang ([email protected])02:05 About Project6
- 02:05 Project6 website
04:47 Doing your best work with Elm
- 04:47 Elm Blog: A Farewell to FRP
09:53 Elm Architecture in JavaScript
11:48 Adopting Elm (the Tech)
17:01 Adopting Elm (the Team)
22:09 Convincing Your Company
33:07 Elm and SEO
- 38:24 Blog post: SEO for Single-Page Apps
39:32 Elm and Hiring
43 min - Elm Town 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo
Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 35 - Herzog Drei with Francesco Orsenigo
Francesco Orsenigo visits Elm Town to share a behind-the-scenes look at his game Herzog Drei. It’s written entirely in Elm with 60fps SVG graphics and gamepad support.
Recording date: 2018-07-22
Guests: Francesco Orsenigo (@xarvh)- Stax.io
- Sebastian Porto
- Haifisch
- elm-gamepad
- Herzog Drei
- Dijkstra's algorithm
- John Carmack Quakecon 2013 talk
- Herzog Drei game state guide
- Elm Discourse thread
- #gamedev on Elm Slack
26 min - Elm Town 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho
Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 34 - Generative Art with Xavier Ho
Xavier Ho visits Elm Town to talk about creating (and pen-plotting!) generative art with Elm.
Recording date: 2018-07-20
Guests: Xavier Ho- 00:00 Intro
- 01:32 website: Data61
- 01:49 Elm at Data61
- 06:14 reference: Html.Keyed
- 08:10 Generative Art
- 08:10 slides: WDYK Melbourne - From Chaos to Order
- 10:38 video: YOW! Lambda Jam 2018 - Let's Make Functional Generative Art
- 10:38 slides: YOW! Lambda Jam 2018 - Let's Make Functional Generative Art
- 11:55 gallery: Functional Generative Art
- 13:35 Shepherding Random Numbers
- 14:25 episode: Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar
- 15:16 website: Inconvergent
- 18:20 Keeiping the Seed Around
- 18:20 code: Kevin's elm-canvas generative art experiments
- 22:52 Daisy Smith’s talk on Creative Coding at LevelsConf is not online yet, but her Twitter stream is full of interesting experiments
- 23:17 video: CSSConf AU 2018 - Generative Art Speedrun by Tim Holman
- 23:35 ebook: On Generative Algorithms by Inconvergent
- 23:45 video: C◦mp◦se :: Conference 2017 - Sound Synthesis in the Computational Crucible with Andrew Sorensen
- 24:58 Driving a Pen Plotter
- 25:02 website: AxiDraw Pen Plotter
- 31:41 The Next Step: Animation
- 33:22 package: LSystem
- 34:02 Outro
- 34:37 @Xavier_Ho on Twitter
- 34:54 #plottertwitter
- 34:57 #generative
36 min - Elm Town 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle
Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 33 - Ports Again with Murphy Randle
Murphy welcomes Kevin Yank as the new host of Elm Town, then revisits his elm-conf 2017 talk with some fresh thoughts about ports.
Recording date: 2018-06-27
Guests: Murphy Randle- (0:02:21) conference: Framework Summit
- (0:13:25) podcast: Reason Town
- (0:14:18) video: “What’s not to love about Reason?”, Keira Hodgkison at ReasonConf 2018
- (0:20:23) video: “The Importance of Ports”, Murphy Randle at elm-conf 2017
- (0:20:52) audio: “Elm Town 13 - History of Ports” with Evan Czaplicki
- (0:28:55) video: “Actors in Ruby! Why let Elixir have all the fun?”, Marcos Matos at RubyConf AU 2017
- (0:42:10) article: “Why do I have to write JSON decoders in Elm? A vision for data interchange in Elm” by Evan Czaplicki
- (0:45:20) e-book: “The JSON Survival Kit”, Brian Hicks
49 min - Elm Town 32 - Randomness with Chandrika Achar
Show Notes – Elm Town Episode 32 - On Randomness with Chandrika Achar
Murphy and Chandrika talk about how she got started programming, and her perspectives on Randomness in Elm.
Recording date: 2018-04-03
Guests: splodingsocks, Chandrika- (0:06:31) Hackbright Academy
- (0:31:34) Elm's core random package
- (0:31:49) mgold's random package
- (0:33:07) Chandrika on Twitter
- (0:33:22) elm-bridge twitter account @elmlangbridge
- (0:33:36) elm-cafe
- (0:33:55) Elm Bridge
- (0:34:00) Bridge Troll
36 min
About Elm Town
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A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.