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Elm Town

Jared M. Smith

A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

Episodes

20 of 92 episodes

Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger

Ari Schlesinger illuminates a unique path of social responsibility carved through the tech world, using feminism as a guide while bearing at...

01:52:59May 19, 2026

Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026

Elm Camp organizers Katja Mordaunt and Tomáš Látal share details about the June 15th-18th, 2026 event in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and extend...

01:00:56Mar 24, 2026

Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing The Programmer's Brain , uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, a...

01:44:56Dec 16, 2025

Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard

Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and buildi...

00:48:59Sep 23, 2025

Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville

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

00:56:16Sep 2, 2025

Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025

In a short break from the Wonder series, John Pavlick, Wolfgang Schuster, and Tristan Pendergrass join Jared to report on the Elm Camp 2025...

01:00:51Jul 22, 2025

Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin

Justin Lubin sketches his journey from undergrad research at UChicago with Ravi Chugh on output-directed and bidirectional programming envir...

00:55:46Jun 3, 2025

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

Kicking off the Wonder series, Ryan Haskell shares his approach to teaching Elm, his gap year adventures, and his current work at Brilliant....

00:44:03Apr 15, 2025

Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen

In the final episode of the Inspired series, Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels wax philosophically with Jared about what it means to be inspir...

01:20:37Dec 17, 2024

Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha

Christian Rocha shares his experience building the TUI framework Bubble Tea based on The Elm Architecture. We talk about Impostor Syndrome,...

00:41:57Oct 31, 2024

Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman

Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to...

01:03:13Sep 17, 2024

Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh

Hayleigh talks about how Elm has inspired her work, from tools built in Elm such as elm-web-audio and the Ren language compiler, to contribu...

00:49:19Sep 3, 2024

Elm Town 78 – Elm Camp 2024 with Katja Mordaunt and Wolfgang Schuster

Katja Mordaunt & Wolfgang Schuster return to share their experiences at Elm Camp 2024. Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@l...

00:34:13Jul 9, 2024

Elm Town 77 – Breaking your brain with Andrey Kuzmin

From translating imperative physics into Elm and building 3D interactive tools at work to adding Elm support to Zed and animating the Elm To...

01:02:40Jun 25, 2024

Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards

Andrew Lenards illuminates the liminal spaces of his mind, from lo-fi, DIY, punk rock, meditation, & coaching to Joël's Triangle & The Menta...

01:10:15Jun 11, 2024

Elm Town 75 – The Great Wall of Code with Taylor Troesh

Taylor Troesh recounts his trip across the stack, from the front to the back and back again. Along the way, he divulges his custom operator...

01:02:41May 28, 2024

Elm Town 74 – The road to town with Jared M. Smith

Mario Rogic comes back to interview Jared about his road to Elm, from the Tandy to JavaScript fatigue, and the inevitable, relieving discove...

00:56:45May 14, 2024

Elm Town 73 – It actually fits in my brain with Nduati Kuria

Nduati Kuria shares his journey from studying AI to why Matthew Griffith's elm-ui makes the web approachable. He explains how an innocuous i...

01:02:52Mar 19, 2024

Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person

Erik Person shares how he joined Corvus Insurance as the first engineer building the system from scratch with Elm and Elixir. We talk about...

00:53:50Jan 16, 2024

Elm Town 71 – Embracing wins with Lindsay Wardell

Lindsay Wardell tells how she persevered to write her own story as a programmer and shares her views on JavaScript frameworks & fatigue. Tha...

01:05:56Dec 12, 2023