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...
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Elm Town
A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.
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20 of 92 episodesElm 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...