Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025

Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025

Author: Jared M. Smith July 22, 2025 Duration: 1:00:51
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.

Elm isn't just a programming language; it's a community built by curious and passionate people. Elm Town, hosted by Jared M. Smith, gives that community a voice. Each episode moves beyond technical syntax to explore the human stories behind the code. You'll hear from the individuals who are actively shaping Elm, from its core creators to developers who have chosen it for ambitious projects. Conversations delve into their motivations, the challenges they've faced, and the unique solutions they've built. This podcast captures the ongoing dialogue about where Elm is headed and why its approach to front-end development resonates so deeply. It’s about the philosophy of building reliable software and the collective effort that turns a good idea into a practical tool. Tune in for thoughtful discussions that feel like pulling up a chair with fellow engineers, where the talk is as much about craft and community as it is about compiler errors and elegant architecture. In Elm Town, you get a genuine sense of the people making and using the Elm language, and all the interesting things they do along the way.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 91

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Podcast Episodes
Elm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:29
Martin Stewart tells the behind-the-scenes story of how his game Circuit Breaker (built entirely in Elm, of course) came to be, starting with an ambitious plan to surprise his sister on her birthday.
Elm Town 47 - A Cool, Easy Way To Start Learning Haskell [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:34
Stöffel talks about Jetpack, a simplified build tool that NoRedInk built to replace webpack, and how it started his journey to learn Haskell and eventually end up on the team behind NoRedInk's next-generation, Haskell-ba…
Elm Town 45 - It Started Off As A Morning Book [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 43:48
Jeremy Fairbank, the author of “Programming Elm” (Pragmatic Programmers), visits Elm Town to talk about his new book and how it teaches Elm, and about writing tech books in general.
Elm Town 44 - More Of A Statement Than A Question [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:06
Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, the lessons they've lea…
Elm Town 43 - It Just Goes On and On [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:20
Keith Lazuka and AJ Alt from Microsoft share their experience writing the amazing Elm language support package for the IntelliJ family of integrated development environments.
Elm Town 42 – It's Just Darth Vader [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:10
Erkal Selman shares the story behind Kite, a web application for drawing and exploring directed graphs written entirely in Elm.
Elm Town 41 – Confetti and Waterfalls [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:07
Brian Hicks stops by to talk about elm-particle, a handy particle physics simulation you can use to throw confetti across your users' screens!
Elm Town 39 - I Used Elm And It Cost Me My Job [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:26
Annaia Berry and Ossi Hanhinen share previously unreleased details of an important client project, and why their choice of Elm cost Annaia her job.