Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm

Elm Town

Aaron Strick shares what it was like learning Elm at NoRedInk, and explains some of the "zany" (delightful) ways Elm is used at Brilliant.

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Intro music by Jesse Moore.
Outro music (The Elm Song) by Matt Farley. (Commissioned by Michael Glass for elm-conf 2019.)

Recording date: 2023.03.10

Guest

• Aaron Strick (https://aaronstrick.com/)

Show notes

[00:00:56] Introducing Aaron Strick

[00:01:47] An eclectic background

[00:05:12] The impetus for Aaron's journey into computers

[00:07:10] Learning Elm at NoRedInk

• "A Farewell to FRP" by Evan Czaplicki on the move away from signals to The Elm Architecture.

[00:10:32] What Aaron likes about Elm

• iselmdead.info

[00:13:27] Challenges when learning Elm as first functional language

[00:19:33] Mentors at NoRedInk

• Elm Town 15 - Spotlight on Hardy Jones
• Elm in Action by Richard Feldman
• "Haskell, in Elm terms: Type Classes" by Tereza Sokol

[00:23:26] Richard gives us a memorable moment from NoRedInk

[00:27:27] Benefits of the holistic approach

• Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app with Dwayne Crooks
• Discourse post with Cal Newport quote & how Evan works

[00:30:18] Brilliant ways to use Elm

• "Diagrammar: Simply Make Interactive Diagrams" by Pontus Granström (Strange Loop 2022)
• Year End Review 2022 post on Aaron's website about working on a mathematical input box
• Brilliant.org math courses

[00:52:56] Using elm-pages to build aaronstrick.com

• aaronstrick.com
• elm-pages.com
• Aaron's music (including the "Turtlehead Poo" cover)

[00:59:02] Picks

Aaron's picks

• CSS for Javascript Developers by Josh W. Comeau
• Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jared's picks

• Courtney Barnett
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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