Description

Join Mika Naylor on her journey with functional programming through the doors of Elm to Elm Land and beyond.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.06.08

Guest

• Mika Naylor

Show notes

[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:01:04] Introducing Mika Naylor

• Nix and NixOS
• "Behind The Lambda",
  at Python Pizza Hamburg 2021
• "Leading Beyond Tools, Process & Structure" with Johannes Moser at Worker Conf 2022
• elm-spa
• Elm Land 🌈

[00:02:09] Fan sites and forums

[00:04:44] From Emily, "How did you first get excited about Elm?"

[00:11:17] Elm as a gateway drug to functional programming

[00:18:17] Not disempowering teams

[00:22:25] A community of makers

• r/elm
• Elm Discourse

[00:27:55] Experience using Elm Land

• Elm Town 62 – The map to Elm Land
• Wyrhta Ceramics (source
• Elm Town 6 - The Founding Story - Evan talks about inspiration for explicit imports ~32:00

[00:42:23] Dhall

• Dhall

[00:44:50] Fearless refactoring

• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

[00:52:46] Collaboration with machine learning models

• Wyrhta Ceramics - Fey Mood - Works made in collaboration with ML models, like GPT
• @mika@hordburh.autophagy.io - Mika's Mastodon

[01:01:48] Stoicism & Elm

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• 2023 Resolutions
• "Make Reliable Web Apps Without JS Fatigue" by Jared M. Smith at Detroit Tech Watch 2019

[01:05:20] Picks

Mika's Picks

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! by Miran Lipovača
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

Jared's Picks

• All things Mouse Reeve
• "Mapping Imaginary Cities" by Mouse Reeve at Strange Loop 2018
• "Minimalist Piano Forever" by Mouse Reeve at Strange Loop 2019 (listen at gnossiennes.mousereeve.com
• BookWyrm

Please contact me elmtown at jaredmsmith.com to recommend/share climate-related work using Elm.