Elm Town

@elmtownpodcast
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A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.
Websitehttps://elm.town
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@elmtownpodcast

Find yourself at camp,
whether curious or sold—
Tickets on sale now!

Elm Camp organizers Katja Mordaunt and Tomáš Látal share details about the June 15th-18th, 2026 event in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and extend an open invitation to Elm-curious folks in the broader community. Tickets on sale as of publishing!

Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026:
https://youtu.be/vLY9CrEQ0PY
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-89-elm-camp-2026

Culture sways coding
Hedy clears language blockers
Felienne finds tribe

Felienne Hermans relates her journey in programming—writing _The Programmer's Brain_, uncovering biases within computing culture & herself, and building the multilingual, gradual-syntax programming language Hedy. We even dip into AI (trigger warning) and dumb phones.

Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with @Felienne:
https://youtu.be/rCl4YgVTeUk
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-88-wonder-unconscious-bias-with-felienne-hermans

From machine to mob,
a learning environment—
start-up, air, guitar.

Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.

Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard:
https://youtu.be/D3-shZomLF8
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-87-wonder-from-machine-to-mob-learning-with-sophie-collard

Decode thoughts for growth;
Connect and share; example—
△ Joël's Triangle

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

Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville:
https://youtu.be/DyjKmk9PzwA
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-86-wonder-linking-notes-for-active-growth-with-joel-quenneville

Wandering at camp 🌳
Unconference format fun 🌈
Too long 'til summer ☀️

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 Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025:
https://youtu.be/VpFlP5XcB7w
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-85-wander-elm-camp-2025

PL researcher
found sweet language to target–
Elm all the way down

Elm Town 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin:
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-84-wonder-elm-all-the-way-down-with-justin-lubin
https://youtu.be/tPpdckySUS8

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 environments (Sketch-n-Sketch) to graduate work at UC Berkeley with Sarah E. Chasins, focusing on programming language theory, researching how statically-typed functional programmers write code, and beyond, to helping domain experts.

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Props to Ryan for
the "Welcome to Elm!" series
(and giving that hug)

Kicking off the Wonder series, Ryan Haskell shares his approach to teaching Elm, his gap year adventures, and his current work at Brilliant. He gives insights into creating accessible learning materials, building games, and finding inspiration outside the Elm ecosystem.

Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell:
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-83-wonder-meeting-people-where-they-are-with-ryan-haskell
https://youtu.be/t40VX9rbXT0

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

Ryan Haskell shares his approach to teaching Elm, his gap year adventures, and his current work at Brilliant. He gives insights into creating accessible learning materials, building games, and finding inspiration outside the Elm ecosystem.

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Hardware hosts agree:
Elm inspires quality tools,
guarantees contracts.

In the final episode of the Inspired series, Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels wax philosophically with Jared about what it means to be inspired by Elm within the context of tools. We chat about feedback, guarantees, and contracts as lenses for building tools.

Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen:
https://youtu.be/ogrY9eCmKc4
https://elm.town/episodes/elm-town-82-inspired-tools-with-dillon-and-jeroen

Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen

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