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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.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Edited by Toni Cañete.Recording date: 2025.04.08GuestFelienne HermansShow notes[00:00:26] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:48] Introducing Felienne HermansHedy - Textual programming made easyThe Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans"How to teach programming (and other things)?" at Strange Loop 2019"A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design", co-authored with Ari SchlesingerElm Town 59 – Elm Camp with Katja MordauntCode Reading ClubThe Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman[00:04:09] The costs of misconceptionsScience Mike[00:09:51] Journey to computer science[00:14:33] Programming culture: challenges and creativityElm Town 48 – Making Little Games Like Presents with Martin StewartElm Town 64 – The network effect with Martin StewartAdvent of Code[00:21:36] Bias and building a multi-lingual programming languageMark Guzdial's blog: Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take[00:28:35] Hedy's gradual syntaxAddressing Computing’s Discrimination Problem: A Framework for Anti-Discriminatory Computing by Ari SchlesingerThe Will to Change by bell hooks[00:38:12] Programming language community, learning, and valuing hard things[00:47:19] How language design choices affect cognitive load"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2019Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software with Tessa KellyEpisode 68: Elm and ADD with Dillon Kearns and Jeroen Engels[00:56:22] History of women in computing"Female Inventors and Narratives of Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Computing" by Myra ChengNathan Ensmenger[01:03:40] Kotodama (言霊): What's in a name?Feeling of Computing 75 • A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans[01:08:49] Switching to a dumb phone[01:16:48] AI"An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura PrestonIn Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe[01:30:10] PicksFelienne's picks"An Age of Hyperabundance" by Laura PrestonDeath Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond by Tamara KneeseCrisis of Narration by Byung-Chul HanJared's pickThe End of This Day's Business by Katharine Burdekin

Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2025.02.24GuestSophie CollardShow notes[00:00:29] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:50] Introducing SophieLondon Air UI using Elm & Leafletjs"Lessons learnt from writing 10k LOC in Elm" at Lambda Days 2024sophiecollard/jsonpath[00:01:33] Journey to programming[00:10:35] Learning Elm[00:14:30] Questions from Monica McGuigan on learning[00:17:41] Mob programmingMobster by Dillon KearnsZed channels for collaboration[00:23:47] London Air UICustom elements (Elm Guide chapter)[00:27:48] RailpackersRailpackersxkcd: Standards[00:33:51] The Jackson guitar project (Chushin Gakki)Chushin Gakki Jacksons Directory (GitHub)elm-pagesElm Town[00:41:41] sophiecollard/jsonpath[00:44:51] PicksSophie's picksElm in Action by Richard FeldmanProgramming Elm by Jeremy FairbankJared's pickFuture of Coding (a.k.a. Feeling of Comput(er)ing)

Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2025.01.30GuestJoël QuennevilleShow notes[00:00:19] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:39] Introducing JoëlSome blog posts by Joël"Structuring Conditionals in a Wizard""The Mechanics of Maybe""Problem Solving with Maybe"Sample Joël podcast appearancesElm Radio 32 - "Elm's Universal Pattern"Elm Radio 52 - "Category Theory in Elm with Joël Quenneville"SW Unscripted - "Conditional Cardinality with Joël Quenneville"Some of Joël's conference talks"Rolling Random Romans" at elm-conf 2016"A Number by Any Other Name" at Elm in the Spring 2019"Inverting a binary tree with 1 line of Elm" from an Elm Online meetup in 2021[00:01:51] Getting started crafting software[00:09:37] Discovering Elm[00:11:50] JSON Decoders, and then...Reasoning by Analogy by Joël QuennevilleGetting Unstuck with Elm JSON Decoders by Joël QuennevilleElm’s Universal Pattern by Joël Quenneville[00:23:57] Inspiration, artifacts, and note-takingLearning by helping out in the Elm Slack by Joël QuennevilleMy Note Taking System Gives Me Constant Ideas by Joël QuennevilleObsidianThe Notecard System: The Key For Remembering, Organizing And Using Everything You Read by Ryan HolidayGingko Writer [00:39:11] Active versus passive growthTurning experience into growth by Joël Quenneville[00:49:47] Collect mental models and heuristicsTriangle of Separation by Joël QuennevilleElm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew LenardsAndrew's Arboriculture zine No. 001 – Joël's Triangle[00:54:18] PicksJoël's pickHow To Take Smart Notes by Sönke AhrensJared's pickJesse Welles

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.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2025.07.07GuestsJohn PavlickWolfgang SchusterTristan PendergrassShow notes[00:00:14] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:35] Elm Camp sponsorsNoRedInkConcentric[00:01:09] IntroductionsTony Bradley @abradley2 (GitHub)Tony Bradley's elm-i18next-gen[00:06:27] Setting the sceneelm.campRonora Lodge & Retreat Center[00:13:15] Unconference formatFeedback.one[00:26:48] SessionsElm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian RochaWolfgang's blog series on Elm virtual DOMsBring Your Own DOM – Part 1 – PortalsBring Your Own DOM – Part 2 – TUIsWolfgang's elm-ink (GitHub) repoelm-tooling/elm-language-server initially by Kolja (@razze)Elm - CommunityElmcraft - CommunityElm LandLamderaSimon Lydell's elm-safe-virtual-domReact DOM issue - Dan Abramov's link to Chromium issue & hack[00:52:27] PicksJohn's picksJohn's jmpavlick/qZokkaMichiganWolfgang's picksSummer Games Done QuickThe Last Phi HunterRichard Feldman's course on Frontend Masters Write a Compiler That Understands TypesTristan's pickVantageJared's picksParks (1st edition)Elmcraft.org

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.Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected] by Jesse Moore.Recording date: 2024.12.09GuestJustin LubinShow notes[00:00:44] Introducing JustinSketch-n-Sketch"How statically-typed functional programmers write code" by Justin Lubin and Sarah E. Chasins[00:07:07] Elm all the way down[00:08:36] What is Sketch-n-Sketch?Hazel[00:11:03] From Parker Ziegler: Getting started in a large Elm codebase[00:13:01] The  Sketch-n-Sketch cinematic universeManiposynth[00:22:21] Research on how  statically-typed functional programmers write codeElm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell[00:35:11]  From Parker Ziegler: Ergonomics vs. hindrances[00:40:25] Fork of the Elm compilerravichugh/sketch-n-sketch (GitHub)[00:45:04] Cobbler"Equivalence by Canonicalization for Synthesis-Backed Refactoring" by Justin Lubin, Jeremy Ferguson, Kevin Ye, Jacob Yim, and Sarah E. ChasinsCobbler (GitHub)[00:47:36] Justin's current work[00:51:45] PicksJustin's pickDesign at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems by Joan Greenbaum and Morten KyngJared's pickEntangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake