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• Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger 19.05.2026 1h 52min

  Ari Schlesinger illuminates a unique path of social responsibility carved through the tech world, using feminism as a guide while bearing attacks, criticism, and contortion. That trail led Ari to ask how programming languages shape society and, eventually, to research Elm—the compiler, error messages, and community.
• Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026 24.03.2026 1h

  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 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans 16.12.2025 1h 44min

  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 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard 23.09.2025 48min

  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 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville 02.09.2025 56min

  Joël Quenneville conveys his growth process—taking notes, creating connections between ideas, and sharing those artifacts.
• Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025 22.07.2025 1h

  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 84 – Wonder: Elm all the way down with Justin Lubin 03.06.2025 55min

  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.
• Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell 15.04.2025 44min

  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 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen 17.12.2024 1h 20min

  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 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha 31.10.2024 41min

  Christian Rocha shares his experience building the TUI framework Bubble Tea based on The Elm Architecture. We talk about Impostor Syndrome, mentors, and how he incorporates his background in design at Charm.
• Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman 17.09.2024 1h 3min

  Elm pioneer Richard Feldman returns to explain why he made Roc, a direct descendant of Elm. He notes a distinct trade-off of choosing not to have persistent data structures. Later, he shares how his experience teaching Elm informed Roc's design. We even learn about the power of platforms.
• Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh 03.09.2024 49min

  Hayleigh talks about how Elm has inspired her work, from tools built in Elm such as elm-web-audio and the Ren language compiler, to contributing to the Gleam language and making the Lustre web framework.
• Elm Town 78 – Elm Camp 2024 with Katja Mordaunt and Wolfgang Schuster 09.07.2024 34min

  Katja Mordaunt & Wolfgang Schuster return to share their experiences at Elm Camp 2024.
• Elm Town 77 – Breaking your brain with Andrey Kuzmin 25.06.2024 1h 2min

  From translating imperative physics into Elm and building 3D interactive tools at work to adding Elm support to Zed and animating the Elm Town logo, Andrey Kuzmin never fails to break your brain.
• Elm Town 76 – Between the paving stones with Andrew Lenards 11.06.2024 1h 10min

  Andrew Lenards illuminates the liminal spaces of his mind, from lo-fi DIY punk rock, meditation, & coaching to Joël's Triangle & The Mental Side of Programming.
• Elm Town 75 – The Great Wall of Code with Taylor Troesh 28.05.2024 1h 2min

  Taylor Troesh recounts his trip across the stack, from the front to the back and back again. Along the way, he divulges his custom operator confession. He currently works at Replenysh using Elm for sustainability.
• Elm Town 74 – The road to town with Jared M. Smith 14.05.2024 56min

  Mario Rogic comes back to interview Jared about his road to Elm, from the Tandy to JavaScript fatigue, and the inevitable, relieving discovery of Elm. The love for Elm never stops.
• Elm Town 73 – It actually fits in my brain with Nduati Kuria 19.03.2024 1h 2min

  Nduati Kuria shares his journey from studying AI to why Matthew Griffith's elm-ui makes the web approachable. He explains how an innocuous issue on Tereza Sokol's elm-charts led to a new job.
• Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person 16.01.2024 53min

  Erik Person shares how he joined Corvus Insurance as the first engineer building the system from scratch with Elm and Elixir. We talk about onboarding, culture, and growing the team. He exclaims his excitement for the next phase of acquisition by Travelers.
• Elm Town 71 – Embracing wins with Lindsay Wardell 12.12.2023 1h 5min

  Lindsay Wardell tells how she persevered to write her own story as a programmer and shares her views on JavaScript frameworks & fatigue.