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.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [email protected].

Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2024.08.29

Guests

• Jeroen Engels
• Dillon Kearns

Show notes

[00:00:50] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:01:14] Introduction

• Elm Radio
• Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages
• Elm Town 65 – Let's roll with it
• Elm Town 79 – Inspired: Gleam with Hayleigh
• Elm Town 80 – Inspired: Roc with Richard Feldman
• Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha

[00:02:20] What does it mean to be inspired by Elm?

[00:05:53] Elm philosophy

• Evan's "Elm philosophy" thread
• elm-review
• elm-pages

[00:25:44] Simplicity is not just for beginners

[00:32:38] What are tools?

[00:33:56] Feedback & guarantees

[00:39:26] Tool as contract (not slicing hot dogs nor fingers)

[00:45:18] Lobbying for tool as contract

• Hayleigh's elm-web-audio

[00:48:09] Tool as an expression of a point of view

• Dillon's elm-graphql

[00:50:37] Roc

• Roc

[00:53:04] Contracts & purity

• Lamdera
• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

[01:08:09] What's next for Elm?

[01:13:38] Picks

Jeroen's picks

• Elm Camp
• Save the Earth 🌍
• Elm Radio

Dillon's picks

• Be kind ❤
• elm-pages scripts

Jared's picks

• elm-pages scripts spinners Pages.Script.Spinner
• Alex Korban's Elm Catalog