DiscoverElm TownElm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell
Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell

Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell

Update: 2023-11-14
Share

Description

Simon Lydell tells his origin story from Firefox power user to full-time Elm engineer. Then we talk about his work in the community building tools & contributing to core.

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

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.10.09

Guest

Show notes

[00:00:25 ] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:56 ] Introducing Simon

[00:01:43 ] Origins in computing

[00:09:08 ] From messing around with open-source to headhunted

[00:14:37 ] Discovering Elm

[00:17:24 ] Elm syntax as a CoffeeScript programmer

[00:19:17 ] Contributing to big open-source projects early in career

[00:22:02 ] From Elm meetup to full-time developer

[00:25:08 ] Natural growth at Insurello

[00:26:28 ] Pranking the designer

[00:29:35 ] Vision document for elm-watch

[00:34:16 ] Different catalysts

[00:40:53 ] elm-watch hot reloading

[00:50:43 ] run-pty

[00:55:51 ] Core contribution

[01:05:32 ] What's up with Simon these days?

[01:07:41 ] Picks

Simon's pick

Jared's pick

Comments 
In Channel
00:00
00:00
x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell

Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell

Simon Lydell, Jared M. Smith