Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell
Update: 2023-11-14
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
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Show notes
[00:00:25 ] Sponsored by Logistically
[00:00:56 ] Introducing Simon
- Elm node-test-runner
- lydell/elm-app-url
- Elm Radio 77 – elm-app-url with Simon Lydell
- elm-tooling
- Elm Radio 22 – elm-tooling with Simon Lydell
- elm-watch
- Elm Radio 65 – elm-watch with Simon Lydell
[00:01:43 ] Origins in computing
- "My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell" on the Software Unscripted podcast
- Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research with Chris Martin
[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
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