Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson
Update: 2023-11-28
Description
Jim Carlson shares his discoveries in software development through the people he's met in the community and the projects he's building. We also discuss how a history in mathematics shapes his work.
Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.
Music by Jesse Moore.
Recording date: 2023.10.13
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Show notes
[00:00:16 ] Sponsored By Logistically
[00:00:45 ] Introducing Jim
- "Making a LaTeX-to-Html parser in Elm" at Elm Europe 2018
- jxxcarlson/meenylatex
- "Tarring files with Elm" at Oslo Elm Day 2019
- jxxcarlson/elm-tar
- jxxcarlson/elm-markdown
- jxxcarlson/elm-l0-parser
- Random Exchange Model
- Schelling’s segregation model
- "Making Elm Talk to Your Personal Supercomputer" at elm-conf 2019
- Fake Drum Language App
- https://scripta.io
- Elm Notebook
- Elm Town 29 - Knode.io with Jim Carlson in 2018 w/Murphy Randle
[00:02:10 ] History in Mathematics
[00:04:27 ] Serious software development
[00:06:37 ] Getting out of the basement
[00:09:59 ] Problem-solving approaches
[00:14:43 ] Scripta.io
[00:19:25 ] Learning Haskell
[00:24:40 ] Elm Notebook
Minibill's elm-interpreter
[00:31:50 ] Simulations
Designing Compilers for Speed with Troels Henriksen on Software Unscripted with Richard Feldman
[00:41:05 ] Fake drum language app
[00:45:40 ] Inspiration for work
[00:49:30 ] Picks
Jim's picks
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
- The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
Jared's picks
- "The Economics of Programming Languages" by Evan Czaplicki at Strange Loop 2023
- In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart
- Things to make and do in the 4th dimension by Matt Parker
- Vsauce on YouTube by Michael Stevens
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