Elm Town 70 – Getting out of the basement with Jim Carlson

Elm Town

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.

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Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.10.13

Guest

• Jim Carlson

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

• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui
• Lamdera

[00:09:59] Problem-solving approaches

[00:14:43] Scripta.io

[00:19:25] Learning Haskell

[00:24:40] Elm Notebook

Booklib.io

elm-in-elm/compiler

Minibill's elm-interpreter

Elm Land 🌈

[00:31:50] Simulations

Futhark

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