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Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app

MAY 2ND, 2023
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Dwayne Crooks stops in to share his appreciation of algorithms, experience learning Elm, challenges building Elm 2048, and how he uses Elm at work to build things like the decentralized finance app, Qoda.

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Dwayne Crooks stops in to share his appreciation of algorithms, experience learning Elm, challenges building Elm 2048, and how he uses Elm at work to build things like the decentralized finance app, Qoda.

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

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.03.07

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Show notes

[00:00:56] Some of Dwayne's contributions to Elm

[00:01:51] How Dwayne became interested in programming

[00:05:37] Discovering Elm

[00:10:04] Previous experience with functional programming

[00:13:49] Diving deeper into Elm

[00:16:46] elm-2048

[00:19:31] Elm Radio rocks!

[00:19:46] Describing animation challenge

[00:29:56] Experiments lead to building a career using Elm

[00:35:31] Debugging a custom data interchange parser

[00:46:48] Building Qoda, a decentralized finance app

[00:57:13] Jared "just" starts generalizing on how folks might do JavaScript interop

Jared makes generalizations here that work well for many cases but do not apply for every situation. For example, interop with UI tools such as a map would make more sense with custom elements rather than ports.

Check out Dwayne's post on Discourse explaining how ports are used in Qoda.

If you're stuck, please ask the community on Elm Slack or Discourse.

[00:59:10] elm-natural

[01:02:12] Cal Newport and the way Evan works

Disclaimer: Comments about how Evan works are based on our outside observations.

[01:04:50] Picks

Dwayne's picks

Jared's pick

© 2024 Jared M. Smith