Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard

Sophie Collard describes her transition from environmental engineering to software, mob programming to teach functional concepts, and building a startup app with Elm.

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

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.02.24

Guest

• Sophie Collard

Show notes[00:00:29] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:50] Introducing Sophie

• London Air UI using Elm & Leafletjs
• "Lessons learnt from writing 10k LOC in Elm" at Lambda Days 2024
• sophiecollard/jsonpath

[00:01:33] Journey to programming[00:10:35] Learning Elm[00:14:30] Questions from Monica McGuigan on learning[00:17:41] Mob programming

• Mobster by Dillon Kearns
• Zed channels for collaboration

[00:23:47] London Air UI

• Custom elements (Elm Guide chapter)

[00:27:48] Railpackers

• Railpackers
• xkcd: Standards

[00:33:51] The Jackson guitar project (Chushin Gakki)

• Chushin Gakki Jacksons Directory (GitHub)
• elm-pages
• Elm Town

[00:41:41] sophiecollard/jsonpath[00:44:51] PicksSophie's picks

• Elm in Action by Richard Feldman
• Programming Elm by Jeremy Fairbank

Jared's pick

• Future of Coding (a.k.a. Feeling of Comput(er)ing)