Show notes
Jeremy Fairbank, the author of “Programming Elm” (Pragmatic Programmers), visits Elm Town to talk about his new book and how it teaches Elm, and about writing tech books in general.Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!Recording date: 4 May 2019GuestsJeremy Fairbank (@elpapapollo)Show Notes00:00:00 IntroductionProgramming Elm (website)Programming Elm (book)Test Double00:00:51 SponsorsEllieCulture AmpJoel Clermont00:02:16 How Jeremy got started in Elm and writing booksSolving the Boolean Identity Crisis (elm-conf 2017)Toward a Better Front End Architecture: Elm (Codemash 2017)00:05:55 Elm as a hobby, writing things polished enough for yourself00:07:46 Using Elm in Production and client storiesRichard Feldman’s elm-spa-example00:10:55 Experience as a technical book writer00:13:16 Teaching patterns progressively00:16:00 Writing hard chapters as Elm 0.19 comes out00:17:53 Writing books assuming reader has no Internet00:20:25 Test driven development and type systems00:24:40 Writing is lonely / thank you Emily00:27:27 Editor relationship and learning from them00:29:18 Deciding where the end goal should be for a beginner's book00:31:34 Sequel or cookbook for the Elm communityelm-csselm-ui00:34:01 Modelling transition states00:35:13 Ports and subscriptions / web sockets chapter00:39:46 Fuzzing and testing00:42:25 Thank you, good bye and how to get the book
