Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell

Kicking off the Wonder series, Ryan Haskell shares his approach to teaching Elm, his gap year adventures, and his current work at Brilliant. He gives insights into creating accessible learning materials, building games, and finding inspiration outside the Elm ecosystem.

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

Music by Jesse Moore.
Edited by Toni Cañete.

Recording date: 2024.11.27

Guest

• Ryan Haskell

Show notes[00:00:21] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:43] Introduction

• ryan.town
• Welcome to Elm! YouTube series
• Elm Town 62 – The Map to Elm Land
• Elm Land
• ryan-haskell/date-format

[00:01:34] Gap Year[00:03:31] Building a game in Godot

• Turbo Champ

[00:11:01] Welcome to Elm YouTube Series

• Richard Feldman's "Teaching Elm to Beginners" (elm-conf 2017)

[00:17:06] Teaching style

• "Parentheses are like hugs" - from Section 1.5 Advanced Functions

[00:24:52] From Wolfgang: Finding inspiration

• Inspiration for Vendr's elm-gql from watching Ben Awad's videos

[00:29:07] Remaking Ryan's website[00:32:41] Working at Brilliant

• Brilliant
• Elm Town 57 – Brilliant ways to use Elm with Aaron Strick
• Red Blob Games

[00:39:15] PicksRyan's picks

• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Vite 6.0
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Satisfactory

Jared's picks

• Satisfactory Night Fever by Dan Bull
• Richard Feldman's "Teaching Elm to Beginners" (elm-conf 2017)
• Frontend Masters Elm courses by Richard Feldman
  • Introduction to Elm, v2
  • Advanced Elm
• Elm in Action by Richard Feldman (Manning)
• Welcome to Elm! YouTube series