Elm Town 85 – Wander: Elm Camp 2025

In a short break from the Wonder series, John Pavlick, Wolfgang Schuster, and Tristan Pendergrass join Jared to report on the Elm Camp 2025 unconference experience in Michigan, USA.

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

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2025.07.07

Guests

• John Pavlick
• Wolfgang Schuster
• Tristan Pendergrass

Show notes[00:00:14] Sponsored by Logistically[00:00:35] Elm Camp sponsors

• NoRedInk
• Concentric

[00:01:09] Introductions

• Tony Bradley @abradley2 (GitHub)
• Tony Bradley's elm-i18next-gen

[00:06:27] Setting the scene

• elm.camp
• Ronora Lodge & Retreat Center

[00:13:15] Unconference format

• Feedback.one

[00:26:48] Sessions

• Elm Town 81 – Inspired: Bubble Tea with Christian Rocha
• Wolfgang's blog series on Elm virtual DOMs
  • Bring Your Own DOM – Part 1 – Portals
  • Bring Your Own DOM – Part 2 – TUIs
• Wolfgang's elm-ink (GitHub) repo
• elm-tooling/elm-language-server initially by Kolja (@razze)
• Elm - Community
• Elmcraft - Community
• Elm Land
• Lamdera
• Simon Lydell's elm-safe-virtual-dom
• React DOM issue - Dan Abramov's link to Chromium issue & hack

[00:52:27] PicksJohn's picks

• <| ("left pizza")
• << ("left compose")
• John's jmpavlick/q
• Zokka
• Michigan

Wolfgang's picks

• Summer Games Done Quick
• The Last Phi Hunter
• Richard Feldman's course on Frontend Masters Write a Compiler That Understands Types

Tristan's pick

• Vantage

Jared's picks

• Parks (1st edition)
• Elmcraft.org