Elm Town 69 – A vision for tooling with Simon Lydell

Elm Town

Simon Lydell tells his origin story from Firefox power user to full-time Elm engineer. Then we talk about his work in the community building tools & contributing to core.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: [e-mail].

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.10.09

Guest

• Simon Lydell

Show notes

[00:00:25] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:56] Introducing Simon

• Elm node-test-runner
• lydell/elm-app-url
• Elm Radio 77 – elm-app-url with Simon Lydell
• elm-tooling
• Elm Radio 22 – elm-tooling with Simon Lydell
• elm-watch
• Elm Radio 65 – elm-watch with Simon Lydell

[00:01:43] Origins in computing

• "My Contribution to the Left-Pad Incident with Simon Lydell" on the Software Unscripted podcast
• Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research with Chris Martin

[00:09:08] From messing around with open-source to headhunted

[00:14:37] Discovering Elm

[00:17:24] Elm syntax as a CoffeeScript programmer

[00:19:17] Contributing to big open-source projects early in career

[00:22:02] From Elm meetup to full-time developer

[00:25:08] Natural growth at Insurello

[00:26:28] Pranking the designer

[00:29:35] Vision document for elm-watch

• Parcel

[00:34:16] Different catalysts

• elm-live
• elm-go

[00:40:53] elm-watch hot reloading

• elm-watch issue about generating elm-watch.json instead of supporting glob directly

[00:50:43] run-pty

• run-pty

[00:55:51] Core contribution

• Free the npm package from third party dependencies

[01:05:32] What's up with Simon these days?

[01:07:41] Picks

Simon's pick

• Strange Planet

Jared's pick

• run-pty