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Jared M. Smith

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Father, partner, software developer, yogi, and hiker. I host Elm Town! elm.town

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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 02/10/2026
I want to expand Acadia interop, but how should Algebraic Data Types be represented in TypeScript, Ruby, and Python? I wrote some options here: gist.github.com/evancz/8d1f2... What do you think?
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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal infor...
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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 24/09/2026
I have a bunch of changes that could be Elm 0.19.3. It's basically all "compiler improvements" that will not be visible to users, so I looking for feedback on which aspects sound most interesting. Let me know here or in the more detailed thread! ⬇️ discourse.elm-lang.org/t/help-plann...
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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 16/09/2026
It is easy to define per-row security policies with Acadia: ✨ acadia.engineering/blog/simple-... ✨ The compiler then does "symbolic evaluation" at compile time so that in many cases, you pay zero runtime cost for your security guarantees! The example app runs an Elm server too! 🚄
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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 09/09/2026
Run an Elm program as a simple HTTP server! ✨ github.com/acadia-engin... ✨ Check out the full client/server/database example written in Elm/Acadia, and please share your results if you evolve it into something cool! Very curious to see what you can make!
Elm code for serving some Elm pages.
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organicmaps.bsky.social @organicmaps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
No, we're not renaming it. All map data in Organic Maps comes from the @openstreetmap.bsky.social project.
Lake Ontario in Organic Maps
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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Learning about myself through Elm
In which the author explains why Elm gives him joy, confesses to a memory that once won a national competition but cannot manage a shopping list, and learns a bit about how his mind works.
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johanna @jola.dev · 04/08/2026
LLMs can make you produce more code faster, but is that actually a good thing? Maybe your product is good because of the features that you choose not to build. jola.dev/posts/limite...
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Limited output is a feature
Great startups don't win because they write more code, they win because they think differently.
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Evan Czaplicki @acadia.engineering · 06/07/2026
New Elm release today! 🎉 0.19.2 🥳 Incremental builds of 850k lines of Elm in <350ms. Gearing up for a batch of smaller releases as we head towards Elm 1.0. elm-lang.org/news/faster-...
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johanna @jola.dev · 25/05/2026
Wrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...
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The social contract of writing | jola.dev
About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 24/05/2026
Hey folks! I’m excited to share my chat with Ari Schlesinger in the ultimate episode of the Wonder series. Social-tech-carved trail; Words, Elm & errors shape us; Contorting yourself Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger: youtu.be/BWUL2WdAHsA elm.town/episodes/elm...
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Elm Town 90 – Wonder: Contorting yourself with Ari Schlesinger
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Jess House @jesshouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 25/03/2026
Good chat about Elm Camp: the unconference format, a beautiful venue in Czechia, and the lovely, inviting community ❤️ Find yourself at camp, whether curious or sold— Tickets on sale now! Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026: youtu.be/vLY9CrEQ0PY elm.town/episodes/elm... 🎫 Get yer tickets here: elm.camp
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Elm Town 89 – Elm Camp 2026
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Martin Janiczek @janiczek.cz · 12/03/2026
Not only does the ESP32 + CRT sync, we're now marking dirty tiles and efficiently redrawing only what's needed!
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
George Saunders's disarmingly wonderful meditation on the courage of uncertainty, which is the courage to love the world: www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/09/g...
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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty
“In a world full of people who seem to know everything, passionately, based on little (often slanted) information, where certainty is often mistaken for power, what a relief it is to be in th…
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change." An Octavia Butler gem: www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/06/o...
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Mary Oliver on the creative aspect of habit www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/20/m...
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Marcio Frayze @segunda.tech · 02/03/2026
Note to myself: Life is too short to waste with null pointer exceptions, undefined is not a function, ... Just use Elm for the frontend.
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Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
absolutely wild that "i think we should think about the environmental costs of things" is met with "your ignorance and anti-AI bias is showing" like what the fuck are we doing here?
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Lindsay Wardell @lindsaykwardell.com · 09/02/2026
Doing some writing on things I've been noticing about AI. Plenty of people have said plenty about it, but I wanted to add my own voice to the mix. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/dont-re... #blog
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Don't Replace Yourself With AI
AI is potentially helpful, but always harmful to creativity and expression. We should not be relying on it, and yet we are.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness." George Saunders's wonderful reflection on the power of kindness, animated www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/28/g...
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Marcio Frayze @segunda.tech · 12/01/2026
Elm-review is AWESOME!! 🤩 package.elm-lang.org/packages/jfm...
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Jeroen Engels @jfmengels.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
In which elm-review gets the best-in-class automatic removal for unused parameters. jfmengels.net/removing-unu...
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Removing unused parameters, and then some
Removing unused parameters, and then some
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 16/12/2025
Culture sways coding Hedy clears language blockers Felienne finds tribe Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans: youtu.be/rCl4YgVTeUk elm.town/episodes/elm... Thanks to @felienne.bsky.social for coming to Elm Town!
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Elm Town 88 – Wonder: Unconscious bias with Felienne Hermans
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 28/10/2025
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/10/2025
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
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Brian Hicks @brianhicks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
"integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer". What a great way to say this. 😍
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 23/09/2025
From machine to mob, a learning environment— start-up, air, guitar. Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard: youtu.be/D3-shZomLF8 elm.town/episodes/elm...
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Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Official data is in today, and America set a new record-high for solar power in July, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
A graph of monthly solar generation in the US
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taylor.town @taylor.town · 19/09/2025
I built a free og:image tool: lede.me
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Easiest og:image ever
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taylor.town @taylor.town · 12/09/2025
Be the strange you want to see in the world.
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 12/09/2025
Hey Zed folks, you might have to run a check for updates. Auto-update was accidentally disabled. 😶 github.com/zed-industri...
Zed -> Check for Updates menu item screenshot with a subtle .elm file in the background. 🌳
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 04/09/2025
Decode thoughts for growth; Connect and share; example— △ Joël's Triangle Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville: youtu.be/DyjKmk9PzwA elm.town/episodes/elm...
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Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 16/08/2025
Finally finished and published! jaredmsmith.com/dev/elm-camp...
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Elm Camp 2025
Elm Camp unconference experience.
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taylor.town @taylor.town · 13/08/2025
taylor.town/hire-me
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PyCon UK @pyconuk.org · 30/07/2025
📣Keynote speaker announcement: Felienne Hermans 🎉 Felienne is a researcher, teacher & communicator. Her work is driven by questioning what it means to program & be a programmer. She created Hedy, a gradual, multilingual teaching language. We’re so excited to have you join us, @felienne.bsky.social 🐍
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taylor.town @taylor.town · 18/07/2025
this is a metaphor
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/07/2025
anti-doomer sentence of the day: "Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last" www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Martin Janiczek @janiczek.cz · 11/06/2025
The date of Elm Camp 2025 is near, and there are still some tickets left! The last year was awesome, don't miss it! discourse.elm-lang.org/t/elm-camp-2... #elmlang
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Elm Camp 2025: last call to buy tickets
Hello good Elm folks of Discourse, This post is your reminder that Elm Camp 2025, the Elm community’s annual unconference, is happening in just two weeks in Watervliet, MI, USA! Attendance this year ...
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parkie-doo @parkie-doo.sh · 28/04/2025
Very chuffed and excited to share that my paper with Justin Lubin and @schasins.bsky.social, "Fast Direct Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence", is set to appear at PLDI '25 in Seoul! More details and a pre-print for folks coming soon 👀
A screenshot of the first page of our upcoming publication, "Fast Direct Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence", to appear at PLDI 2025.
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Jeroen Engels @jfmengels.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Here's a great technique for keeping codebases maintainable: compiler reminders. jfmengels.net/compiler-rem...
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Compiler reminders
Compiler reminders
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Martin Janiczek @janiczek.cz · 28/04/2025
Alongside the rest of my team I've been hit by layoffs. I'd be grateful for help finding a new place to apply my skills at! 7y of professional Elm experience; would also be comfortable in Haskell, TypeScript, Erlang/Elixir/Gleam, OCaml, Kotlin, Scala email: martin@janiczek.cz Many thanks for RTs!
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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Seems I'm on the hunt for a new job as of today. Not what I was expecting, but it is what it is. If anyone is looking, feel free to hit me up!
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wolfadex.bsky.social @wolfadex.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Anyone around happen to know if Jane Street has remote roles? Was hoping to apply, but also not looking to move anytime soon.
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Martin Janiczek @janiczek.cz · 01/05/2025
A blogpost I wrote on elm-test's Test.Distribution - testing whether your fuzzers generate interesting cases often enough! martin.janiczek.cz/2025/05/01/e...
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Elm test distributions
…in which I’ll tell you how you can make sure your property based tests are testing the interesting cases.
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 16/04/2025
I’m excited to share the Wonder series on Elm Town! We’re talking about learning, teaching, and generally having a sense of curiosity and open-mindedness. Up first is an episode with Ryan Haskell (@rhg.dev).
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Jared M. Smith @jaredmsmith.com · 16/04/2025
Props to Ryan for the "Welcome to Elm!" series (and giving that hug) Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell (@rhg.dev): youtu.be/t40VX9rbXT0 elm.town/episodes/elm...
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Elm Town 83 – Wonder: Meeting people where they are with Ryan Haskell
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