Dillon Kearns

It was delightful to be on this podcast, appropriately enough for a podcast about a delightful language. Thank you @jaredmsmith.bsky.social and @jfmengels.bsky.social for an inspired conversation!

I can't stop the puns, please help. Genuinely loved this conversation! ❤️🙏

YouTube video by Elm Town Podcast Elm Town 82 – Inspired: Tools with Dillon and Jeroen

How do you define a tool? Ask your guests "How do you define a tool?" 😅

It was a pleasure to record this final episode in the Inspired series with @jfmengels.bsky.social and @dillonkearns.bsky.social.

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There's something ecstatic about changing a lot of code in tiny steps without ever breaking anything. It's sometimes hard to figure out the right path, and it may seem slow, but it feels so good.

A public announcement for the #Elm community regarding #adventofcode2024

I've used tons of frameworks and languages over the years, and nothing ever brought me the joy and realiability of #Elm .

I'm gonna speak about how we use it in production at uncover.co - keeping our 200k+ LoC easy to maintain and grow.

What, you gave me *this* free thing? Then why haven’t you given me these *other* free things? OSS logic can be funny. Amazing stuff, but strange at times.

YouTube video by Developer Voices Elm & The Future of Open Source (with Evan Czaplicki)

What’s happening with Elm-lang? That had to be the first question I asked #Elm's creator, Evan Czaplicki, and you can't answer without asking, what’s happening with Open Source funding? Can OSS successfully exist when companies want everything they can get for free, forever? 😰

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I'm just organising my lists, and by heck I've got some great guests coming up on the podcast. 🤩🥳

Between now and the New Year we're going to hear from two legends, Evan Czaplicki and Sam Aaron; we're diving into gaming, television, architecture, music and more. 2024 is going to finish strong. 💪😎

iTalki is such a good use of money if you’re into that kind of thing (it’s basically talking with tutors/native speakers over Skype)

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State of JavaScript 2024 Take the State of JavaScript survey

Last one of the year! The State of JavaScript 2024 survey is now open:

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If you're going down the self-learning and exploration path, then I would say following your curiosity is probably a good guide. Either just reading through music, or if you want to play by ear trying to play what you hear. Music is a great joy in life, hope you have fun!

But if you want to work on some specific skills like sight reading, if you put in the elbow grease and hold yourself to a high standard of good habits (steady tempo, play slow if needed, start with easy stuff), then you can improve a lot at those skills on your own.

If you want to really get into playing with proper technique or doing more advanced stuff, I think there's no real substitute for a good in-person teacher. There's no way to really communicate all the technique stuff just through pre-recorded videos I think.

If you want to improve sight reading and you have some of the basics down, then just going through and reading 15 minutes every day at a steady tempo can do wonders. Holding the tempo is key, though, even if slow. I did that with Bach Chorales, painful at first but you learn if you stick with it.

Neat! What kind of music do you want to play? Classical, jazz, pop? Improvised, reading sheet music, playing chords from rock charts? Depends a lot on the goal I’d say

Announcing Elm Camp 2025! Hey all! We are very excited to announce Elm Camp 2025 will be taking place in the USA! After two years of being located in Europe, we wanted something for the US Elm community this time around. We ...

Elm Camp 2025 is in works - save the date!

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