Jared M. Smith

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

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...

"integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer". What a great way to say this. 😍

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.

YouTube video by Elm Town Podcast Elm Town 87 – Wonder: From machine to mob learning with Sophie Collard

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...

A graph of monthly solar generation in the US

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!

lede.me Easiest og:image ever

I built a free og:image tool: lede.me

Be the strange you want to see in the world.

Hey Zed folks, you might have to run a check for updates. Auto-update was accidentally disabled. 😶
github.com/zed-industri...

YouTube video by Elm Town Podcast Elm Town 86 – Wonder: Linking notes for active growth with Joël Quenneville

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...

A Love Letter To People Who Believe in People Tina on the transformative power of enthusiasm When I was eight, I made a big, hand-drawn poster that said, “Do you want to join my fan club?” and put it up in the small Swiss town where I grew up.…

www.swiss-miss.com/2025/04/a-lo...

What would Webster's look like if it were made today? Would it be AI-generated from social media? Wiktionary might approach it. But for some reason, I think of the copious jungle in Urban Dictionary; however, Urban Dictionary is clearly mob-made, suffering from info pollution.

Additionally, it comprises several language dictionaries: French, Spanish, German, and Italian; a thesaurus; a "Book of Familiar Quotations"; a "Rhyming Dictionary"; a "Music Dictionary"; and more. I enjoy the physical reference, but now I want a copy of that OG Webster's dictionary.

It contains a modern, "wrong" dictionary which includes the preface "This book is not published by the original publishers of WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY, or by their successors". 😆

Fertile discovery! Thanks for sharing. I keep a 3″-deep Webster's New Encyclopedia of Dictionaries from 1992, given to me when I must've been a pre-teen, over 30 years ago. One kid puked on it at a high school party; a bit of discoloration, but no significant damage.

Elm Camp 2025 Elm Camp unconference experience.

A couple of months ago, I went to Elm Camp, which I wrote about here: jaredmsmith.com/dev/elm-camp.... In the Community section, I quip a bit about where Elm "happens" for me.

Elm Town Welcome to Elm Town! A podcast about the people making and using the Elm language, and the things that they do.

I use Elm every day for work and play. At work, I use it to build the Logistically transportation management system. I talk with folks about it on Elm Town; and elm-pages drives the elm.town site. Personally, I use it to run my website.

Lore: Elm Core Development Lore: Elm Core Development community history & cultural knowledge

More details about core development at elmcraft.org/lore/elm-cor..., including how Elm core dev works and what Evan is working on. Also see the cheeky iselmdead.info site.

Elm Town 60 – Productivity and the culture of moving a little bit slower Wolfgang Schuster shares his journey with Elm, describes writing & deleting Elm code at Vendr, and explains the productivity gains in an ecosystem that values building things for the end user.

Re: the lack of recent changes to core Elm language—there's nothing I need to use it; there's nothing broken I need fixed. The lack of changes means it's stable; I can focus on building, not upgrading; @wolfadex.bsky.social and I talked about it here: elm.town/episodes/elm....

Elm, the language, is the roots and mycelium underground, more than the branches and leaves. You don’t usually see it doing its job. It’s not as animated as an animal. Occasionally, you get a mushroom—but mostly it routes nutrients to nourish the plants and trees that grow from it.

...and a site redesign, refactor to semantic CSS, and library upgrades. 😅

Elm Camp 2025 Elm Camp unconference experience.

Finally finished and published! jaredmsmith.com/dev/elm-camp...

taylor.town/hire-me

📣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 🐍

this is a metaphor

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.

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-...

Raycast Store: Elm Search Search Elm packages by name, type, author or module

Plus, Raycast has an Elm plugin to search packages! www.raycast.com/HenriqueBuss...

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 ...

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

A screenshot of the first page of our upcoming publication, "Fast Direct Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence", to appear at PLDI 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 👀

Yep! Check out NoMissingTypeConstructor: package.elm-lang.org/packages/Ark...

Here's a great technique for keeping codebases maintainable: compiler reminders.

jfmengels.net/compiler-rem...