Elm Town 66 – A gateway to scientific research

Chris Martin shares how he grew Elm wings while building Exosphere, a user-friendly, open-source tool to help scientists do research.

Note: Jared's audio quality isn't great.

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

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.08.02

Guest

• Chris Martin (https://cmart.blog)

Show notes[00:00:56] Introducing Chris Martin

• https://gitlab.com/cmart
• https://exosphere.app/

[00:01:43] Getting started[00:07:08] Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail[00:09:39] Getting into Elm

• Matthew Griffith's elm-ui

[00:14:03] Building Exosphere

• "IU wins $300K NSF award to build an open-source ecosystem around heavily used cloud tool"

[00:18:35] Challenges building open-source tools[00:26:19] Fun coming from DevOps to Elm

• Simon Lydell's elm-watch
• Elm Town 58 – Unblocking users with quality software with Tessa Kelly

[00:33:17] Mentorship at scale[00:36:02] Code Commons

• Vision for Code Commons
• https://codecommons.net/
• https://gitlab.com/exosphere/exosphere

[00:40:52] Climate change

• "Building Culture Around Climate Emergency Mode"
• https://github.com/BrianHicks/elm-csv/tree/3.0.3#climate-action
• https://github.com/ianmackenzie/elm-units/tree/2.10.0#climate-action

[00:43:52] Exciting features coming to Exosphere[00:47:28] Insane chat box

• "Assume ChatGPT is Lying" by Kevin Yank
• "Elm Town 61 – Turning the pages with Dillon Kearns"

[00:50:04] PicksChris' picks

• Jetstream Cloud
• https://defetter.com/
• Elm Town 55 – From algorithms & animation to building a decentralized finance app with Dwayne Crooks
• Stretchly

Jared's "pick"

• elmtown at jaredmsmith dot com with climate-related Elm work