elm-conf: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, ""Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman", hN repeatedly recommends it as a talk that changed how people model data, with ideas that apply well beyond Elm to any typed language.
- 9 HN recommenders 13 months 2017–2026talkHN repeatedly recommends it as a talk that changed how people model data, with ideas that apply well beyond Elm to any typed language.
- 2 HN recommenders 3 months 2020–2022talkHN commenters recommend it as a fresh perspective on layout and styling in CSS discussions.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2020talkHN points people to it to understand Elm's design philosophy, such as favoring simplicity over type classes, when they question its choices.
Questions
Which elm-conf video does Hacker News recommend most?
"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman: recommended in 13 different months by 9 HN users between 2017 and 2026.
Is this every elm-conf video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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