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A Tailwind CSS package was announced on the Elm discourse which lead me to checking out Tailwind which in turn led to this post by the author of Tailwin.

I use neovim to edit code and I’m mostly editing Elm code, so the missing feature I’m about to describe is missing from neovim and for editing Elm code, I don’t know of any other IDE that has this, but it wouldn’t entirely surprise me if, for example, the…

A while back a colleague and I started developing a Go based web framework, in which all the HTML was generated on the server.

I noticed a sort of surprising syntax thing in Elm yesterday.

A little tip for restricted text input in Elm.

A couple of decades ago Java was riding pretty high in programming language circles.

I will admit that before I tried my first programming language that used significant whitespace, I thought it would be horrible.

This post is pure, unadulterated bike-shedding, on the use of the | operator for extending a record type.

When I started programming almost all programs were built using make, which is basically a domain specific language for writing down dependencies and compilation instructions.

This site is the blog of a developer of a site which is a game about predicting formula one results.

Mostly notes for myself on how I setup nextcloud on Time4VPS.

Once again today I had a github issue close accidentally on me.

There is no denying that Go, the programming language is pretty popular.

Dan McKinley has an interesting site based around a talk of his in which he extorts the value in choosing boring technology.

I subscribe to the RSS feed for how-to-geek, it often supplies timely reminders.

A blog post popped up on my feed, which has the main point that tagged union types (called custom types in Elm) are overrated for implementing intermediate representations.

I think mutation testing is a pretty fine idea.

Today I’m going to talk about a language feature that I think is missing from most languages.

Coury Ditch reported on the trickiest Elm bug he’s ever seen.

Someone asked on the Elm discourse how to embed HTML into an Elm app.

When you hold an opinion, particularly when you know that other sane people hold the opposite opinion, it’s good practice to try to come up with the best argument possible for the opposite opinion.

Popping up on my feed was an article on learning Python by looking through the gotchas and unexpected things that happen in Python.

Single page applications are a good way to write responsive websites.

This is a pretty entry level post on functional programming.

I wrote recently about laziness, I was trying to convey a sense of how useful laziness can be.

For pole-prediction I’m experimenting with writing server-side Elm code.

I actually managed to do a little bit of work on the pole-prediction backend last night.

I have spoken recently about compile-time laziness as well here and here.

This post is some vague, not-well-thought-out rambling on meta-programming in statically typed languages.

A fairly common problem for an Elm developer to encounter after around 6 months is that nested record update is a little painful.

An interesting thread came up on the Elm discourse today.

Elm apps, require that we define a single type, usually called Msg, to host the type of messages that form a major part of the ‘The Elm Architecture’.

A feature that is semi-regularly requested in Elm, or at least discussed is the issue of type-classes.

Could meta-programming be considered harmful?

I’m going to go a little nostalgic and explain my journey through thoughts on statically/dynamically typed languages.

Just after I wrote about lambdas in Elm suggesting that they were not particularly useful and if we had a mind to we could remove them from the Elm language (very unlikely to happen since I think it would cause too much anger within the Elm community), I…

Update We have started using Constructor which allows us to do exactly this.

Jeroen Engels of elm-review and elm-radio fame has written an excellent blog post regarding the safe removal of dead code in a purely functional language.

As I’ve mentioned many times on this blog Elm has a famously pretty frugal syntax.

Following on from yesterday I think there are various other ways in which a compile-time elm-to-elm optimiser could improve the performance of Javascript code output by the Elm compiler.

In certain circles in the Elm community it is seen as more ‘Elmish’, that is more idiomatic, or more desirable to write code using functions to combine/inspect common datatypes.

I have remarked before that Elm is pretty frugal when it comes to syntax.

I am a paid up member of the immutability appreciation society.

Elm is pretty frugal when it comes to syntax.

There is an old but excellent post from Joel on Software which defends hungarian notation.

I want to explain a minor tweak to Elm’s import syntax, that I cannot find justification for.

I’ve long been interested in psychology.

I was reading a post found on Hackernews.

There was a fairly long thread on the Elm discource regarding a proposal to add extensible custom (union) types to Elm.

Elm famously has excellent error messages, particularly for type errors.