I have an Elm app at work that needs exactly one thing from the JavaScript ecosystem: an npm package to piggyback on some A$ure auth thing. And for that one(!) package, I was running Vite with an Elm plugin and a growing pile of config to k…
Here’s a meta post for you, if there ever was one: if someone shared this post with you and a preview image showed up, that image was generated by the thing this post describes. The post is its own demo. I find that unreasonably satisfying.…
Of all the monsters that fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of silver that can magically lay them to rest.…
What a time to be alive. Elm has had numerous “native” versions lately (Eco and elm-run, the latter of which I’ve blogged about already), and I’m happy to say I’m testing the more “official” Acadia alpha. And there’s a new Elm version, with…
I’m on vacation as I write this, happily mostly offline. Which is probably the worst possible state of mind to be in when Light announces a new phone, because now I want it. Some context Link to heading Longtime readers know the drill. I re…
You don’t know half of it! Seriously, it would be beyond ugly. And I’m not talking about the cosmic perspective of, you know, not even being born if He hadn’t made me, or that if He would withdraw his breath my heart would stop beating. Tho…
At the end of my native Elm post I said I hoped my next elm-run project would be a REST API, or maybe replacing some small existing app. I lied a little. I went the other direction and grabbed something much bigger: a real batch job, inside…
Back in December I hacked Elm onto a Node.js backend and got a little carried away calling it “Elm on the backend.” It wasn’t, really. Node did all the actual work – opened the socket, parsed the HTTP, wrote the response – and Elm sat in th…
Leaving my general dislike for Webflow aside for now, let’s at least agree on one specific thing: it is terrible at code. We have markdown.enso.no for the actual writing – you draft in markdown, it gives you something you can paste straight…
Sajjaad Khader sat down with Anders Hejlsberg the other day. Yes, that Anders Hejlsberg: the man behind Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and TypeScript. The chat is twelve minutes long (or probably a lot longer as it’s quite aggressively edited),
Quick Friday post, mostly to give you this: learnelm.dev. It’s a curated link directory. Nothing fancy. Just the stuff I’d actually send a friend if they asked me where to start with Elm – the official guide, the blog posts I keep linking t…
In 1966, a Hungarian chemist named Michael Polanyi published a short book called The Tacit Dimension. Its central claim is eight words long, and it is the thing the AI coding industry needs you to forget: We can know more than we can tell.