Here at Pivotal Tracker, we have a large product with many pieces in many different tech stacks—some are in Rails RJS, some are plain jQuery, a lot is Backbo... (more…)

While trying to learn Elm, I came across a few concepts that were not easy to grasp. Especially when it comes to types and the syntax. I struggled with the difference between type and type alias. I struggled with understanding what was going on in a type ... (more…)

This week I encountered one of the most interesting bugs I’ve yet to witness in my near half-decade of programming in Elm. This is a potential code smell you’ll definitely want to watch out for. We… (more…)

My experiences with trying out the elm programming language. From their landing page, to setting up a working elm environment on my computer. (more…)

Elm is fast. Can we make it faster? Turns out, yes! 🚀 We’ve put together elm-optimize-level-2, which is a CLI tool that adjusts the javascript that Elm generates to make it faster. Once installed, you can just call elm-optimize-level-2 instead of elm-m... (more…)